Struggling With Any Addiction? WATCH THIS INCREDIBLE TESTIMONY!!!

I'm addicted to painkillers.

I'm addicted to smoking marijuana.

I'm addicted to drinking alcohol excessively.

At 3am, I would be with my torch in a dirty bin, just digging it out.

And then sometimes I would be so desperate,

I would just look on the streets where there was rubbish - looking for that.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

You spirit of addiction - out!

I've had back pain for 15 years.
I'm addicted to painkillers.

I'm addicted to smoking marijuana.
I'm addicted to drinking alcohol excessively.

Don’t worry, your time of
freedom has come.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ,
you spirit of addiction - out!

Whatever is the cause of that pain - out!

Wherever that pain is located -
be free in Jesus’ name!

In Jesus’ name.

Thank You.
You are free, sister.

Thank You, Jesus.

My name is Oabona.
I live in Poole, England.

It all started in 2008.

I just woke up one morning
and I felt some pain.

I thought at the time that
maybe I didn't sleep well.

The pain continued for years and years.

I went to the doctors and they couldn't see what was wrong with me until a few years ago.

They said that the pain was
caused by inflammation

and they gave me tablets and everything.

Nothing worked and this problem really
affected me on a daily basis.

I would swell up - my body would swell
up even from the top of my head.

I couldn't do most things
that I wanted to do.

If I had to bend down to do something,
it would take me quite a while to

stagger back up very slowly.

So I couldn't just bend down
and come up again.

And then at night I wouldn't sleep.
I would be woken up with pain.

I'd wake up in the morning
with a low mood which

became a depression in itself
because of a lack of sleep.

This problem continued.

I went to physiotherapy.
I went everywhere.

I even went to traditional doctors
but there was no cure.

And then the problem of back pain
gave birth to me taking tablets -

painkillers from the doctor.

And the doctors prescribed the
medication for many years.

This started in 2008, so I was
on prescription.

They got stronger and stronger.

And I also thought that maybe
I could help the medication

by taking some other substances
like marijuana and alcohol

and other painkillers that I bought
from pharmacies myself.

I used to call it a 'concoction'.

So the main reason was for me
not to feel the pain

and for me to be able to sleep.

But still I would wake up at 3am
to take those again.

So it's not like it solved
any problem at all.

When it started I didn't have any
spiritual life. I was just in the world.

And somebody actually introduced me to it.

They said it would be better to take the
marijuana instead of the medication.

They said that maybe it's natural.

And then I remember somebody said,
'The plants are made from God,

so you shouldn't feel bad.
You can just take it.'

But it was not the case.

So I was not working to start with.

And then when I started working
I would use my money to buy it.

And it affected me so much that
I had to take it three times a day.

So that was a lot of money
and time as well,

because most of the time I had
to isolate myself from people

to be able to do all these things because
it's illegal first of all in most countries,

and it smells so I could not just go
and smoke and come back.

So I had to go and wash, brush my teeth
and spray some perfume or something

and, coming back, I wouldn't be
confident enough to face anybody

like my customers or my family.

I'd be feeling guilty, timid.

I'd be feeling all kinds of
guilt and just dirty.

To be honest, I tried to stop by myself
because I knew it was not normal.

And at the same time, I always
felt like it was not part of me.

I always felt like somebody else
was doing it so I tried to stop.

By trying to stop, I would throw it away
in the bin and then at 3am

I would be with my torch in a dirty
bin just digging it out.

And then sometimes I would
be so desperate,

I would just look on the streets where there
is rubbish looking for that (marijuana).

Sometimes I would have the grace of God
to maybe stop for a week or a month

and then something would happen,
something bad or something good.

And then I would go back.

Something would tell me, 'Okay, you know
you can stop, so just have one more.'

And then that ‘one more’ would be
seven times more than before.

I remember one time I visited one of
the Arab countries called Oman.

I thought, 'Okay, I don't know
anybody in Muscat,

and I don't think that kind
of stuff is available there.'

I don't know how, but I found myself
in the company of somebody.

He actually approached me.

I was just on the beach and he
asked me for marijuana.

I said, 'I don't have marijuana,' and
he said, 'Do you want some?'

I was like, 'Yeah,' and then he just
gave it for free for two weeks.

So I didn't have time to quit
because I thought

if I went there for two weeks maybe
I wouldn't have any connection

to the people that I used to get it from.

And the other thing that also affected me
is that I would have some relations

with these people who supplied me,

which is something that I'd regret
every time it happened.

They weren't the kind of people that
I wanted to be involved with.

The physical pain was still there.
It got worse as time went on.

And before I got to know about God,
I went all over seeking for solutions.

You know, the doctors... sometimes,
even when I'd go to a different country,

I'd go and see different physios thinking,
'Okay, maybe this country is better,'

but at the end they told me there's
actually nothing they can do for me.

A friend of mine introduced me
to traditional doctors.

I remember I was so hesitant to start
with because I never believed in it.

I never believed it was something
that could help me.

But my friend said, 'You need
to stop acting like a European.

You are African - there's witchcraft.
So this must be witchcraft.

So you have to solve it by
going to the witch doctors.'

So I'd go to the witch doctors - some would
tell me that I don't have a problem.

Some would not be welcoming to me at all.

And also when I went there I would look around and see this is not where my help is

going to come from as the environment
was not conducive.

And then the last one I think I remember
called himself a 'prophet.'

I thought, 'Okay, this must be where
the help is going to come from,'

because there was a Bible open
when I went to his place.

So I thought, 'Okay, maybe
there will be a solution.'

Shortly after the last witch doctor,

a friend of mine told me about
Emmanuel TV, SCOAN in Nigeria.

She told me that her mother went there with
an incurable disease and she was cured.

I remember thinking, 'Okay, if God can cure
that disease, my back pain is nothing.'

So I watched Emmanuel TV.
It was not live so I was sceptical.

I was like, 'Look at these people acting.
What are they doing?'

And then by the grace of God, I switched
on the TV the following day -

it was on a Thursday, it was live.

And then I started seeing my own life
through the testimonies of other people.

So that's when I got encouraged to seek the face of God because of my back pain.

I used to have dreams when Brother Chris
was still serving at the SCOAN.

I didn't know his name, but now and then
I would have a dream about this man.

The dream would just keep coming.

And I remember one time asking God,
'Who is this man?'

Until recently, about a few years ago,
a friend of mine told me that

I can send a prayer request to
God's Heart TV here in the UK.

That's when I started joining on social media -
on Facebook and other platforms.

When I saw the advertisement for the
Birmingham meeting, 'Let Hearts Arise,'

immediately, I think within four minutes,
I clicked the button (to find out more).

I was so excited to participate and
I got a response to invite me.

I couldn't believe it.
I had to read it a few times.

And I think that's when my healing
started, because I was so excited.

It felt like my life will never
be the same again.

I had to read the email again - every
time I opened it with the logo,

it was so good.

Yeah, I thank God.

So I got there to be interviewed before the prayer,
and the sister who was interviewing me,

when I narrated the back pain and then when I mentioned the addiction to marijuana,

she mentioned that she also had this
same issue before she was delivered.

I was so overwhelmed with joy.

I felt like my case is over
because of her testimony.

So that encouraged me so much.

I started just crying uncontrollably and she
said, 'It's okay to cry. It's okay my sister.'

And she actually encouraged me to
shame the devil and say my problem,

because before I would only say I had
back pain and hide the addiction.

And then I went to sit down
to wait for the prayer.

And I remember very well,
while I was sitting down,

I had this very sharp pain
that I've never felt before.

It was as if somebody just
put a sharp object on me

and it was as if it were twisting
down on my shoulder.

And something said to me, 'You know,
you can leave this place and go and

have the tablets, it will be fine.'

I was thinking about it.

I was even thinking that the bus stop is
just near - I wouldn't have to go far.

But the grace of God kept me.

And I said to myself, 'Okay, if this
pain is going to kill me today,'

because I thought it was just too much,
'I would rather die here.'

So I stayed and the time came
and I got prayed for.

I felt as if I was somewhere else.
I didn't see anybody or feel anything.

What I could feel was something - as if
something was uprooted from my feet.

And I fell on my back and then
that's when I knew I was free.

I went back to my hotel the same night,
and I slept like a baby.

I didn't have to take anything at all.

And then I went back to Poole
where I live,

two days after I'd been prayed for.

I always used to have stacks and stacks
of marijuana and pills and everything.

But when I got there, straight away,
I just flushed the pills away.

I thought, 'I'm no longer connected to this.'

And then I wanted to test myself
because something was asking me,

'Are you delivered?
Or is it all in your head?'

So I tried to smoke. It was horrible.

So I had to throw it away
and I've never gone back.

And the other thing that happened
is I used to receive text messages

from all the suppliers
almost every Friday,

and I realised that they never texted me
after the prayer for 3 or 4 weeks.

I posted something on my WhatsApp
and one of them viewed it,

and I could see that they watched it.

And then that's when I remembered that
I have these people's numbers.

So I blocked and deleted their numbers.
I disconnected myself from them.

I tried alcohol.
I couldn't sleep the whole night.

I was so sick as if I was
drinking excessively.

But it was just in moderation,
like one glass.

When I go on the streets, the smell of
cigarettes or anything similar,

I just feel like wearing a mask just
to protect myself from that.

And now I can move my body nicely.

I can bend without any problem.
So I'm healed in Jesus' name.

And is there anything else that
was going on with your body

physically that you received
healing from?

Yes, before I got prayed for I was
diagnosed with fibroids in 2022.

And I had an operation from the fibroids
and a year later I just experienced

terrible stomach pain where I ended up
in Accident and Emergency.

For a few months they couldn't
understand what the problem was.

It was so frequent, I would just feel
like my life is going to end.

They later found that I had a blockage
due to the operation.

I never used to go to the toilet regularly.

So that was what was causing
the problem.

So after the prayer, I'm able to go regularly,
nicely, sometimes twice a day.

It's all good.

And I must say when I was
going through the pain,

one thing that I forgot to mention is

at some point I was very, very low,
like the lowest low of my life,

where I thought maybe if I wasn't alive

or if I wasn't breathing,
I wouldn't feel the pain.

So I had suicidal thoughts.
But ever since the prayer I feel free.

I look forward to what else God is going
to do in my life and I thank God.

My spiritual life is ten times
better than it was before.

I know Jehovah Rapha,
the One who healed me.

I have that confirmation.
Nobody can tell me otherwise.

So my Lord is my Healer, I know that.

So I wake up in the morning.
I want to read the Bible.

I can relate to the things that
happened in the Bible.

The story of the woman with the
issue of blood inspires me

because I can imagine, going through that and
she had the faith to just touch Jesus' hem.

So I always think, 'If God can do that
for her, my case also is resolved.'

Is there any advice that you
would like to give people

who are listening at this point in time?

My advice is from my own experience.

I realise that my pain was to lead me to God,
which is the greatest gift for me.

So your pain, your situation, is not meant to
kill you but is meant to keep you in God.

And my other advice is from Psalm 27:14,
"Wait on the Lord, be strong.

Take heart and wait on the Lord."