Hi my name is Roy Ray. I hope you’ll be blessed and encouraged with a little peep of my life. 

  My parents say when I was three years old I awoke every morning singing to the top of my lungs. I sang in the chorus in elementary school. I sang in performing arts (magnet school) in high school. Then I started learning how to play the guitar when I was in my teens and still singing. You could say music’s been in my heart since my beginning or at least as far as I could remember.

   I wasn’t raised in a Godly home and for years I lived my life with very little care of others unless it resulted in favor for me be it in personal benefit or just so I could feel good about myself. Trying continuously to fill the void from a background of a life of hurts, pains, and repeated failed relationships. I held every wrong that had been done to me by family and friends within a vengeful heart with contentions of getting even if given the chance. I found the love of my life and was married young thinking she would be the thing in my life that would fill the void which was to big for anything to fill. The responsibility of being a new father, the head of a family along with the mountain of other baggage I was carrying was much more than I was capable of handling.

  I finally hit rock bottom in my life on a gloomy day that turned to the most lighted day in my life in August of 1993. A friend of my wife’s told me of the forgiveness and grace that was waiting for me from a loving God. Who actually loved me! Just as I was! Right where I was at! As she shared the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ with me! The void I had felt for years was finally filled with a love that today I still have a hard time comprehending.

  The forgiveness I received that day pierced my heart so much that it gave me the strength to tear down the walls of protection I had held on to for years that enabled me to trust and forgive others.  Relationships that hadn’t been right for as long as I could remember began to mend as I began sharing the same forgiveness that was given to me. The love that was gained as each relationship became mended and new again was more than I could contain as I dove deep into the word trying to understand Gods great love knowing it will never stop. I knew God had put a song in my heart long before I even knew Him so I started singing specials in the church where I was baptized along with my daughter. Then I became the worship leader in the very same ministry. Through His blessing of a twenty six year marriage to my soul mate and partner in ministry, two children, and three grandchildren the legacy of the covenant that God has made with me will live and be sung through the generations!

  I’ve been soul bound in ministry and servitude every since my maturity grew in the faith and commandment of our Lord Jesus to give love and to serve others. I use the Word of God as my compass in life to guide me and keep me safe on the path of his will. The Lord continues to grow me and bless me as I walk in His light giving all that’s in me to glorify Him by sharing the same Gospel that changed my life forever. He is the one that saved me from a life shame and destruction that makes me sing and shout to the roof tops that Jesus is Lord! Forever and ever! Amen!

            I felt an unending desire to tell everyone about Jesus and how He is the only way to salvation, and about the peace that I received from giving my life to him.  Around school everyone began referring to me as the preacher and the one to talk to when it came to religious issues and when anyone needed counseling.  It was at this time that I felt the calling to go into the ministry, but I had just been accepted into Elon University on a full scholarship in the music department.  I wanted to do music.  I wanted to do music and make my millions from that.  But God had a different plan for me, all I had to do was follow it. 

            Through my stubbornness and ignorance, I decided within myself that I was going to do music, and that would be my life.  I was going directly against His will for me, and I knew it, but I didn't care.  Shortly after I had arrived at Elon, I began to take part in some not so Christian events and I started to do my own thing.  I went to the fraternity parties and all of the sort.  I was doing my own thing.  Little did I know that all the while God was trying to get me to see just how futile my life was and would be without Him, and outside of His will.  I had some things to get straight. 

            After a few months of this, I repented and recommitted my life to Christ, and I surrendered to His will for me.  I gave up my music scholarship, transferred to Liberty University, and began to do what He wanted for me.  After all this time against His will, I am doing what God has called me to in this life, and I wouldn't give anything to change that.  I am more fulfilled in myself and what I am doing.  God has called me to a very honorable and humbling work for His glory.