About Daryl Cooper
Daryl Cooper
I was born and raised in a small town and have lived in Saskatchewan my entire life. My family farmed, and I enjoyed the farming lifestyle. Since I was a child, I always felt a connection with Jesus, a connection that grew stronger as I became a young man. God blessed me in many ways, but I often failed to recognize these gifts were from Him and not my own doing.
I married a wonderful young lady, and together, we built an amazing life. We were blessed with six children, though one died in infancy. Raising our five children was the greatest time of my life. My business was successful, and from the outside, it seemed like we had everything. But in truth, we had everything worldly except a foundation in Jesus, and eventually, we ended up divorced. This is my greatest regret. I used to see it as a failure, but now I understand it was due to ignorance. If we had known to put Jesus first, each other second, our children third, and the business and material things last, we might have stayed together, enjoying our grandchildren as a united family as God intended.
Although we attended church every Sunday, we were Christians without a true relationship with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. After the divorce, I turned to various books that led me into what’s often called the New Age. I read a lot and thought I had everything figured out, becoming what you might call a “hybrid Christian.” Looking back, I see that Jesus was always by my side.
One of the most deceptive series of books I read was Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsh. These books, which I will discuss further in a blog and podcast, falsely claimed to speak for God and led me to do things I never thought I was capable of. They inflated my ego, convincing me that we are all gods in our own right. Eventually, everything started to fall apart and I lost everything dear to me, my family, my home and even my business and there was Jesus waiting patiently for me to pick me up.
In August 2021, I gave myself to Jesus. As it says in Mark 8:35-37,
“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”
This scripture doesn’t mean to do what I did to find Jesus. It means if you embrace Jesus and put him first you can have abundance beyond what you could imagine in all aspects of your life.
My goal now is to listen to the Lord and follow His guidance. If that means making myself vulnerable and spreading His name, then I will do it. I am committed to following His lead.
“and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I out to speak.”