Saved on 9/10

I have been given a new life. Sunday after hearing one of the most penetrating sermons I've ever heard. Afterwards I stood up and was about to walk out the back...then I heard the Holy Spirit unmistaking say "Go talk to him [Darren Campbell, pastor of Exit 59]." I hesitated and motioned to go with the flow of traffic out of the santuary but then I heard it again even more sternly, "GO." I then walked past a few people and waited for Darren to talk to some others up front. I introduced myself, he remembered me, then I started breaking up. I didn't even know why. I just felt like the dam was about to break and all I could get out was "The Spirit told me to come talk to you." Darren then sat me down on the couch on the side of the stage and just broke down. I uttered the words I never thought would leave my mouth, "I've been addicted to porn." He asked me some questions and then prayed with me and had me confess my sins, accept Christ, and make Him Lord of my life. I've never felt better. The guilt...gone...the pain...gone...the hope...empowering. The old is dead and the new is life. Hallelujah! I am free...free at last...thank God Almighty I'm free at last! I'm going to go to counseling to make sure that poison is permanently out of my life and I can finally begin to be a true Christian. I've been living a lie for so long. I knew all the right answers, all the right sayings, all the right actions when people were watching. No more. I am who I am and will be no one else from that moment on. But now I have a lot of hard talks ahead of me. First and hardest will be my mom, then my church, my father, my brother, my family, my friends...but now I face it with God and with His strength alone. Christ has told me to go tell my father the Good News that he might be saved. The one person on this earth that I hate with all my heart will be the first that I show the grace that Christ has given me. Grace is possible...forgiveness is real...faith is more than believing, it's living my friends and if you haven't felt guiltlessness yet...try it. It's SO worth any price and that price has been paid by the Son and He alone will give you all the strength you need to get through the storm. God is good all the time and the best is yet to come. Pray for me as I go to fulfill this Great Commission.