Strange but True

Strange but true… A 35 yr. crack cocaine addict finds freedom at last!

Tim Strange is his name. But he is certainly no stranger to addiction. He had been dancing with the devil in a 35 year addiction to hard drugs, including crack cocaine. He had been so immune to anything that resembled a good life, that he thought he would never get off the drugs and as the years went by it would almost appear to be true

I had accepted I would just end up dying—nothing more than a crack addict

Tim states, “Well, I had thought that I would just end up dying –nothing more than a crack addict! I had just accepted it. Living that way for that period of time, I did not have the drugs—in fact the drugs had me! I couldn’t make myself stop. I had many close calls. On one occasion I overdosed and was unconscious –almost dead, I came to, got up in an hour or so was looking for my next fix. It was a vicious cycle, and day after day it continued.

I had my share of stays in secular treatment centers; five times in fact. I had even been labeled on my official records as “treatment wise” I had wise to the system, I had all the right answers, but head knowledge got me nowhere. I would get a month or two of clean time, and one time I even got a year, but it didn’t last. It had become just a pattern of behavior that I would continue to fall in to, time and time again.

One foot in the church door and one foot in the world

I can tell you I was going to church, but I had one foot in the church door and one foot in the world. I knew how to fool the people around me. It had become easy to fool counselors, and family members—but I couldn’t fool God because He knew my heart, and it needed to change.

Then someone told me about Wisdom In Living Life Ministry and I thought I would give it a try. But when I first starting coming I said I wanted to get off crack, but I still wanted to have my cake and eat it too. I didn’t understand that my thinking was corrupt. Then one day it happened, I got to the point that I got scared, really scared. I never got scared even all the times in my 35 years of drugging and being near death etc. But this was different. This time I finally cried out for God, really cried out with everything in me and said “I need you God, I really need You. “

A change began to take place; I submitted and begin to serve others

Then things began to change in me. I began to get involved in little ways with Wisdom In Living Life Ministry, I began to submit to what Winn was teaching me. I also started to read my bible every day and confess to God that He is my savior and I need Him.

Also a seed had been planted in my life a few years earlier about a particular church. Then I was approached by a member of that church who told me that what I needed was to have accountability and that church could offer me that. I did not hesitate to attend. I was quickly introduced to another guy there who had once been a heavy drinker but with Christ had stopped all that. He was willing to step in to help me with accountability. So it began my path to freedom

I made the time and increased my availability

I continued to come to Wisdom In Living Life Training Center along with getting the accountability I was receiving from my new church home. The two together got me to where God wanted me to be. I made the time and increased my availability to fix things at the ministry, offering to build a wall or two, and help in ways that I could. I even asked Winn if I could use the board to write scriptures and powerful words of encouragement for others before each class. It has become my ministry, and I enjoy doing it. I have been teaching the Wisdom’s Key’s to Freedom class on Monday nights and it allows me to mentor to others as I once had been mentored to.