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His Mother Was on Drugs at One Point

Margaret Houghton went on a downward spiral while eight months pregnant with Israel. She split from his father, was far from home, and found herself struggling with a drug addiction. The words of a concerned Christian helped her to find God and turn her life around – per Israel’s account to the Christian Broadcasting Network:

“God sovereignly knew what was going on and made it such that this lady came up to her out of the blue and said, ‘I don’t know you, and I don’t want to give you a hard time, but I was driving by and I really felt that I needed to come tell you Jesus loves you. You’re not forgotten. You did the right thing. It’s going to be all right.’

Those words of life were so powerful to her and so revolutionary to her that she got on her knees on the street corner on Carlsbad Avenue, out of San Diego, and gave her life to the Lord. I’m here today because of that woman’s faithfulness to God to share the gospel with my mother.”