1. “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, assome understand slowness.Instead he is patient with
you, not wanting anyone to perish,but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter3:9 (NIV)
My Testimony
Growing up my mom always took us to church. But I, like some teenagers,had my friends and we all
would meet to get drunk, smoke pot, or find whatever trouble we could. By the time I was 18 in the Army
I had been diagnosed as an alcoholic. I was also smoking cocaine and pot, and cheating on my then wife
at the time. I was so screwed up I began cutting my arm to release the pain I was going through. So my
life never really followed much in the way of being a Christian. I got hooked on huffing paint when I was
19 after being discharged from the Army, and continued with that for 17 years. I had lots of trips about
God and the devil and would go to church occasionally even then. I remember I once got baptized at a
lake where I tripped often. I ended up in treatment center after treatment center because the law said I had
to go or because I was homeless and had nowhere else to go. Then in 2003 I switched drugs from paint to
methamphetamine, and alcohol when I couldn’t get anything else. I turned my back on God not wanting
to live a hypocritical lifestyle. That’s when thing got even crazier. Being hooked on meth, cheating with a
woman who was married, and living with a woman whom I would abuse both mentally and physically
because I wanted my way. If you’ve ever been or are now hooked on a drug, then you know what I’m
saying when I say my life was about getting my next high or next girl and nothing could stand in the way.
And this was all done while I was living with a woman who took every beating and every abusive word I
would speak.
Eventually, I ended up on probation then broke it due to my drug use. I ended up in jail for three months
where I turned into the “perfect” Christian needing something to do while I was there. While I was in, I
heard of this book called Meth is Alchemy or something of that nature. Other inmates were talking of
how this book said alchemy was witchcraft. I remember this because at the time, remember I said I was
the “perfect” Christian now. I didn’t get to see the book at all so I didn’t make much of it at the time. The
group I hung around in jail were all meth addicts and we all knew deep down where we were going when
we got out…back to meth. It was our lifestyle and sure enough that’s what I did when I got out. I saw an
old friend out of the blue and we hooked up. I don’t believe in coincidence…I always thought that the
devil took care of his own just as God did. A few years later, my mom kept trying to get me to go to
church with her, but I had turned my back. It was my mom’s birthday coming up and she asked me to go
with her. I don’t know what made me say yes this time, outside of pleasing her for her birthday. So I
went. While sitting there something made me get up and speak about who I was,and while tears streamed
down my face I told everyone I was addicted to meth. Doing this both scared me and relieved me at the
same time.
After service and for the next two weeks for some reason I started fighting with my using meth. I was torn
between the many people I had become. See,using meth wasn’t all it was. I was addicted to pornography,
sexual immorality, cursing, smoking, lying, drinking, and cheating. I was sick of it all. Somewhere inside
I heard a voice saying to just go in the bedroom and open the Bible. I did this, and I mean it’s all I did, my
eyes fell immediately on the first passage I saw. I say again, I don’t believe in coincident. The passage
that my eyes fell to was (Acts 19:19) “A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together
and burned them publicly.” Paul was preaching, and they came and threw their ‘WITCHCRAFT’
ALCHEMY/ METH into the fire. These were the words that pounded in my head. I went and dumped
what meth I had left in the toilet and I raised the pipe towards the ceiling and cried out “Okay, here it is I
now You do something.” I broke the pipe up and made a decision to stand on that word and promise God
had shown me. In that moment I knew I had been delivered off meth. I no longer wanted it in my house
and didn’t want to be around it anymore. The devil kept pressing me to use through acquaintances I had
and a few people he tempted me with. I did use a few more times, but something inside knew I didn’t

2. “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, assome understand slowness.Instead he is patient with
you, not wanting anyone to perish,but everyone to come to repentance.” 2 Peter3:9 (NIV)
belong with these people or lifestyle anymore. So I left them and started going back to church, making
new friends.
Now here’s the kicker. I knew I had been delivered meth, but I didn’t let go of the drinking, smoking, or
seeing the married woman. I want to tell you, I was really bewitched with her. I wanted her more than
anything. I was really tore up by her. I tried suicide many times by overdosing on my medication while
drinking. One time I had taken so many pills that when Ann came home I wasn’t breathing and was
rushed to the hospital. God pulled me through many of these times. About a year later I found myself
praying that He would turn my heart from loving her so much. Well, God did change my heart. I know it
wasn’t the way He wanted me to break it off, but it ended in violence. As I was walking away from where
I had left her, that voice (I know is God’s Spirit now), showed me that the way I was loving her was the
way that the woman I lived with (Ann) loved me. That’s all I wanted... someone to love me the way I
loved them. I was finally free of whatever spell was upon me. I knew love was a choice and I, right then,
made a choice to love Ann the way she was loving me. It was a few months later God showed me another
undeniable sign; that I should marry Ann. So I obeyed Him and haven’t ever regretted it. I look back and
praise God every day for the woman He has given me.
Now the drinking and an occasional cocaine use still plagued my life. I still wasnt where God wanted me
and still felt spiritually separated from Him most times. I wondered if I was truelly saved and knew in my
heart things were still so wrong in my life. My Bible study group wanted me to go to treatment,but I said
I would only go to a bible based one. But there was no place that would accept me because of the
medication I was on. They felt I wasn’t willing to do anything it took to become sober and put me out of
the group. They did this in a tough love using the Word to back it up (1 Corinthians 5:11). They wanted
me to stop so they could restore me in a spirit of gentleness. (Galatians 6:1), (2 Corinthians 2:6-8). But I
didn’t respond and only drank more falling into a deep depression. I felt abandond by God. One day my
wife met a couple at her work whom said they were starting a new program at their church called RU
(Reformers Unanimous). Well this church was RIGHT ACROSS the street from where I lived. This was
truelly another sign and answer to prayer that God gave. It was undeniable. So I started going and at first
still drank but, as God began to restore me, my drinking got less the following week and even less (only
once) the next. God has been working in my life through this program to not only restore me, but change
my heart away from different habits and has replaced my tv watching in the morning into a time of study,
worship, and encouragement. I cant thank God enough for putting this program right across the street
from me, and where I also now go to church on a regular basis. What I am saying here is that He has
opened the doors for me to be around HIM and His word for encouragement, learning about Christ, and
surrounding myself with His love that also comes through fellowship with His people. (Psalm 91:1-4)
says: “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust. Surely He shall
deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His
feathers,and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.” From the
time I was delivered off meth in November of 2009, has been 6 years. He’s been really working in my life
changing me from a dope smoking, cheating, beating, alcoholic, sexually immoral man into a sanctified
God fearing loving husband and father. (Philippians 1:6) says “being confident of this very thing, that He
who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.” I believe this and know He
will do it. “I thank you and praise You Lord Jesus. You’ve given me HOPE again.”
Greg Sisney
"The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not
wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." 2 Peter3:9 ESV