In this next story by Greg Weddle, he describes the way God supported him in his climb out of the pit of Satanism, along with past greed, egotism, lust, lost job, lost marriage, lost Jaguar, lost money. He was $15,000 in debt, and living again with his parents. To read the earlier story which describes his amazing one-night conversion, click here: Greg converts from following Satan to God.

The following story begins with Greg at rock bottom. But he is buoyed by having encountered God in a very convincing way, and by having supportive parents and bosses.

I had lost my great-paying…

"The [drug rehab] clinic even called to ask why [my brother] didn't come in for his next methadone appointment, and he told them that Jesus saved him. They didn't believe him, but it was true. That was seven years ago, and he's never had to go back to drugs."

When Jim and I were first married I prayed often, and God would answer me. Those were happy days. For the first time in my life, I began to find God through the words of the Bible. I really began to know him and would sing songs and pray to him as a natural part of my life.

But somewhere during those first years, between…

"l looked back at our married life, and all the hurt and anger and hatred I felt, all the loneliness and rejection of the past eight years came out. lt just overwhelmed me. I couldn't handle it."

After Sam and I were married for a few years, I began to suffer depressions. These weren't simply bad moods; they were like being in a pit. I would be so depressed that sometimes I couldn't talk for a day-and-a-half. All I could see was darkness. I could have been in the Garden of Eden during that time, and I would only have seen the dirt.

I suffered these depressions periodically for…