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MY STATEMENT OF FAITH!


Many people who have drinking problems turn to Alcoholic's Anonymous (AA) as they strive to find that better part of life. As they enter into AA they have no hope in sight except for what happens and is told around the tables at the AA meetings. Most have no belief in God/Jesus or any other higher power to help them and only a few find sobriety for any substantial time or complete recovery and even fewer find true deliverance and rest in Jesus Christ. But I am one who has found fullness and peace in Jesus our Lord! Yes I was one who did not even believe God existed and thought that the AA program was going to sober me up and that alone. In AA they read how it works at the start of every meeting and it says "be thorough from the start" and if you thoroughly do the first three steps you should be a Christian and believe in Jesus Christ as I do now. In these pages that follow I will tell what it was like, what happened and what it is like now in hope that others can find what the Lord has given me; faith, hope and eternal life!

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I was born in Kitchener, Ontario in 1957 and have spent most of that time in a very wasteful state! I mean by this that up till my 36th year I had become a dreadful alcoholic\addict and could no longer function in society which obligingly cast me aside with the rest of the trash.

This may sound bitter to you but it is true and I found myself on the streets of Regina (panhandling for money, gathering bottles, anything to get money) so I could buy any form of drug to escape the darkness that had become my existence.

The main purpose of this page is to share with others the hope and the life that is for everyone in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I want people to know that even though everyone (myself and my own family) along with the rest of society had given up on me, there was one who still had a plan for my life, that was and is Jesus the Christ!

It was when I had truly reached the end of my rope and had nothing left that something inside said there had to be more to life than what I had found. Yes I was very bitter and had no belief that God existed for I could see nothing He had done in my life or the world, which was a very evil dark place for me. I found it much easier to believe in the devil for I could see his work in the world as in the death of friends and also many other ways; just watch the news. The darkness of my addictions had all power over my life at this point and I would awake in the mornings asking the question "Do I want to live today?" and for me this was a depth of evil I never wish to encounter again!

There had been many attempts at sobriety but alas it was failure after failure. I would try to stay sober, go to meetings (AA), but a voice inside would just keep after me until I would go and just get blasted. This voice would just not let up day after day, hour after hour, even minute by minute the demon within would tell me to get drunk or without the Heroin I would start to get sick. I had come to a point where I didn't believe there was any hope for me left, but even though I didn't believe in God He came to me. I have a new life now and trust in Jesus with all my heart, Jesus gets all the Glory, for He loved me first.

Many times in my walk with the Lord I have thought there must have been an easier way, why did I have to fall prey to the desires I did, why was I not born into a Christian family at birth? When I have prayed and asked the Lord these questions, He has lead me to the story in His word John 9:3b "but this happened that the work of God might be displayed in his life." I realize now that it matters not what I want in life, for my desires are sinful and selfish. God created me for a purpose and that purpose is what matters and I find purpose and fulfilment in my life as I follow the Lord's direction! My past may be dark but by my testimony people can see the Glory of God, the power of what God can do in a persons life no matter what the circumstances are. If the blood of Jesus can turn my life around what can Jesus do for you!