Why do you want to destroy him? I destroyed his family. How long have you been? Generations. How
long have you been in him? Spirit of what? Suicide, who else? Who else is in his body?
Out! Come out. Out! Be free.
He has an incredible testimony to share with all of us and I will just have you start from the
beginning of your childhood. I grew up with two addictive parents, foster care, drugs, addicted
to drugs, yep. My father was never around so I was exposed to drugs at a young age, went to foster
care, had to live here and there which eventually led to my own addiction starting at age 14. Just
started with just marijuana, alcohol and then it led to pills, eventually led to methamphetamine,
heroin fentanyl and I was basically doing everything drinking a lot doing horrible things
and can you tell us through your addiction like you mentioned that you had a couple of overdoses,
can you mention how many and what happened there? Yeah, so I've experienced six overdoses total.
Woke up in the hospital a bunch of times, not knowing what happened at first. The worst one.
I was found at a park. Don't know how I got there. My chest was broken from somebody doing CPR. They
got me in the ambulance, got me to the hospital. The doctor hit me with Narcan five times that's
the drug that counteracts fentanyl and then he gave up on me because I was gone and then all of
a sudden, I started puking and came back to life and I woke up the next morning in the hospital and
tell us yeah come on. God's hand was evident in his life even through those six overdoses. Now,
can you tell us a little bit about what ended up your encounter with the troop officer and go from
there? So I was living homeless, living in a tent, addicted to drugs. This was last July when the
Lord sent a state trooper. There was a crime that had been committed up from where I was staying. It
was a fire in a train car and the state trooper responded to it walked down the trail and seen
me there, standing there. I was waiting for him to harass me or something or ask me if I had done it
which I didn't but he didn't ask me anything like that he actually invited me to church.
Yeah, me and him were texting for about a week or so and he asked me, do you want to get your life
better? o you want a change and I did you know, I didn't want to I didn't want to die in addiction.
I didn't want to end up like my family. So he knew the director of Teen Challenge up here in
Tri-Cities and because the director at the time was actually a police officer in my hometown
before he came up here has actually arrested me before but yeah, he did. They brought me up
here and that's the second day, I was in Teen Challenge that's when I gave my life to Jesus.
Yeah, I couldn't ignore him after everything that had happened and how I had gotten here and
the director came and he sat down next to me and he just looked me in my eyes and he said,
God's gonna do such amazing things in your life and I just, I believed him. I broke down,
I started crying. I threw my hands up. I said, God I won't ignore you. I can't ignore, I just
won't ignore you and so that began a journey of really trying to just get to know God as best as
I can by trying to do everything to be pleasing to Him. I started to pray a lot, started fasting,
started reading Bible you know oh yeah, I was delivered from drug addiction the moment I gave
my life to Jesus, I've never craved a drug ever since. So let's give God some praise. Come on.
So yeah it's just been. I'll be 27 in about a week but this year has been
the best year of my life. I've never experienced such amazing things and I'm just thinking,
if I can experience this many blessings in one year like imagine the rest of my life. Amen.
Now for timeline's sake, you are 11 months in Teen Challenge, correct? Yep,
I graduate next July 14th so and tell us what happened about a month ago? Oh so I came here
to HungryGen and experienced a deliverance from demons. So yeah, it was really intense.
Yeah, it was amazing and yeah, I just found that after that
yeah afterwards it was amazing. So after that I experienced a deeper connection you know I
watched Pastor Vlad a lot on and I got a lot of inspiration through your ministry. So yeah.
So, where was I?
That's okay Nateniel, that's why I'm here. This is the part where you were mentioning about the
difference, where you receive deliverance and you saw and noticed how something was heavy on
you and it was gripping your relationship with the Lord but once you received freedom a month ago,
you said that things were lifted off, you were able to praise, you were able to worship
and pray and get closer to the Lord and love on people. Now that being said, you're 11 months in,
you're about one year to graduate from Team Challenge, tell us what are you up to? What's
your next step? What do you want to do? So in August, I'll be starting at Bible College
in Phoenix, Arizona. It's a college called American Indian college. I'm a half native
American and so I've seen a lot of darkness in my people, in my tribe a lot of lack of
God and so I plan to just be an evangelist to the native people around the country.
Let's give God some praise. Come on! God is good. He's alive
and he right here shows God's resurrection power in Jesus name. Amen. God is so good.
Such a powerful testimony. Nateniel, can you just give last words of encouragement for moms, dads
or anybody that is suffering in a drug addiction or they know someone that is struggling in drug
addiction. What do you want to tell them today? So I would say the best thing that you could possibly
do because it's really hard to try to know what to do for somebody that's addicted when they
don't listen, when they don't react the way that you would hope and they don't see the fact that
you care about them you know I would say pray, just cry out to God literally just get on your
knees and cry out to God. I have a sister that she literally she would stream tears and cry out
to God for me and she told me when I got here and I gave my life to Jesus that was a couple months
in and I was like sister, Do you? I was like, I can't really believe this happened. She's like,
I knew it was coming. She said, I knew it was coming. So yeah. Pray. Thank you so much Nateniel.