Deliverance in Jesus’ name set Melissa free from heroin, cigarettes, and alcohol

Though she grew up attending Pentecostal church, Melissa believed in God but was lukewarm towards Him. She had not attended church for years, when, on her 20^th birthday, her boyfriend was driving over to take her with him to church. En route, he got into an accident and died. He had been driving drunk.

Grief-stricken especially because it had happened on her birthday, Melissa started drinking and also abusing Oxycontin and Oxycodone, prescription pills she had been selling for money. Later, she turned to heroin. She carried anger toward God because she blamed Him for what had happened.

Unable to break free of her addictions, Melissa felt trapped and accepted the addictions as part of her personality. At some point, she landed in jail. Upon being released, she feared returning to drug abuse so much she almost did not want to go. Then, God spoke in her mind, “You don’t have to live like that.”

Years later, a second boyfriend died. At some point, Melissa interpreted these deaths as demonic attacks designed to keep her from God. At the time of her testimony, she said, “[T]he first one dying took me away from God, and the second one dying has brought me back.”

Melissa eventually became “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” She stopped doing drugs but was “white-knuckling it.” The battle to resist the urges to use was hard, and eventually she decided “it doesn’t have to be this way.” She began relying more on God, and through research, she learned about deliverance. After doing deliverance herself, she experienced spirits leaving her stomach. Interestingly, her longtime stomach problems of pain and bloating resolved afterward.

Even though Melissa had tried quitting drugs numerous times, she “could never stay quit.” After about a month of doing deliverance, she found lasting freedom from her former addictions of heroin, alcohol, and cigarettes. At the time of her testimony, she testified that using “doesn’t even cross my mind in most days anymore.”

Salvador Sanchez found freedom from drugs in Christ

Salvador grew up raised by a single mother in a hopeless environment. He found solace in drug use and the party lifestyle. Marijuana brought him peace, and he became “a full-blown alcoholic” in high school. Filled with bitterness and anger, his sole desire was to be intoxicated, and he would ditch school and steal to achieve this goal.

Salvador’s situation only worsened as he grew older, and he found friendship in people from a similar background – fatherless and addicted.

Eighteen-year old Salvador was arrested for participating in trashing a trailer during a party. Around that time, he had begun blacking out when drinking. He stayed in the homes of drug dealers and gang members. Feeling belonging and protection among his party peers, he got into cocaine, meth, and heroin and even began dealing drugs.

When addiction set in, Salvador became empty and lonely. He feared death. He also feared not getting his next drug fix. At this time, he began to draw towards God. First, he listened to Christian music, next to radio sermons, and then he started attending church.

He felt welcome in church and he wanted God in his life, but he still struggled with addiction, feelings of rejection, fear, aloneness, and emptiness. His own family refused to associate with him.

A Wednesday night, after getting high on meth, he went in to church. The pastor held an altar call and invited attendees to give their lives to Jesus. Though he was sick of his addictions and wanted to go up, he felt strangely locked into his chair. Out of the thousands of people in church, the pastor looked straight at him, then came over and touched his shoulder. At that moment, Salvador “felt like chains fell off of [his] arms and [his] feet.” He was able to follow the pastor to the altar, and he accepted Jesus as his savior.

Salvador recounts during his testimony, “I remember the feeling of encountering God and Him coming into my life. His magnificent power, this high that I’ve been looking for. I remember being instantly sobered and filled with love. I remember sitting there on my knees, crying… It was the last day I ever got high. It was the last day I ever drank alcohol. It was the last day that I ever had to live that kind of lifestyle, and now I’ve been clean and sober for eight years here in July… it’s been the best decision in my life to follow Christ.”

God delivered Adrian Richardson from addiction in one night!

Adrian grew up with race car driving parents and even drove the track herself at eight years old! In high school, however, she became boy crazy. She needed to be in a relationship at all times to feel worthy, but still “nothing was satisfying [her].” At some point, she ended up taking drugs.

Adrian got married and obtained a nursing degree. Upon giving birth, she came down with post-partum depression and it appears that her prescription of Percocet started her down the path of opiate abuse. Then, she and her husband got divorced, which did not help her situation.

“Opiates became [her] god,” and she became “very cruel and self-absorbed.” As her opiate addiction escalated, “it didn’t matter what it took to get that fix.”

During her six-year old daughter’s birthday, Adrian left the party to take drugs elsewhere. When she returned later, the guests were taking their leave. Shocked at her own behavior, Adrian cried in front of a mirror.

Something changed inside Adrian at that time, and she felt drawn to God. At some point, she learned that God can free people from drug addiction.

Before she went to bed, Adrian sought God, saying, “You know, I’ve heard You’re good. I’ve heard You’re real… So, basically, like, show me. I’m so tired of drug-seeking day and night. Make me see what You seek.” She also expressed a desire to know God.

At the time of her testimony, Adrian recounted, “I woke up the next morning with a new heart.” Completely freed in one night from her addiction, she went on to say, “Still to this day, I have not craved or desired another drug or drink since.”

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