By the age of 9, he had devised a way to escape. He quickly became a street smart, dangerous, young man. Navigating the mean streets of St. Louis, he thought he was one step closer to leaving his past behind. Then a college football scholarship gave him the ticket out. As an athlete, his fearless and aggressive play made him a star. His life had taken a turn for the better. Somehow his new found success couldn?t take the pain away. A lingering discouragement and despair left him feeling empty. Experimenting with drugs, he found a way to dull the pain. But before long his casual use had become a habit. And the habit had become a dangerous addiction.

Life as a Drug Dealer
Eventually he began selling drugs to finance his habit. That decision propelled him into the volatile world of drug lords. Before long he was living in Medelin, Columbia and buying and selling drugs.

A Near Fatal Drug Overdose
One day, while alone in his house in Columbia, he accidentally overdosed on cocaine, plunging a needle in his veins twelve times before losing consciousness. As his lay there alone, his life slipping away, he became acutely aware that he was closer to death than he had ever been. He knew he didn?t want to die. And somehow, someway he was aware that there was a God who could help him.

Today, he recalls the experience of that day. "Before my overdose, I would have thought I was an atheist. But as I lay dying, I just couldn't help calling out to God from the depths of my soul and I said, "God, please don't let me die without finding happiness." In that moment, I just knew I would live, and that I had been saved by the grace of this unknown God."

A Search for God delivered him from death, he knew nothing about Him. He started his search to find God by taking hallucinogenic drugs and experimenting with exotic religious experiences.

Although he knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that God had authentic relationship he was seeking with God the Father, still eluded him. He soon moved to a farm in a rural area of Missouri, and then on to Flagstaff, Arizona.

Finding God
After he had settled in, a friend who lived across the street invited him to go to church. Gaunt, thin, and with needle marks showing up and down his arms, he showed up the next Sunday. He was barefoot and bearded. He had dirty hair that stretched down to his waist. He was dressed in a poncho and had on long feather earrings.

It wasn?t how he looked that day, but what he heard. When he listened to the testimonies about Jesus, something began to stir in his heart. For the first time in his life, he knew he was hearing the truth about God. He wanted to know more about this God who had saved his life in Columbia. And he wanted to learn about Jesus His Son. When the Pastor invited people to come forward to receive Jesus as their Savior, he found himself kneeling at the altar. He remember taking that walk down the aisle. He didn?t know how he had gotten there, but he was ready to pray. As he prayed to God for the first time, he felt a tremendous weight come off him. All the pain, discouragement, despair, loneliness and depravity of his past suddenly left him.

Becoming an Ex-Addict
Later that day, when he returned home, he realized that he longer wanted to use drugs. Recalling that moment he said, "I felt so profoundly happy and so complete. I was truly high on Jesus and I realized that I no longer needed or wanted drugs." The next day he waited for the cravings to come back. They didn?t. Weeks, months passed, but still he had no desire to use drugs. The cravings never came back. He had been completely and totally set free. Today, more than 30 years later he describes the experience of freedom this way. "Drug addicts go through treatment to get clean and they are taught to think of themselves as recovering addicts. I am not a "recovering addict." "I am an ex-addict." By the power of God, I became a new person, completely set free from drugs."

Called to Serve God
Shortly after he experienced being set free from drugs, he knew he wanted to commit his life to serving God. Before long, he became a pastor, married and started a family. While he was quickly gaining the respect and admiration of others in the ministry and elsewhere, he was losing respect for himself. A dark secret haunted him. A secret he hadn?t shared with anyone. He had uncontrollable outbursts of anger.

Understanding Generational Curses
Even though God had delivered him completely from drug addiction, he was plagued by moments of rage and unexpected outbursts. During these times he would do terrible things to his wife and terrify his children. After each violent episode he would tearfully apologize and beg his wife for forgiveness. He would promise never to lose his temper again. But sooner or later his anger would erupt again. But during one painful and extremely violent outburst he realized for the first time that he had become just like his the generations before him.

A New Beginning
In that moment of revelation, he knew that he was confronting a generational curse and a pattern of behavior that had been in his family for generations. This new insight caused him to begin an exhaustive study of the Word of God, and what the Scriptures have to say about the iniquities of the fathers passing from generation to generation. He soon learned how to break these generational curses. What he discovered not only set him free from the curses in his own family, but has brought freedom to countless numbers of people around the world.

Breaking Generational Curses
Larry Huch?s life was filled with anger, addiction, crime and violence until he discovered what God?s Word has to say about the iniquities of the fathers passing from generation to generation. What he learned not only brought freedom for his own life, but led to a revolutionary teaching about how to break generational curses that is changes people?s lives around the world.