In a room full of worshipers, pastors and gospel ministers, Exodus is once again prompted to share his testimony, this time around with unique attention placed on why God let him go through everything he experienced from parental rejection, hunger, drug abuse to suicidal tendencies, loneliness and insecurities that come with growing up on the streets.
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He Narrates | I want to encourage everyone who is struggling or you have been through a series of the down moment and you think God has given up on you. Let me tell you one thing, without a test, their is no testimony.
I came from a place where nothing good could ever come out of. My mother died of HIV when I was 10 years of age. My father rejected me at 12. I have grown up on the streets all my life. I have taken every single kind of drug you know. We used to beat people to get what to eat. If we did not do that, we would eat from the dumpster in and around town.
God takes you through it so that when he finally brings you out, it is He and Him alone. I do music, I’m a gun at the front line. Music is my passion and John 3:16 says; for God so loved the world. When God loves us He takes the world out of us and uses that to shine a light and to inspire for His own glory.
He says that He loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER. He did not say “if Christians believe.” He said WHOSOEVER believes. So, the gospel is for those that actually do not deserve. Christ is for those that do not deserve.
I never went to school. I’m a celebrity today. Only God can do that. I never had a life. My father had quite a number of children. If you wanted to go to school, live a good life, you had to look for your own money. I became a man at 10 years. looking for my won food and clothing, school fees and everything.
And sometimes you get that money and go back home and it was taken away from you. I collected garbage from the community, fetching water at a very tender age, sand to buildings to try and raise school fees and all that was taken away from me.
My father told me; you are not my son, I don’t know you. I left home, tried to commit suicide four (4) times in my life. In 2002 when I met Jesus, He totally turned my life around. Sami-k [Fellow gospel singer] can tell you when even Isaac Rucci [Limit X band member] helped us come up with this group Sauti, I was the least talented. I used to do somersaulting on the streets, so my gimics kept me in the band. But I was the least talented.
It is amazing how today God has decided to use that which was left for dead, for His glory. I’m not a Christian for only the church. You can go out of the 4 corners of the church anywhere in East Africa and ask about Exodus, everybody knows him.
It is God and Him alone. I never had a dream of singing ever in my life. It started when I found Christ and then devoted myself to God. I told Him that if you can use me, please use me. If you cannot use me, take me away because I have nothing to give to this world.
Even in the choir I started, they used to look at me and say; shut up, you never came here to sing, you came here to dance. And then a few years down the road, God brings back Limit X back to Uganda and one of the members, Isaac Rucci sees these amazing vibrant boys, picks them up and says; we want you to take the baton.
We did whatever we did, we want to raise another generation. And that was the birth of Sauti. But I didn’t know that God was building a journey for me. It got to a place in 2007, God told me; now I want you to go and tell your story because you cannot tell your story without people.
I am sending you back to places where you were as a drug addict, alcoholic. I am going to favor you so that everybody can see that their is nothing impossible with God if you let him. So, the gospel is not for Christians, it is for those that did not deserve – And when they find Him, they find the treasure.
When I tell people that I grew up from the streets, they do not believe it, but it has been my life. In Christ, you become a new creature. You become something totally different. I love God. He builds a testimony for Himself, so, whether you were a prostitute, killer, what ever you did before, it does no matter as long as it was planned for Him to turn you around for His own glory.
George Lubega Timothy commonly known as Exodus said this as he ministered at the launch of Praise City Gathering at Hotel Triangle, Kampala on Saturday.
