Jesus is real. He is risen and alive to connect us home to our Father in heaven. So, why was he hanging on the cross? Enjoy a brief visit with Fruit of the Vine podcast hosts Andrea and Ann Marie from the Charisma Podcast Network. Learn the answers to the mystery Ann Marie spent her youth searching for arriving ultimately at salvation in Christ.

Ann Marie Kelly was brought up in a religious home. That should have given a young, Catholic Ann Marie enough of a solid foundation to steer clear of adolescent risks. But having been born to somewhat older parents, combined with peer influences that opened doors to dangerous distractions, she drifted down an unhealthy path. Unsavory habits including drug use and dabbling in occultism clouded the “good Catholic girl's" life from the end of grade school up through her early twenties. By the end of her teens, she was married with two children.

A chance remark during a conversation with her future sister-in-law opened Ann Marie’s eyes to reality of the presence of Jesus. She finally discovered she could go directly to God through Jesus instead of having to remain trapped beholden to mortal man in the person of a church priest. Never again would Ann Marie be left completely vulnerable to spiritual attacks from fellow astro-plain practitioners. God gave her revelation that all her seeking through dark spirits and drugs had been ever-deeper bondage to sin—but Jesus is the key that unlocks our prisoner’s chains and releases us to eternal freedom.