If you made it to the end of that video, I don’t think that’s an accident.

Maybe you watched it because you’re hurting. Maybe you’re carrying something you haven’t told anyone about, a darkness, a weight, a secret you’ve been living with for a long time. Maybe, like me, you believe in God somewhere deep down, but you’ve never fully trusted Him. Maybe life has handed you enough pain that you stopped believing He was good.

I get it. I lived there.

I was a teenager standing on a pier on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, holding everything wrong about my life in my hand, convinced I wasn’t worth saving. And I threw it all in.

What happened next, I can’t fully explain. In one moment, I was suffocating. In the next, I could breathe.

That’s not a metaphor. That’s what happened to me.

If you’re on this site right now, something in that story stirred you. Maybe you’re ready. Not because you have it all figured out. Not because you’ve cleaned yourself up. But because you’re done carrying it alone.

If that’s you — this is for you. Don’t just read it. Mean every word.

“Lord Jesus, I come to You just as I am. I know that I am a sinner, and I cannot save myself. I believe that You are the Son of God — that You died on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins, and that God raised You from the dead. I turn from my old life right now. I repent. I surrender. I receive You as my Lord and my Savior. Forgive me of my sins and make me new. I give You my life — all of it. I am Yours.”

Amen.

If you just prayed that and meant it, something just happened that heaven is celebrating right now (Luke 15:7). You are not the same person you were sixty seconds ago.

Now take the next step — don’t keep this to yourself. Tell someone. Find a Bible-believing church. Get baptized. 

Start following Jesus one day at a time. Watch this video. And reach out to us. We want to hear from you.

You are not too far gone. I was proof of that at 16.

Dustan Elliot Stanley

“He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.” — Psalm 40:2