Posted on 04/15/2019 8:32:20 PM PDT by conservative98
Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow, opened up about how he overcame his lifelong battle with addiction on the latest episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News Sunday night.
Lindell was a crack addict who started drinking and got into hard drugs when he was just a teenager. He recalled showing up for his five-year high school reunion drunk and envying his old friends for doing things like going to college and starting families.
All in all, Lindell says, he suffered through about “40 years of addiction” between alcohol, powder cocaine and crack.
All that started to change through the course of multiple events in 2008.
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Video Clip from Life Liberty & Levin:
MyPillow inventor and CEO Mike Lindell speaks out on how he found faith in God and turned his life around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSvEvvqN65E
Saw part of it last night. What I saw was good.
I saw part of the interview last night. Lindell is the real deal.
I heard from an east coast acquaintance who was a volunteer with Samaritans Purse after the Paradise, CA fire that Mike Lindell had donated 10,000 my pillows to survivors.
Good show.
Talk about a tale of triumph over adversity. This man beat all the odds to be where he is today.
Very interesting. Being clean and being with God is not boring. True. Brave guy. Admirable. My Pillow is awesome.
He has a nice cameo in Unplanned, which he helped fund.
People like Mike Lindell, and that God brought them through despite the odds, gives me that hope.
God’s ways may be different than our own desires. Putting complete trust in Him is hard.. sometimes we have to for there is no other way to get through a situation.
My son was not healed from leukemia.. though I know God can.. but God revealed His hand via a vision to my son. What he saw and what was told to him, changed him completely. Peace and no fear. God knows our future and I have to trust He knew what was best for my son. Along with the visit to my son, God gives peace to me who wanted my son to live more than anything. The vision showed him who Jesus is and what Heaven has to offer. It was transforming.. Why would anyone turn away from God when eternity is forever and the offer is the best we will ever get... what stands in the way, is PRIDE. If this life seems hard, dying and not knowing God is worse and it’s forever. Being lost is heart breaking and lonely. Knowing the Lord is having a Friend who can walk us through anything.
I believe in God, I am just not convinced he is a loving God at this point, He might be more like Allah.
My son also had reservations.. if He was a loving God, why didn’t He let me have the career I worked so hard for.. my son wanted it his way. He was a perfect son with pride in his own abilities and when that didn’t work, God was to blame.
He was diagnosed with leukemia and in the midst of it, he had a vision one night. He thought he was dying.. he said life left him, he felt it. Then he saw a bit of Heaven.. his father, friends, brother in law, all had a message for my son.. Pride...man’s own pride. There was the feeling of that peace.. the love in that place.. it changed him in that moment when all the talk had not.
I wanted my son to live more than anything.. If I could have, I would have pleaded with God to leave him here.. and as strange as it is, Heaven is peace without all the trouble and strife. . why do we want to cling to earth... because it is in all human beings.
But I have every right to think God is not a loving God..why did he take my son.. That is where the faith comes in and admitting to our inner self.. we do not know it all and we do not know the future or what we will or or will not go through. God had him via the vision... for my prayer was to make sure my son was prepared for death. and that prayer was answered.
I miss him ... he was my go to son.. he was the best there is... and he’s gone before his time. I trust God knew and did what was best.. and I come to that because there is no other choice.. we serve God or we serve our lost selves.. and that lost self is serving the other side.
It’s okay to get mad at God...He knows and understands.. Just don’t stay that way..we all have to admit we don’t know it all and we make mistakes.. and we are miniscule compared to the God in Heaven.
That old song... What a friend we have in Jesus... and I needed that Friend when the tears flow for the big vacuum he left.
One more thing, I lost my husband suddenly 5 months before getting the phone call from my son telling me to sit down..he had bad news.. and the next 2 years my life went on hold trying to get my son well. Prayers went up all over the country... but God took him. We trust .. we learn we have nothing but that Friend. and He is more than able!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey and your faith.
Did not see the show but at RSBN and other YouTube sites Lindell has spoken to reporters in the past and shared his story. He was at CPAC this year and after it ended joined RSBN at their area and talked some more then was joined by Diamond and Silk.
Also interesting to see CR is still around as a news site. When Mark Levin came out against Trump in 2016, and at one time claimed he was not voting for Trump, people attacked the site so commenting ended. CR was gone after the live web shows merged with The Blaze. As it happened for three years The Blaze site kept revamping. They tried to removed commenting on news articles once in 2015 but were met with resistance. But they went all in October and no longer allow commenting on the site as well just like CR.
I was watching Unplanned and at one point, I wondered if Mike Lindell would have a cameo. Less than five minutes later, there he was.
I tweeted him and said that I hope he gets to drive more loaders and tear down some real Planned Parenthood signs soon.
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