JMac: “God has delivered me from smoking, anger, and pornography. He has given me a glorious new life! The day I was saved, He showed me the only way to get rid of my sin was to give my life to Jesus. I felt the weight of my sin lift off me and was trembling from the inside out like a new-born lamb. I was born again. I have seen God raise people from the dead and many more miracles for people since that day.”
Juli: “I think of my fall as if falling from a treetop… to rock bottom where I truly found the Lord.
Those branches along the way broke my heart— my parents’ divorce, rape, an abusive relationship, the addictions of my mother, the absence of my father. Just ten days after her 26th birthday, my very best friend was shot and killed by her boyfriend. This devastated me. I hated the man that took her away from me and I became angry with God.
I began trying to fill all of those broken places in my heart with other things. I started taking more and more of my prescription pain meds to numb the emotional pain. I would spend years grappling with one question: “Why God, why her?” I reached an all-time low when no one would prescribe drugs to me anymore. In my brokenness, I felt the gentle hand of God reaching out to me. Redemption. That is what I found when I fell into His arms. He rescued me.”