“I had been doing drugs and alcohol since the 7th grade. When I was 20 years old I was pretty steeped in cocaine. I was dealing cocaine to get free cocaine. I was living in my parent’s basement, dealing drugs from their house. I realized the jeopardy I was putting my family in, it broke me. I was either going to kill myself or kill somebody else. I needed to leave. In January 1987 I looked into the sky, I was smoking a cigarette. I said, Lord if you can hang those stars in the sky and if you can have the moon close enough that it doesn’t crush me and far enough that I don’t float away because of the gravitational pull that it creates; If you can hold all of this together, there is no way in the world that my addiction can be to much for you. I’m done trying, God, I’m done. I put out my cigarette and I said “God deliver me” and He did. I gave everything to the church. I fell so deeply in love with Jesus. I had to serve Him. My name is Steve and I surrender.”