Taremwa Wilberforce Mutanda was introduced to alcohol at 13, the year was 1993.
He met his wife, with whom they have two children, at a time he was drowning further into heavy drinking, a habit he deep down knew was destroying his life but was too weak to give up on.
He was also employed to worked in Iraq, then to Jordan and finally in Dubai were he continued to drink himself silly. This eventually had to cost him, as Jubilee Christian Life Church International reports.
By 2012, he had fallen out with his family. This he says drew him more and more into drinking, hopping from one bar to another lifelessly.
All the money he earned was spent on booze and expensive hard liquor brands.
“I lost my job and was deported back to Uganda with nothing but the clothes I was wearing then.” Wilberforce said last week, as he shared his story during a weekly service of Prayer, Fasting and Miracles at Jubilee Christian Life Church International.
Wilberforce picked up confidence to disclosure his struggle with alcohol when the Church founder and senior Pastor Ap. Wilson Kulaba got into a bit of a dialogue with him and insisted, by the prompting of God, that he needed to receive Christ as his personal Lord and savior.
How he found his way to church; as narrated, he left home early morning and got to a bar near his residence. Later moving from one bar to another, he drowned himself in beer and whiskey however, in all this, he felt that he had to be in church.
When an altar-call was made for those who wanted to get born again at the end of the Service, he was among they that rose up but, latter declined to confess Christ saying he needed to first go think about it and would return the coming Sunday after having decided.
This decision however took a u-turn when he received a call later during the service that his cousin with whom he lives, had got an accident in his (Talemwa’s) very own car.
Talemwa says that he had refused to drive this car following a near-accident experience he had when it suddenly lost it’s brakes in the middle of a very busy road.
When he survived that, he immediately decided not to drive it again and asked that no one else does.
By the Power of God, with tears running down his face, he confessed his sins in-front of the church congregation, asked to be prayed for so he could give up drinking. He also yearned to be lead to Christ immediately.
While God’s Word states clearly that drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God, it also records that many were delivered from drunkenness and debauchery. “And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
Having received Christ as his personal Lord and Saviour, Talemwa says that he wants to start life afresh, drop the alcoholism habit running among several members in his entire family, and restore his relationship with the wife and children.
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