For ten years Shagan had been enslaved to drugs and a life of crime. He feels like it was ten years of his life that simply went to waste. He describes himself as being broken from the inside out.

He was a menace to society and always up to no good, at home and on the streets. Shagan feels that his decisions during the ten years are what caused so many people to be broken because of the choices he made. He has been actively involved in crime and dealt drugs.

His past has made him insecure about his identity and made him distrustful. His father committed suicide in the year that he was born, which made him feel empty and caused him to seek approval by various people. Shagan was not happy with the person he became.

He realized that he was alienating the people who loved him. Everyone who was once there had finally given up and he was left alone. Being in and out of jail cells forced him to be alone with just his thoughts.

He remembers trying to end his life many times but fortunately God had sent a light in his path and blessed him with a son. Since the birth of his son he has found a reason to be a better person, by leading by example.

Shagan is also a proud graduate of the Victory Home where he got delivered from his addictions. He has been saved for nearly a year and remains grateful to God.

Shagan uses his gratitude to God, by serving in the church. “Put your faith and your trust in God, He will never leave you nor will He forsake you. God always makes a way.

For He is the way, the truth, and the light. If we put our faith and trust in God, He will meet us at our point of need. If you find yourself in the same situation, the same circumstances, if you are broken within you and know that you have tried everything but nothing seems to be working.

I want you to give God a try and to see what God can do in your life. God really restored me; He has redeemed me, and He has provided me with my every need. I just want us to believe and trust that there is hope for the future and faith for the present.

God has never left me, nor has He forsaken me. He is the way, the truth, and the light. I just want to encourage each one out there to pray with whatever you are facing and whatever you are going through, go on your knees and give it all to God.

God wants us to cast all our burdens unto him that He will meet us at our point of need. As our faces differ so do our needs. Let us give it all unto God and I give God all the honor and all the glory for what he has done in my life and I want to encourage someone out there to trust Him.

God bless - thank you.”

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