The Bible says in Psalm 113:7-8, that "He (God) raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people." You who are chained up in drugs, in crime, and all the curses of this world, I want to talk to you about who delivered me from all these curses. I was lost for many years in drugs, crimes, and all the curses of this world; but now, I don't need any more drugs because I have Christ in my heart.

At the age of 11 years I was lost, an alcoholic, and a drug addict. My mother was 26 years of age and lived in prostitution day and night. I remember when I was 12 years old I was left alone on the street in the Guatemalan Republic because my mother went to jail. She stabbed a man in a bar, and he lost his eye. Together with another woman my mother was senteced to five years in prison without parole.

Now I have the Lord Jesus in my heart and the sin has disappeared from my life, and the Holy light of Jesus shines. Today in 1996 I praise and glorify Christ because He has brought peace to my life in abundance. My mother who was lost in prostitution, she now too glorifies Jesus, the Son of God. I want to tell you that no matter where you are, no matter what sin you may have committed, if you cry out to Jesus with all your heart, He will listen to you and will take you away from drugs, away from crime, and the slavery of sin.

Beloved friends, young man, young woman, you that have read these lines, if you haven't made your decision for Christ, this moment, I invite you to come to His feet. God wants to save you and move you to the Kingdom of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to liberate you from the slavery of sin and give you life and life in abundance. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me (Revelation 3:20)."

(Carlos is from the Republic of El Salvador and in 1996 when this testimony was written he was in a federal prison in Canada.)