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Abby — testimonyCONVERSION

Abby

I was a dancer, a drug user, a psychology student living a double life — always trying to fit in, never knowing who I was. No identity, no knowledge of God, just seeking wherever I could find it. I was good at hiding everything.

Drug addictionAlcohol addictionShame+6
Bree — testimonyCONVERSION

Bree

I was a deeply spiritual person — a pranic healer, yoga teacher, channeler, astral traveler — who genuinely loved God and thought I was serving him. I'd been in the New Age for 20 years and thought I had evolved beyond dogmatic Christianity.

Occult involvementDemonic oppressionSpiritual warfare (post-conversion)+2
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
Name withheld — testimonyDEEPENING FAITH

Name withheld

I was a Christian who had incredible encounters with God, worked in ministry, but hid behind work and battled pornography in secret — a whitewashed tomb, clean on the outside, filthy on the inside, with a heart that kept looking back at Egypt.

Fear / anxietySexual addictionPornography+4
Jesse — testimonyCONVERSION

Jesse

I was a very miserable, angry person. My whole life was a trauma drama. I was into the New Age for 15 years, tried everything — Sufism, Buddhism, feminism, all of it — and none of it led me to truth or life. I had so much abuse, anger, hatred, and condemnation inside me.

Father woundChildhood sexual abuseChildhood domestic violence+7
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
Leah — testimonyNEAR-DEATH

Leah

I was a latchkey kid who never felt wanted or loved, chasing one drug after another for decades — pain pills, crack, heroin — selling myself for drugs, attempting suicide, and believing I was a sacrifice God had written off.

Drug addictionAlcohol addictionShame+4
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
Chris — testimonyCONVERSION

Chris

I was a software engineer and startup guy who rejected Christianity as antiquated, then spent years trying every psychedelic, energy healer, Buddhist retreat, and New Age practice I could find, convinced I could engineer my way to enlightenment and heal my grief on my own terms.

Occult involvementDemonic oppressionSpiritual warfare (post-conversion)+2
Gloria — testimonyCONVERSION

Gloria

I was a girl who had never been loved right — beaten by my mother, told I was plain, moved through 16 states with no roots, no friends, married at 16 to escape, left alone with six kids and no child support. I tried to kill myself twice before I was 15.

Father woundShameSuicide attempt+3
Steph — testimonyCONVERSION

Steph

I was a law student raised in chaos, addicted to opioids and alcohol since 14, deep in New Age and tarot, in a violent relationship, blacklisted by my family — raising myself, convinced I could fix everything on my own, but dead inside.

Drug addictionAlcohol addictionOccult involvement+6
Jenna — testimonyCONVERSION

Jenna

I was probably the most hateful atheist — even after hearing from the spirit realm, having a foundation of God, I just completely rejected that. I was on drugs, on my own at 17, and I was so angry at the idea of God I couldn't stand it.

Childhood sexual abuseDemonic oppressionDrug addiction+6

“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