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"When they told me that one more drink
would
be bad for me, I put my life in the hands of the Lord Jesus and stopped
drinking,"
said Little Bull, a soft-spoken woman who has been working with the
street
people and volunteering at her church ever since.
Alcoholism always remains a personal choice, Old Person said.
"When you come right down to it, everyone has problems," he said. "I
have
problems that no one knows about, but that's no excuse to drink."
Little Bull no longer employs those excuses, either.
"Many of the street people come up to me now and they tell me they want
to be like me because I look so happy," she said.
http://www.gannett.com/go/difference/greatfalls/pages/part8/recovering.html
Hello, my name
is Leroy.
I am 52 years old, and I am a recovered Alcoholic, and have been for
nine
years. I would like to share with you my testimony of what the Lord
Jesus
has done for me. You noticed that I didn’t say "recovering" alcoholic;
I
have already recovered by the blood of the lamb and the word of my
testimony!
I am a new Creation created in Christ Jesus for good works. Old things
have
passed away and all things are new. You see, that Old Man is
gone,
Praise God!
I used to have an old shot gun stuck behind the TV for rabbit hunting,
and
the more I’d drink, the more that little voice would say, "why don’t
you
just stick the shot gun in your mouth and pull the trigger?" But
there
was another voice that would tell me, "NO! That’s not the way, don’t do
it!"
So I would ask my wife to hide the gun, and as soon as she hid it, the
little
suicide voice would stop. This went on for years and by the grace of
God
I am still alive. Something inside of me wouldn’t let me end it.
The
devil couldn't get me to use the shot gun so he thought he would try to
kill
me another way. On August 1, 1991, I had a heart attack. I could
of
died, but by the grace and mercy of God, I made it through.
While I was in the hospital on my sick bed, Jesus was knocking on my
heart’s
door. I made a decision during that time to come back to the
Lord.
On the first Sunday I was home from the hospital, I went back to
church,
where I belonged in the first place. After I had been going to church
for
a few months, I realized that the craving for a drink had stopped. God
had
completely delivered me and I didn’t even ask Him to, or did I?
All those times in the past that I had cried out to him for help, I
thought
He wasn’t listening, but now I know He was. It took something drastic
in
my life for me to listen to what he was trying to tell me. The Old
devil
tried to kill me, but Jesus came on the scene, and when Jesus shows up,
things
happen! Now I am saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, and I praise
God
for he does hear and answers prayer.
http://www.precious-testimonies.com/BornAgain/h-k/hicks.htm
I ended living
in a shed
in someone’s backyard with nothing but the clothes on my back I had
given
up on life and I cared about nothing anymore, I wasn’t suicidal but I
was
a broken man.
I did not feel anything different but God had plans, from that day on
seventh
day of February 1993, 29 years of age I never touched drugs and alcohol
again,
my old friends finally thought I went mad, The following Thursday night
I
went to a healing service and for the first time in my life I felt Gods
presence
and knew that he was real, and that he set me free from alcohol and
drug
addiction, I cried for the first 12 months of knowing him I felt the
lord
had kept saying to me I have taken the drugs and alcohol the more he
said
that the more I just cried, my life changed dramatically the filthy
language
went almost straight away, my hunger for the word and for God and his
presence
and spending time with my Christian family was awesome.
http://www.testimonies.com.au/topics/alcohol_1.htm
I drank for ten
years. By
then, alcohol had a hold of me. I remember a two week period when I
stayed
drunk all of the time, and I didn’t want to live any more.
Although raised in the Catholic church, I was not a born again
Christian.
I had tried praying a lot in the early years of my illness but figured
that
God didn’t hear me.I knew I probably wouldn’t live much longer drinking
the
way that I was, and I couldn’t believe that my life had turned out the
way
it had. So one day I decided I had better talk to God. As I did, I saw
things
in myself that I had never seen before; how I had held grudges against
people
and never really forgave. I told God about my life and that I didn’t
know
how I got to be that way, but I didn’t want to be that way any more. I
told
him that I just wanted to love people. When I got up from my knees, I
was
a different person. He delivered me from alcohol, nail-biting, bad
language,
fear, and probably things I don’t even know about. It wasn’t as if I
said
to myself, Well, I have had this talk with God, so now I have to clean
up
my act. I could not have done that. All of it was just GONE. I thought,
Oh,
there really is a God, and I’m probably the only person this has ever
happened
to. (Really, now! I am still amazed at thinking those things.)
http://net-burst.net/tough/miracles.htm#n1
Before I gave
my life to
Jesus Christ, my life was a mess. I was looking for help in all the
wrong
places. I tried everything! Nothing filled the empty place that I had
in
my life. I tried sex. I tried the drug scene. I even became an
alcoholic
trying to fit in with my so called "friends." I tried a lot of things
that
just put me deeper and deeper in a deep dark pit. There was only one
answer
to filling the void in my life, and I really didn't have a clue as to
what
that was.
People started telling me about Jesus Christ. I didn't want to hear it.
I
was my own God and I didn't need anyone telling me what to do. Well, so
much
for what I "thought" about the Lord. I have to seriously tell you, I
was
so ignorant about spiritual things. I had no clue that the one I had
been
resisting, was the exact one that I needed to fill that void in my
life.
I finally went to church with a Christian and accepted Jesus Christ
into
my heart and life. I didn't feel a thing, just said a prayer.
Two weeks later, I was praying a "lay me down to sleep prayer" and a
peace
came over my whole body, from head to toe. It was so awesome. I can't
explain
it, but I'll never forget it. It was during this precious moment that I
realized
that I was saved (born again). As you pray and as the Lord to help you
to
stop doing things that are not pleasing to Him, He will do it! As you
ask
Him to deliver you from drug addiction, alcoholism etc., He will do it.
Sometimes,
it happens very quickly, other times, it takes a while. Every case is
different,
but the Lord will do it for you. I'm a living testimony to this. I was
instantly
delivered from using drugs when I accepted the Lord. Two years later, I
was
completely delivered from alcohol.
http://oneway.jesusanswers.com/about.html
By the time I
reached 20,
I was already a alcoholic living on 18-20 beers a day. My life so far
had
been one of fear, depression, confusion and anger. I tried to escape
through
drugs and alcohol but to no avail.
Now after spending my whole life in the Swedenborgian religion it was
hard
to just say I would give it all up to follow Jesus. Especially since
Swedenborg's
are supposed to have the best religion. I mean if they really have the
second
coming of Jesus Christ then any other religion would pale in comparison
to
it right? Yet here was a man who was living proof to the contrary. He
testified
to me about the power of God, that you can have a real and personal
relationship
with Jesus Christ. So why did I feel so empty inside? Why all the hurt,
guilt
and pain?
Jim then asked me if I would pray with him to received Jesus Christ
into
my heart. But again a life time of being a Swedenborgian and also being
a
bit embarrassed, I said no. He said he understood and asked me if he
could
pray for me? Now the only way I knew to pray and the only prayer I had
ever
heard any Swedenborgian pray is "The Lord's Prayer" you know the "Our
Father
who art in heaven...." So I said O.K. thinking that's what I'd hear.
Jim
then began to pray out loud and from his heart. He talked to God
in
a powerful and personal way. I had never heard anyone pray like that
before.
Here was this man praying for me with such feeling and heart and as he
prayed
tears were streaming down his face as he wept for me. This man didn't
even
know me and yet he prayed like he really cared. He prayed that God
would
reveal himself to me in a personal way, that I too would come to know
Jesus
as Lord and Savior. I then felt a little something break in my heart.
This
was the first time someone had shown real compassion and love for me.
Though
my heart was hardened by my life of sin, I felt it soften a bit then.
The next day I went to work. Then suddenly at around 9:30 I stopped
what
I was doing. Something was different. Something had happened in me, I
could
feel it. I felt a real joy, peace and love I had never felt before. It
was
incredible! I felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders.
Now
tears of Joy filled my eyes instead of tears of pain. I walked around
saying
"I can't believe it. He really answered me" I remember calling Jim to
tell
him that I had prayed that prayer the night before and how wonderful I
now
felt.
http://www.carm.org/testimonies/david_weaver.htm
I hit my knee's
in that
instant and just begged God and Jesus Christ if they Truly existed { I
had
my doubts) to just touch me and take all the alcohol from my body
including
every cell, and to take the emotional pain I was in away if He just
wanted
too. Well I started tingling all over immediately and just got up from
my
knee's and sat down. I felt strange and warmth and for once in 8 years
I
was stone sober...scary kind of.
http://www.carm.org/testimonies/dan_alcohol.htm
(Aren't
you also like the person above ready to challenge God, call out to
Him and really mean it, you have nothing to lose and everything to
gain.)
Wow still not
convinced what Jesus can do for you on this matter, well check out yet
even more testimonies then:-
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/weeping288.htm
http://hometown.aol.com/frankn2151/Index.html
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