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Homeless Man Testifies How Jesus Gave Him Hope And Saved Him From Drug Addiction

by Kriza Jo Tanduyan
written by Kriza Jo Tanduyan

A homeless man testified how Jesus gave him hope after having suicidal thoughts and saved him from drug addiction on GOD TV.

Homeless Man

Orry shared his hope story on GOD TV. Before he met Jesus, he was living in his car and struggling with drug addiction. He grew up in a good home with his parents and brothers. But sadly, at the age of six, his father took his own life. “Upon returning to school, I see my friends which some of them bullied me, saying ‘Haha! Your dad’s dead you don’t have a dad.’ From that point that hit me. I knew things weren’t going to be the same,” he recalled. In his early teens, he started drinking, and he noticed that he had so much anger. Part of it is because of the truth that he grew up without a father.

Furthermore, at the age of 18, he was facing 10 years of imprisonment with assault charges. Meanwhile, he was also struggling with a drug addiction. “Everything went downhill, become homeless. Um, you know, I was turning against my family. I’d walked away from good friends. Um, right up to the point where I had no hope left in me,” he shared.

After that, he reached out for help and went to the doctor. He needed to take medication and got caught up in the mental health system. He tried to move to different places to reset his life, but he ended up in the same spot. That’s when he decided to go back to his family, and Jesus made way for him.

Homeless Man Testifies How Jesus gave Him Hope

GODTV (Screenshot). (2023). GOD TV, A Story Of Hope. Retrieved November 6, 2023 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNTm6tCzIA

Jesus Gave Him Hope

His brother invited him to church, and his cousin from America told him that Jesus could help him. “She chatted with me. Um asked what was going on and I share it openly. And she goes, Jesus can help. And I was like, I’m in. Let’s go to church. Went to church. Um, gave my life to the Lord,” he mentioned.

Moreover, he shared a particular event in his life when he didn’t want to live anymore. While he was in his car, he had suicidal thoughts. “My dad took his own life, um, there’s no hope left in me. I should do the same thing,” he said. He already had a plan, but then suddenly, he remembered what his cousin told him about Jesus.

“I just cried out, I said…if you are real, reveal yourself to me, Lord. I gave my life to you, I need help, I can’t do this alone,” he highlighted. Then, he listened to the radio and landed at a station. He heard a song played at the church when he gave his life to Jesus. Right then, he felt that a big burden was lifted off him. He broke down in tears and realized that God was there.

After that wonderful encounter, he reached out to a church, and his life slowly changed. God gave him a job and a place to live. “I have hope for a good future. And I just love learning more about Jesus and sharing Him. So now, life, there is hope, and yeah, the sad days are gone, and the past is behind me,” he testified.

Watch the full testimony here.

Reference | GOD TV

Header Image:  GODTV (Screenshot). (2023). GOD TV, A Story Of Hope. Retrieved November 6, 2023 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHNTm6tCzIA

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Woman’s Sanity Was Restored Through Continuous Prayer

by Le-Jovale Vallejo
written by Le-Jovale Vallejo

Nikol tells her personal story of nearly losing her mind after taking LSD. It’s a miracle how her sanity was restored after continuous prayer!

Woman’s Sanity Was Restored I

Nikol’s mother was a Christian so she grew up hearing about Jesus. Despite this, her parents didn’t get along, and she would often hear them fight.

Her parents eventually got divorced and that left a huge impact on Nikol’s life and her view of who God was.

“I always hear in the congregation, “God is so good; God loves you; God is love.” But I never felt this love. I never saw it in my home. And it made me very confused about who is really God and what He really wants from my life,” she said.

Because of this, Nikol rebelled as a teenager.

“So at the age of 17, I drifted out of the faith, and I started to look for something that would fit my soul. I started to look for meaning and also to ask questions: “Who created me? Why am I here? What is the meaning of this life?” she said.

Woman’s Sanity Was Restored II

She started smoking pot with her friends at school, went to parties, and started using drugs like MDMA and LSD.

One day, when she went to a festival in Sinai, she took LSD. It was her first time, and she felt like she went on a really bad trip in her mind.

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“And I started to lose my mind very slowly. I started to not distinguish between the reality and between the fantasy of my mind. So I had a lot of panic attacks. I think the main thing that I felt was that this is me against all this world,” she said.

Her parents tried to help her because they were very concerned.

Woman’s Sanity Was Restored III

“For ten days, they tried to help me. They took me to different doctors, they tried to give me medicines, but I just rejected everything because I thought that everyone was against me. And they started to be afraid for my life. So they took me to a psychiatrist, in a psych ward,” Nikol recalled.

But during that time, her mother continually prayed for her. And prayer was the only thing that was helping.

“There was no magical point. I was there for a month and a half in the hospital, and it was a very slow healing process. My mother was coming to me twice a day, praying for me. Each time when my mother asked me to pray with her, my consciousness came back to me. Because I wasn’t talking,” she said.

The Turning Point

“I didn’t have any connection with this reality. I was inside my head, I was living inside my head. But when she asked me to pray with her, each time I would pray with her, I would start to cry. And I asked her if I wanted to hear worship songs. God just breaks through my heart,” Nikol said.

Now, God is using her to spread the Good News to the people who were once like her.

JEWISH Girl's Sanity was Saved by JESUS | Nikol’s Testimony

Reference | SO BE IT!

Header image: Nikol [SO BE IT!]. YouTube, 12 December 2022, https://youtu.be/NgLhahCegBE

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Heroin Almost Took Isaiah Severs’ Life But Jesus Intervened

by Rhoda Gayle
written by Rhoda Gayle

Heroin almost took the life of Isaiah Severs but Jesus stepped in and saved him.

Heroin almost took his life

Isaiah was born and raised in Bennington, Vermont in a Christian home. However, during his teenage years, his parents got divorced and their family fell away from their faith. In high school he was first introduced to drugs. Eventually he started smoking and selling marijuana. It then led to a life filled with drug addiction until heroin almost killed him.

“One day it was a little bit difficult to actually get the prescription painkillers, the Percocets that I was into. I had a friend that I was getting them from and he said, ‘Well I got heroin that you can try. I got bags of dope that you can try. It’s basically the same thing, it’s the opiate, gives you the same high.’ I didn’t even really think twice about it, I said, ‘Yeah, I’ll try it.'”

Dalafe Testimonies [@delafetestimonies]. Isaiah Severs. YouTube, videographed by Delafe Testimonies, August 22, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmWMCB8c1U

Isaiah Severs

That day he overdosed and was on the brink of death. By the grace of God, he survived, but it led him to rethink his life.

“All of a sudden I was lying on my back and I saw all the paramedics, and police officers around me. All I could hear was voices saying, ‘Isaiah, stay down Isaiah, stay down. You just had an overdose.’ When the paramedics reported to the scene, I was breathing two breaths per minute.”

Jesus saved him

After the incident his father invited him to attend a Teen Challenge Program. It is “a network of Christian faith-based corporations intended to provide rehabilitation services to people struggling with addiction.” Knowing that he needed to make his life better, he accepted the invitation and attended the program.

“I remember being there and I was sitting down and I was looking around me and I was seeing guys pray. I was looking at the altar,  and I said to myself in my heart, ‘I need to make a decision with my life.'”

It was at that moment that he gave his life to Jesus Christ and he experienced God’s amazing love. Isaiah was saved and delivered in that moment.

Now, he serves the Lord as a pastor of Bethany Revival Church at his hometown in Bennington, Vermont.

Heroin Almost Took My Life, Until Jesus Did This…

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Reference: YouTube | Delafe Testimonies
Header Image: Dalafe Testimonies [@delafetestimonies]. Isaiah Severs. YouTube, videographed by Delafe Testimonies, August 22, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgmWMCB8c1U

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Man Delivered From Drug Addiction In Front Of A Whole Congregation

by Le-Jovale Vallejo
written by Le-Jovale Vallejo

A man was delivered from drug addiction when he was called up to the front during a church service. Something even more amazing happened next!

Delivered From Drug Addiction

Apostle Kathryn Krick shared a video about a man delivered from drug addiction. Many people watched the video even though this happened last year. Additionally, some experienced God’s power, too.

In her post, the apostle wrote, “This is one of the most beautiful miracles I have ever seen Jesus do! This was Friday night in Mission, Tx. This man flew from Fresno, CA, just to come be set free by the power of God! His friend brought him. He gave all of his drugs to his friend to throw away, and he was going through withdrawals.

“He was in severe pain because of the withdrawals. And then JESUS DELIVERED HIM and took his pain away! He was in complete awe. To see the love of God made known to him was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen! JESUS YOU ARE SO AMAZING BEYOND DESCRIPTION!”

Delivered From Drug Addiction After A Prayer

This man didn’t know that God would specifically set him free that night. When he was called up to the front, he didn’t hesitate to share what he was struggling with.

“I have been an addict since I was sixteen. I’ve been hiding it my entire life from everybody. If you’ve been an addict like that, you have to make a lot of secrets that you have to keep. That brought in a pathological liar. And now, it’s been so long and I don’t know who I am. I don’t go to church. I grew up just like you. And I have no idea who God is,” he said.

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His friend invited him to go to church, and he went because he was desperate for freedom and healing. So, even though he didn’t fully know who God is, he had hoped that he would be made well.

“So, I’m here today because you said, or I’m told, that you can help me. Or you know somebody who can,” he said.

The Power Of Prayer Displayed

The apostle replied, “I know Jesus. And He’s our amazing Lord, King, and Savior, Jesus. And He loves you so much that He’s brought you here today to set you free. He’s going to deliver you now from this addiction, from the lying, from everything. Because He loves you.”

The man was led to a prayer, and he started renouncing his addictions: “I renounce drug addiction, I renounce crystal meth, I renounce heroin, I renounce weed, I renounce cigarettes, I renounce porn, I renounce lying, I renounce everything. In Jesus’ name, I renounce them.”

And then the apostle prayed, “It’s to be free now. I break every generational curse off of you now, and I detach him from everything he’s just renounced. I command on thee every spirit attached; everyone that came on the drugs must leave in Jesus’ name.”

Baptism Of The Holy Spirit

After the prayer, the man was shocked about what happened. His expression showed that he couldn’t believe what just happened to him!

“Wow,” he said.

Kathryn: What did you feel?

Man: Hold on, let me just make sure. (He squatted to check if the pain was really gone.) Wow! How did you do that?

Kathryn: Jesus did it! That’s Jesus; He’s so powerful! He’s real. He’s here right now. You can’t see Him physically, but you just felt Him. What did you feel?

Man: I don’t know. I feel my pain go away. My pain is gone. I’m withdrawing.

Kathryn: Jesus freed you! You are no longer an addict; you are free from the bonds of addiction. Drugs no longer have a hold on you. Jesus took it all away because He loves you.

And then right there, he was baptized with the Holy Spirit.

Header image: Man being set free [Apostle Kathryn Krick]. Facebook, 6 February 2022, https://fb.watch/lCarkzreOO/

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Radical Deliverance from Homosexuality and Drug Addiction

by Lily Benson
written by Lily Benson

‘If I’m going to get clean, I’m going all the way!’ Girl gets radically delivered and set free from unforgiveness, bitterness, homosexuality, and drug addiction.

What Does the Bible Say?

“The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” Psalm 34:17

What a powerful reminder that when we call for help the Lord not only hears but that He comes as our deliverer! When Stephanie humbled herself at the altar, God showed up and delivered her from her addictions and fear!

Radical Deliverance

The Pensacola Light The Fire Again conference was a powerful experience for all who attended, but for one young woman named Stephanie, it was a life-changing moment. During Carlos Annacondia’s altar call, Stephanie began manifesting demons and required immediate prayer. One of the ministers went to her side and attempted to carry her to the designated area for deliverance.

He commanded the demons to leave Stephanie alone, and the situation changed in an instant. Stephanie was stunned and confused, wondering how she could have had so many demons inside of her. That night Stephanie was set free from unforgiveness, bitterness, homosexuality, and drug addiction.

Stephanie repented of her lesbian lifestyle, breaking all soul ties with every partner she had ever been with by name. She even handed Hinn her drug paraphernalia, cigarettes, and pipe, declaring that if she was going to get clean, she was going all the way. Stephanie’s aunt, who had accompanied her to the conference, was completely amazed by the transformation she saw in Stephanie. The change was so complete that she almost didn’t recognize her.

Not only was Stephanie set free that night, but her whole family was impacted by her radical deliverance.

 

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19-Year-Old Gave Up Drugs And Parties For Jesus

by Le-Jovale Vallejo
written by Le-Jovale Vallejo

A 19-year-old man shares his story about how he gave up drugs and parties for Jesus. “I truly didn’t want that life any more,” he said.

Bogdan Romanov

Bogdan is the youngest of ten siblings. He shared that he had a hard time being the youngest. “It was hard. Because I’m the youngest, I always get picked on by my sisters.”

When he was in 8th grade, he experienced being bullied for the very first time. But during the second attempt, he fought back. Since then, he would go around and fight people in their school. It was also during this time that he started smoking weed.

After a while, he got so addicted that he started stealing from other people so he could afford it. It led him to a lifestyle of drugs and parties.

“And from those pills, I would start drinking. I would go to parties and start hanging out with girls and sleep around with girls a lot.”

Filling the Void with Drugs and Parties

It was only later that Bogdan realized why he felt so empty. When he was fourteen years old, his father left them. He didn’t have a good role model. So he wanted to be like his brothers, who smoked and fought people. It felt like they were the “big boss,” he said.

“Growing up without a dad is the hardest thing ever. It’s very lonely. That’s why I tried to fill that void by going out to parties and sleeping a lot.”

Bogdan started taking acids. He described it as a spiritual drug. “I heard a lot of stories about people who have seen devils and stuff.”

And one night, he experienced it firsthand. He was at his friend’s house when he took it, and then he started seeing his friend as the devil.

“Something pulls me to the bed, and I can’t move. I used all my strength to get up, and I got up. And I’m like, ‘You’re the devil, you’re the devil.’ He said, ‘No, no, chill out. It’s the acid.’ And I started calming down.”

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I gave up drugs and parties for Jesus | My Testimony

He started reading the Bible and praying after remembering his brother David, who got saved two years before him. “I’m holding it, and I just felt like such peace came over me. I look at it, and I’m calm. No fear, no nothing.”

He prayed that night, “God, if You save me right now, if You show me who You really are, I will never smoke weed again or do any drugs.”

God Spoke to Him

Bogdan sprinted home and talked to his brother. He was so out of it. But in his brother’s body came a voice he didn’t recognize, and he said, “Before I created this earth, I wrote your name in the book of life.”

He later realized that it was Jesus! He started bawling and repenting.

“That night, I got free from drugs. In the next three months, I was still partying and popping pills, but I quit smoking weed.”

But because of his friend’s influence, he started smoking again. And that nasty feeling came over him.

“Lord, I know I promised you this, but I failed. What should I do?”

He was convicted of asking his mom for forgiveness for everything he had done. His mother’s response was, “It’s okay; I still love you.”

Freed from Drugs and Parties

Bogdan gave his life to God. He confessed everything he did in court and was initially charged with being put in prison for three years. When the judge saw him, he asked about everything he did. Bogdan came clean but told him he had already stopped. And that’s when the judge told him something he didn’t expect.

“He told me, ‘I want to see you get your life back together,’ and he dropped the charges.”

Bogdan has never been the same since then.

“I truly didn’t want that life any more. Because I did drugs for years, I never got filled. I smoked and was good for two hours but got depressed again. And go home and be lonely again. But how did I get off of them? Just truly in your heart, you want to be set free.”

“Love people just like Jesus loves you,” he concluded.

Header image: Bogdan Romanov [Flame of Fire]. YouTube, 2 August 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kRqHPmlCU

Reference: Flame of Fire

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Pregnant Drug Addict Mom Opted For Abortion, Until She Found Christ

by Christa
written by Christa

Kailee Perrin was a drug addict and pregnant with a drug dealer’s baby. She knew they were unsuitable for raising a baby, so she chose abortion. But God had better plans for Kailee and her baby.

Dysfunctional Home

Kailee grew up in a dysfunctional home, with parents heavily involved in drugs and alcohol. Being a firsthand witness to the dangers of drug abuse and alcoholism, Kailee determined not to go the same path. But her determination was not enough.

When she was still an eighth-grader, she tried smoking pot after her peers urged her to. And then, she tried alcohol when she turned thirteen, and drugs and immoral living followed.

Kailee’s mom wanted her to change for the better, so she underwent counseling and therapy groups. It made her sober since.

Then, they moved to New York, hoping to have a better life. There, Kailee met the one who would become the father of her baby, Kirk.

Pregnant Drug Addict

Apparently, Kirk was a drug dealer. Kailee described the first stage of their relationship as “daily bouts of drinking and drugs.” And when she was 18 years old, Kailee got pregnant.

“I was in no shape to give birth or care for a child,” she recalled. “I was 18 and heavily addicted, with no car, no job, and no money.”

Kirk was also unprepared to become a parent, so he gave Kailee money to get an abortion. But, deep down, Kailee wanted to keep the baby.

In an unprecedented event, Kailee’s mom met a stranger and handed her an address and number for a crisis pregnancy center. Kailee thought that the center offered abortions, so they went without knowing that they provided the opposite instead.

She learned about the process of birth and life. The counselor also shared her testimony of getting pregnant at 17, but she kept the baby after receiving Jesus Christ.

It inspired Kailee, and then she decided to keep the baby. Amazingly, Kirk found the courage and gave up his life on drugs. He looked for a proper job and decided to be a father to their child.

With support from her parents, she went through rehab. And then, on October 8, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Preslee Olivia.

Surrendering to Christ

But after two years, Kailee relapsed into drinking and smoking. She figured that the baby would not fill the void in her life. After all, she still did not surrender her life to Christ.

One night, Kailee lay on the floor and asked God for forgiveness. The heavy weight of addiction was lifted, and she knew she was made new.

Since then, she has never touched alcohol or drugs. Kirk has also surrendered his life to Jesus.

Today, Kailee enjoys sharing her testimony in crisis pregnancy centers and helps women with abusive families, addictions, and unplanned pregnancies.

Reference: Christianity Today

Header Image: Chepinska, Anastasiia [Photographer], Pregnant woman [Photograph] (2020), Retrieved: March 3, 2023, at https://unsplash.com/photos/B7JVo5y3gL8

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Teen Witch Used Drugs To Cope, But Ended Up On A Church Doorstep

by Le-Jovale Vallejo
written by Le-Jovale Vallejo

A teen witch who became involved with witchcraft and the devil, eventually using drugs, ended up on a church doorstep.

Victoria Batiste

Victoria’s childhood was far from a princess-like tale of living in a palace, waiting for her prince and knight in shining armor to arrive. Instead, it was one of brokenness and despair, abuse, and abandonment.

Her parents were often violent, intoxicated, or high. Her father was a pastor who applied incorrect interpretations of Scripture to support his severe form of punishment.

“A few times of him slamming me on the ground and choking me, telling me, “If thine arm offends me, cut it off,”” Victoria scoffed.

Teen Witch

To escape the harsh reality, Victoria found a way to deal with her imperfect world. And that was to become a teen witch.

“I felt like they understood me,” said Victoria. “The witchcraft became more to me than just play. It wasn’t play, because I knew that stuff was real. Deeper and deeper, I would go into it. Like I would… astral projection, that’s where you project your soul out of your body and you travel in the spirit realm. That’s where I felt like I had power.”

“It was always about me,” Victoria said of her imaginative world. “People loving on me, people taking good care of me.”

But time passed, and even witchcraft couldn’t satisfy the longing of her broken soul. So, she turned to a different thing—opioids.

She Stopped Being a Teen Witch and Got Addicted to Drugs

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“It was like it altered something in me, like I was happy,” Victoria said. “Like the pain, the heaviness, the emotions that I felt when I woke up every day as a kid, I didn’t feel them anymore. This was something that helped me cope with what was really going on, on the inside of my head.”

She was just a teenager when she started depending on drugs. She got so addicted that she started hearing voices in her head. And one day, the voices told her: “If you just give your life to the devil, then everything will be okay.”

With nothing to lose, Victoria agreed. But all of a sudden, she had her hands around her mother’s neck before she knew it.

Miscarriages. Homelessness. Brokenness. It was a cycle of those three.

But one day, she heard a voice.

Victoria, who was lost and had nowhere to go, once more heard a voice saying, “Go to the church.” Though this time the voice was different from all the others that tormented her.

At a Church’s Doorstep

“My shoes broke. I literally just broke down in tears.”

A Deal with the Devil Doesn’t Last

Victoria wept as she approached the church doors and got to her knees.  As they entered the church for the service, several people asked if she was alright.

“I said, ‘No. I’m 19 years old. I’m three-and-a-half months pregnant and I don’t have nowhere to go,'” she said with exasperation. “This lady walks up to me, she goes, ‘Honey, do you need me to take you somewhere?’ And in that moment, that’s when I started to recognize that that was God’s voice. And I surrendered. That was it. ‘Okay God, this is it. Do you want me to serve you? Do you want me to give my life to you? Here I am.'”

Church members assisted Victoria as she committed her life to Christ. The lies she had believed about God and herself, as well as her addiction to opioids, started to fall apart.

“I started to realize that He was a loving God and He was a father and He was there all along. ‘I’m ready to do whatever you want me to do.’ Because what I did before was not working,” she concluded.

She gave birth to a healthy son and is now pursuing social work studies while leading a full life with Christ!

Her story was like the prodigal son who spent his life searching for life’s meaning and healing in the world.  But only God can satisfy a person’s pursuit of wanting to be understood and accepted.

Like what happened to Victoria, it is in our prayers that you and your loved ones receive your healing, freedom, and heart’s desire in Christ.

Header image: Victoria Batiste [The 700 Club]. YouTube, 5 November 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B12LjqZ06Sc

Reference: CBN News

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From Drugs And The New Age To Freedom In Christ

by Le-Jovale Vallejo
written by Le-Jovale Vallejo

Chaz Ortiz was addicted to drugs and deep in the New Age. It was his lifeline. But that’s until he encountered Christ.

Chaz Ortiz

Drugs and New Age practices were what kept Chaz going. He couldn’t live without it. He was so addicted that he started stealing things just so he could buy drugs.

Chaz was a store manager for five years. And in those years, he was using Percocet and he didn’t tell anyone.

One day, he stole two phones from the store he worked for and sold them. But he was duped by a stranger who deceived him with fake iPhones.

“I’m walking out of the mall and there’s this guy walking in. I’m holding the door for him as he’s coming in. He’s holding an Apple bag. And he asked me, “Hey bro, do you want to buy these phones from me?”

“I just give him the money I got from the stolen iPhones I sold.”

But it turns out that those weren’t real. So he went back to his workplace and stole more phones. Then he ended up losing all the money he made at the casino trying to make more.

This all happened in one day. Also, he was caught by his manager and told to turn himself in. Chaz didn’t want to, so he flew to Atlanta. And that was the beginning of his involvement in the New Age.

Drugs and the New Age

One night, he told one of his friends, “Man, I’m tired of running. I’m due for a change.”

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But he didn’t know he would get hooked on something he wasn’t expecting. He discovered the New Age practices and started doing them.

“But then, I started doing meditation; I started going all deep into the new age. Because I’m thinking that’s what saved me from Percocet,” he said.

His dedication to the New Age got so deep to the point that he believed the “Bible was fake.”

“They gave us the Bible to keep us enslaved. They don’t want us to know that we are our own guys and we can manifest whatever we want. So, I’m like, “Jesus is not real. I don’t believe in Jesus,” Chaz recalled.

“I was going crazy with this new-age stuff.”

But one day, a friend of his came to help him with his small business. This friend was so passionate about Jesus that he started sharing with Chaz. Chaz wanted people to believe he was a Christian because many of his customers were Christians. He didn’t want to lose them.

“I wouldn’t tell anyone that I’m not a Christian. Because a lot of Christians are buying my clothes. I didn’t want them to stop buying. So, basically, I’m just using God’s name to make money,” he said.

At the Park

But one day, a stranger came to him at a park and started sharing Jesus with him. And through that, Chaz’s heart was softened. So, when a stranger approached him to share the Gospel, he was attentive.

“I don’t come to this park; I don’t come to this area; but God told me to come down here and I will speak to someone. “I realize that someone is you,” the man said to Chaz.

Because of that, he started going to church. Many days he would go to church and there was nothing.

Until one day.

From drugs and the new age to FREEDOM in CHRIST!

From Drugs and the New Age to Freedom in Christ

One night when he attended church, God encountered Chaz.

“That’s the first time I heard God speak to me, and I knew it was God. I repented, on my knees, and I started crying uncontrollably,” he recalled. “I woke up the next morning feeling like a veil had come off my eyes. The colors got brighter. Everything started to change around me.”

“I’m living for God now.”

Chaz surrendered his life and everything he had to Christ, even his business. He is now sober and has nothing to do with drugs or the New Age. He realized that, apart from God, he couldn’t really do anything.

“Put God first, trust in Him, and give Him everything. Don’t try to hold anything for yourself. And don’t think you can do anything by yourself. Everything is spiritual. So once you get a stronghold, the only way to get rid of a stronghold that is spiritual is through Christ. No one can do it on their own,” Chaz concluded.

Header image: Jenn and Chaz [Jenn EXpsychic]. YouTube, 17 June 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSWSZGP4RQ

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Actor’s Struggle With Drug Addiction For 25 Years Ended After Meeting Jesus

by Christel Berns
written by Christel Berns

Actor and former model Jason Umidi’s struggle with drug addiction for 25 years ended after meeting Jesus.

Facing Disappointments

Jason Umidi grew up in church, because his father was a pastor. Being raised in a Christian home, he knew the God of his youth but really didn’t have a relationship with God. Until one day, he had to face the reality of life’s disappointments.

Drug Addiction Testimony

Photo Courtesy | Jason Umidi

On the actor’s website, he revealed how his faith faltered because of his personal struggles.

“Church and its collection of ‘do’s & don’ts’ for how to live your life didn’t soothe my broken soul,” he wrote.

In third grade, the young Jason experienced molestation. That’s when feelings of shame entered his life. During high school, he thought of committing suicide to escape his pain. It greatly affected his self-esteem and mental health.

Struggle With Drug Addiction

Furthermore, Jason suffered from chronic pain and underwent five spine fusion surgeries. He then suffered from bipolar depression. He couldn’t bear the pain anymore, so he turned to opioid drugs and alcohol use to ease his pain.

Photo Courtesy | The 700 Club

“Gone were the conversations with the God of my youth,” he recounted. “And as I struggled alone in my inner darkness, I believed the lie that this life was no longer worth living. This is the enormous cost of addictions. Lives are ruined, hearts are broken, and your sanity turns against you.”

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For 25 years, the actor learned to forget his emotional and chronic pain through opioids. There was a time he tried to stop his addiction for his family, but he relapsed every time. Drugs took a toll on his life, and shame became his close friend. His depression only got worse until he reached his breaking point.

That’s when Jesus entered the scene and rescued him from the pit of darkness. A heart full of gratitude to God then filled his life.

Actor’s Struggle with Sobriety Redeemed by Jesus

Reference | Jason Umidi

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