JourneyMan Testimonies
Trevor, 29
Luke (JourneyMen) helped me overcome my life's most hopeless and desperate times. He's always had the time to take out of his day at any time when I needed him most. Without a doubt, he is unlike any other mentor or voice that is spoken in my life.
Matthew, 39
Spirit led breakthroughs, propelled by friendship, and sustained by legitimate heart connection. I have pressed into Jesus in so many ways. I have gone to bible colleges, conferences, schools of supernatural ministry, counseling, Sozo, trained in inner healing, I've even spent months pressing into the Holy Spirit and receiving radical healing. Yet unbeknownst to me there was still accelerated healing attainable. That healing comes through community, friendship, support, and, accountability.
I didn't think I needed much assistance in healing. I had overcome addictions by Holy Spirit's power. I had been healed radically of trauma. I was a completely different person because of what Jesus was doing in my life. I began working with Luke because I am always open for another experience with Holy Spirit, a new transformation, empowerment, and healing. I had no idea what Holy Spirit had planned, there were blinders I didn't even realize I had put up.
Holy Spirit, Luke, and I began to press into areas where I needed even deeper healing. I'll be honest, I was totally okay with where I was at... but God wasn't and Luke saw greater potential of who I needed to be in Christ. I found there were even deeper levels of purity that I needed to step into. Engaging with this I learned so many triggers, traumas, lies, and lustful patterns I was allowing to continue. I was radically healed in Sozo, in prayer, and was blessed abundantly with the accountability and freedom to bring what I was dealing with to my brother Luke. Bringing thoughts, actions, pain, failure; to the light took the shame away and brought in directional prayer and healing.
I also experienced for the first time the ability to be incredibly honest, to even be a bit "hard-headed", and to have a friend return love and desire to know me and stay with me. Luke walked with me to the places the Lord desired for me to be. It was so healing just to have genuine friendship, support, and to be heard. There was something so special about how Luke and I were able to go to Holy Spirit, hear each other, and work towards friendship, partnership, and further healing in my struggles. One particular area exposed was I had patterns of relational sabotage and fear of intimacy. I was unable to see this in my life and the enemy was using it to keep me secluded and offended. Thank Jesus I had a fearless, spirit-filled, friend in Luke to reach out to me, hold me accountable, pray with me, counsel me, and bless me with support and spirit-filled words at just the right time.
I would greatly encourage anyone looking for Spirit-led healing to reach out to Luke. This man is blessed to walk with brothers through life, to support them, and love them. To empower them to the heights the Lord has made them for. This life can get lonely, vulnerability is hard, and purity is so undervalued; but with Holy Spirit and Luke's gift of camaraderie, honesty, and healing there is attainable victory.
Alex, 34
Today I am no longer continually fighting with my thought life or my behavior but am instead walking in connection with the Lord and able to enjoy pursuing my passions and dreams without the hinderance of a sexual struggle.
Jackson, 24
I grew up in a fairly sheltered home, with loving parents, and a desire to serve God from a young age. Growing up with very little validation and often feeling like I didn't measure up to who I was expected to be, I pushed boundaries to feel like I had some agency.
My sexuality was awakened way too young and was explored with some other guys who also didn't understand anything about it. I knew it was wrong but didn't talk to anyone about it. Several years later, I discovered porn, ushering in over a decade of addiction that I couldn't seem to conquer, no matter how much willpower I mustered up.
Along the way, I convinced myself I was simply a lone wolf, and close friendships weren't worth it because they always seemed to fail regardless of how much effort I'd put in.
Through a recommendation from a friend, I got in contact with Luke at JourneyMen. With the help of his insight and the leading of the Spirit, I've become much more secure in who God says I am; I no longer feel the need for others to validate me,
I'm no longer in bondage to porn, and I have developed a much healthier view of sexuality. With that healing has come an excitement for marriage. I've taken my shame to the cross and no longer live in condemnation. The future looks brighter than it's ever been. I've known for years that restoration is possible and am living proof that bondage is not a life sentence.
