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Ricky — testimonyDEEPENING FAITH

Ricky

I was brought up in a Christian family and got saved in 2020, but I was a cessationist — I thought when the Bible was completed, you didn't need the Holy Ghost anymore. I used to say people who spoke in tongues were demonic.

Demonic oppressionSpiritual warfare (post-conversion)Religious trauma
Omar — testimonyCONVERSION

Omar

I was a fatherless kid from the projects who adopted a fake identity to hide where I came from. I chased women, cocaine, and alcohol for years trying to fill an emptiness I couldn't name. I had a failed marriage, kids I couldn't raise, and I felt like I was screaming for help from inside a dark cell and nobody could hear me.

Drug addictionAlcohol addictionFather wound+7
Patricia — testimonyDEEPENING FAITH

Patricia

I was a Catholic woman who knew God was calling me but kept making my own choices without asking him. I was fighting authority, not really communicating, not being honest with myself or others — and I kept getting more and more confused.

DivorceLoneliness / isolationShame+1
Rob — testimonyCONVERSION

Rob

I was a kid with no direction and no purpose — smoking weed at 11, getting expelled, sleeping in motels, watching my dad use drugs and my mom prostitute herself to feed me. I questioned if there even was a God.

Father woundDrug addictionBereavement / grief+3
Laura — testimonyCONVERSION

Laura

I was 100% Jewish, a blank slate — I honestly didn't even know Jesus was a person. I believed in God but had no preconceived ideas, no agenda, no knowledge of the gospel whatsoever.

Family rejection
AZ — testimonyCONVERSION

AZ

I was a drifter, a wanderer — lost and disillusioned my whole life, hiding behind gym and eastern mysticism, trying to transcend the physical realm and escape suffering. I had complex PTSD, multiple suicide attempts, and a psychiatrist told me I had no options left.

Father woundChildhood domestic violenceOccult involvement+8
Danny — testimonyDEEPENING FAITH

Danny

I was the most depressed person I knew personally. I grew up in church, even became a leader in Christian fellowship, but at the gut level I could not imagine God really loved me. I could not remember one happy day in my entire childhood.

Father woundLoneliness / isolationMental health+2
Stuart — testimonyCONVERSION

Stuart

I was a Jewish guy from the Bronx — a rebel, a heavy drinker, a drug dealer. I believed Jesus was not for the Jewish people. End of discussion. I wanted to connect with God but found only hypocrisy in the synagogue.

Drug addictionAlcohol addictionReligious trauma
Kim — testimonyCONVERSION

Kim

I was a spiritual seeker from Manchester — open-minded, into psychedelics, shamanic healing, and plant medicine. I didn't want religion, I just wanted God. I thought ayahuasca was the answer to my depression and the healing the world needed.

Occult involvementDemonic oppressionDrug addiction+2
RJ — testimonyDEEPENING FAITH

RJ

I was raised in church, called to ministry at 12, but by my late teens I was addicted to pornography and sexual sin, drinking, partying, experimenting with steroids, and running from God into the fire service — numb to the Holy Spirit I once knew intimately.

Sexual addictionPornographyBacksliding+2
Britney — testimonyCONVERSION

Britney

I was searching for love in all the wrong places. I believed that if I was in a relationship I was valuable, and if I was having sex with somebody that meant I was worthy. I was a porn performer for seven years, a drug addict, plagued with suicidal thoughts, and I hated everything about waking up.

Drug addictionSexual addictionShame+5
Yesupadas — testimonyCONVERSION

Yesupadas

I was an Untouchable boy treated worse than an animal, a committed communist who made a blood covenant to bring revolution to India. I was drinking, in gangs, cutting people, saw dead bodies — and I was happy doing it because I thought I was taking revenge.

Gang involvementAlcohol addictionBereavement / grief+3

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new”

2 Corinthians 5:17