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Bethany

I grew up in a good Christian home with awesome parents. I have 3 three sisters and I’m the second youngest. Growing up I was happiest at church.

At around 12 I started drinking to feel accepted by the world. At 14 I began smoking weed and cigarettes regularly, I was living a double life – I was lying to my church and my family because I didn’t want to be a disappointment.

At 15 I started cough and cold pills daily, I couldn’t handle being sober – I felt disgusted and disappointed in myself, It was so much easier to numb the pain then deal with it. As I got older I started using cocaine and pretty much anything that would take control so I wouldn’t have to be.

I started seeing a guy and using crack and meth. I started putting him before God and fell into a spiritual depression. I began to believe I was nothing without him. I had no self-confidence and a dangerously low sense of self worth, I lost relationships, I lost everything for someone that didn’t even care about me.

In this time I was praying to God but I wasn’t hearing him until I invited him in to clean up the mess.

I was invited to my friend’s Graduation from Teen Challenge. I remember sitting in the audience high while one of the graduates shared that once upon a time she too was another audience member sitting and listening to another testimony while she was high. When she said that it pierced me like a dagger, after that I quickly hit rock bottom all the walls fell down, that was a perfect place for me to allow God to rebuild them. God used my failing physical health for me to come clean to my parents about this double life I was leading – within a week of this talk I found myself packing and preparing to enter Teen Challenge Brandon.

I now see what the power of prayer can do and that with God my life is worth something and it’s meaningful. I’m excited to discover through healing all God has for me. “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back … no turning back”

Psalm 51:4-6 (The Message) “…. I've been out of step with you for a long time,  in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.”