Comments on: Share your stories of victory over alcohol abuse

By: Shasta Rowe

Shasta Rowe — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:09:49 +0000

Hi my name is Shasta and I am 38. I have been addicted to alcohol for 19 years. I drank to escape the pain and abuse I have endured the whole time I was drinking. I was driving one day intoxicated I have my toddler with me. I back into a car and left the seen. I did not think I did really any damage. Someone called on me and the police came to arrest me, and called CPS to come and take my daughter. They would not even let them go to my parents. I had to spend 11 days in jail and my daughter was with strangers for about 30 days before my parents could get her. When they finally did I was so happy. To make a long story short. It took me a year in a half to get my daughter back. The reason is because I had relapsed twice. I was baffled as to why I drink because I wanted my daughter back. Now I understand it is an obsession that only God can take away. Because of this experience I have gotten closer with God and got my daughter back. I got to the root of my problems I went to a treatment center called Visions Of The Cross. It was a based faith program. With love, compassion and the want to see me get well I was able to forgive myself and start the healing process of forgiving myself and the others that have hurt me. I got my daughter back, I am going to be taking over my dad’s business, I am going to school, and I am now a child of God who has faith that Jesus Christ has forgiven me, because I believe in him have faith about him, and relaize he was always there for me. I got my daughter back and am talking to my other kids. My parents are helping me out until I can get on my feet and the business does better. Thanks for reading my story God Bless to all that read this.
Shasta

By: ELDER SOLOMON N. HORSEY

ELDER SOLOMON N. HORSEY — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:34:34 +0000

I AM A 55 YEAR OLD MAN WHO HAS BEEN CLEAN AND SOBER FOR OVER 23 YEARS, ( TO GOD BE THE GLORY , TO HIM BE THE PRAISE ) I USED DRUGS AND DRANK FOR 23 YEARS OF MY LIFE, I THANK GOD THAT HE SPARED MY LIFE THROUGH ALL OF THAT STUFF AND THINGS THAT I PUT MY SELF THROUGH. THAT’S WHY ” I CAN’T STOP PRAISING HIM ” . GOD HAVE NOW BLESSED ME WITH A WIFE ( NOVELLA ) AND WE HAVE BEEN IN LOVE FOR OVER 20 YEARS. AND PRAIES GOD! I DON’T HAVE TO SLEEP OUT SIDE ANYMORE, ( I AM NO LONGER HOMELESS ). GOD HAS BLESSED US WITH A HOUSE, I WORK EVERYDAY THAT GOD SEND’S ( SOME TIME’S TO MUCH ) ” THAT’S WHAT MY WIFE SAY ” I AM JUST SO HAPPY TO HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE AT LIFE. IN CLOSING MY MUSIC HELP’S ME THROUGH HARD TIME’S, AND I HOPE AND PRAY THAT IT HELP’S YOU TO. GOD BLESS YOU AND REMEMBER THAT ( YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO OUT LIKE THAT ). KNOW MATTER WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU, ” GOD HAS THE LAST WORD AMEN. ” GOD BLESS YOU!. YOUR BROTHER & SISTER IN CHRIST , PASTOR SOLOMON & FIRST LADY NOVELLA HORSEY. WE MY WIFE AND I , WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE PRAYING FOR GOD’S BLESSING’S ON YOU , YOUR FAMILY , AND YOUR MINISTRY. ” GOD BLESS & WE LUV-YA!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:06:41 +0000

I am 20 years old, i have experienced a drug and alchohal addiction for 6 years of my life. During that period i secluded myself from everyone around me and had lost all care and concern. Jesus used this as a tool for his glory and so that i could appreciate him more for the incredible life change that came around. In the beggining comparing myself to other people at church i would feel so far away. Jesus gave me a life of my own and a mind that now believes that the only one i must compare myself to is him. Also being involved in a 12 step program quiet intensly was the start to many findings of the depth of gods outstreched arm. He put the right people in my path to aid me and hear me and relate with me until he brought me enough sobriety to get to a point were i could slowly start to do the same for others but with a different agenda.Sharing christ.I came to a point after about a year clean of uncertainty and great fear for my future. The 12 step program i am and was in could only take me so far, but i was so thankful and still am for that program as a relationship with God is one of the main ideas for the addict. The progam thankfully allows me an opportunity to share jesus. He had made it so clear that he was the only and true living god and that he died for me, for my own justification. I have found that love is not strange its not bleak or vague or fleeting it is God in his wholness. Struggles are still present today. The devil will chear you on and use one sin to start another. When you obey christ and repent of your sins you need no fearfull expectation of his coming or your death only a longing for the grace to be givin to you when he brings you to eternal life. For anyone in a 12 step program i will tell you that these groups are a great place to speak the truth. A common misconception and in my opinion quite saddning is that in those rooms often will one hear that addiction is an incurable fatal disease and that you will have the charateristics and behaviors of a using addict for life. For some its porn and others anger for me the main way the devil can get at me is with what he knows can bring me down fastest (d and a). If your still alive and have been clean or are just getting clean dont give the devils props more attention then they deserve but focus more on the path that has been layed out for you before you were born. Trusting, obeying and living the life of christ will make you more hardcore than anything you see in a movie or compton california itself. My dad once told me if your gods not working for you get a new one. I pray that i would never turn my back on jesus christ the lover of my soul the great redeemer. The truth the way and the life.