Man I just about went into the “ugly cry,” as Oprah calls it, this morning as I listened to Helen’s Testimony (Live).

Helen Baylor’s Testimony about Cocaine and Being Set Free

“But I had a praying grandmother,” Helen sings while alternating on speaking truthfully about her grandmother praying for her and telling little 9-year-old Helen that God was going to use her someday.

“I didn’t know what she meant,” Helen said, “but I liked the sound of it.”

Continuing Helen’s Testimony, she says that her family moved to Los Angeles when she was young, and her parents spent every weekend in the clubs — they didn’t know Jesus.

So Helen was 12 years old in the night clubs.

From marijuana to Heat Wave to cocaine…

Helen started singing and opening up for some great singers. She worked with The Captain and Tenille and others, including the group Heat Wave.

Her future husband worked for Heat Wave, and was also a cocaine dealer.

“I did everything I was big and bad and bold enough to do,” Helen said, talking about how smoking weed turned into using pills to get up and pills to go to sleep.

Then came cocaine.

It got so bad, once she lost all her bodily functioning and was about to die.

“Devil, you don’t have me no more…”

That’s the line Helen sang that made me cry then and makes me cry as I type this.

Just like Satan had Helen, once he had me wrapped up in sin. Sex, drugs and bad stuff.

Helen said her grandmother had been fasting and praying for two weeks at the point where she nearly died — and that’s the time that God saved her life and she truly turned it over to Him.

That Heat Wave cocaine dealer was saved, too, and he became her husband.

Bless God for praying grandmothers like mine and Helen’s grandmothers.

And I love it when Christians tell our real testimonies…