Here’s what one listener testified: Dear brothers and sisters, peace in Christ! Thank you, Lord, for giving me this opportunity to share my testimony with you. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; “Thank you to the Lord for the grace of a new creature who has been saved from the line of death by God again and again. Today I want to glorify the name of the Lord by giving a good testimony to the Lord. Pray that the Lord will lead me so that my testimony will touch more people to come to the Lord and come to the Lord.

All men are guilty before the Lord. I am a sinful person, and I have been infected with gambling in my heart since I was a child. I remember it was when I was 8 or 9 years old, and my big brother gambled with his neighbors’ brothers. At that time, they gambled very little, only 5 dimes a dollar. But as I watched from the sidelines, I couldn’t help but be curious, thinking that this kind of money would be so easy! Just like that, a seed of sin and greed was planted in my heart. So much so that when I grew up and started a family, the seeds of sin began to germinate. That was when I was back home, and I was in good condition. As soon as I graduated from school, my father opened a store on the street and asked me to start a business, mainly selling hardware and electrical appliances, building materials, and paints, and later I developed liquefied gas sales.

At that time, business was very good, I was a salesman, and I was also a buyer, and I was busy all day. I can make a lot of money every year, but during the Spring Festival holiday, I am like a wild horse, gambling day and night, until I lose all the money I have worked hard for. My wife knew that I loved to gamble, so she watched me not go out, and every night she had to watch me go to bed before she went to sleep. However, my heart was so burning that I could not sleep, and when I was sure that my wife was asleep, I quietly got up, and the gate of the courtyard was locked by my wife, so I climbed over the courtyard wall and went out, and then went to find a blockage. It was a long way to find a casino in the town, through dark woods and ghostly slopes, and I felt like I was enchanted by ghosts, I didn’t know anything about fear, and the gambling demon led me to destruction. In ’97 I was arrested for gambling and lost another year’s hard-earned money.

My wife wanted to change me in a new environment, so she asked me to go to the county seat to develop. I invested in and opened a liquefied gas station in the county, and the business was very good, I also hired a lot of employees to manage it as a company. I became a boss who didn’t have to do anything on my own, and every day I went out to hotels, cafes, karaoke halls, and occasionally casinos with my friends who drank and meat and indulged in a carnal life of greed and sin. However, my income is still the same, and the money I earn every year is either squandered by me or lost by me, and it is still an empty shelf from round to round.

I don’t know how to repent, and I’m still addicted to this so-called boss life. In the county, we have always rented a house, and I have not thought about building a comfortable nest for my wife and children. In 2002, my wife bought a piece of land and built a two-story house with a single door. So that we have a home. When the house was first built, it had not yet been renovated, and his wife sold the façade house in her hometown and was going to use the money to decorate it. But as soon as the money from the sale of the house was remitted to my account, I was addicted to gambling and lost it all overnight.

My wife often took my two children, a 5-year-old and an 8-year-old, looking for my husband, who didn’t know how to come home, at night. Think about how much I owe my wife and children. Gambling eventually led me into the abyss and towards death. At the end of 2007, I lost more than 300,000 yuan at one time, more than 300,000 yuan! But this is not a small number! Not only did I lose my savings, but I also lost the 150,000 yuan that my brother lent me to do business, and I was equal to 150,000 yuan in debt! What a blow! Powerful pressure can shatter and destroy a family! However, my wife did not know that I had lost so much money, and my greedy desire did not make me repent!

I took out the last remaining 20,000 yuan and went to gamble on the last handful, this time not to gamble, but to go to the casino to put a loan shark. I have a cousin who is in the casino, and he told me to give 20,000 yuan, and he gives me 2,000 yuan in interest every day, what a tempting benefit! I calculated that it is 60,000 yuan a month! It is 360,000 yuan in half a year! In this way, the money I lost will be able to earn back soon! Who knows, 20,000 yuan will go and there will be no return, and when I go to look for my cousin, there is no trace of him! I have not collapsed and fallen after losing more than 300,000 yuan, but when the only hope of 20,000 yuan is destroyed, I have completely collapsed! I cried bitterly, and I was never so wronged and miserable in my life! I laughed, and I never laughed so desolate in my life!

I will never forget that dark day in Wuxi, the day of facing death, I really almost died there. My cousin and a bunch of thugs lived in an underground bathhouse, and I stayed there for more than half a month. Because of my severe mental trauma, life there was like hell, life was worse than death! I couldn’t sleep all night. It’s all in nightmares and hallucinations. I always feel in a daze, there are a lot of ** people who come to the baths, catch drug addicts and gamblers, and the baths are in chaos all day long.

At 4 or 5 a.m., I felt that I was being chased by **, and I got up from bed in fear, ran to the edge of the bath, jumped into the pool at once, and was stuffy in the water. At this time, a waiter came and grabbed me and said, “This water is boiling.” “But I was numb and I didn’t know anything, I didn’t feel anything at all, I was just full of fear and fear! I wanted to get out of hell as soon as possible, but I felt tired and tired because I hadn’t rested well for a long time. I was confused, so I wanted to find a hospital to infuse some nutrient solution to replenish my physical strength, otherwise, my physical strength would not be able to support me to go home. I walked out of the bath, it was drizzling outside, I looked up at the sky, tasted the sweetness of the drizzle with my face and lips, and smiled and walked forward. At this time, my mind was no longer normal.

I didn’t know the south, south, west, and northwest, so I kept walking, and I only had one concept in my mind, going to the hospital for infusion. I found a hospital in a daze. I walked into the hospital, saw two nurses inside, and said to them, “Give me some nutrient solution.” The two nurses didn’t speak, just looked at me in amazement. I said a second time, “Please give me some nutrient solution, I haven’t rested for a few nights!” The two nurses still looked at me with surprised eyes, but still didn’t answer. I said impatiently, “Would you like to give me some nutrition?” At this time, the two nurses came to their senses and said, “I’m sorry! “I was so ashamed that I almost fainted and nervously said, “I’m sorry”.

The nurses didn’t pay any attention to me, just grinning and muttering something as if to say I was a psychopath. I turned around and left the hospital, like a homeless man, drifting in the rain and fog. In the end, with the help of others, I found the city hospital, where I was given a nutrient solution, and I was prescribed some tranquilizers to eat, so that I could return home. As soon as I got home, I lay down for a week. My wife asked me what was wrong, and I said that I was tired and sick from doing business in Wuxi, so I would just take some medicine and rest for a while.

In fact, she didn’t know the painful depression in my heart. The sin is what I have done, so let me bear it alone! I also want to die to end this suppressed pain! But what if I want to die my wife and children? If my wife knew that I had lost so much money, she would have collapsed, and this family would have been broken. I thought that this day would be the end of my life. However, paper can’t contain the fire, and my wife is a Christian, who is in charge of the children’s Sunday School service and knows many brothers and sisters. One day, my wife heard from a sister that I had lost a lot of money, so she checked my accounts. She cried! Thank God for His grace! My wife was strong by the Lord, and she didn’t even say a word of complaint, but just said to me, “I don’t want anything but you.” We can earn money slowly and pay it back slowly. This sentence brought tears to my eyes, made me see hope, and see the light, and cheered me up to face life.

Thank you for the grace of the Lord! From mid-June to the end of July 2008, my business earned nearly 200,000 yuan, and I have never earned so much money in such a short period. In this way, we not only paid off my brother’s account but also had tens of thousands of yuan left. God has been gracious to us, and my wife found out about my loss in May 2008, that is, it was only a little more than 2 months from the time we carried the burden to the time we unloaded it. Thank you to the Lord for His grace, not only to relieve us of the burden of toil but also to save me, the prodigal son, from the death line of gambling. And make us quickly become financially prosperous, so that our family can face this life full of sunshine, joy, and happiness anew! Recalling the gambling scene when I was a child, I saw that the environment can change the fate of a person’s life. An environment full of sin will lead people to grow into sin and gradually lead people to the path of sin and destruction.

Only children who grow up in a loving environment will be healthy. When I was younger, I was a child who was affected by the evil of gambling. Therefore, we need to keep more children away from sin from an early age, let them know our loving Heavenly Father, so that they can listen to the word of the Lord, grow up healthily under the light and care of the Lord, and they will always be healthy and happy. When I finished writing about this gambling experience, I saw my sin. I was greedy for money, abandoned my wife and children, gambled, and almost lost my life.

Matthew 16:26, says, “What profit is it for a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his own life, and what can a man exchange for his life?” Thank you, Lord for saving me and bringing tears of remorse to my heart. I hated myself for causing pain and hurt to my family. Even if my wife and children could forgive me, I couldn’t forgive myself. Sin is extremely harmful to human beings, it can destroy the happiness of the family, it can damage the health of the body, and it can sell the human soul. The wages of sin is death, and we can only be saved by relying on the Lord Jesus. But at that time, I was indebted to the love of the Lord Jesus Christ, and I didn’t throw myself into His arms because I was not yet a believer. But the Lord Jesus Christ loved me and called me again to move me by the Holy Spirit. On May 8, 2009, when I was moved, I wrote a journal called “Inspiration”. My wife is a Christian, and under her guidance, I understand that there are many truths in the Bible, but I still don’t understand it well, and there is still a certain distance from it. I don’t know that the highest state of life is to enter the world of inspiration, and God has chosen your soul to sublimate, that is, you have entered the happiest and happiest world of eternal life. I used to believe only in the truth, not in the existence of a world with souls.

But today is a feeling I have never felt in my life, just when I was listening to the program “Embrace Every Day” on Liangyou Radio, the Holy Spirit moved me, my eyes suddenly brightened, and the world seemed to become many times bigger, the sun was shining outside, and the scenery was exceptionally clear. That kind of realm is so beautiful, my brain is as clear as water as if it has become many times smarter. The joy in my heart filled me with confidence, and I couldn’t help but dance, just like an innocent and lovely little actor who was full of confidence in the future, dancing so naturally and moving so gracefully and softly. Every movement of oneself is as clear as what you see in the mirror. I usually sit in the arena, but now I feel like there are 10,000 spectators, and I am so comfortable that I completely forget my existence. It’s a beautiful phenomenon that can’t be expressed in words. My eyes were moistened with joy, and I shed tears of joy, and said to my wife, “It turns out that having a soul is the power of life!” “The joy in my heart gives me strength for the future life, and the cultivation of the soul is inseparable from God’s inspiration. Like an ignorant child who can’t do without his parents, I seek Him and follow Him, never wanting to leave Him! God saved me, the Holy Spirit understood me, and I understood many things. A person who is close to God’s inspiration sees the world bigger, and gets more wisdom and joy.