Setting Captives Free Testimonies

Higher Stakes Testimony

my mentor is my 22 year old daughter who lives with us, Kandi. i started gambling when i went with my nephew and his wife to a small gambling town in lake tahoe. in those days they just played with coins and we played nickel machines, i won that first time and it gave me a desire to return as often as i could. but since the casinos were only in nevada at the time we only went in nice weather so it wasn't a problem at first. then i married and we had children and so couldn't go into casinos with children so that ended the running to nevada. but 6 years ago we moved to a indian casino that was only blocks from our house. we had to pass it going shopping and anywhere else. at first we would only go down once in awhile, then it got to be more and more and since nevada was only 90 minutes away and we had to do our major shopping and medical there we ended up spending several nights at a casino motel. pretty soon we were spending more money then we should and wanted to be gambling constantly. finally i knew that my god was not the one above but the slot machines so i repented and stopped for a little while but i kept going back. finally my daughter kandi knew i was hooked and told me about setting captives free site on the internet. the first two times i still felt that i could control myself and i slid back into the same old habits and got worse each time. finally i realized that the setting captives free lesson were totally right and i repented and this time i gave it all to the Lord and He has kept me from gambling for over 60 days. now i feel so close to Him and am enjoying going back to fellowshipping with others in our church and have my joy back.

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