Welcome to today's inspiration. We are so glad that you have tuned in from your living room to our living room Today is actually a continuation of a testimony from a young man that is 26 years old today, which happens to be January 25th He's turned 26. He has a testimony that's real and raw from being a high schooler who was doing pot to going in the Marines and becoming heavily addicted To what you're gonna find out as he's coming out of the Marines and what transpired and why that transpired So we're gonna continue with that, but I want to start with the scripture It says now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty He has been given the liberty today to be real and raw. So if you have little children, I suggest that you ask them to leave Because he does not have an edit button But this is a man that truly is Knows the difference between religion and relationship with Jesus Christ and if it had not been for Jesus You would not be able to hear this today For as many times as he wanted to commit suicide to how many times Satan tried to take him out like I said, it's real and raw and We left off when he had come home from Okinawa and returned to camp Lejeune He was promoted his father actually got to pin him in that promotion and dallas what happened from that point when you were promoted But you were still in heavy addiction weren't you?
I was it as bad as I was in okey until I cut the drinking at a minimum only on weekends But I would drink enough for that whole week It was it came to like almost to almost drinking morning day and night during after work to only night times and weekends And would you say that you drink it too blacked out? Every time I've probably lost over at least four years of memory Completely I lost four years of my life. There's a lot of things I don't remember. I don't remember almost a whole year worth of time Some some things are coming back But it's a slow process because of everything that I did to my brain with all the alcohol consumption but um I thought hitting corporal was going to be the turning point but it wasn't um I decided to go A little bit further and um I went to Georgia one.
Uh, it was a it was an op where our tornado hit and we had a late on fiber optic so they needed some electricians and Metagenal men mean this gentleman hit it off. Uh, we started partying together and then uh He introduced me to cocaine in the Marine Corps It was a drug that you can get away with you don't have to worry about piss tests or anything like that And I started doing cocaine. Uh, I started partying with him We get back from Georgia. We started selling cocaine.
Um, we had a good little plug and We had our routes and we were still cocaine to Marines. I started doing a lot of cocaine. Um, it brought me up It made me happy. Also the partying scene.
I was addicted to the partying. I loved to dance I am a dancer at heart and dances as a kid. So that cocaine alcohol It was like a perfect mix for me and um, I almost got in a lot of trouble. I almost fought MPs for it Um, never got caught until um, it was when I came home for the first time.
Um, I started doing a lot of cocaine with my brother Uh, I had the money so I didn't care. Um, I started chasing, uh, they called it chasing the dragon And I chased it. I chased it with everything on me And there was one night I did a few Xanaxes and um, probably more than I should have I think I did like two bars and I was on cocaine and I was on alcohol and I ended up putting my car on a ditch And me wanting To be the good corporal that I was Spiritually, I wanted to be a good Marine. I wanted to be the Marine and I had peers I had uh, Marines under me that actually looked up to me.
I was one of the top PTers towards the end And I decided to let one of my sergeants know and I'm thinking in my head me telling them They're gonna give me time to get all this stuff out of my system to try to make my wrongs right No, they recalled me and they drug tested me and they found marijuana in my system And that's where things did a drastic shift in my life And I'm very blessed that it did happen because I want to be where I'm at. I probably still I know that there are those out there right now saying what you just said you're blessed How do you call being and the detail that he left out was the car was in the ditch and he's arrested And this is Christmas morning. His family is at home. I'll never forget this this Christmas I had Christmas dinner all made everything and we're going where's Dallas and We got his brother said I think he's in jail And we called and that's where he was and we bailed him out and then he called his sergeant They recalled him back and yes his life drastically changed and I know you're asking how could this be a blessing You know when the enemy does something And he's out to kill steal and destroy you.
God will turn it around for his glory He had a lot of people praying around him. I know his father and I Hours and hours of praying so you go back now. I want you all to keep in mind First of all, we are very much a military family. We back the military.
We back the blue. We are a political family We we and we are bold about it. We are not against the Marines. We are not against the army or the navy because of what happened to our son But I do believe that There has been a ball dropped in the military that they are not they are not treating the individuals Instead at least from a marine standpoint and we have found out later that the army would have never kicked him out Or the navy would not have kicked him out, but the Marines did continue We uh I get back they tried testing me.
Let me go back on me. I come back on leave and uh When I get back it was a A few weeks after um, I was there they told me uh that I got popped with 32 nanograms of marijuana in my system And 32 nanograms is really two hits of marijuana like you could take a joint a blind a bolt a pipe or anything And just two hits and if I would have joined another half again on the water, I would have been out It was a slim hair that I got kicked out with and Uh, let me jump forward the national guard. I was gonna join last year They said I had a hundred percent chance of getting in and that they actually never got kicked out of the military All right, just I just wanted you guys to know that um, so let me rewind and he did get a um dui and all this also that he had to deal with And still dealing with effort um, but they did send me to SARP SARP is a substance abuse Recreation recovery program and um, it worked for a little bit. Um, I made it I stayed with it.
I was six months clean, but I was doing the whole aa and a thing and It worked, but um, the the flaw of it. It wasn't a full deliverance. It's they believe Um, I actually have a tattoo of one of the um prayers that they have but I'm thinking about Oh, it just hit me last night, but I might get it covered up because it's not I don't think it's an actual prayer I the bible but they believe that they're always in recovery and I don't I believe in full deliverance I believe that it's don't can be completely healed of their past and be that new creation that God tells us in his word Um, I did make it six months. I made it six months and then um They were processing me out.
Oh, they're pushing me out of the minkor So at that point of my desire to be in the minkor was already gone and they told me that I wasn't gonna get no benefits No disability they told me I don't I don't get nothing But that's what the devil wants you to believe and wants you to believe that lie and not seek out your own information And so I just started digging and I started digging and I started believing that I did do four years on a belief I deserve something out of all this especially of coming out of Okinawa and dealing with PTSD while I was in Um, because there's a lot of things that I didn't explain to you guys which I think it's pretty raw already Um, and some things are really I'm still dealing with personally, but um, they got I started working on my GI bill. That was my I think that was how I was gonna make it like because I had no job No nothing. Um, I was very blessed. I had a staff sergeant that told me that I could live with him Uh, right when I got out, which was amazing.
Um, I started school my GI bill was given to me because I rated it And now I thought for it. I didn't um, I had to do the paperwork on my own They didn't give me time when you did process process out of my record You're like a piece of trash thrown in the trash can like they stop caring about your benefits They don't help you so you for what you want out of your life, especially for a military man getting kicked out You got to do all the work. You don't get help and so I did like I thought the GI bill was gonna be my gateway I was sober at the time and I got my GI bill. I started college.
Um, I was a freshman at Coastal Carolina Community College I stayed clean and then Being in a new world. I wasn't ready to experience The civilized people and I started hanging out with the wrong people. Um, and then I ended up Uh, I met this family and they were a very Christian family, but they uh, some of the family members were smoking weed And I that's where that wrong confidence came in. Um, I started smoking weed thinking I could just handle it I felt in my spirit, not in my spirit, but in my heart that it would help me with my PTSD and it did Um, but when you also say though that there were um, those in AA and recovery that condoned the marijuana for PTSD?
No, well, actually yes, um, there's I mean you do see different views of marijuana, but I do believe that it can be used demonically like if you're using it as a like an actual medical reason I support you if you're using it for PTSD or depression anxiety on certain points I like I'm not gonna continue, but if you're using it to get high on a daily basis and you are Dependent on that then it becomes a drug and that's how I used it I used it as a drug and not for the medical reasons that it does offer and um When I smoked weed it gave me confidence of thinking I could control uh substance and be able to live life, but that's a live straight from hell Um, me personally I had an addicted personality and God knew I was going to be addicted, but he wanted me to be addicted to him and not Substance and I had to learn that this year. Um, so I got out on Got to coast of Carolina I go to college and I started selling molly to Marines, uh hanging out with the wrong people Um, I started doing a lot of cocaine like a lot of cocaine and molly And anything I get my hands on I was on a rampage. I ended up failing in almost all my classes So I just thought I gave up on school after the first semester So really after you got sober through AA and SARP, um, out of the Marines Then you're sober and then you start dabbling again because you've surrounded yourself with people that you shouldn't To then would you say in your mind that when it says you've been delivered of something that if you don't fill it with the word that seven more demons come back Did you feel the power of more demonic influence? No because I wasn't fully delivered at that time.
Okay Um, all the demons I had were still on me. I wasn't doing what I was supposed to do as a Christian I was kind of going to church like my life turned More when it was I had to come home to get an ID for my bank account And um, I get my ID. I lost my wallet because I got drunk and um, I come back to North Carolina and then I'm sorry, uh But then I come back from North Carolina my roommates pressure me I literally loaned him a few hundred bucks and then pays him back and now he's asking for rent Just handing me and I just got back. I didn't know if I had any money and I told him I told myself and I told mom That I don't have to deal with it.
So I'm gonna come home and get my life back together. So I came home And that's why I found the Holy Spirit again. That's when I started praying in Uh, my spiritual the year before I found out I had this spiritual language and then I started activating it more when I came home last year and uh It was great. It was the most amazing time I've had in a very long time And then I started uh from the hurdle the thing I was always running away from was to feel again and right when it um right before I started feeling a woman came into my life and It was a it was a blind side woman a girl that I never expected to fall in love with and I fell in love with her.
I ended up starting smoking weed again and we decided To do all these drugs again. I made this woman into a devil because I was a devil at that time and um We she pushed me into a rehab while my family had a like they pushed me into an amazing program in North Carolina I'm gonna have to interrupt right there because we didn't push you family interrupt his mama here Actually they came he came Druged out sat on our couch crying out going. What do I do? It was about 11 o'clock at night.
I think it was And we didn't I didn't know didn't know what to do and I only knew one person to call And that was Jeff and Tracy dau from seil in north carolina. They have a drug rehab program Recovery program and I called and said he's ready and I had been praying for this when he relapsed And he relapsed because he had moved out he had moved in with at that point It was his fiance they were gonna get married and we knew We knew when we were around him when we looked at him we knew he was on drugs again And of course when I drug addict they will lie through their teeth and everything but we knew the truth But when he came on that sunday night and they said how calm asking you get him here We've got a bit And that was the beginning of That my husband and at that time our deacon they loaded him up in the car the next morning adding packed we dropped him off I'm trying to fast-forward this a little bit. Um, we get to the rehab I made it six months. It's supposed to be a year long.
Uh, there's some things that happened in this rehab Um, that I'm not gonna speak about because we are alive and uh, so I left I left this program and a lot of the men said I'm gonna make it I knew I had got on my side and I knew he was leading my feet and I came home my parents Uh, actually I went to a halfway house I didn't agree with some of the things in the halfway house So I left that my parents let me in their house and I stayed I'm still with them Uh, it started coming to a point where my PTSD was hit me harder than I ever has Um, night hairs, night sweats, screaming in the middle night And falling in love with another woman and just getting my heart ripped out again Uh, I think being sober is probably done more heartache in my entire life now But that's because I feel everything and I wouldn't change it for the world Um, but it's still hard. Uh, the Christian life is hard But God is amazing. Uh, going back to what the military told me I was never gonna get anything Uh, I'm currently uh, uh, now at 90% disability Because of the things that happened in the Marine Corps, the physical aspect, the emotional aspect And now it's God, God, uh, he literally made that way Um, I have, I'm not worrying about Money anymore, I'm more bored, I'm just bored Like there's really nothing for me to do in life And I think that's where I'm at right now, he's trying to figure out What, do you feel that You're I, that now that you're, that you are sober Almost, almost 17 months, you're working into your second year of sobriety That now with his relationship with Jesus Christ that now you're discovering the identity part Yes, of actually who you are and what he has for you and what he wants for you It's a, it's a tough road Being a Christian is probably the hardest thing and that's why I say Christian life If a man that claims Christianity, he's a real man because it's probably the hardest road you'll ever walk on But do you regret it? No Because I know where I was And I know where I want to go So as you can see This is a continuing story for anybody who's in recovery or has been in the the pit of hell and they're coming out That it's a continual story.
It's maintaining your deliverance that once you're delivered You've got to maintain that deliverance. You've got to be continually working on that walk because if you don't With him the demons just came stronger and he is walking one day at a time I know that's a cliche saying it's an a saying it's a jesus saying you take one day at a time and you live on purpose It's being purposeful. He was just very real and raw with you. He's bored now in that boredom Though is where he's gonna find his identity and you're saying well.
He's not completely through his deliverance No, he's not but I wanted you to see what deliverance looks like from start to it's not finished I'm delivered. I was delivered for many of those of you that have heard my testimony knew that I was addicted to pornography I was addicted to adultery. I was addicted to fornication. I've done it all But I have to maintain it because one time that if I were to pick up my phone and look at porn for 20 seconds I promise you I'm gonna have to deal with so many demons that I'm gonna have to go through deliverance all over again We have to maintain it.
You know, God has been telling me in the last month that he is looking for a bride without blemish That scripture he's also looking for a bride that their hands are their hardest pure Their hands are clean and they keep their minds renewed That's what the whole armor of God is this is what Dallas is learning is not just discovering his identity But learning how to put on that whole armor of God and fighting in a spiritual way instead of wanting to fight in a natural way There are times that I've heard him come down the stairs, especially in the political arena that we are in right now And let's just fight him. It would be so much easy, but since I've got we're in a spiritual warfare for souls for life right now This is what we're fighting. There's no more practice. There's no more.
Oh, let's go to 50,000 conferences and learn all we can in hopes that somebody gets safe No, we're on the front lines now. We're called to battle. This was a soul I had to battle for I'm fighting for your soul day and night That's what I do. I'm an intercessor.
I'm a prayer warrior. He's a prayer warrior I've heard him pray for people and wonder where did he even learn how to do that because he was raised with a praying family that Forget pastoring forget prophets forget all of that a praying family a family that prays together stays together And though there may be a whole lot of mess and a whole lot of junk and a whole lot of dirtiness If you will call on the name Jesus, I bet if I were to sit here and ask Dallas how many times he's called on Jesus He probably couldn't count because it was only Jesus that saved his life It was only Jesus that's going to show him in all his fullness who he is and he's at the in his story right now He is at the point of discovering. Okay. God now.
What do I do? He's in that quiet time of seeking in your final thoughts How would you encourage someone you got about one minute to? Well, you asked me last night What's that one scripture that stuck with me for this whole time? I guess it's a good time in it with this I'm I beloved in my beloved his mind.
So I'm solid in 63 and It's this ring my dad gave me when I was a little kid I don't know how it stuck with me when I was thinking about that last night Out of everything that I've gone through this ring has still been on my finger And this ring is probably gonna go to my child because that's the one scripture that I've held onto because God is my beloved in his mind And what does that mean to you when you hear those words? I mean his hands. Amen Amen, did you hear that that he's in his hands that through everything that you've heard He knows he is still in his hands that that is his Everything wouldn't you say that? So as we close out will you close out us in prayer for somebody out there that is afraid afraid to be real afraid to be raw afraid of dealing with With the stuff.
Will you pray for them? They're like father. God we come to you and we thank you for today father God I thank you for all the souls that are gonna be listening to this broadcast father father God I just ask that you just woo them with the spirit cool on their hearts father God Allow my testimony or the light that's in me to show them that there is a path and there is a way out And in your are the way and you are the light father God father God I thank you for this day again And I thank you for the breath that you give in every single person in this building in Jesus name I pray amen Amen, we want to thank you for joining us stay tuned we have other interviews that we're gonna be doing over the next few months You're gonna be hearing more from Dallas and his father We're excited that you're allowing us to tune in and come into your living room with truth We pray that the truth shall set you free We pray that your ears heard something today that will show you who you are in Christ Jesus And how much he loves you because he loves you more than you could ever imagine We love you. Thank you, but more importantly Jesus loves you.
God bless I appreciate y'all watching our show this evening if there's anything anything whatsoever that you have heard that has Spoken to your heart And and you feel the need to either rededicate your life or turn your life over to Jesus I encourage you to to reach out to us We would be more than happy to speak with you either on the phone or via email or however you can reach out to us And and it's easy. We can say a prayer for you It's it's Jesus says to Nicodemus that you must be born again to enter into the kingdom of heaven So I encourage you to turn your life over if you need to rededicate That that is also to turn your life back to repentance is simply turning from where the direction that you were going to a new direction You're no longer a the old person that you are you but you become a new person through the gift of salvation So I encourage you to reach out to us at eaglewingsfaith.org You can click on the tab contact us and you can put it through the website or you can email us straight ewfmchurch at gmail.com And we look forward to hearing from you. God bless you and we will see you later