Richard Anderson Griffin, Auto biography:

I was born in a two-story house in Amarillo, Texas on May 19, 1942. When I was old enough to be taken to church, I was dedicated to the LORD! I didn’t know for many years what that meant. I grew up in church, so I had an understanding of some of the Christian concepts. My Mother would always say the blessing over the food and she always would read one or more chapters from the Bible every night that we didn’t go to church. And we went to church every time the doors were open. We even attended various “tent meetings”, with real straw on the floor and folding wooden chairs and/or stools I remember as a young child upon hearing the Bible stories of how “mean” the devil was; I would stomp my feet and declare to the devil: “I hate you devil for what you did to JESUS!” I didn’t know then, as a young child, that we mortals, didn’t have the power to rebuke the devil. Only in the Name of JESUS, can we safely rebuke the (god) of this world. In Genesis, the first chapter of the HOLY BIBLE, we find that GOD, who created the world and everything else, gave dominion (power) over all the earth and everything in it to Adam the first man. Now GOD is a GOD of integrity and is no “Indian giver”, so when Adam disobeyed GOD “sinned against GOD”, he literally gave dominion of all the earth that was rightfully his by the gift of GOD, over to satan, who had deceived Eve and enticed her to eat of the forbidden fruit. Therefore the devil is literally the god of this world until the fulfillment of the scriptures where he is bound and chained for a thousand years and then cast into the lake of fire at JUDGEMENT. I remember growing up that I was very shy and didn’t make friends easily. I wanted to be liked but didn’t know how. I found out years later that most of my young classmates thought that I was “stuck-up”. In my adolescent years that if a pretty girl smiled at me I would be thrilled but too shy to talk to her. I was miserable in my loneliness. It wasn’t until I found alcohol that I “came out of my shell”. I remember at a very early age (around six or seven), thinking, when I had been misunderstood or mistreated emotionally, I remember thinking that somewhere there was someone who knew the injustice I was suffering and would one day make everything all right. I had no idea who or when that would be. (Just a short time ago, some 50 years later, I received a “word of knowledge from the LORD proclaiming that quote: “When you were a child, you wanted to know ME; now I want to know you!”) I remember being asked repeatedly by the pastor of our church if I was “saved”. I would always say yes to avoid embarrassment. Then one day in my adolescent years my heart was burdened not to say that I was saved unless I was. So, not to make myself out a liar, I went down and made a profession of faith to the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and was subsequently baptized in water for the remission of sin. As I grew up I didn’t know that I was absorbing a lot of the word of GOD, through bible stories and church and hearing my mother pray over everything. But this continued until I was of an age that I could rebel and get by with it. I was around 13 and had begun to smoke and I would sneak out behind the church building the way I had seen the “deacons and other prominent church members” do, to smoke. I felt guilty and would often stay away from church because of the guilt. Which is exactly what the devil wanted. See Freedom from tobacco page! That guilt was to form an extremely introverted and shy personality. I didn’t understand that my unhappy childhood was a product of the devil’s oppression until I was, in later years, to come literally face-to-face with the devils top lieutenant. Then as I grew up I started having dreams, sometimes visions or daydreams of a face that resembled a goat, with horns like a walrus’ tusk, or a buffalo’s horns. It had steel blue-gray eyes, and when the eyes would look at me it felt as if I had been pierced with a thousand arrows. I knew instinctively that this was evil, but in my arrogance I thought it was the devil himself. I remember that I would feel my body go rigid and tense trying to resist with all my strength. And when it finally would go away, I would be exhausted. I thought that I had resisted of myself and I would taunt the devil and tell him that he would never get me! I would say: “I’m Taurus the Bull! And you better not mess with me”. Oh, how cocky I was in my ignorance! Well, I went on and tried to live a decent life. I would bounce in and out of various churches always seeking for that missing something to fill that longing in my heart. I tried the nightlife before I was old enough by law. Then after I was old enough to go to taverns and nightclubs legally, I thought: “This is where it’s at!” So for many, many years I lived my life the way I wanted to in as much as I could afford it. And eventually it put me down. I attended the first Full Gospel Church I had ever been to. It touched a chord in me but nothing miraculous happened the first few times we went. Then one Sunday Morning after the service the pastor told me these exact words: “The LORD has revealed to me that you have a music ministry if you will serve HIM!” I didn’t respond but filed that away to think over. Then that night the music minister at that time told me the exact same words. I accused them of getting together and making up the stories. Then the next week we had a two-week revival with a visiting preacher and on his last meeting he told me the exact same words. I got them all together and they insisted that they had not talked about me together and that they did not know that the others had had a similar word for me. They also insisted that they did not know that I owned a guitar and that I liked to sing both country and gospel songs. I started singing for the LORD then. Then during a deliverance, the last demon to name himself and come out screaming was the prince of the air, beelzebub, and he swiveled the one being delivered's head around and looked directly at me and said “I’ve had her for a long time and I’m gonna keep her! And I’m gonna get you too!” I said nothing, but in my heart I said: “no you’re not! For I belong to JESUS!” I knew in the very pit of my being, who the demonic face was, that had bothered me for so many years. For I had just come face to face with him and had it not been for the “BLOOD of JESUS”, I would have surely been devoured and hopelessly possessed from that moment on. GLORY to the LAMB of GOD! Praise HIM with great Praise! Then I was really trying to life for the LORD. But, I couldn’t or rather would not turn loose of the world. I thought that the world had so much to offer yet and look what it had already done for me. It had brought me out of a very introverted, shy personality, and I couldn’t and didn’t want to stop drinking. I felt that I was a hypocrite to drink during the week and sing in church on Sunday. So I stopped going to church. I stopped singing for the LORD, I got a divorce, I lost my business, I lost my honor, I lost my integrity, I lost everything that I thought the world and my ability had given me. I wound up under a bridge in Dallas, Texas. I didn’t care if I lived or died. I told myself and anyone who would listen; that I didn’t care about anyone or anything but the drink in my hand and the next one coming. I had sunk to the level of a worthless beggar. I ate out of dumpsters, or asked for a handout from strangers. Sometimes I offered to work but was rarely able physically. I didn’t know that the place where I now lived had a name. It is called LO-DEBAR. It is a place in the Bible, which means a place of no consequence, a place where there is nothing of significance, a place where there is no opportunity for bettering oneself, where there is no hope. In the biblical interpretations it is translated as “a place of no pastures.” I knew deep down inside of me that there was someone somewhere who would make it OK. That he would understand. I then recalled that long ago I had thought to myself that there was somebody somewhere who would say it’s OK! I sensed that it was The LORD. And sure enough, in HIS time and in HIS way, HE provided a way out. The KING of KINGS, and LORD of LORDS stretched out HIS hand and lifted me up out of that pit where I thought there was no hope of ever getting out of. He said that if I would serve HIM wholly and trust HIM wholly, and that if I would make myself HOLY before HIM; that many, many would come unto HIM by the things that should come out of my mouth. The KING OF KINGS took me and clothed me and put a roof over my head and put food before me. In short HE bid me eat at HIS table forever! Now I have learned how to be HOLY before the LORD! There is nothing that I can do to accomplish this. I must take on the Holiness and Righteousness of JESUS. IN HIM I LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE MY BEING! I am made whole and righteous and pure only by the redeeming blood of JESUS! And I must put HIM first in my life and be totally dedicated to HIM. I know that of my natural (carnal) self I am nothing, but I can do all things through JESUS CHRIST MY LORD and SAVIOR! The face of the prince of the air beelzebub, continued to trouble me in visions And the last time several years ago that it appeared to me I just looked up and said: “JESUS, I’m in your hands.” Whatever happens it’s up to YOU LORD! Then I just relaxed, something that I could never do before. And you know what happened? The demonic face shimmered and the exact same face of the LORD JESUS that is on a painting that hangs over so many church podiums took it’s place and I experienced the most wonderful peace that I have ever known! Now, I know that this account is hard to believe, but as The HOLY SPIRIT is my witness; I was not on drugs nor alcohol when this occurred nor was I on any prescription drugs. My faith in the LORD was all it took. If any one anywhere will put their trust in the LORD and build up your faith (faith cometh by hearing; and hearing by the WORD of GOD), they will always receive from the LORD!

Now this is the story of LO-DEBAR 2 Samuel 9:1-13 1: And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake? 2: And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said; Thy servant is he. 3: And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet. 4: And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar. 5: Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar. 6: Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was come unto David, he fell on his face, and did reverence. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered, Behold thy servant! 7: And David said unto him, Fear not: for I will surely shew thee kindness for Jonathan thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually. 8: And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am? 9: Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master's son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house. 10: Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants. 11: Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons. 12: And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth. 13: So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.

Some scriptures concerning the BLOOD COVENANT that we have with GOD through our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST of NAZARETH! Blood covenant: With Abraham: Genesis15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: Genesis17:2 and I will make MY covenant between ME and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. Luke 1:68-73 Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel; for HE hath visited and redeemed HIS people, and hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of HIS servant david; as HE spake by the mouth of HIS HOLY Prophets, which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember HIS HOLY COVENANT; the oath which HE sware to our father Abraham, that HE would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve HIM without fear, in holiness and righteousness before HIM, all the days of our life. Acts 3:24,25 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant, which GOD made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED. Galations 3:16,17&18 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. HE sayeth not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, and to thy seed, which is CHRIST. And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of GOD in CHRIST, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise; but GOD gave it to Abraham by promise. Hebrews 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Hebrews 12:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,