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Mother’s Prayer for Drug Addicted Son Has Big Impact

Logan Lambert suffered from depression and addiction for years. His mother, who became a Christian, prayed for her son to be set free of addiction and receive God’s love. Praying with a 700 Club prayer partner, Logan is transformed. Read Transcript


- I was just depressed.

I was hopeless and I getinto this relationship

with this girl and we'retogether for a while.

- [Narrator] LoganLambert had just graduated

from high school in 2010

when he lost what he believedwas the love of his life.

- We break up and it, I was devastated.

You know, I was wanting to die.

I was suicidal.

- [Narrator] It wasn't the first time

Logan felt the sting of rejection.

It had started when he was 10

and his single mom started drinking

and spending more time with their friends.

Before that she was a doting mom

who even took her kids to church.

- Just wanting that loving relationship

that I had when I was younger with her.

I remember, you know, as a kid, you know,

upset and hurt my mom'shanging with the neighbors,

drinking and wantingto spend time with her

and things like that.

- [Narrator] So Logansought other friendships

that landed him constantly in trouble.

Soon he started smokingweed and skipping school.

- Being around some other kids, accepted,

wanting to be cool,wanting to fit in like,

hey, I got some, you know, friends now.

- [Narrator] In highschool he met the girl

who made him feel loved.

Yet after they broke up,things drastically changed.

- I really went into a dark place

and really started tofill that void with drugs.

I hated life.

I felt like absolutelyworthless that I've ruined life.

I didn't want to live. I was so depressed.

- [Narrator] Before long Loganwas addicted to painkillers

and heroin.

Over the next four years,

he drifted aimlessly livingon the streets of Baltimore.

In that time he triedfive different rehabs.

Still, he always went back to drugs.

- Even though I got ondrugs, I still was depressed.

I still was, you know, empty.

I still didn't feel any hope.

- [Narrator] Then in 2014,

Logan was arrested andsentenced to 14 months in jail

for attempting to rob a gas station.

- Now I got to face the consequences.

I mean, this isn'tsomething you can just brush

under the rug and forget about it.

You know, this is serious.

And I was scared.

- [Narrator] Around that time, his mom,

Barbara, turned her life over to God.

She prayed often for her sonand even sent him letters

and a bible while he was in jail.

- I can just rememberlaying awake at night,

praying so deep,

"God, please keep my baby safe."

- [Narrator] Logan, however,

was only interested in one thing.

- I tried to do everything that I could.

I tried to live as best asI could, but in my mind,

I always thought, man,

I can't wait to get out of here

'cause I'm gonna get high, you know.

- [Narrator] Which is exactly what he did

a few months after his releasefrom jail in July of 2015.

Caught violating his parole,

Logan was sent to ayear-long recovery program.

There, he met a fellow addict, Donna.

After completing the program,

they moved in together and it wasn't long

before they were shooting heroin.

Then Donna got pregnant.

- My prayers at that timefor Donna and Logan was,

"Lord, just make yourselfknown to them to the fullest.

Wake 'em up, shake 'em, Lord,

and break the desiresof the drug addiction."

- [Narrator] Despite Donna's drug use,

their daughter was bornhealthy in October 2017.

However, social workersplanned to take the child away

until they struck adeal that allowed Logan,

Donna and the baby to live with Barbara

under her supervision.

- She would witness to us all those times

and was praying for us.

And God started to really draw me.

- [Narrator] With detox treatment,

Logan had been weaned offof heroin by February 2018.

However, without the drugs,

his depression returned.

A week later,

he was again havingthoughts of taking his life.

Finally, Logan cried out to God.

- I just said, "Jesus,if you're real, show me.

Just show me."

Just then Logan heard a voice

coming from the TV in another room.

The 700 Club was on and someone said,

"If you need prayer, dial this number."

So he did.

- Lady answers the phone.

I said, "I'm hopeless.

I'm depressed. I'm empty, I'm broken.

My daughter's downstairs.

I wanna die. I just wannaknow if Jesus is real.

Would you please pray for me?"

I don't remember what she prayed at all,

but when I hung the phone up,

God melted me to my bedroom floor.

And all I'm saying is, "God, forgive me.

Forgive me for not believing.

Forgive me for not believing.

You're real, you're real, you're real."

I met Jesus Christ inmy bedroom that morning

and everything changed.

You know, that pain, that brokenness,

that hopelessness, that void

that I was trying to fillmy whole entire life.

It was filled.

- [Narrator] Not long after that,

Donna also got clean andsurrendered her life to Jesus.

Then on March 22nd, 2018,she and Logan married.

- God did answer that prayer

that I prayed with them tobecome the Christian parents.

And now they could raise their children

knowing Jesus as well.

- I've never had one desireat all to ever get high.

The suicidal thoughts, thedepression, the burden,

the brokenness, it was gone.

It was like, God, you know,

liberated my soul and lifted it off of me.

And I mean, I felt free.

- [Narrator] Today,Logan is fully employed

and raising a happy family.

A few times a week, he's backon the streets of Baltimore.

However, these days he'snot looking for drugs.

He and Donna are sharingthe unconditional love

they found in a relationship with Jesus.

No matter how bound up in sin you are,

no matter if you're suicidal,empty, depressed, broken,

Jesus Christ can set you free.

We wanna give people hope that,

hey look, Jesus Christ is real.

He's alive.

He saved us and he can save them as well.

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