BY : Michael Foust | ChristianHeadlines.com Contributor
A former male stripper is sharing his story about how Christ freed him from a lucrative money-making career for a life that had the joy he had always sought.
Donnell launched the faith-centric podcast this month with his co-host, Kevin Olusola of Pentatonix.
“God transformed my life and told me, ‘I didn’t give you those gifts for that,'” Donnell said.
The turning point in his life, Donnell said, took place days after he made a significant amount of money from performing at a birthday party.
“[I had] the fame, the cars, the money and all this attention and stuff – and it just did not equal fulfillment,” he said. “I didn’t have a joy, a satisfaction. I was just in the club, taking my clothes off for money, very robotic, very mundane. And I was just like, ‘There has to be more to this – to life. This can’t be it.'”
Donnell said that “no matter how much money I made, no matter how much I was praised, no matter how many opportunities I had to travel,” he lacked joy and peace.
A conversation with God changed him.
“I had a quiet day in a hotel by myself, and I prayed to God, and I said, ‘What do I have to do?’ And He spoke one word to me. And that word was ‘quit.'”
Donnell obeyed.
“God said, ‘You’ll never know what’s within until you have to live without.’ And when He took everything from me, I was able to see what He had prepared for me – what He had already put inside of me. … Jesus said, ‘I came that they may have life and have it more abundantly.’ I want to walk in that abundant life.”
Donnell noted that Jesus, in the Lord’s Prayer, prayed that “Your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven.”
“How is God’s will done on Earth as it is in heaven? [It’s] through His vessels,” Donnell said. “That’s what we are. There’s something in particular He wants done right now, and He chose you for it, and He gave you everything you need in order to get that thing done.”
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