You Are Loved | Coping Mechanisms Held Me Back From Finding Jesus

My life felt like one test after another—addiction, jail, homelessness. I kept running… until Jesus found me.”

In this powerful You Are Loved episode, Stanley shares how childhood violence, abandonment, and early drug use spiraled into meth and heroin addiction, incarceration, and a life on the run—even an extradition to Texas. But God met him in the middle of the mess: a phone call at 5% battery, a recovery house minutes away, salvation, inner healing, and a freezing creek baptism on January 1 that felt like stepping out of a hot shower—clean, new, and free.

If you feel tested, tired, or too far gone, Stanley’s story will remind you: “By our weakness, He is made strong.” Through surrender, accountability, and the love of Christ, tests became testimonies—leading to restoration with God and a calling to help others find freedom.