FREEDOM!
"He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (Luke 4:18)
Testimonies
"After years of hopelessness and despair, and being on the verge of ending my life, I found the men’s recovery group at New Hope. The very first meeting I attended gave me a hope that I hadn’t felt before while also helping me to see the depth of the destruction that this addiction could cause. I immediately understood that I was not alone in this struggle; that it was a struggle that was destroying lives and families from every walk of life. I also immediately understood that finding freedom from my bondage was no longer a pipe-dream. It has been a challenging 30 months since that first meeting, but the freedom that I am experiencing today is far beyond anything I imagined it would be. My enslavement to pornography was too profound and deceiving for me to have imagined what actual freedom would be like. Recovery has been difficult and painful, but not nearly as painful as the bondage from which God has set me free. Not only have I experienced recovery, but so has my marriage. The hollowness and lies of fantasy sex have been replaced with the real, intimate, Godly passion for my wife that God had always intended for us to experience. I have not forsaken my sexuality, but - at the age of 41, and after 10 years of marriage - have discovered love-making for the first time. My sexual life is no longer filled with shame and regret. It is holy and exciting, and more pleasurable than fantasy sex could ever be. My wife can now see my love for her because I can now express it to her in the holiness of Godly intimacy. Before recovery, I wouldn’t have been able to imagine the intense passion of true intimacy… it was beyond my ability to understand because of the way that my sexuality had become twisted by my devotion to pornography. Being free from addiction has changed every aspect of my life, not just my sexual life."
"I didn’t realize that I had learned to cope with life’s stresses by escaping the pain through sexual release. My relationship with God, my wife and my children had all suffered from my addiction. A community of men who accept me as I am gave me the strength to go back (with Jesus) to memories they said I needed to address. Jesus has brought healing and forgiveness. With two and one-half years of sobriety, I am much more available to all the love relationships in my life. As my wife said, she saw “scales falling from” my heart. Hallelujah!"
"When I first started the process of recovery I thought I was chasing what I needed to be whole. What I have discovered is that I was chasing an idea that has never existed and never will. This fantasy kept me a willing partner to my addiction and a pattern of death and devastation. Now I am seeing the path of Life that God has for me: to bring me hope, healing, relationship and love that I was craving, but had been pursuing from the wrong source."
If you sense God's calling to partner with us either through prayer or through financial support, please contact us. We need support in both areas. Give us a call at (785) 331-HOPE or E-mail Darrell Brazell, at newhope@prodigy.net.Support
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