Family Delivered from Smoking and Acute Anxiety
Pastor Prince, I am 62 years old and was raised in Oregon in a non-denominational church. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior when I was 8 years old, and I have been on the work-hard, sin-and-separation mindset for most of my life.
I have lived a high-energy life with 4 kids, a husband, a high-demand career, and various church responsibilities. When my husband and I got married, we moved to Florida and bought a house but lost it in a hurricane. We moved into a cheap roach motel that I still live in 5 years later. I was widowed a year ago, and to top it all off, I fell, severely injured my back, and have been bent over for 2 years now.
Because I need a walker to walk, and my motel room is so small with no chair, I am in my bed all day and night. I get out and walk around the building a couple of times a week. So in the course of just a few years, I went from high-energy, go-go-go, to laying in bed. Here’s where things began to change.
Flipping through the channels, I came across your program. The very first time I heard you preach, it was a 3-clip teaching on the gospel of grace, from the garden to the cross. I literally jumped out of bed and shouted, “THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS!” In years past, I always heard preachers talk about “good news,” but it didn’t feel good to me. For the very first time, I heard the gospel of grace, and I was set free. I stopped spending 30 minutes of my prayer time groveling with God and begging for forgiveness that I didn’t know I already had.
I got hold of your book Destined to Reign. Once I began to receive the teachings into my spirit and meditate on God’s Word, I was finally free from smoking cigarettes for the first time in 12 years. My aging memory has been restored, and I can even recall memories that my kids couldn’t. One of my daughters has also been delivered from smoking, and her twin from acute anxiety, by proclaiming, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”
God has used those frustrating circumstances in my life to bring me to a place where I watch you every day. Every time I feed on God’s teaching through you, I get freer and freer. I even put healing scriptures on my phone and drink in the Word all night. My daughter and I partake of the Holy Communion several times a week. We tithe and give offerings online and attend service online every Sunday morning. I praise God for a pastor who does not compromise on the Word of God and teaches the whole gospel of grace!
Thank you, Pastor Prince, and fellow NCC pastors, for your obedience in bringing the Word!
Florida, United States