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Born in central Kentucky in the small town of Danville came a powerful evidence of the power of God in the earth today. Troy Edwards is a fresh new sound in christian country music today. With his deep, rich voice often compared to the likes of Josh Turner and even Willie Nelson, Troy is truly a man after Gods own heart. He began singing in his early teenage years with a gospel quartet called Victory Way Thankfully, Troy was blessed with Christian parents that were a great influence to him in his youth. They tought him to always follow the Lords leadership and direction. Through the years Troy has seen allot, and faced allot. But through it all, he has found God faithful in it all! Go to his website and read his amazing testimony that is changing lives all over the world and offering hope to the hopeless, and the sick. His national DEBUT release You are My God features that very single penned by Troy himself. The cd features songs that will remind you of the sounds of groups like The MidSouth Boys and the Mercy River Boys and many others while possessing his own signature in every song. Be watching for Troy on tour in a city near you!
Testimony
Thank you Lord for your marvelous Grace and your everlasting Mercy! Ephesians 3:14-20 says: 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 16 [I pray] that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. [I pray that] you, being rooted and firmly established in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth [of Gods love], 19 and to know the Messiahs love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think-according to the power that works in you- 21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. The above verses, from Gods Holy Word, has a special meaning in my life. At the age of 3 I became very sick. After many doctors visits in Danville, Kentucky and Lexington, Kentucky no diagnosis could be determined. One day, my mom was holding me on the couch and a TV commercial came on. It was a commercial for a doctor in Louisville, Kentucky. He started describing the symptoms of what I had and immediately my mom said she knew the Lord answered her prayers. I am so thankful that My Lord gave me my Christian parents. Their faith in Christ has been a great inspiration and an example to me for many years. At the age of 3 I was diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA). This disease is a crippling disease that attacks and destroys the joints, cartilage, and bones and is often fatal. The infection would cause me to run extremely high fevers. For many years I would have to go to the doctor every two weeks to have the fluid drained off of my knees. After getting the fluid drained off, my mom would have to wrap my knees with a hot wash rag and then wrap a bread sack around it. I would not be able to walk for two to three days. As a child this was hard for me to do because I wanted to be like my older brother and play ball. During my early childhood I was in and out of the hospitals frequently and given every drug known for JRA. As you can imagine every one of them had side effects that were very dangerous. I remember one in particular Predisone (a steroid that attacks the infection). I took this in high doses every day for many, many years. I remember my doctor talking to my mom one day and he said that without the Predisone and the other drugs I could potentially lose the ability to walk. However, if I continued taking the high doses of the medicines it would have long lasting effects on my body. I remember him saying that I would probably not live past the age of 28 or so and that I would probably not be able to have kids when I grow up. At the age of 3 none of this mattered to me except the part of being able to walk, all I wanted to do was play ball! I am not able to remember much of my early childhood to this day, but one thing I can remember is that my Mom and Dad always kept the FAITH to look to OUR LORD for help and guidance. I remember being raised up in a Christian home and seeing how GOD was first in my folks lives. Every time the doors opened and I was not sick, my parents would have me and my brother in church. I am so thankful for our Christian family and friends that prayed for me for many, many years. You know, The Lord tells us to pray fervently and to pray BELIEVING and HE will hear our prayers and answer them! When I was 11 years old I gave my heart to JESUS!! I knew He was MY SAVIOR and that HE loved me and died for me. I also knew that He rose from the grave on that third day and HE lives in my heart today. At the age of approximately 14 my life was getting ready to start another chapter. The JRA went into remission according to the doctors. I was not taking any of the drugs I had taken for 11 years and all my symptoms seemed to have gone away, everything but the pain. At this point in my life I seemed to be normal. After graduating from DeVry University in 1984 I started my career and got married to my wonderful wife, Michelle. At this point in our lives we had put GOD on the back burner. We both knew we should have HIM first in our lives but we werent obedient. Our lives continued this way for approximately ten years. When I turned 29 another chapter of my life began. The arthritis came back and came back with fury. The arthritis came back as JRA. This is extremely rare and very, very dangerous. My doctor said that the chances of this happening were less than 1% and it would be really hard to treat. Again, he started me on Predisone (higher doses) and other newer drugs. This would help fight my fevers and the pains, but was not stopping the condition from getting worse and worse. When the JRA first come back, I remember I wasnt feeling very good for some time. I also noticed the pain was a lot more and it was all over my body. One night Michelle and I were talking in the living room and all of a sudden I blacked out. My fever had reached 107 degrees. When I came to I was in the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. They had to inject a large dosage of Predisone directly into my blood stream to keep me alive. This was the start of another long battle with JRA. This condition continued and got worse and worse through the years. In 1994 OUR LORD gave us the most precious gift, our son Caler. He is a perfectly healthy boy!! We recognized that he was indeed a gift from OUR LORD and it prompted us to start letting JESUS be the LORD of our lives. Even when my life looked hopeless MY LORD provided me with HOPE and ASSURANCE that HE is in control of ALL things. However, the JRA was getting worse and worse. Many years continued on and I was still fighting the JRA. The doctors were starting to see that the old drugs were no longer fighting the infection from the JRA. So, they started me on an experimental drug ENBREL which was a injection two times a day. This seemed to have helped for a while but like all the other drugs it finally quit having any effect on my body. In 2005 the JRA had finally gotten the worse it had ever been. I seemed to spend most of my time in bed not wanting to get up because I was feeling so bad. I remember one day I was in bed and Michelle and Caler came into the room and begged me to try and get up. That didnt seem to work so Michelle called my mom and dad. They came over and told me that I was going to have to try and get up, if not for me, for Michelle and Caler. At this point I agreed to get out of bed and go see my doctor. This was the start of yet another chapter in my life. My doctor talked with me and then he took my blood work and ran a bunch of tests. He increased some of my medicines and told me to come back in two weeks after he got my tests back. For the next two weeks I got worse and worse. After the two weeks were up I remember going to the doctor and I will never forget that day. He came into the room and he had a look on his face that I cant even start to describe. He sat down beside me, laid his hand on my shoulder, and said, Troy, I dont know what else I can do for you. This was really hard to hear coming from someone that I knew GOD had put in my life for reasons. For the first time, I set back in the chair and right then and there I remember telling MY LORD, LORD it is all in YOUR hands now. If it is time for me to come to Heaven, I AM READY! Just take care of Michelle and Caler! If it is not time for me to leave this world, HEAL ME of this dreaded disease. Immediately, I had a peace come over me that assured me GOD was in control and whatever was going to happen, was OK! I walked out of the doctors office and did not tell Michelle what he said. When we got home that day a friend of mine called and said she had been thinking of me. She asked me how I was feeling and I said not to good. She then asked me to go and see a lady that she said was A Vessel of God. She said that this lady would pray with me and GOD would direct her in giving me some herbs that would help me. I had been asked to go and see her every year for about five years and I never once entertained the thought of it, until right then. But again, I told her NO. The next day, my pastor called me and asked me if I would go and see the same lady. Immediately I felt THE LORD tell me to GO! So I told him I would go if he would call her, make an appointment, and go with me. July 27th, 2005 I walked into the ladys office with my pastor and sit in a chair. To be honest I didnt know what to expect other than I was going to be leaving there with more pills to take. Man, was I surprised!! The lady came and introduced herself to me and told me to come on back to her office. When we got to her office, I sit in a chair next to her desk. She reached out to grab my hand and when she touched me she looked into my eyes and said Troy we need to pray right now!! While she was praying I did not hear a single word she said. All I could think about was when I was blessed to be able to go to Israel in 2001 I remember sitting in Lazarus tomb and thinking, LORD how did he feel when YOU told him to rise and get out of the tomb? The LORD blessed me in a way I cant even begin to describe. I felt a shaking sensation start in my feet and it began to go into my knees. Every where I was hurting the sensation was greater. This continued all the way across every inch of my body until the sensation got to the top of my head. When the sensation reached the top of my head I felt one of her hands holding my hand and her other hand was on top of my head. Immediately I heard her say PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD, PRAISE GOD. Through mine and hear tears, she looked at me and said, Troy do you know what THE LORD just did for you? And with no hesitation I said, YES, HE JUST HEALED ME!!!! She continued to tell me things about me and my life that only GOD knew and GOD knew that HE needed to tell me these things so I would BELIEVE!!! THE LORD told me, thru her, to go home and throw all my medicines away. This sounds like an easy thing to do, but I was going to have to throw away pills that I had been used to taking all my life. Some I was even addicted to, for example, Codeine. I knew the LORD was going to have to give me the strength! I remember riding home with my pastor and I kept telling him that I felt funny. He said I said this 10 times or more until we reached home. I was saying this because I had never had a second in my life that I did not hurt somewhere! MY LORD IS AWESOME!! I stopped at work to see my partner and he and I both cried, he could see the difference in me immediately! I continued home and as soon as I walked in the house my wife and son started crying as well. When GOD does a miracle in someones life people will SEE! After we got all my pills together and put them in a box to throw away, Satan then crept in. I started doubting, thinking was this just an emotion or some kind of feeling I was going through. I laid on the couch and was starting to give into the temptation of doubt when my wife stood up and said Troy, IT IS REAL! THE LORD HAS HEALED YOU, BELIEVE IT! She walked out of the house and went to the mailbox to get the mail. When she came in she tossed me a card that had come in the mail. I had prayed for a lady at church that Sunday and she sent me a card thanking me for praying for her and being special. While I was reading what she had written in the card, she had stopped writing and said Troy I dont know why GOD is telling me this, but HE wants me to tell you to BELIEVE!! She wrote this four times in the card and underlined it five times each time. I just started crying and thanking the LORD for what HE had done in my life. July 27th was on a Tuesday. Two days after I had already prayed for this lady at my church. GOD already knew what HE was going to do and HE knew that I would need something to make me BELIEVE and not give into Satan and his doubt. What an AWESOME GOD I SERVE!! I am writing my testimony on January 10, 2008 and I still have not had any pills or shots since July 27th, 2005. LORD, HERE I AM, SEND ME!!! During the reading of my testimony I pray that you now see why Ephesians 3:14-20 is so special to me. Now to HIM who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think- according to the power that works in you- to HIM be glory. (3 REASONS WHY THESE VERSES ARE SPECIAL) I HAVE LIVED PAST 28 YEARS OLD! I HAVE A WIFE AND A HEALTHY SON OF 13 YEARS OLD! HE HAS HEALED ME OF JRA!
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