Chapter 1 of my testimony.
I stole my mom's credit card, knowing it was wrong, but at the time, I wasn’t following the Lord. I wore women’s underwear and let my last girlfriend paint my fingernails, reflecting the dark place I was in. I also had spiritual experiences—once, while sleeping, I felt something grab my legs, which I later realized was a demon. The Lord started helping me deal with my past. During COVID, I was attending Victory Family Church with my family, but I felt the Lord calling me elsewhere. I didn’t realize He wanted me in a church where people could support me and help me overcome my sins through His power. So, I left. As COVID progressed, I attended First Baptist Church in Purcell one Wednesday night. There was a men’s Bible study, and I met Ben Cooper, who shared how the Lord delivered him from porn. I felt the Lord prompting me to talk to him, so I did. After class, we talked, and I confessed all my sins to him. At that point, he was the only person I told. Over time, the Lord began healing me, and I got clean. It has now been three years, six days, and four months. He even gave me my first bike and taught me to ride it, and now I use it for transportation.
I was legally blind in one eye because I was shaken as a baby. I was adopted—my mom wasn’t my birth mom, and my dad wasn’t my birth dad, but they still took me in. My birth parents shook me as a baby, causing brain damage, which made my brain function differently from others. By the grace of God, He healed me and helped me function. Doctors told my adoptive parents that I wouldn’t walk, talk, or do anything like a normal person. But God healed me, and now I’m a walking, talking miracle who serves Him. I lost my dad when I was young, later in high school. I was also bullied and picked on throughout high school.