Breath of Life Testimony: Peter

My mentor is John Warren. I started smoking when I was 12. My parents didn't allow it, but I felt myself a real guy as I did it. I didn't think of the possibility that it could be a sin, because my father smoked and many others in church, too. The first years I just smoked now and then, but from that I was 15, I smoked more and more and, when I was 18, I smoked almost 40 cigarettes a day. I tried to quit sometimes but I couldn't stay clean for long. Now two years ago, I tried it for the last time and it didn't work out again, so I said to myself, "I'll never be able to stop." And I said to my wife, "You have to learn to live with it," although we were expecting a child and everybody knew how much damage it could bring to a young baby. I wasn't willing to listen to anybody who would say that I shouldn't smoke that much. Although I was a Christian I didn't want anyone to say that I may not smoke because my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. I was laughing about that sort of things. Meanwhile, I was in other habitual sin, too. I was addicted to pornography and self-gratification, but God made me free from that through the course "The Way of Purity" in the Setting Captives Free site, too. And as I was moving on in that course, I realized that smoking so much couldn't be pleasing to God. In fact, it was a sin, because I didn't drink from the Living Water, but still had my own well. As I realized that, I planned to stop smoking after finishing that course and start this course. I couldn't actually believe that Jesus would fulfill all my needs as I stopped smoking, so I prayed a lot, "Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief." And the Lord did, He made me trust on Him. He made me believe that He was going to set me free. And He made me free. I'm now free from smoking for more that two months, and it wasnt even that hard, because the Lord was with me. Only when I thought that I could do it for a day or an evening in my own power, I was getting weak, but when I flee to Jesus, He gave me the power again. God did some great things in my life. He made me free from my pornography addiction, self-gratification and from smoking. It is great to live in freedom now. I don't even want to be a slave any more of smoking. Because that is what I was: a slave, but God bought me free, with a price, His life and His love. And that is what makes it able for me to live.