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From Melvin's teenage years, alcohol and smoking became more than a passing phase. A strong grip of dependency grew apparent in his life, impacting his ability to excel academically, stifling his life-chances. But 17 years of addiction came to an abrupt end as he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ and received deliverance in the power of the Holy Spirit at an Interactive Prayer Service. God restored what addiction had destroyed as he was offered funding to pursue his studies and today he is carrying out a BSc in Horticulture!

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00:00smoking i just lost the edge i was just feeling nausea so even just to get the smell because
00:07usually before you get triggers if you just get the smell of cigarette you will be triggered to
00:13get yourself one and smoke no matter how you told yourself no i'm not gonna do it again
00:18but after the prayers the edge even just the pride just disappeared
00:30grace and peace to everyone my name is melvin from namidia i've got several testimonies to share
00:39for the glory of god by the year 2005 i completed my matric soon after i completed
00:47my matric is when i engaged in drinking and smoking as it was uh almost like a normal thing
00:56for every young person to go through so it was just like a entertainment at first
01:04so i tried to experiment this entertainment as the years went by i would find myself drinking more
01:12often weekends sometimes it could be a daily thing smoking more than five cigarettes per day
01:22and as time went by i i found it difficult to stop because now it turned into an addiction
01:29and after i turned into an addiction i i was hoping to stop but now the edge was the one
01:35driving me to
01:36to smoke more and drink more it was quite a struggle for me over the years because it was becoming
01:44more
01:44serious though i used to go to church over the years i grew up going to church but it was
01:50not the kind of
01:51church where there was miracles taking place healing and all that so our church going was just going to
01:58church immediately from the church service you'll be going to the bars and getting drunk all over again so
02:04it was a pattern that was taking place i tried stopping on my own several times i would stay weeks
02:13a month couldn't pass a year without staying sober it was a problem because each time i could get the
02:21edge to go back i would find myself doing it again so it has been a recycling pattern for me
02:28seeing
02:29myself drinking and smoking sometimes i would be having such dreams of seeing myself smoking and
02:35drinking and by that time i was also now in debts by those years 2015 just because of this addiction
02:46that
02:46i was drinking and smoking so much and i also got involved in a motor vehicle accident by the same
02:54uh 2015
02:56which was my car which was written off by that time i just have a picture here of the car
03:02and this one also
03:05the car was written off by that year i was the driver i was the owner of the car and
03:14i was driving while
03:16under influence and uh yes i was drunk it was only by the grace of god because i don't even
03:25know how i
03:26came out of that accident we were only two in the car and none of us came up with injuries
03:32according to
03:34eyewitnesses the car was airborne and it rolled so it was a turning point for me and i wanted to
03:41get a
03:42solution with this problem that i was experiencing so i thought of maybe changing the environment where
03:48i was i requested for a transfer with my with my job because i was i'm a public servant at
03:56that time i
03:57was talking in the mining sector so looking for a way out i was from 2018 submitting applications for
04:05transfer where one can move from one department to another internally by 2018 i submitted my application
04:13for transfer which went through successfully but by the last minute after the approvals were done
04:21i got disappointed and then all of a sudden there was changes in the transfer which were cancelled
04:29and all this was frustrating me i tried several attempts but always the last minute
04:35would come to a disappointment so i've always wanted to to visit a deliverance service by then
04:44because i knew my situation was no longer normal i was having nightmares i couldn't sleep because of
04:50the addictions so it was affecting my daily life where i could be aggressive sometimes i was not having
04:58self-control sometimes you feel like you're losing yourself because of these addictions by
05:072022 on youtube again i came across uh god's heart tv that they were having an interactive
05:16prayer program which was quite a relief for me so by then 2022 i joined the interactive prayer by the
05:25grace of god after sending a prayer request it was quite a changing point for me i stopped drinking
05:31altogether i tried after the prayer i took a beer and while crying i was just vomiting i couldn't get
05:40any taste
05:40out of it smoking i just lost the edge i was just feeling nausea so even just to get the
05:48smell because usually
05:49before you would get triggers if you just get the smell of cigarette you would be triggered to to get
05:56yourself one and smoke no matter how you told yourself no i'm not going to do it again but after
06:02the prayers
06:03the edge even just to cry just disappeared i didn't dream of myself smoking again by then everything just
06:11disappeared so that was after the interactive prayer and i've also been praying for a change in my life
06:20and god opened the door sometime in 2022 all these things just happened after this interactive prayer and
06:27god's heart tv because i became accustomed to joining prayers whenever there was a online prayer taking place i would
06:36be joining through youtube i mean youtube got also open another door for me i got a call for to
06:44resubmit my
06:45transfer from the mining sector i moved to agriculture which was one of my desires to be part of agriculture
06:54by september i moved it only took three months then i was already able to start working at the new
07:04office
07:04now and which was quite a change for me because before that i struggled i gave up hope i thought
07:13no this
07:13is it i'm not gonna go anywhere this is i'm stuck here by this exposure of the new job i
07:19i got a desire to
07:21study to pursue my studies after a long time of putting my studies on hold because of the
07:28the life that i was living the background so i decided to try by that time 2025 i decided to
07:37apply for
07:38the admission which didn't get any response by then it took time it took quite a lot of time for
07:46me to
07:46get a response so by this year 2026 january without getting any response uh i was becoming
07:55too much doubtful because of my age also 58 so i thought no let me maybe it's not for me
08:03let me just
08:04leave but by the grace of god i approached the institution and got my admission letter up that
08:10they they they chose to look through it again and gave me the admission letter oh this was also not
08:18so
08:18easy because before i want to do something i have to get this nightmares where i would see myself being
08:25chased and attacked by animals in the dreams usually whenever i got a dream like that i it was a
08:31sign
08:31for me that whatever i'm trying to do was not gonna work out so it was a challenge i was
08:37facing after
08:38getting my admission now it is a face-to-face lesson course that i have to attend and being employed
08:47it is going to be a challenge for me so i decided to send prayer when it was in february
08:53this year
08:532026 to god's heart tv because now i was getting more trust and believing god always for answers
09:00my faith has been lifted because i've been watching a lot of sermons on youtube also following the god's
09:07heart tv channel so my faith has been lifted up i decided no if there's no way out i just
09:13have to
09:14send a prayer request to get god involved in my in my decisions whatever i'm planning to do so i
09:22submitted an application for leave which is a study leave can be granted if successful which was
09:30recommended a full year three-year study leave with a full salary that's what i got after the prayers
09:38which was in february i also applied for a sponsorship to pursue these studies so applying
09:48for sponsorship from the institution that is funding students in the country by april 2026 i got a letter
09:58that concluded that my my sponsorship was rejected i reappeared resubmitted again
10:07the same outcome came it was still rejected and i tried to approach my employer to request for funding
10:15also they only awarded me at 20 which to me was very small due to the balance that i have
10:23to pay and
10:24all that so it was quite stressful for me because now i am left with uh tuition fees and registrations
10:31to
10:31pay without a funding and my applications being rejected i was very anxious at that time i
10:39even put my car for sale but no one came through as time was also going time was also taking
10:48so much
10:49against me and uh we're approaching now uh it was in june when i submitted another prayer request because
10:56now i've i've got no more alternatives by then the car was not getting any potential buyers and i was
11:03not
11:03getting any funding we tried everywhere tried to obtain loans but to no success so that's when i
11:11thought no let me try to resend another prayer request that was in june my god's grace i was
11:17opportune to join prayer by the beginning of july so this year 2026 that door to provision be opened
11:27right now whatever that door represents that is closed in your business in your career in your
11:37finances in your studies i say to that door be opened opened opened in jesus name so i joined this
11:48prayer
11:48i had no more options because it was my last and the registration was due on the 10th of july
11:55joining that prayer by god's grace by that time of the the due date of the registration it was
12:03postponed to the 17th for me i i felt the relief because it's like i still have some extra time
12:10probably somebody may come through a potential buyer because i was getting calls people who were
12:17willing to come and to see the car but none of them showed up so by that time i thought
12:22no this uh
12:23few days will be sufficient for me but then i had no other alternatives my it was only forgotten to
12:31to come through as time went i received a call to resubmit my application again at the student
12:38financial fund where they said all the rejected students must uh resubmit that was not after this
12:45prayer of the first week of july so i submitted hoping on god to come through
12:53as i was hoping on god by the 16th of july and the due date was the 17th i got
13:01a response that i
13:03was awarded full sponsorship for three years which was a big miracle for me i really didn't expect it
13:11because i was on the verge of quitting looking at my age i was like and maybe study is not
13:17for me because
13:17things are not going well the time was also not on my side i didn't really expect god to come
13:24through
13:24in the last minute that he came through so i did my registration to the glory of god i am
13:32now awarded
13:33sponsorship for the next three years i'm doing a bachelor of science in horticulture the nightmares have also
13:42actually i don't get them anymore because most of the time when i get the nightmare i would either
13:47see a man of god come into my dreams i will find the deliverance or most of the time i
13:53will just
13:54i will have some peaceful sleep basically i don't get those nightmares anymore while being attacked that
14:00much i've learned that you know addiction is not a good thing it can take you out of course because
14:08it
14:09it distracts you from your initial plans your dreams and if god is not involved it can make
14:17you lose your life because for me that car accident really it was a turning point for me also i've
14:23seen
14:23many people lose their lives now friends that i've known over the years up to now many people are
14:29still astonished asking me how i quit how i came out of it i just used to share with them
14:35the prayers and
14:37all this some of them i even invite them i give them the the links to join the channel to
14:42watch
14:42testimonies and also send their prayer requests because for me it has changed my life ever since
14:48then up to now i have not had an edge to drink or smoke even though i pass people who
14:53are smoking
14:54i don't even get an edge before it was just the smell of cigarette would put me back no matter
15:00how i
15:01avoid staying away from people who are smoking i had i didn't have control of my spiritual life has
15:07quite uh tremendously improved because now i read the bible i've learned a lot watching sermons i
15:16understand the bible as the man of god used to say we must insert our names where the message is
15:22personal
15:23i've i've i've came to understand the bible more than i used to before because in the past it was
15:29just like reading history like i said we did not believe those miracles to be part of our life it's
15:35like we're very detached from the reality of the bible you would just have the bible there going to
15:41church there was nothing a spark of change taking place but after this learning a lot watching prayers
15:51praying along with the online prayer service it has really brought me more closer sometimes i would
15:57dream i would dream of seeing myself in different spiritual aspects or i would see myself for example
16:05just i would say this is god really talking to me through dreams instead of before where it was just
16:11nightmares but now god communicates to me through dreams also which is an improvement for me my word of
16:17advice is that we should not take it personal the more you understand it is all for the glory of
16:24god
16:25for one to come to that conclusion is only when you introduce god in your life and you will start
16:31to
16:31build a relationship with him we must keep in faith and also faith you must also be patient with god
16:38because god's ways are not our ways he works on his own ways and time
16:47what is the goal of the reward
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