Terry’s Testimony

My name is Terry and this is my story.

My entire life was one giant trap of deception. I had been fully deceived by the devil and by this world on what it is that truly gives me happiness. I thought it was money, relationships, worldly things to be proud of and I was completely wrong.

After decades of addiction I was finally at the “end of myself” and realizing all the things I had been chasing for temporary peace was just that, temporary. I was so lost. I was sitting in jail looking at a lengthy prison sentence. I was 40 years old and feeling like a total failure. Hating the man that looked back at me in the mirror and wondering where it had all gone wrong. Even though I had made a lot of money, I had nothing to show for it. Even though I had more friends than I wanted and more girlfriends than I needed, I felt completely alone. I was at rock bottom and the only place I could look was up.

The Lord opened up the doors that allowed me to come to Freedom House, and I made up my mind that I was not going to continue down the road I was on any longer. I was going to stop running from the call that was on my life. The same call that I now understand every human has on their life; to be conformed to the image of Jesus and living out a life that is pleasing in the eyes of God, according to His plan for my life. After being at the Freedom House and giving my life to Jesus, He has radically and completely changed who I am today.

I am a new creation and the things and mistakes that defined me in my previous life no longer have any hold on me. I walk in complete Freedom by living an obedient life to our Lord Jesus Christ. By denying myself, taking up my cross and following Jesus, I am confident the devil will never again have me in his snares. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and the devil is a liar.

In Galatians 6:14 Paul says, “For I will boast in nothing but the cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for it was through the cross that this world died to me, and through the cross that I died to this world”

I will praise God for that all my days.