Libby Cunningham
At school I remember feeling different from the other kids; this seriously affected my academic ability. I left before completing even the fourth form, when I left school I was already addicted to cigarettes and marijuana.
I moved from bad relationship to bad relationship, suffering both physical and emotional abuse. So I turned to heavier and heavier drugs. I had to seek hospital treatment and was in danger of being institutionalized from the delusions and psychosis that the drugs were causing.
I had such terrible social anxiety that I would spend days on end inside the house. I had tried to commit suicide on three separate
occasions and had no idea how I was ever going to be normal again.
I was searching in “spiritualism” and the new age movement for some relief. I sunk thousands of dollars pursuing the answer hoping to find happiness through the next book or next seminar.
My brother one day came to me and told me about a prayer that he was attending and that he thought I should come and try it out.
I listened to the opening prayers that the Pastor said and felt in my heart the truth of what he was praying on our behalf, I realized with God I could change my life, it wasn’t an
easy journey but each and every step of the way I was encouraged.
Within the first week I gave up marijuana in a few months the depression and the anxiety had left. I got a job which gave me a new direction and hope in life.
I finally had the courage to give up the medication that I had been taking for depression for over 10 years and was completely set free from this disease.
My confidence in myself started to pick up and I decided to go for further study, my life is unrecognizable to what it was when Jesus found me.
Peace, joy, happiness and hope fill my days now and there is nothing that I cannot overcome through the power that Jesus holds.