Saved from a Life of Drugs!

Anja - Hamburg, Germany

I am Anja from Hamburg and I would like to share my testimony with you.

I became a Christian when I was 15 years old, but turned away from the Lord again six months later. This was mainly because of the persecution I faced at school. For example, many miracles happened there - one girl was blind, and when I prayed for her, she was healed and received her sight. But because of that, and my preaching the gospel, the teachers and parents of the other pupils went against me and even threatened to sue me. I was forbidden to preach or hand out any gospel tracts. I could not stand this pressure back then and eventually lost my faith and left the Lord. That was definitely the wrong decision!

Shortly after that I began to mix with "the wrong crowd" and my whole life went downhill. I was in contact with satanists, homosexuals, and all kinds of drug addicts and the like. Between the ages of 16 and 20 I simply took every drug I could get hold of: marijuana, speed, cocaine and LSD. I often took too much and did not know what reality was any more, or where the world of delusion and fantasy started. I often tried to get away from using drugs, but the people I mixed with, and the fear of facing reality, pulled me back into the drug scene. I saw no way out.

Once I went to a séance with a few other people, although I knew that this was dangerous. We sat round a table and let a glass "wander" around. After a while one of the guys started to behave strangely so we stopped the session. The guy who had been leading the whole thing went in to the next room, where we later found him totally cramped up in a chair, his eyes rolling. He had clearly lost all control. One of the other guys slapped him to awaken him, but nothing worked, and he got even worse. Finally, someone came to me in a panic and urged me to pray to God, as they knew I was from a Christian background. I went to the guy, laid hands on him, and commanded the spirit to leave him. Suddenly I was pushed through the room by a force and was quite weak for a while afterwards. He became calm at that same moment though, and was completely normal afterwards. Later he stated that the demon had commanded him to kill us all and he would have gone into action a few moments later if he hadn’t been released from the spirit!

From that day on, I lived in fear, and although I didn't stop taking drugs, I never went to bed without a Bible under my pillow.

By the time I was 20 I just couldn't stand this rotten lifestyle any longer; I realised that I was not myself any more, I had lost all my friends, and saw no way out of the situation. I was thinking of committing suicide, but thought that I would have a look in my Bible before I ended my life. These were the scriptures I found:

REVELATION 2:5: “Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.”

ISAIAH 41:13: "For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.”

Right at that moment I suddenly felt like someone had drawn a curtain from before my eyes and I could see clearly! God spoke to me through these Scriptures, telling me that He loved me despite all the dreadful things I had done. I knew this was my last chance – now or never! Finally I went back to the church, the Assembly which I was baptised into and where I received the Holy Spirit. I asked God to rescue me from the drugs and to take away the desire to ever take them again. This miracle happened - there were no withdrawal symptoms at all and since then my addiction has gone completely. God has changed my whole life!

Praise the Lord!

Anja