 Would you please start sharing what was the thing you struggled in your life and how the Lord has set you free? Well I was raised in a wonderful family, Catholic family, I went to church, I knew about the Lord I was raised to know and love the Lord but as a teenager I was curious with the world and I got caught up in addictions, I got caught up in the world and sin and everything that went along with it for many years I struggled in this and until September 14th of 1991 that's the day that God delivered me. So Daniel we are talking about a drug addiction that you were addicted right to drugs for how many years? Well from the time of 15 till 31 so half of my life was drug addictions anything and everything it wasn't anything in particular but what it was was the enemy had taken me away from being with God and that was the worst part of it all but I couldn't see it because I was so lost in the addiction I didn't even realize it was a bad thing and until somebody came in my life. And so what happened how did the Lord set you free from this drug addiction? Well I was so sick and in my addiction that I couldn't think clearly or do anything God really showed up and did this without me even being a part of it. My parents showed up took me to our Lady Lord's hospital back then they used to have a treatment program that you could go to. I happened to have an insurance card in my wallet that had been expired for five years but they used that insurance to get me into the program so there's God at work already long enough for me to get cleaned up and he started talking to me at that point. Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ. So that was the program that you went through and through that program the Lord set you free from addiction to drugs is that correct? Yes he began the process at that point in time I really didn't know the Lord I knew about him because of my upbringing as a Catholic. This was a secular program the narcotics anonymous I went through the treatment program so I was doing the worldly program and it began the process of getting me free but two years into the program a woman came into my life who's now my wife we've been married 24 years. She was a member of a church and she took a big risk and invited me to that church. I was the guy that snuck into the back corner it was a Wednesday evening service you know so I hid in the corner because I didn't want to make her nervous I didn't want the church to fall down but the Lord tugged at my heart that night and my wife sang a Southern Gospel song and like two weeks later she invited me to come to a regular service it's a Pentecostal church and so I sat next to her and her father-in-law was on the other side they let out in tongues and worship they were nervous that it would scare me but they looked at my eyes were just full of tears because God had finally touched my heart and he took a broken person like me and gave me a second chance and I think the biggest thing I'm here to say to anybody that's listening and if you're within blocks of this church and you're hurting just drop everything and come here right now you know I mean it because God wants to touch you right now he set me free and I'm no different than you if you're sitting there on your couch and you're looking at that TV or you hear this thing in your ears come here because God will set you free he what he did for me he'll do for you he's no respecter of men come on our God is good amen amen Daniel would you please share how long it's been since you've been free from drugs and what do you do as a ministry now well September 14th 1991 was the day he delivered me from drug addiction I've been free since that day through the process I met my wife we went to a church within about two years after being married the pastor approached us and he felt a need within the congregation of people that needed to be delivered and free and I think that's true anywhere I think all of us can think of somebody within our family that needs this you know well we all need freedom in Jesus amen but so the pastor approached us we created a ministry and that was I believe in 1997 we started this ministry and my wife and I and a team of people ran this for 15 years the ministry is still working the church changed it a little bit but the ministry is still in effect today touching people's lives but the Lord has led me here to just share this with you guys and to let you know that God is a God of second chances so if you're sitting there and you think that you've just been too bad if you've done too much come and see me because my story is probably a little worse than yours I'm not telling all the details here thank you thank you so much Daniel thank you