Former THE CHALLENGE star Davis Mallory is making waves again a year after he rejected a gay lifestyle when he recently went public that he has a girlfriend, Rachel Vaughan.
Mallory shared a carousel of pictures on Instagram of the two on vacation with the caption: “It’s crazy what love can do. I love you @rachelevaughanaa.”
Mallory had been living as a professed gay Christian for about 20 years with the belief that, while saved through faith, he believed that God would forgive sin without true repentance.
“I lived most of my life as a gay Christian with that mentality…” he told CBN. “But the fruits of my lifestyle was what was robbing me.”
It was hearing ex-porn star-turned-Christ follower Josh Broome talk at a conference that he started to feel convicted of his sin and how it was not only affecting him but his friends who were in the gay community as well.
“I had friends that committed suicide, who were in lonely, unhappy lives…or I would see them catch HIV,” THE REAL WORLD: DENVER alum said. “So there was like death…and I was just seeing that lifestyle was really not producing the fruit of joy…”
“[I]n that same week, I see a porn star, Josh Broome, speaking about how he left porn and now he’s married and has kids,” the Georgia native said. “And I’m thinking about how, like, wow, I could have a turnaround in my life and leave behind the last 20 plus years of living that version of lifestyle.”
God was not only using Broome’s message at the conference, but fellow attendee Rachel to reach Mallory.
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“She was on fire for Jesus at a season of my life when…my fire was pretty low,” he recalled.
Rachel made a specific prayer request over his bed while he was gone — that God would speak to him in dreams.
God answered that prayer that night when he had a dream that his Jewish friend died and was deeply troubled that he never shared the gospel with her.
He began to question why he didn’t share the gospel with people, and he realized it was because it was his lack of belief in the Bible.
“[O]ne of my biggest issues with the Bible was that I was not an eyewitness to any of it, so I didn’t really believe it fully,” he admitted.
When he shared his dream with Rachel, who was just a friend at the time, she revealed what she prayed over him.
“[My dreams] warn me about things coming,” said Mallory, who ever since that night frequently receives God-given dreams. “They’ll correct me if I return to sin, and I use them as a communication tool to God. I will literally ask God a question. I will go to sleep. I’ll get an answer in the dream.”
One question that Mallory asked was who he was going to marry and was surprised who he dreamed of.
“I dreamt of Rachel, the friend that had been in the story from the beginning…” the 43-year-old said.
He later found out from Rachel that she felt God was also telling her that Davis was going to be her husband, and so they eventually started dating in August.
The reality TV star is also a singer-songwriter. His uncle John Mallory wrote songs for Winona Judd and CCM group Sixpence None the Richer. One of his latest songs is “Breathe Life,” which he wrote while performing at a conference in Hawaii.
As CBN’s Billy Hallowell encouraged listeners, let’s add Mallory to our prayer list, as God continues to sanctify his life.
“Be praying for him…” Hallowell said. “[I]n a world where people are following their own whims to watch somebody openly die to themselves in such a powerful way is pretty incredible.”
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