Omar

“I was drunk in a strip club bathroom when I told the restroom attendant, 'I used to be a Christian,' and he said, 'No, you're still a Christian — this is not the way your life ends.'”

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What they struggled with

Drug addiction Alcohol addiction Father wound Shame Sexual addiction Loneliness / isolation Demonic oppression Relationship breakdown Divorce Family rejection

False refuges

Alcohol Searching for love Identity / performance Drugs Sexual behaviour

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Unconditional love Father's heart Patience Restorer Mercy

Religious background

Roman Catholic Protestant Christian

Main testimony theme

Secondary theme

Deliverance and freedom

How they came to faith

Supernatural encounter Relational influence

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony moves through severe childhood abandonment, cocaine addiction, a failed marriage, and a strip club encounter with God — it is heavy in places but the turning point is one of the most specific and surprising divine interventions you will hear. Omar is now 44, six years into a restored life, and speaks with the clarity of someone who has genuinely come through the other side.

What this story teaches

People who were never told they were wanted as children will spend decades trying to manufacture that feeling through substances, sex, status, and performance — and none of it works, because the wound is not a preference, it is an identity question that only the one who made them can answer.

How God moved

The lie Omar carried

I'm not a good person — anything good that came my way I made sure to tear down and push away. There is nothing good in me.

What Jesus showed him

Omar carried from birth the wound of being unwanted and abandoned — left at an orphanage, shuffled between places, never receiving affection from his cold grandmother or his absent father. The core wound was: I am not loved, I am not wanted, I come from nothing. Jesus named it and broke it by declaring he had been Omar's Father from birth.

Go Deeper

There's no drug, there's no drink, there's no women that is going to fill the emptiness that only God can fill. If you seek direction, Jesus is the way. If you seek truth, Jesus is the truth — look at the word of God and it's right there, it'll come to life. That's why to me it's so important to always just voice the word out because there's power in releasing the word even when you're in a situation where you're struggling with your faith. When you're on the fence with your faith, you don't know what to believe, you don't know how you're going to get yourself out of the situation — if you don't know what to say just say Jesus. Just speak Jesus over that addiction, Jesus over your marriage, Jesus over your emptiness, over your anxiety, over your depression. You may be in a situation where you may be holding a bottle right now and you don't know how to break loose from that — the name of Jesus, that's the way. Jesus can take you and meet you exactly where you're at whether you're 10 years old or you're 90 years old. God is ready. He's ready to pick up where we left his hand because he's never left. He's always there.

People who were never told they were wanted as children will spend decades trying to manufacture that feeling through substances, sex, status, and performance — and none of it works, because the wound is not a preference, it is an identity question that only the one who made them can answer.

What you can take from this

If you have been running from a wound you have never named, write down the earliest moment you felt unwanted or abandoned this week — and then ask God directly: what do you say about that moment?

Progressive entrapment

Started with drinking at parties in freshman year, escalated to cocaine addiction — Thursday to Monday without sleeping, consuming drugs and alcohol, countless women. Felt handcuffed to the lifestyle and the image. The chains felt heavier and heavier until he felt muzzled.

Identity theft

Omar adopted someone else's image — borrowed clothing, collar shirt, slacks, dress shoes — and felt a shift: 'I was adopting somebody else's image, somebody else's identity.' He began chasing this false image for years: 'If I can look successful this will gain me respect and nobody ever has to know about my upbringing.'

Spirit of condemnation

After his marriage failed, thoughts told him: 'The only good thing you had going for yourself you just threw it away. Now you don't get to raise your kids. You've got these addictions you can't loose yourself from.' Also used his mother's words: 'You're never going to change, you're going to be just like your father.'

Unnamed entity

At nighttime a presence would wait for Omar in his apartment. He would sit in his car until nearly unconscious rather than go inside. He felt something telling him 'you know what time it is — it's time to drink, it's time to go out looking for women or drugs.' He felt like he was in a small dark cell yelling for help but nobody could hear him.

Family weaponisation

His mother repeatedly told him 'if you don't change your life you're going to end up like your father — irresponsible, a womanizer, never holding yourself accountable.' This became a self-fulfilling declaration he began to believe about himself.

Core lie

The deepest lie: 'I always felt alone, I always felt neglected, I always felt left out, I always felt abandoned, I always felt that I wasn't loved.' This drove every false refuge — the image, the women, the alcohol, the cocaine — all attempts to fill what the lie said could never be filled.

Other

After his initial surrender and commitment to draw near to God, Omar fell back into drinking and drugs. Voices returned: 'There's a game going on, let's go watch it, drink a couple beers.' Then escalated to the strip club. The cycle of compulsion continued even after genuine spiritual awakening.

1

Lord if there's anything anything that is still worth saving in me you know please come because I need you. Lord either take me or change me because I can't with my life anymore.

2

Lord what do you want from me, what is it that you want for me? I've asked for your help, I've called out to you. I'm not a good person.

3

Forgive me Lord. I started almost being able to feel everything in me felt unworthy that I didn't deserve this love.

4

Will you pray for me? And he said absolutely. And here we are two grown men in a restroom of a strip club holding hands and he's praying for me.

5

Within a couple of weeks I end up going to church where my girlfriend had invited me. We have been there serving faithfully now for six years.

6

She would always leave me a sticky note with the word of God everywhere — in my jacket, in my shoes, in my kitchen, inside my refrigerator. I would read them and I would read them out loud so I knew that I was speaking the word of God.

7

He restored my marriage. He allowed me to again give — he gave me his best with my wife now. The Lord provided for us to pay for our wedding, our honeymoon, everything. He provided a home for us to be able to immediately purchase.

Psalms 139:7–12

The Holy Spirit brought this passage to Omar in the strip club restroom, confirming God's presence even in the darkest place.

Jeremiah 29:11

Omar cited this as the word that began to manifest in his life after returning to God — plans for hope and a future.

John 14:6

Omar's favourite scripture — Jesus as the way, truth, and life — which he uses when speaking to people who are lost.

Luke 19:10

Read by Omar before praying for viewers — the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.

Proverbs 18:22

Omar referenced 'he who finds a good wife finds favor before the Lord' as the word that began to manifest when he married Victoria.

Psalms 46:10

Omar referenced 'be still and know that I am God' as the posture God called him to in his recovery.

Omar explicitly names himself as the prodigal who squandered his wealth — his youth and freedom — and was met by the Father in the far country.

God intercepted Omar at his lowest point in a strip club through an unexpected messenger, producing immediate transformation and sobriety.

Omar describes himself as completely dried up spiritually, with God breathing life back into him through his wife's scripture notes and persistent love.

God explicitly told Omar he had never been fatherless — 'I have been your father' — directly healing the core wound of paternal abandonment.

Omar's Christian Walk

Married his girlfriend Victoria; God provided for their wedding, honeymoon, and immediate home purchase. Has been faithfully serving at the same church for six years. Physical illness that had him bedridden was instantly healed at the moment of surrender. Sobriety from cocaine and alcohol. Has a 5-year-old son he is raising with intentional love. Life began accelerating materially and spiritually after marriage.

I know who I am and I know why I've been created — I've been created for him and for him alone.

All alcohol and substances — Omar left the strip club completely sober after the deliverance prayer: 'Any alcohol substance that was in me was completely gone.'

The drugs, the women, the pornography, the addictions — cocaine, alcohol, the drinking, the women — and the chains of addiction, condemnation, and shame. Also the false identity he had adopted that wore him out and didn't let him be who God created him to be.

Prayer

The power of Prayer — Girlfriend and future wife stood in the gap for Omar.

Victoria persistently loved Omar through three years of addiction, infidelity, and brokenness, telling him 'I see what you don't see in yourself — I believe it's the Lord showing me what he sees in you and I will not give up on you.' She left scripture-filled sticky notes throughout his home — in his jacket, shoes, kitchen, and refrigerator — feeding his spirit when it was dried up. She invited him to church and prayed with him after every relapse without condemnation. A second bridge was Daniel, an African pastor working as a strip club restroom attendant, who spoke a single decisive word: 'You're still a Christian — what the Lord started in you he's going to finish. This is not the way your life ends.' He then prayed over Omar, who left completely sober.

Is today your day?

Yes — I'm Ready

Absolutely, He will.

You don't have to figure everything out right now.

You don't need to have all the answers.

If something stirred in your heart while you were watching or reading — that's not nothing.

That is the Holy Spirit gently knocking on the door of your heart.

Stay right here. There's no rush. The Spirit doesn't pressure or hurry.

Watch another video. Read a little more. Take your time.

When you're ready — even if “ready” just means a little curious — Jesus is ready to meet you.

You don't have to clean up your life first.

You don't have to pass any test.

You only need to say a simple “yes” to Him.

He will take care of the rest.

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

Luke 11:9

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