Remy

“I went to the conference high on weed, listening to secular music — and came back wanting nothing to do with alcohol or weed. He stripped the taste of it from my mouth and replaced it with himself.”

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What they struggled with

Father wound Loneliness / isolation Drug addiction LGBTQ background Shame Family rejection

False refuges

Drugs Alcohol Sexual behaviour Searching for love

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Father's heart Patience Shepherd's heart Restorer Provider

Religious background

Islam Protestant Christian

Main testimony theme

Secondary theme

Deepening Faith

How they came to faith

Supernatural encounter Intellectual conviction

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony moves from a Nigerian Muslim household through rejection, same-sex experimentation, and drug use to a dramatic Holy Spirit encounter at a college conference. What makes it distinctive is the intellectual depth — Remy did not just feel her way to Jesus; she studied her way there too, and her clarity about why Islam and Christianity cannot be the same God is unusually precise.

What this story teaches

People raised in religious systems that make God distant and transactional often carry a hunger for personal relationship they cannot name — and when they finally see someone who actually knows God, the contrast is immediately recognizable and irresistible.

How God moved

The lie Remy carried

I felt unseen, as if nobody saw me — rejected by my father, rejected by men, invisible to the world.

What Jesus showed her

Remy carried a deep wound of invisibility — never told 'I love you' by her father, rejected by men, feeling unseen by everyone around her. She believed she was fundamentally unlovable and unworthy of being chosen, and sought to fill that void through every available substitute.

Go Deeper

Truth is truth and we cannot say that there is a truth for one person and another truth for someone else. There's one truth, there's one way and his name is Jesus. He did not just come for one race, he did not just come for one culture or one people. God so loved the world that he sent his one and only son so that we would not perish but have eternal life and he desires to save everybody. And so if you're coming across this, this is a sign that Jesus is calling you. I pray that you would truly seek truth — not just because you were raised in something, not just because that's all you've known your whole life — but I pray that you would truly seek truth and if you seek God wholeheartedly you will find him.

People raised in religious systems that make God distant and transactional often carry a hunger for personal relationship they cannot name — and when they finally see someone who actually knows God, the contrast is immediately recognizable and irresistible.

What you can take from this

This week, ask yourself whether the God you pray to feels like a brick wall or a friend. If it is a wall, try speaking to him as if he can actually hear you — not a formula, just honest words — and see what happens.

Core lie

I felt unseen, as if nobody saw me. I felt as if guys were not attracted to me, I felt as if I was heavily rejected and I didn't understand why. I felt like there was nothing that I could see myself doing — I need someone greater than me to tell me who I am and tell me why I'm here.

Counterfeit spirituality

In Islam I never knew that God could speak to us, I never knew that God wanted to speak to me. There's a wedge between us and God. I would feel as if we're praying and there's like a brick wall in front of me where my prayers are not being heard.

Family weaponisation

God started to call me to obey him in ways that would ultimately mean I would have to disobey my parents. My parents thought I was crazy. I could barely stand in their presence without crying or feeling ashamed for being a Christian. For a while I had to actually live with my pastors.

Progressive entrapment

If you were to tell me freshman year that you're going to be smoking heavily one day and getting drunk I would have laughed in your face. When I surrounded myself with people who were doing it, Bad Company corrupts good morals, and I started to feel that this was normal. I used weed as a coping mechanism for my rejection, for my depression.

Counterfeit intimacy

I remember thinking to myself one night if guys are not attracted to me maybe I'm supposed to be gay. It was as if the moment that week where I began to think those thoughts a specific girl started to pursue me and I just thought that must be what is supposed to be. Little did I know that the enemy was trying to use that door that I opened in my mind against me.

1

I went to The Altar and I gave my life to Jesus.

2

At that conference I renounced Islam completely and I accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior.

3

I started to read the Bible for myself and I began to consume the word at a crazy rate — I went through the whole Testament in like a month.

4

I actually ended up becoming a leader in that same Bible study where I got saved and so I was helping to make more disciples on campus.

5

I just came to a place of surrender where God you can do whatever you want through me.

John 14:6

The verse pierced her heart and shattered her belief that Christians and Muslims serve the same God, launching her investigation.

Psalms 23:1

Her Muslim mother taught her to recite it against bad dreams — the only scripture she knew before conversion.

Galatians 1:8

She cited this verse in her study of Islam's origins — even an angel preaching another gospel is cursed.

Romans 6:23

The wages of sin is death — the theological truth that broke her Islamic works-based framework at the conference.

Ephesians 5:18

She echoes 'be not drunk with wine but filled with the Spirit' to describe her deliverance from alcohol and weed.

Romans 8:26

She references the Spirit praying through her with groanings that cannot be expressed, as she developed her prayer life.

John 3:16

She quotes it in her closing appeal — God so loved the world, not one race or culture, to ground her universal evangelism.

Philippians 2:10–11

Every knee will bow and every tongue confess — her motivation for bold testimony despite risk.

Like Paul, Remy was actively opposed to the gospel before a sudden, transformative divine encounter reversed her entire trajectory.

Remy came to herself in college emptiness, returned to the Father, and was met with the Spirit's fullness rather than condemnation.

Remy explicitly says 'when I drink from Jesus's cup I don't thirst for anything again' — a direct echo of the living water promise.

Remy was baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues spontaneously, with no one laying hands on her, mirroring Acts 2.

Remy's Christian Walk

Immediately stopped smoking weed and drinking alcohol after the conference — the desire was stripped away. Became a Bible study leader on campus. Parents' mocking and persecution stopped after two years; they now support her entrepreneurship and she can speak boldly about her faith with them. God opened doors for her to share the gospel with her family.

I knew in that moment that I was never going to be the same again.

Weed and alcohol — 'He stripped the taste of weed from my mouth, he removed everything that I used to fill a void.' She went to the conference high and came back wanting nothing to do with either substance.

He stripped the taste of weed from my mouth, he removed everything that I used to fill a void and he replaced it with him. I no longer had to be drunk with wine because I was filled with the Holy Spirit.

Prayer

The power of Prayer — Bible study community of Christian college friends stood in the gap for Remy.

Her Christian college friends attended Bible study weekly but never invited her. When she hit rock bottom with depression and purposelessness, she invited herself. The community welcomed her, and their testimonies about being freed from the same struggles convicted her week by week. They also paid her full way to the youth conference where she was converted and baptized in the Spirit.

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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