My Testimony

By: Christwarrior Mood: Edifying Date: 06/17/2008 11:40:48 Music: "Unending Love" by John Barnett

I will make this short, I started doing LSD when I was 12 years old (1967) and did it just about every day till I was 18 years old and went in the Army Reserve, I also did speed ,downers and never smoke pot till after I got out of the Army so  much for what they say that you smoke pot first then go to harder drugs I did it the other way around.When I got out of the Army I started Drinking more and shooting up Smack, Speed and Opium and some Heroin.The whole time telling myself that I was not addicted to none of it and that I could control it and quit it any time I wanted to, was I wrong.!I even saw other people I know die from overdose, and saw some go to prison from getting caught I moved around so much and never had a address most of the time staying with biker friends and in communes with hippies and even would sleep out in the woods as I travel all over the California coast and Oregon and Texas and Florida and Utah.I had only my Motorcycle and would work day labor and any other job I came by including being roadie for a few different bands

One day I was hitch hiking not even knowing where I was going and these two babes picked me up in a Chevy Covelt and took me home with them and when they found out the next morning that I was addicted to all these drugs they ask me if I wanted to stop but I told them yes but did not want to go to any rehab or any thing, so they keep me locked up for 3 weeks and gave me food , drink , and lots of love ( meaning lots of hugs ) and help me when I was double over in cramps ( but most of this time I could not eat any thing)and more pain then you can tell any body about.Lots of cold sweating a hell of a ride, but I came through it and have never returned to doing any of these drugs again , told myself that I would never return to that state of being. These God sent women dropped me off on the side of the road by my house told me good luck and God bless me and I was never able to find them again or never saw them again.

I became a Ordained Minister of God though the Universal Life Church 1976 because I saw the Lord though all the withdrawal pains that I went through and told God that I would work for him and spread his word if he would get me through it all alive and he did.

This is the hell that I came out of, but there is a lot of bad things that I went though all these years that was a hell in them self.But by the power of the Holy Ghost and the Blood of Jesus I am healed and living for God even today at a age I never expected to live to , living on borrow time as they say by the grace of God.