A few months ago, on my 26th birthday, I became free. After leaving the Navy in April, I was left with a sense of emptiness, as if I no longer belonged at home where I moved back to. I began dabbling in the occult and started retaking drugs. I had been a slave to pornography since I was 19 years old, and I fell back deeper than ever before into it. I began turning on my family and felt nothing but hatred for them and everyone around me. I was spiraling out of control, and I did not know how to get out of it. On my 26th birthday, I got high and began to think about my life and how awfully I had been treating my family; I then started to panic and ended up walking laps around the house in order to calm myself down. After a few minutes of walking and hunched over and repeating the name Jesus, a light flashed before me, almost as if someone had turned on a light in the room, and my hunched-over back instantly became straight and confident. For the first time in years, my mind had become quiet, as if the never-ending concert in my mind finally came to an end in that instant, and for the first time in my life, I had no doubts about my salvation. The following day, I had to go to my passport appointment. When I saw the women behind the counter, I saw them as wonderful and beautiful people made in God's image that they were. I no longer saw people as if they were beneath me and less valuable than me; God had truly changed my heart that night. For some context, I have suffered from severe OCD since childhood and depression/anxiety in my teenage/adult years, and God set me free from all of my torment that very night in an instant. I highly recommend the author/pastor, Dr. Neil T Anderson; Dr. Neil's steps to freedom in Christ helped me break free from demonic strongholds and taught me the importance of forgiveness. Jesus is the answer, my friends!
