Bishop Macedo,

Attending your book launch here in my town was a special moment for me (an English translation is presently being worked on).

During the two hours I waited in line to buy the book, I thought about how far the Lord Jesus had brought me. Something spoke to me very strongly.

At the age of 15 I plunged into the terrifying world of drugs. I started off with heavy marijuana use and shortly thereafter began to sniff cocaine.

When I turned 18 my addictions threw me head first into the world of crime.

Like any addict, I did anything to get drugs, including stealing and dealing drugs.

I’d stay up all night, wandering back and forth on the street, fighting to support my habit.

What horrible times! I spent everything I had on every kind of drug.

I struggled to hide my wrecked life, but then my mother found half a kilo of cocaine and one kilo of marijuana in my wardrobe, and I tried to commit suicide.

I was admitted to two separate rehab facilities for treatment, but nothing could stop me.

It all ended when I found God at the Universal Church, after an intense battle for my deliverance. I am truly happy and free today. I have peace that no drug was able to give me.

Bishop, I went to the launch of your biography and decided to buy as many books as I could with money that I would spend on drugs in the old days.

I bought 25 copies of “Nothing to Lose” to give to my family and friends, many still held hostage by cursed addictions.

I know your testimony and faith will help them find the same salvation that I found through the compassion of the Lord Jesus.

Thank you for the opportunity to express these things! The book is SO powerful!

Marcos Vinicius de Oliveira – 23 years old – Londrina, Parana, Brazil