About

Hello and thank-you for clicking onto this website, my name is Roger Williams.  It’s my prayer you will challenged, inspired and encouraged with what I have to share with you in my posts.

This is a blog that has been specifically designed to bring testimonies to the practical reality, revelations and power of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Living in a world which is immersed in fears, confusions, doubts, half-truths, lies, deceptions, scepticisms and cynicisms, it is my prayer and belief that as you read these testimonies with an open teachable spirit, you will experience the reality of Jesus Christ for yourself.

This is not a “religious” blog.

I believe Jesus Christ had/has little respect and patience for man-made religious traditions, rules, laws and observances, because these things very often have a habit of getting in the way of one having a personal encounter with God.  Not only can these practices block people off from God, but they can cause people to develop faulty concepts of God - “religious” concepts.  The result then becomes one of smugness, self-satisfaction and self-righteousness for such practitioners; they are in fact (in my opinion), worshipping a god of their imagination.  “And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.”  Acts 7:41.

As I write these testimonies, it may be difficult for me to explain to you the how, what, when or why of what Christ did or didn’t do.  I’ve always found it difficult to explain the unexplainables of God.  Therefore, taking my example from the Gospels I will simply tell of these experiences making no attempt to convince someone who’s unconvinced.

Twenty-two years ago I was working in Christian outreach ministry in the streets of a middle-class suburb of Melbourne, Australia.  I was/am not an offically ordained minister of a church in the traditional sense, but I did this work three and a half days a week, for three and a half years and regularly witnessed first-hand this reality and power of the Lord Jesus Christ in people’s lives. 

I wish it were otherwise, but this is not a blog that gives testimony to continuous, successful and perfect outcomes.  It could have been that way for many more people but for their choices – and I quickly learned that God, in His mercy, never violates or over-rules the choices people make.  What I also learned though is even though each one of us has the freedom to choose in life, we are never free to determine the outcomes of our choices - those outcomes are already determined.  They’re already locked in - unshiftable – just like the outcomes of any violation to the universal laws of physics and gravity.  “For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.”  Luke 6:44. 

On Saturday evening in mid-June 1985, I had my own dramatic encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ and I got to experience this reality and power of His for myself – in the form of two miraculous physical healings, one on my right shoulder-blade and a few moments later, another one on my right arm.  The feeling of divine heat going into those two areas of my body was astonishing – mindblowing!  I have never forgotten that experience.  Neither have I  forgotten other instant and gradual healings (there have been numerous) since that time.  I was 39 years old when this first happened and it was the beginning of the transformation of my whole life.  (Some background to this event can be veiwed on my post But they still have a god.)

That first encounter with the Lord did not happen in a church.

It happened as I was lying on the floor suffering from a hangover, as well as trying to get shoulder relief.  At the time, I was reading a secular book that quoted some sayings of Jesus Christ, so I said, “Jesus, if You are true, prove Yourself, I’m willing to believe.”  He did.  When I felt that awesome heat in my shoulder-blade, I said, “That’s You Jesus.  If so, heal my arm.”  He did.

After that experience, I read every book I could get a hold of on Jesus Christ and the Bible - anything from new books to those going back one hundred and fifty years, even 10 cent books from junk shops etc, plus the reading of a Gideon’s New Testament which was given to one of my children at first-year secondary college.  I “ate” as many books as I could and haven’t stopped in twenty-five years.  It was nearly two years after that encounter before I stepped inside a church.

Like those first disciples of Jesus Christ, I have never been to a Bible College, I have had no formal teaching.  But again, just like those first disciples, I sat under “informal” teaching for a few months and then, under the authority of my local church and according to 2 Timothy 4:1-5, I went out into people’s homes and simply “learned on the job” applying what I knew, knowing that Christ was in the midst to show and teach me more.  The Lord never let me down – even when He may have been given opportunity to do so.  Looking back on it, I did and said some silly things at times but God was faithful to me and to the person/s I was ministering to and I had a heart to learn.

I no longer do that kind of work.  For eighteen years I’ve been producing and presenting a weekly one hour Christ-centered radio program that endeavours to bring Biblical answers to the many questions those dear people asked about God, Jesus Christ and the Bible when I was working amongst them.  I believe the questions they asked twenty-two years ago are the same questions people are asking today. 

I was a driving instructor for seven years and for the past seven years I’ve been a crash-avoidance driver consultant working with the corporate world.  No matter what the job or task, I continue to experience the practical reality, revelations and power of the Lord Jesus Christ in my life.  There’s even been three occasions in six months when He’s given me authority over unpleasant weather conditions for the benefit of other people, as well as myself.  I invite you to read more about that here: I Spoke To The Weather.

Again, may the Lord Jesus Christ bless you with His reality and power as you read the testimonies on this blog and I’d love you to know also, God has no favourites.