So I had a good training ground for the church and for God, Himself, even though I didn't know God back then the way I know Him now." And my real mom would visit and I would get spiritual talk from my mom, too. "She was the kind of woman that would get happy in a minute by talking about God. My foster mother would always talk about the Lord, what God can do. And there was lots of spiritual talk about God at home. "They were religious people who had their own family, and they were steady churchgoers," he recalls. It was from his foster parents that James grew up learning to love and fear the Lord. She said to my mother, 'Shirley, I'll take James if you want me to take him.' So that's how that came about." "My mom had always been a church young lady - she was raised in the church. James continues defending his mother by emphasizing that she was a morally upright person. "I know she didn't want to give me to one of the members of the church, but she was in a very tough situation." "Mama was just seventeen and she was in a very precarious situation," he says in her defense. His mother, an unwed seventeen-year-old, was unable to raise her first of ten children, so at her aunt's urging, she turned James over to a foster family for his upbringing.Įven today, James refuses to bear a grudge against his mother. Life first began pulling the rug from under James Moore's feet when he was just an infant. I'm a victor, not a victim, in life and I'll trust in the Lord until I die."
"These were all tests - trials - and I wasn't about to throw my hands up and lose my faith. "I just felt like God was allowing these things to happen to me to see how much I really loved Him," he declares with the patience of Job. The gospel star's moving account of his battle against his debilitating eye and kidney disease is also a testimonial to real living faith. That kind of unswerving faith in the Lord has always marked the life of this Detroit native, who, since beginning his recording career in 1993, has racked up an impressive variety of awards - including four Stellars, the highest award in gospel music.Įven when the soul-filled vocalist lost three of his younger siblings in a tragic house fire, and later, after his dearest friend and mentor died of cancer, James caught his spiritual balance by turning to heaven, viewing such misfortune as the Lord's way of testing his faith. James goes even further, confidently predicting that one day soon the Lord will bless him with a complete healing. "It ain't over 'til God says it's over," exclaims the chart-topping Malaco Records artist.
James Moore is afflicted with diabetic blindness and life-threatening kidney disease, neither has stopped the widely acclaimed gospel star and ordained minister from proclaiming himself the victor rather than the victim.
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