25/02/2024
My name is Brandon Young, and I am 38 years old at the time of the writing of this testimony. I am from a small town in North Carolina called Burnsville. I was raised right and went to church and was saved at a relatively early age. I never was a partier when I was in school, I remained in church, and didn’t stray much from the straight and narrow. I played football and maintained better than average grades in most subjects. I was always big hearted. A little while after I graduated high school, I joined the fire department and local rescue squad, got my EMT and around this time I also fell hard for a gal, and when I say fell hard, I mean fell hard. I felt that she was my everything, I got saved at her church, however I put her on a pedestal even above God. We were together around 3 and a half years, and I caught her with another guy, and that devastated me. I tried to stay in church and keep my faith, however, I was bitter. I went to church one day around 3 months or so after the breakup and was floored when I walked into the sanctuary and saw her sitting next to another guy that went to the same church. You could say that this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. At this point in time my addiction really got out of hand, and my life started spinning out of control. I was still a hard worker but most every night I was drinking pretty much uncontrollably. I was a functioning alcoholic, and this started around 2008 or so. Fast forward to 2017 and things were still the same, except at this point in time I had gotten my CDL several years before and was a relatively experienced trucker. I never trucked while drinking, but on down time it was a normal thing. Everything was an excuse to drink, whether I was bored, or there was a family get together, or I had worked hard, or was angry or whatever. Always an excuse to drink. I never really did anything substance wise aside from drinking because it was more of a problem than I could handle, without adding to it. I got a job as a local 911 dispatcher and because of my long history of being in the emergency services, I excelled relatively quickly. God had provided me with both my dream jobs; however I had strayed far away from him years before. In 2021 I ended up having to resign from dispatch because of drinking and going to a recovery center that wasn’t faith based, and quit drinking for over a year, and was rehired into dispatch, but allowed the devil back in soon after. The first of 2023 I was charged with DUI and this time, I lost BOTH my dream jobs once again, because I lost my license. however, the bible says that we serve a god of restoration. I have been in a faith based recovery for the last 9 months, and at the time of this writing, God has been working on, and through me, and I have been able to be a FIRST RESPONDER FOR CHRIST! He has delivered me from the demon of alcohol, is restoring my family, and I am so very excited to see what else he is in the process of restoring. He is the only way!
