god helped me with drugs

[youngjoshuatree]

I started doing drugs when I was thirteen. I'll be 19 june 15.
Ive cleaned my self up and actually joining the national guard.
I several times have tried to clean my self up and was successful for periods of time and people would be amazed and say it would be a work of god. I never gave it credit.
I smoked about a pound a month usually with my friends but somtimes id often smoke with my self. I was using cocaine often especially when partying. I often took pharmasudical medication like xanaxs, lortabs, valumes, morphine and plenty others ones. Ive done acid. My main drug of choice was extasy, at one point i was the x-man(dealing the extasy along with all the above drugs i was saleing also). Im not bragging or anything, lets just say at one point of my life i was severaly tramatized by something extremly life changing and too overcome my depression I did drugs frequent. For 5 years, my entire teenage years I was doing some kind of drug. I just got so absorbed in it.
All my friends did drugs and we all lived close together. I just had a job and bought large amounts of them and of course wonted to make extra money. (Funny thing though I dont know why then I didnt notice but people were allways using me they did my drugs for free, bought mine but never wonted to do them with me. When I didnt have drugs when the'd call thed say well call me when you get something. If I didnt have anything for a week I didnt have about 80% of friends for a week. It was like this for about two years.)
Im not going to go into detail about the things I faced because of saleing drugs because then it would probley seem I was advocating it. There was plenty good and bad times in it.

The worst part was though, I had an expensive drug habbit. I never felt addicted to any drug, I didnt go through withdraws. Just when I didnt do drugs I often cussed life and reminessed on what I was depressed about. I felt I was never going to get happy if I wasnt high on something.

I had a very simple experiance with god one night though that changed everything. Like I said I was allways wonting to get high and one night after feeling down and without drugs on my way to get my girlfriend from work at three in the morning. Something moved me and told me I was going to be okay.
Now this was highly unusual all the times ive quit drugs before I was allways unhappy never having a good time. Not to mention the depression and the worry issues i had inless I was on drugs.
I like to say this was god telling me I was going to be okay and im sticking to it. Ive never been the same. Im sobar I dont ever feel like I need to do drugs. I quit worrying and dont even really think of what hurt me when I was younger and belive me its tormented me for years.....Since I was four years old till that day.

I dont have any friends my age anymore they all think im uncool and to godly to hangout with them. Plus I tell them I dont need drugs to have fun anymore and they laugh at me. I read the bible at liest a couple hours a day and look forward to church. I actually found this website so I could get more involved with godly people.

Rather you belive my drug usuage as much as it was or not(I say that because it was like a game between my friends, we'd do drugs just to test our limit, see how many pills we could take or how many days consectively we could be under the influance) GOD has truely came into my life and changed it.

Never did I think I was going to actually be sober and read the bible as much as I do, considering I dropped out of school in the ninth grade and read maybe two books in my entire life.

since start of january this year ive read from matthew to end of ephesions word for word, actually remebering a lot of what i read. I started reading the old testment this week because for some reason something told me ive read enough of the new testment now its time to just start with the whole book..lol
And im on the tenth chapter of exodus now !!
I just wish you all could understand the sence of pride god has given me and how serious I am. I allways wanted to be apart of something and god says I can be apart of his kingdom.
I allways wonted my word to mean something and the bible has moved my life I cant wait to give the word out and see how it changes people.!!!!!!

[turtledove]

youngjoshuatree, Thanks for sharing all of the above testimony. You certainly are blessed! God has intervened in your life and it sure sounds like you are on a better path. :)

Welcome to the forum and to this section! :) If you haven't done so consider going to our Introductions forum, introduce yourself briefly, and there our members can give you a great big bibleforums "hello" :yes:

You might find it helpful to read the stickies thread above this section which include other testimonies and some scriptures to help you continue in your recovery as well.

God bless. :pray:

[youngjoshuatree]

When I was 15 I met some body who was a meth addict. She had a wake-up call, bad thing was, of course she never listened. Her either 1-4 year old found there meth underneith a table(?!worst part was they didnt know it was there,they lost it) and did what everyother other child does. Put it in his mouth and swallowed it. He died.
She still uses drugs theve tooken over her life it seems.
But she gave me advice, if you can have fun without drugs then dont do them. She told me she wishes she wasnt addicted. I didnt realise then how many people suffer with addcition and how life threating it is.
I cant imagine what kinda of life I would head into if I was still chasing that dream. I have no money now, with bills to pay, if I only had the kind of money I used to spend at one setting.

[kkeller]

God Bless you Josh, thanks for sharing. Its always GREAT to hear how God has saved a life who used to be a drug or alcohol addict. Keep charging ahead in God's word and prayer.

[MercyChild]

Way cool. Amazing what God can do. He sure can change people and fix all things.........Thanks for sharing your testimony.:pp:pp

[baxpack7]

YJT, thanks for posting in here and welcome to bibleforums.

I know what you are going thru-I've been there, done that, and then some. All I can tell you is that right now you have to stay prayed up and have faith that not only will God bring you through this, but He will also provide all that you need. You see, I was untrustworthy with money myself at one time and when I came to really know Jesus as my Lord and savior, then the toughest part was about to begin. I had to build trust again with not only my family and friends, but with God Himself!! We have to be good with the little bit that we have before He can trust us with a lot. If you can, look at my signature(see below) and when you get a chance, read my testimony. I enjoyed reading your OP and I'll keep you in my prayers.

May God bless you in your walk with Him
from the Baxpack

[gringo300]

From years of observation, I have concluded that drug use/addiction is often a symptom of another, underlying problem.

Often the drug user/addict already had another problem LONG before they ever started using drugs.

Yes, the drug use/addiction needs to be treated, but it is AT LEAST as important to treat the underlying problem.