Samo

“I was a drug-using rebel who got kicked out of church, lost everything, and watched a demon speak out of my sister-in-law's body — and that is what finally broke me back to Jesus.”

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What they struggled with

Drug addiction Sexual addiction Pornography Shame Demonic oppression Fear / anxiety Spiritual warfare (post-conversion)

False refuges

Drugs Achievement / fitness Pornography

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Patience Restorer Provider Healer Father's heart

Religious background

Protestant Christian Roman Catholic

Main testimony theme

Secondary theme

Deliverance and freedom

How they came to faith

Supernatural encounter Hitting rock bottom

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony moves through two full cycles of conversion, backsliding, and return — including a church expulsion, years of panic attacks and demonic torment, and a witnessed exorcism in a hospital ward. What makes it worth watching is the specificity of God's fingerprints across an ordinary, messy life: a stonemason on a cliff in Italy, a stranger in Australia, a demon naming itself aloud.

What this story teaches

People can genuinely encounter God, walk away, return, walk away again, and still be fully restored — the door does not close after the first backslide, or the second. God's pursuit is longer than any season of running.

How God moved

Go Deeper

Nothing, nothing can fulfill that void that you have in your soul that you're trying to fulfill with anything — with people, with relationship, with sex, with work, recognition, anything. Anything that you're trying to fulfill, the thirst will come back. Jesus will fulfill that void. If you don't believe in God, just pray. Pray God. If you don't believe, say, just I don't believe that you exist, but if you exist, reveal yourself to me. Reveal yourself to me. I need you. The Lord will reveal himself to you. Just pick up a Bible and start to read. That's the truth. Even historically, the word of God, it's true. More research you do in the word of God, more you will see how true he is.

People can genuinely encounter God, walk away, return, walk away again, and still be fully restored — the door does not close after the first backslide, or the second. God's pursuit is longer than any season of running.

What you can take from this

This week, identify one thing you have been using to fill a void that keeps coming back empty — and honestly name it to God, even if you don't fully believe he's listening.

Spirit of death

I was hearing in my head like 'you're going to die in 10, 9, 8, 7, calm down' constantly. I was living in hell in my own head. Fear of dying, nightmares, trembling in bed — I was depressed and oppressed.

Unnamed entity

I started to have sleep paralysis, nightmares. I was in my bed trembling. This returned during the Season 2 period when I was far from God and fuelling my ego.

Spirit of perversion

Since I was 14 I had an issue — I was struggling with pornography. The Lord freed me when I first came to him, but after seven or eight months I got tempted and fell, and that sin was a spiral. Shame and guilt were on me and I kept repenting but couldn't stop.

Spirit of religion

More I was getting into the church, more I was realizing how many rules the church had. I started to lose my personality. They piled up all my sins, put everything together, and decided to kick me out. The pastor looked at me and said 'take down your hand.' I felt so humiliated.

Spirit of condemnation

I started to feel condemned. I was reading the word of God, I was sinning, and shame and guilt were on me. I was trying to battle this sin with my own strength but I couldn't. I didn't understand that life in Jesus is not about how good you are.

Core lie

I started to be fuelled with my own ego. I was feeding my ego, everything. God wasn't in there. I was so far from God, very deep in sin. I was deceived by myself — thinking about myself and going towards that path.

1

I lift my hand and I said, 'Jesus, forgive my sins, entering my life. I surrender my life to you. Please change me.'

2

I told everything to the pastor, you know, that I was struggling.

3

God, I'm far from you. I don't know if you care about me. If you want to give, please give me another chance.

4

I came back home. I pick up my Bible. I started to pray again. I said, 'Lord, I'm sorry. I know that you're creating something new.'

5

Someone prayed for me also for that specific sin, sexual immorality like pornography, and the Lord filled me. It left. Gone.

6

I confessed to my partner and now my wife all my sins also and she forgave me and I started a new relationship with her.

7

Lord, forgive me for my sins, for all these years. Lord, please free me for all these sins. I need you, Lord.

8

I gave my brand to the Lord. Now Figures of Speech is a brand consecrated to the Lord, has been made holy by him, and it's not me.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Samo quotes this directly: 'Who is in Christ is a new creature, the old is the past, everything is new' — his personal experience confirmed it.

Matthew 11:28

Samo paraphrases Jesus: 'Come to me, who comes to me I will give rest' — experienced as personally fulfilled in his new life.

John 4:10–14

Samo quotes Jesus: 'I am the real water, I am the real bread, I really fulfill your life' — living water theme central to his testimony.

Mark 16:17–18

Samo quotes the Great Commission mandate to heal the sick and cast out demons as the framework for his current life and calling.

Acts 4:12

Samo declares: 'There is no other name under heaven for you to be saved rather than the name of Jesus Christ' — closing declaration.

Samo repeatedly left God, returned to sin and old friends, then came back to the Father — twice — with full restoration each time.

Samo explicitly quotes Jesus as the real water who fulfills the soul's void that nothing else — sex, recognition, drugs — could satisfy.

The cliff encounter — a divine voice breaking through fear and redirecting Samo's life — mirrors Paul's sudden divine interruption on the road.

Martha's restoration from full paralysis and near-death to complete healing echoes the valley of dry bones coming back to life.

Samo's Christian Walk

Pornography addiction completely gone after deliverance prayer. Confessed all past sins to Georgia, who forgave him; they married and have a restored, honest relationship. Georgia came to faith. Her family got saved. His father, who never acknowledged the Lord before, is now on his own journey with God. His best friend gave his life to the Lord. Martha fully healed — walking, talking, working, and about to be married.

I was new. I felt like a different person. Who is in Christ is a new creature — the old is the past, everything is new. I was like, 'That's me.'

Prayer

The power of Prayer — brother stood in the gap for Samo.

Paul, Samo's brother, had his own encounter with Jesus and changed visibly — stopped clubbing, stopped lying, became a better person. When Samo came to him terrified at midnight during a drug-induced crisis, Paul was already awake, prayed over him, and that prayer was the first moment something supernatural happened. Paul also spoke to Samo about Jesus consistently in the period leading up to his conversion.

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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