I'm Isaac Snuffer, 15, and here is the story of how God has changed my life completely.
I was raised in a Christian home, attending a church where God moved greatly as young as 2, and saw God move all the time. During this time I gave my life to Christ, but did not fully understand the power of God nor even who he was. All I knew was the basics of the faith taught in the nursery classes at churches.
Now skipping on, about the time I got into sixth grade, about the time I was 11, because of peer presure I started to get into pornography and masturbation, getting worse as time went on, not acually knowing that these things were sinful at the time. This was about 2003. The next year I got in with a bit of a worse crowd. For about a year I was fine, but starting about summer 2005 I started swearing, and listening to somewhat Satanic music. Also about this time depression hit me. I started to hate my life, wishing it would end. I was ready for suicide. Then in winter 2005 I started skateboarding, as a release for all of my feelings of depression. This worked for about half a year, about mid-spring 2006. About this time it started coming back, yet I didn't want to just end it all.
Though I hated life I had something in me telling me not to end it, a fear of death, which I know now was God watching out for me even though I was against him. So about that summer I started looking up ways to get high. I wanted an escape from the pain I felt inside. So in November 2006 I tried to get high for the first time, taking Diphenhydramine HCL(an OTC medicine which I will not mention the brand name incase of someone wanting drugs reads this). It wasn't all that good, but I needed to get rid of the pain, so I continued to take it in low doses, until one Sun. night in Nov. I decided to take some until I really got an effect. I ended up taking 18 times the reccommended dose, and in this started hallucinating heavily, which scared the crap out of me, but I convinced myself it was fun. After this point I was taking OTC drugs heavily, even stealing some from Wal Mart to meet my need for drugs. I was getting
high at least twice a week. I know I was addicted, and even once saw a demon come out of my television. I once again began to contemplate suicide, unbeknownst to my friends, who thought I was happy. Even my friend who I did drugs with, who was ironically from my youth group,
thought I was happy. But I wasn't.
Then, on March 9, 2007, my youth group went to a 3 day youth rally in Knoxville. On the second night me and my friend were saved and filled with the Holy Spirit, and I was freed. Freed from the hold drugs had on me. Freed me of my masturbation. Freed on my depression. Freed of the bondages of sin.
Since then, God has done great things in my life. I'm happy. My personality was changed from the mess it was in to a loving personality. I don't swear anymore. I'm a completely different person. Thank you God, for accepting even me into your family.
Isaac Snuffer, Victory Skater!
isaacsnuffer AT@ gmail.com
