My name is Jacob. I'm 30 years old. I'm from California. And this is the testimony how Christ Jesus saved me.

My... The

The Starting as a young boy, you know, I was raised in a Christian Bible-believing household.

And, you know, we went to church every single Sunday. We were dragged to

church every Sunday. And I just never really found God intriguing or interesting. So, you know,

this naturally is only going to push me away from the presence of God. So, you know, I get into,

once I lost my virginity, just gun ho, fornicating outside of marriage, you know, it was like one of the things that was on my list, you know, to fornicate with as many women as possible.

Then I got addicted to marijuana.

This was just heavy because I became so addicted to marijuana.

I needed to smoke every single day.

This was a necessity in my life.

And it grabbed the hold of me.

I was smoking marijuana for about nine and a half years.

And I was not only smoking it, but I was also selling it too.

So this was a part of a lifestyle.

It became a part of me of my identity.

You know, I would always tell people, you know, I'm going to smoke until the day I die.

And slowly but surely I get involved in stealing and I just start stealing lots of clothes,

lots of clothes. And I started stealing from some of my friends. And it was just getting really

of a dark moment for me. And all of a sudden, you I'm I'm realizing that all this is leading up to just more

destruction you know and fast forward so I'm doing all this for a long time and you know fast forward

I meet my wife through all this whole mess of fornicating I end up meeting my wife off this dating website and all

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