Izzy Battres

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We're Out of Time · Rock Bottom to HGTV: Izzy Battres' Journey of Faith and Redemption · 13 May 2025 podcast

And there you have people coming out of the joint, off the streets. I'm going to Skid Row and getting guys, hey, you want to change your life? I got a home for you. God did this in my life. He changed my life. I used to be where you're at. Come here and I'll help you. And I brought them into my house. And that's what we did. And so my wife and I still do that.

One of our properties had a women's recovery home. So we're still very well involved with, I work with cats coming out of our recovery home, training them to run business and still mentoring them in how to run their business. Kids, you're going straight to heaven.

Yeah. So 1998, April 27, I was already on my last run. I felt like the sentence of death on my neck, like I'm not going to make it another week. They're just going to find me dead at some point. And I just, I was raised Catholic. And so I had heard of a purgatory. Yeah. And I was like, I just need to get into, I know I'm not going to get into heaven. I don't want to go to hell.

I just need to get into purgatory. And I called the most religious individual that I knew growing up. And that was my aunt. You know, she didn't shave her legs. She didn't, you know, she was hardcore. I figured, okay, she's the nearest person that I know that's to God. And I didn't know she was Christian and she was a janitor at a church. I called her up.

I said, I just need to make peace with God. That's what I told her. I said, I don't think I'm going to be able to live another week out here. I just need to make peace with God. Can you help me? And she said, meet me at this place in an hour. I walked over there. It was a converted church. It was a movie theater converted to a church. No church servers, no nothing.

And I thought I was just going to go confess. Like, hey, you know, and then, you know, have another few days getting high and then die. That was it. And then hopefully I make it into purgatory. And when I got there... Um, I just, she just, I just felt something there. And she, you know, what I know now is the altar. I just started walking toward, they had a big cross.

I just started walking towards the cross. It was dark, no church service. It was just her and I. And the minute I got to the front of the altar, I just broke. Like, I just like... You know, I never felt bad about doing people wrong and I didn't feel guilt about stuff. But that moment, I just felt all the heaviness of all the madness and dirt that I did.

And I felt remorseful and I felt like I just needed to get forgiveness. And I asked them to just forgive me for all the dirt that I did and all the people that I've wronged. And I felt it. From that point on, I just like an immediate transformation happened. I got up. I felt lighter. I felt delivered. And from that day on, no more meth, no more madness. And it was just a miracle.

And then from there on, that's where I started. I knew my brother went to the outreach, Victory Outreach, and he was getting better. And I seen him being transformed. I said, I just, I got to get to where he's at. And I started connecting there with the men there at church. And there was men with my background that could relate to me. And they started telling me, this is your new walk now.

You're not going to go back to the neighborhood. You're not going to go back to the streets. We're going to start this walk together.

Yeah, it's what I know now, repentance. Right? Repentance is you're going one direction and you turn around and you go the opposite direction.

Yeah, I met her at church. And what attracted me to her is that... The Jesus Club. What's that? The Jesus glow. The Jesus glow. No, that wasn't it. That wasn't it. I don't think she had a glow to her. Honey, I didn't see a glow on you. And what attracted me to her was her love for the streets. Her love for the streets. And this is what I mean for her love for the streets.

Not like what we used to do because she comes from that background too. But her love to go out there. And tell the hurting people that are living on the streets that there's a way out. And so we would have what's called evangelism. And those times would be like, we would go into neighborhoods like 10, 12 o'clock at night.

And we'd go into neighborhoods and try to pull people out of the neighborhood and get them back to the light. Where would you get them? Where would you put them?

It was funded through the church.

You. It reminds me of. leaving the 99 to go after that one. And I feel that's what, tell me about that. I don't know about that. Well, you leave the 99 sheep. He left 99 sheep that were fine, but he felt the desperation in your voice. And he felt that that was his main mandate to go after that one sheep that is not doing well. So you leave the 99 and you go after that one. And that's what he did.

And he served you and Lydia, you said, right? Oh, yeah. And he served Lydia. And that's what a minister is.

He was, that's a, that is, that, God is proud. Well, it also shows the amount of faith that you had. And you had enough faith to go and step out and say, this is what I'm going to do for her. I'm going to go get what she needs now. And I'm going to have enough faith to go speak to this man.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in God-ordained moments. That's how my life has worked out. And I checked you out. And you still came? Yeah. It wouldn't have been my first choice. Hey, but you probably heard that before, right?

Not my first choice, but hey, we'll make it work. But I've shared this story amongst other venues, you know, and I've shared it in... in the prisons in Costa Rica, in the prisons in Tijuana, in Venezuela, on the streets. I've shared my story to that group of people. And you have helped... So different people in a different socio economic bracket. Is that what you think? That's what I've read.

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