"I'm convinced I killed myself during that time and Jesus resurrected me, based on praying parents and prophecy," Brandon Henderson tells Charisma News.

How did a pastor's son who was raised in church and believed in Christ end up as a statistic, part of an epidemic eating away at the land of the free?

Last week, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis an active national emergency.

"The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I am saying, officially, right now, it is an emergency. It's a national emergency," Trump says. "We're going to spend a lot of time, a lot of effort and a lot of money on the opioid crisis. It is a serious problem the likes of which we have never had."

For parents like Lesa Henderson, the announcement comes as welcome news.

Lesa, an author, speaker, filmmaker and pastor, says she watched her son tortured at the hands of something that initially came from his doctor.

"The biggest deception to me is because it's prescribed," Lesa tells Charisma News. "[People think] it's prescribed, so therefore it's OK ... It's so strong and so easy to begin to abuse and become addicted to. And because it's prescribed, they would look at my son because, OK, he was using stuff finally that wasn't prescribed, just off the streets intravenously, but not realizing that it spawned from the prescription. Honestly when people are on this opiate, you try to take them off, they'll crawl across glass on their hands and knees to get it."

It started simply enough, with a few prescription painkillers from his doctor for back pain in 2008, though Brandon says he started experimenting with softer drugs like pot long before that. Soon, Brandon traveled from his Jacksonville home to Miami, hopping off the interstate to stop at pill shops to stock up.

When insurance for these medications runs out, addicts like Brandon turn to heroin because it's cheaper and easier to come by on the streets.

Though he cried out to God for intervention, he says he felt like the Lord was far away.

But God continued to speak through Brandon's parents.

After shooting up, Brandon would call his father, who would answer the phone every time with "Man of God, how are you?"

"Dad said, 'You will live and not die,' and would stand and declare works of the Lord. He would call me, 'man of God,' and I'd be like 'Are you kidding me? Do you know what I just did? There was an offense there, but something in my heart longed for that, him calling that out in me."

Brandon credits these prophetic words for saving his life.

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