Then I started watching Christian influencers on YouTube and the more I seeked, the closer I got to God, the more my faith grew and the more loved and fulfilled I felt. I began watching channels like Isaiah Salvador, Amen podcast and Richard Lorenzo junior, the more I learnt about God the more I realised how little I knew about the bible, and the deep rooted meaning behind The Word of God. Then one night, watching a sermon online I felt what only could be described as an electrical current run through my body, from head to foot and I began to speak in tounges. I didn’t know what this was, I had heard of people doing it before, but I didn’t realise it was something that could happen to me or why it happened. I later realised that this was the baptism of the Holy Spirit and it all happened in my bedroom from watching a video ! How crazy it is how God works! We must not limit what God can do with our limited thoughts. 

On a second occasion when watching a video on a sermon on deliverance, I began to weep and knew I was getting delivered from all the darkness in my life holding me back. I felt so light and full of joy like the old me was dead and the new me was born. This feeling was addictive and I just wanted to serve God whole heartedly.

After having more encounters with God and seeking him my relationship grew with him. 

As a side note I wanted to make some extra money and tried selling clothes. I set up social media accounts, a website, bought stock and I was hoping that I could work my regular job less as this would start an income. I sold nothing, not one item, I had a lot of people interested in the products I sold, but nothing ever fell though, I didn’t get one sale. I realised the retail business was so saturated and one that took too much time and money to start up. 

Exactly one year later I was praying one day and I had a picture of a poppy come into my head, I googled Bible verses with poppy’s in and a scholar had said thar Peter was thinking about poppy’s when writing the bible verse 1 Peter 24:25. I heard a voice say ‘make clothes out of it’ and an image of hands holding a flower. I doubted this was God as this was something I didn’t want to try again, as I failed miserably the first time, it took so much time and effort to set up and I couldn’t even sell one thing. This idea kept pulling on me and pulling on me so I thought ‘if this is from God then I need to at least try.’

If it is from God then there must be a reason. So I started to draw a design, whilst listening to sermon from Richard Lorenzo Jr, I started to  draw a sketch, I drew the hands holding the flower then I thought I should draw holes in the hands like the holes that the nails went through Jesus hands on the cross, I sketched out where I was going to put the holes, when before I could permanently draw them in, in that exact second the pastor leading the sermon said the holes where in his wrists, I never knew this, I was amazed God had spoke to me through this random sermon I had decided to listen to, I knew this must be important for me to do and I must be in line with Gods will. As I then went to continue the drawing I paused to decide how to finish the image, when on the sermon the pastor said, God speaks to people through art when they finish a piece or art he speaks to them. I knew then the design was finished. I couldn’t believe that God had been so perfect with his timing and clear in what he had said to me. Since then, I have been working on the brand with the aim of spreading the good news of Jesus Christ. This is for anyone out there struggling or wondering the purpose of their life, God has the perfect plan for your and his timing is perfect. But a relationship with Jesus is two ways, you must seek him. You can’t expect the Lord to put something in your lap if you aren’t perusing him or trying to follow his will. It took years of praying before I heard and felt the Holy Spirit. God needs to prepare you for what he has planned for you. For instance if you where handed a million pounds as a 12 year old you would probably waste it all on sweets, games and wasteful materials. Where as if you had earnt that money through work, trials, time and revelation and at 40 years old received a million pounds through the grace of God alongside your hard work and growing wisdom. You gain Gods trust to invest that money properly to grow a kingdom of fruit and to grow His kingdom. So be patient, persist God, seek and you will find, knock on the door and it will be opened and your life with be full of joy, fulfilment and peace that the world could never offer you. So please enjoy a item of clothing if you purchase one, but if anything trust in God and find motivation to seek him from this story. I have no idea where this brand will begin or end but I have faith in God and I am excited to be on this journey.