Lisnaise Viana

Before I met Jesus, I was a sad person. When I was a child, I used to have a lot of nightmares. I felt as if demons were coming to attack me and I used to wake up shouting: “they are here, they are grabbing me.”

This was constant in my life because my mother used to be involved in witchcraft and I used to go with her as well.

In my early teens, I developed a sickness called chronic sinuses and the doctors said that this has no cure, only medicines to relieve the pain and I had to learn how to cope with it.

On top of that, I used to feel inferior to other people. I had low self-esteem, always trying to get their attention. I always thought that my mother loved my brother more than she did me, to the point of me asking her if I was adopted.

I felt depressed and cried all the time, sometimes for no reason at all. My mother was very strict with discipline, she didn’t allow me to do things I wanted, like my friends were doing, so I thought: “ if only she died, I would be free.” But then my mother met Jesus, and soon after she took me to the Church.

In the beginning I didn’t like it, but she would “bribe” me to go to church by giving me something I wanted if I went with her, and it worked! I was 13. As I was attending the services, I started feeling something changing inside of me. I felt joy, I didn’t have those nightmares anymore, I was healed from the sickness, now I was more confident, and sure of myself.

Even at a young age, Jesus gave me a new life and today I am happy and fulfilled. Now, over 15 years have passed by and when I look back I can assuredly say that Jesus changed the course of my life. On top of that, Jesus gave me the privilege to be side by side to a man of God and we have been leading people to the same spiritual freedom.