Grace Restoration home has helped me in many ways but most importantly it helped me to communicate and have a relationship with my Heavenly Father. This was very difficult for me to navigate because growing up I never had a father figure in my life. Growing up around a drug addicted, alcoholic, womanizer, and mostly absentee father I vowed never to be like him but found myself in the same boat as an adult. Grace Restoration has opened my eyes to the darkness, how there is a battle with the enemy, and showed me how I was once a slave to sin myself.

I found out about GRH from my wife who was meeting with Tammy weekly and at first I thought it was a waste of time. Then I felt that God was directing me to go meet with her for myself. I quickly learned that God wanted me to be healed. Before going to meet with Tammy I was in a place of confusion but slowly each week I was realizing that I had a lot of hurts, traumas, mind sets and my heart was hardened. I believed lies from the enemy that I would have to call myself an alcoholic and attend AA meeting for the rest of my life. I was believing the lies that I was bipolar and needed medications and cycled through many different ones that never seemed to work. I previously thought that my yearnings for lustful things and pornography was okay. But after my sessions each week I slowly began to see how the enemy had deceived me in all of these areas. I learned that I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a son of a Holy God and I didn’t have call myself a title that didn’t belong to me. I no longer have to attend AA meetings which I was going to a few times a week. I leaned on my heavenly Father instead. I learned that no substance on this earth can fill the void that I previously felt. I soon realized that I was not bipolar as previously diagnosed, I no longer suffer from depression or need medication. As for the lust I learned through sessions to look at women differently. I no longer see them as an object, I see them as someones wife, sister, mom, as God’s child. My relationship with my wife has also drastically improved. There is trust where there once was none and that makes me happy that she feels secure and safe with me.

I hope my testimony can help others to know that with God nothing is impossible. He can heal and restore from the inside out. I’m grateful and blessed that I went and learned about healing and forgiveness. I hope that everyone else can experience this because I would have been selling myself short if I didn’t take advantage of this opportunity.

Peter Lopez