- 5 weeks ago
No one really knew what was going on...10am trips to the liquor store became normal. Behind closed doors, Josephine was frequently intoxicated - skilfully masking an addiction that was rapidly destroying her life. Wondering what would happen if she died, she reached for her laptop one night and contacted God's Heart TV. Her life changed as those chains of addiction were broken when she attended the Interactive Prayer Service. Today, she is walking in sobriety in the light of her testimony.
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00:00since that day i have not consumed alcohol at all and i'm so
00:09you can see the joy you can see it all you can see the goodness of god in my life
00:15um everyone around me can see it i'm it's been two months now
00:20yeah two months now and i have not thought of alcohol
00:32good morning everyone my name is josephine and i'm connected from canada i was privileged to be
00:41prayed for to be delivered from the spirit of alcoholism i had a drinking problem that started
00:49in about 2017 i remember my first experience was i had a family dispute and my dad had a drinking
01:01problem so he always kept alcohol in the house and then i became frustrated and just ran to alcohol
01:07so that was my first experience and then after that i was okay i didn't go back to drinking at
01:15all
01:16up until 20 i'd say late 2019 when i lost my job and i just kind of felt like it
01:22was the end of the
01:23world shortly after 2020 and everything was shut down it was a pandemic and i found myself drinking
01:33on a weekly basis so it went on from 2020 up until may 9th of this year
01:40so i didn't realize it was an issue up until 2023 and my sister brought it to my attention
01:49and she's like oh i think you you know you have a drinking problem and i was like oh you
01:54know it's
01:55i don't think it's that bad you know it's just wine here and there it shouldn't be that bad
02:01so it went from weekly drinking weekly to drinking every day and it became worse because i eventually got
02:09a job where i was working from home so i found myself drinking while on duty so eventually i lost
02:18my job
02:21and it became worse i didn't stop you know you'd think i would realize that this thing is holding me
02:27back but it didn't stop from there so i kept on drinking and i struggled financially i found myself in
02:36debt because i wasn't working at that point i'm realizing like i'm coming to terms with the fact
02:41that this is bringing me back this is an issue i didn't drink socially so not even many people
02:48knew that i had a drinking problem so people that again for that knew me for the longest they would
02:55just see me gain weight but they would not understand what is going on so i would just buy
03:01alcohol and put it in the house so i think because i was drinking for so long i just had
03:07a good way of
03:08masking it you would just see me also i'm just naturally bubbly so i'm always smiling so you
03:15wouldn't really think i'm intoxicated that's why i'm like that so i start seeking for solution because
03:23it just became so bad i barely had any relationships i kept to myself i would just isolate myself and
03:30drink
03:31my life away i thought you know what i'm gonna get braces because that would hold me from you know
03:39consuming alcohol because alcohol damages your teeth so i thought you know what that's gonna help me but
03:45that that didn't work at all and then because i had gained so much weight from drinking so i decided
03:53to
03:53start taking the gpl which is ozempic they said it helps with your drinking so i started taking it and
04:02that didn't work because i stopped eating but i continued drinking so i thought okay that's not
04:09healthy so i stopped and eventually i thought maybe i need a new environment so i moved from because i
04:18used
04:18to live with my mom um i moved to another city and i moved for school as well uh you
04:24know i'd made a
04:25decision i said i i'm gonna change my life i'm you know no more drinking so when i moved to
04:33the new
04:33city the lady that welcomed me was my mom's friend and she had no idea that i had a drinking
04:41problem so she
04:43brought me a bottle of wine and it didn't stop from there so i found myself coming back from school
04:50and there was a liquor store right like just a few doors to to school so right after classes i
04:56would
04:56buy alcohol go home and drink so with time it just became too much and i couldn't live with the
05:03lady
05:04anymore so i ended up getting my own apartment and that didn't stop it was just a routine for me
05:10i would
05:11drink before bed in the morning if i had my way if when i was going to school i tried
05:18not to drink
05:18but if i had my if i had my way if i'm home the whole day then i would just
05:23drink it was around
05:25christmas time so i thought i should come back home because i have a big family so i wanted to
05:31come back
05:31home and celebrate christmas with my siblings and my parents so i came back home i was intoxicated
05:41i went to bed and you know i just got up in the middle it was about 2 or 3
05:48a.m and i just put my
05:50laptop i um this is how i signed up for interactive prayer so i've always known about uh god's heart
05:57tv
05:57through emmanuel tv and um interestingly we i would watch interactive like on youtube with my family my
06:06sister is a very committed christian has a beautiful relationship right here beside me she has a very
06:12beautiful relationship with jesus so sometimes she would she would be like okay so we're gonna
06:18we have prayer meetings i would join them but for the longest what was holding me back
06:24i just kind of felt like i led myself towards this lifestyle you know because i went from oh it's
06:31not all
06:31the time you know to doing it every day now it's an addiction so i just thought you know god
06:38has
06:39nothing to do with it it's it's my fault i have to deal with the consequences so i never really
06:45brought
06:46it up to god you know it's not until i was consumed because i didn't even know who i was
06:53i didn't know
06:54what day was monday i didn't know what day was wednesday you could barely have a conversation with me
07:00you know if i'm invited somewhere i won't show up because i i would rather be drinking
07:06so it just became too much so i signed up for the prayer request that night because i just got
07:14up and
07:14i started to think about my life and i said just that i'm getting older you know and what if
07:19i die
07:21what happens but life continued as normal and i was very shocked they actually got back to me very
07:27quick so i couldn't believe it when i saw the email and i just reached i run to my sister
07:33and
07:33i told her the good news i shared the good news so i was just very excited because my birthday
07:37was close
07:38too so you know i was i was just thinking this is a gift from god to me you know
07:44because i just said i
07:45i'd i'd be i'd been praying for change i'd been wanting something new so i met with sister alison and
07:56she sent sent me a link and then i joined the interactive prayer in the mighty name of jesus christ
08:07whatever the devil has used to connect himself to you i say to that chain be broken in jesus mighty
08:18name
08:21every connection to alcohol be broken broken broken broken broken broken in jesus name
08:33oh lord give her the assurance of your freedom right now thank you our sister in canada give
08:40thanks to god you are free rejoice in that freedom i was privileged to be prayed for as you also
08:49in the
08:50video and brother chris came forward and he was praying for me i was very prepared i had my bucket
08:55of uh you know i had my bucket in case i throw up so he's praying for me and i'm
09:01thinking but i don't feel
09:02anything you know and i just began to say god i can't go back to that lifestyle you know i
09:11began to get
09:12much i said i can't go back i was trying to be positive but i'm like he's almost done with
09:17the
09:17prayer you know i don't feel anything i didn't throw up and i just said i need assurance that i'm
09:25not going
09:26back to this life and then as we heard in the in the end brother chris mentioned something like god
09:35give her assurance that she's delivered and that was the confirmation i need and since that day i have
09:42not consumed alcohol at all and i'm so i am so happy you can see the joy you can see
09:56it all you can see
09:56the goodness of god in my life um everyone around me can see it i'm it's been two months now
10:03yeah two months now and i have not thought of alcohol no um you won't see me running going to
10:13the liquor store at 10 a.m sometimes i go at 1 a.m looking for alcohol but life is
10:19beautiful i am
10:21always looking forward to every day you know just enjoying the love of god just i'm just i have no
10:30words
10:30to describe the goodness of god my name is emma and i am high younger sister this is my older
10:36sister
10:37josephine and i can confirm that it's definitely true she did have an alcohol addiction for
10:43years i can definitely testify to the change or the growth in her character she was usually very easily
10:51agitated and withdrawn especially when it comes to like family issues she would rather just drink her
10:58sorrows away and she was often irritated at the slightest provocation but i've definitely seen a
11:05change in that she doesn't run to alcohol anytime she is frustrated i haven't seen her drink since the
11:11day she received prayer she is more involved in prayer she usually joins us when we are praying she's
11:19just a lot happier now and now she is i don't even know how to explain it just a more
11:25lively just full of
11:27life in general what's your advice to viewers all over the world listening to you right now that are
11:33living with family members with challenges or a challenge like this i think my advice is to never
11:41give up and remember the love of god for us god doesn't give up on us and he wouldn't want
11:46us to give
11:47up on others as well remember to love them the way god did because if he had given up on
11:52me i don't know
11:53where i would have been so i try we should try our best to reciprocate that by being more like
12:00jesus
12:00exude jesus's love towards others and basically remember that anybody who is facing any addiction
12:08or any like sin enslaves you that person is a slave to that thing and when you look at it
12:13from that
12:14perspective you will learn to be more sympathetic rather than irritated or be fed up with that person
12:20and think well they're never changing so why waste my time but when you remember that god never gave
12:25up on you you will also extend the same love to others well josephine you'll be in a very good
12:32position to give advice to people that have this hidden addiction what is your advice to people listening
12:37to you right now build a relationship with jesus because i find without jesus it's easy you know to find
12:47yourself in situations like this you know you'll be like oh i'm stressed i'm still stressed out it's
12:53just a glass of wine okay okay you have a glass of wine today and the next day and the
13:00next day and
13:00before you know it you can't live without it but i found that just building a relationship with god
13:08there's so many things i want to do and then i'll be convicted just run to jesus he's the only
13:15solution
13:16and also when god blesses you or when he delivers you it's permanent you know because i don't look
13:23at alcohol and think oh i need to drink i just think of where i'm coming from and i'm like
13:29absolutely not
13:30and don't flirt with sin you know don't entertain it so i would definitely recommend just holding on to jesus
13:47days afterwards the scrotal examiner that i was experiencing the symptoms which had returned again
13:53completely vanished and i've been healed completely from all the symptoms i also have to say that god
14:01believed with me also from the masturbation spirit the pornography the fornication