Revised March 27, 2026

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.”

God made Jeff Durbin quit his drug and party lifestyle

Jeff’s first major passion in life was karate – he competed internationally and even taught karate at a school he owned. Karate was his “whole life.”

Then, he came across one of Billy Graham’s sermons on TV. Previously unfamiliar with Christian doctrine, his interest was stirred. He read the Bible and even talked to others about Jesus. However, he was lukewarm in his walk, “living with one foot in the Christian world via one foot in the world.” He loved the party and clubbing lifestyle and continued in it even after marrying.

Lying to his wife about where he was going, Jeff went off to indulge in alcohol, ecstasy, cocaine, and other drugs. His addictions were financed by his new career as a financial planner.

At one point, Jeff overdosed on ecstasy. Body overheating, heart racing, and on the verge of dying, he prayed to God to spare his life. Abruptly, his overdose symptoms vanished “like it never happened.”

Unfortunately, Jeff promptly returned to this lifestyle. In order for him to finally change, he now recounts that “it took really the Lord actually very shortly after that destroying my life … In one day, I woke up to my car being repossessed, my electric being shut off, my water being shut off, an eviction notice in my door, and the people I was working for actually fired everybody on their staff, and then there was no paycheck. And now, all I have is I’m sitting in my apartment with my wife, my one-year old, and my baby now.”

Once again, Jeff threw himself on God’s mercy. He acknowledged his sins, asked God to save him, and surrendered his will to God. From that point, his “life really began to transform” as “God helped him turn from his old ways and freed him from drugs.” Jeff has since served as a chaplain helping addicts and is currently a pastor.

Thanks to Jesus, Ron Perryman no longer has any desire for meth after over thirty years of addiction

Though raised by decent Christian parents, Ron began trying out drugs in high school and eventually discovered his favorite, which was methamphetamine. He went from using it himself to also selling it.

In the 1990s, he was arrested by the FBI and ended up in federal prison for trafficking more than ten pounds worth of meth. Upon his release several years later, he went right back to using and dealing meth. Then, he started to cook it, too. Eventually, he ran more than four meth labs.

His second arrest happened in 2011, and he faced a prison sentence of twenty years for manufacturing meth. By some miracle, his stay in state prison was reduced to five years.

Not long after starting his prison term, Ron attended a Bible study. The preacher discussed familiar subject matter he remembered from his childhood. Inspired, Ron later knelt in his cell and “[gave his] life to the Lord.” Ron then used his time in prison to study the Bible and to learn about God, about Jesus.

Ron perceived that God told him he “would be making [his] first parole.” Amazingly, he became eligible for parole approximately a year and a half into his sentence. Just four months later, he was out of prison. He is now married with children of his own.

At the time of his testimony, Ron testified, “God actually performed a miracle in my life when I got saved. He not only forgave me of my sins, but He took away all desire to do methamphetamine. Anyone out there with an addiction problem… know that it can be a real challenge to overcome that addiction. Well, God took it away from me totally.”

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