...“I tried to get help and confided in my doctor who referred me to Maudsley Hospital for weekly counselling. I talked to my counsellor but felt I was getting nowhere as no solution was offered… so I paid for another counsellor at £40 an hour. The result? She was just telling me what I already knew and seeing I wasn’t getting anywhere, I got really depressed. I think this was my worst moment. I thought there was just no hope.” Around this time however, a City News was posted through Robin’s letterbox and interested by the testimonies, he read it a few times.

“There was a story in the paper of someone who was suicidal and it described exactly how I was feeling so I had no doubts about going along to talk to someone. On my first visit, I spoke to the pastor and told him everything I was going through. I wanted him to understand how bad I felt. From then, I started attending every week.

Healing

“On attending regularly, I felt better and better. I started feeling different and that something good was drawing me in. Every time I went, I felt like the pastor was talking to me. I felt understood. I felt a connection. It was how I felt that kept bringing me back to church. There wasn’t a time where I contemplated not coming or giving up. “I soon noticed that the depression started to leave and I gradually stopped the drugs. I didn’t need them anymore. I was changing inside. I even found it easy to cut myself off from my old friends.

“As to what happened at home during my childhood, this was becoming a distant memory. It was like I was being healed from within. I don’t even think about that time anymore. I feel great and my whole mental attitude has changed. In the past, I would always be thinking of crazy things such as suicide, but no more.

“My financial life also moved forward as I learned in the UCKG how to become prosperous. My business has grown and I recently bought my own flat as well as a nice Mercedes van, and have two people working for me. Before, my pocket was always empty but not anymore.”

And what about Robin’s love life? Any developments there? “I’m working on that,” Robin chuckles. “I felt it was important to work on myself, inside, and get rid of the trust issues with women. So, I’ve been attending the UCKG’s love life meetings and have been progressing well. I’m going to make sure that I don’t mess up a future relationship and I feel really confident, as this time, God is in control.”

Robin has one major frustration though, “When I look at others, I get frustrated when they don’t try God as I did. That’s why I tell people, ‘Help is there! God is REAL and miracles happen. Give Him a try.”

Robin Hurkoo