THE POETRY OF ADDICTION
“ONE MAN’S JOURNEY INTO THE CAPTIVITY, DARKNESS AND HELL OF CRACK COCAINE ADDICTION AND DELIVERANCE BACK TO HIS GOD – JESUS CHRIST“
Michael Bowen grew up in Dallas, Texas in the 1980’s and appeared to have it all with good looks, a great education, family wealth and who had established himself as a star college football player and drafted to play football professionally in 1991. With the world at his fingertips, he went in search of building a successful life only to find himself becoming addicted to crack cocaine which eventually led him to prison. Read about Michael’s deliverance from drug addiction and his radical transformation from being a drug addicted criminal, to becoming an International Evangelist helping drug addicted former child soldiers in Africa, be delivered out of their own bondage to drugs through Jesus Christ.
The Poetry of Addiction is an in-depth look into how addiction was introduced into my life and how it seeded itself in my soul early on. As an unsuspecting, naïve, and unprepared teenager experimenting with alcohol and drugs, I believed the lie that these friends could be counted on and trusted to provide harmless fun and excitement. I believe they could be the source of never-ending good times with no negative side effects or ill consequences. Let the good times roll and the party never stop! And that was the bait and addiction was the trap!
This book is a deep dive into the profound journey of my tragic descent into the wickedness of addiction. It is a commentary describing and detailing the unbelievable destruction this wicked weapon of annihilation caused in every area and relationship in my life. Addiction, with its razor-sharp stinging hooks, wrapped itself around me and planted itself deep into my flesh and soul and refused to let go. I was hooked. I was trapped. Read about my journey into the darkness and the shadow of death, and my final encounter with the devil himself when he asked me for my soul!
The Poetry of Addiction is my witness and testimony to all that when Jesus sets you free, you are free indeed. I know this as my truth, when an addict surrenders all to the Lord, then and only then can the addict, through the Power of the Holy Spirit and by the Authority in the Name of Jesus Christ, finally step into Victory over all addictions, just as Jesus Christ has claimed Victory over all things.
Read this book and if you can relate to any one part of it, then you too can live in victory over any addiction or difficulty that has you locked in bondage, keeping you from being your very best and living a life of freedom and prosperity. In my Victory, only found in Jesus Christ, the Lord gave me the mission and calling of my life, which is to preach to all who will listen, the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the unveiling of the lie of addiction so others too can be made free.