Testimony of Healing December 31, 2012 Issue

Healed of smoking addiction

Richard Sevaly

For more than a decade, I was a cigarette smoker and tried several times to quit without lasting success.

My complete healing came on a Sunday night at the end of the winter holiday break, before I returned to my job as a school vice principal. Though I’d been praying off and on for months, desiring to be rid of the addiction to tobacco, I had just recently renewed my efforts by praying to better understand and know my true spiritual selfhood as the man of God’s creating. I strove to see that smoking tobacco didn’t define or own me. 

That night, I was reading a Sentinel and smoking in bed. As I came to the end of an article, and to a cigarette as well, I took one final puff and knew with all my heart that this would be the last time I’d ever smoke. And this proved to be true. 

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