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Wife Overcoming Alcoholism and e5 Man Overcoming Pornography

I do want to say that I have really benefited so much from the fast and more recently the special forces fast. Your site is challenging and encouraging, and I think you have been right on top of the truth that we all need to hear in each of the monthly reminders. So keep it up!, you are doing great. E5 men are having a great effect all around the Country. God is definitely using your ministry to help many, many families.

I wanted to tell you my personal story of thanks and of how the E5men fast has helped my family... My wife and I home school our children, use Natural Family Planning (NFP) and have a growing faith together and a good marriage. Of course we have our problems and our issues. We are all sinners. We have constantly tried to get closer to God's will for us but progress seemed to be very slow for a while. I had been doing the E5 fast for her for about a year. I had kind of gone back and forth on really focusing on it some months and other months I would not really have my heart into the fast. I guess I'm still learning and growing. One of our issues was my wife's drinking. It had been getting worse without my knowing it. She said that she was finally able to call AA one Wed night that I had fasted for her.. She said she felt like she had just enough extra strength, from my fast, to make the first call. That was when I joined the special forces. She now has 2 + months of sobriety. The other very tangible effect in our lives as a result of the fast has been my own issues with lust and pornography. In the past few months I have really learned for the first time ever that my spirit actually is in fact stronger than my flesh - thanks in no small part to the weekly fast. I remember in one of your early messages you said something like this is a great deal for guys who are always wanting to "do" something. It is hard to really grow when it is just in your head and mind. This has been a very concrete thing that I can "do" that has really helped my faith.

So, your ideas and efforts have changed my family's life for the better. I always tell my friends about the fast when ever I get a chance.

Thank you so much, I really appreciate all you have done and I know my wife does as well.

Your Brother In Christ,

E5 Man, USA