What's Hard and Beautiful About Being Diagnosed with Cancer

The physical pain is hard, but what is equally difficult in a different way is people not understanding how it’s changed you. I will never be the same again. Beautiful things have happened in me…things that have made me see how good God is, how loving and kind He is, things that have awakened me to the supernatural, and to supernatural healing, and to things that have made me aware of His presence in a way I have never known before. The Lord is real, kind, and good…and not just because He is healing and has healed me, but because His presence is so beautiful. He is SO beautiful! I will never see life the same again and I don’t ever want to see it the same again. I don’t ever want to be asleep, walking through life half asleep caring about what doesn’t matter anymore and what matters in the Western World: material possessions, achievement, self-sufficiency, selfish ambition, and things that aren’t eternally valuable. 

 *** The only things that matter are God and people. Only love matters. ONLY LOVE MATTERS! *** 

John 9:25 ...  He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

What’s hard is people not understanding how it’s changed you or what to do with you or how it’s changed you because it’s difficult to relate to them on the same level or around the same topics as before. Cancer, or any life-altering circumstance, makes you a different person. It puts you in a place where what was important isn’t important anymore. It shakes you up for a time and places you in an in-between place where you are trying to find your way through to what God wants you to do in your life next. It makes you want to make life count around what truly matters. It makes you pray with people on sidewalks, on buses, at the chiropractor. It makes you give strangers hugs and tell them that they are loved. It makes you send texts to family members and say, “I love you!” who may not get all this touchy-feely stuff. But it’s sincere! 

Not everyone gets this and that can make you feel alone and sometimes ignored. The things you used to connect with people over aren’t as important or of interest at all. Life becomes richer, and deeper, and filled with the love God puts in your heart in a way that no one but the person going through it can understand. Conversations are deeper and it can be difficult to connect with people on the same level anymore. Some people don’t get this or get your enthusiasm. Although the majority of people have been supportive, some people who don’t get it are critical. It hurts. And life for some people is filled with joy. It is for me! In a way I can’t explain, I have hope, hope unlike I have never known in my thirty plus years of walking with Jesus. I know in spite of the tears, in spite of the pain, He has made me alive! 

In so many ways, cancer has saved me. Although I never want it back again after I am totally healed, I am grateful for it. But some people think I’m faking it or avoiding pain, but Jesus has put joy in my spirit! This isn’t joy that I am choosing. This is joy that has been given to me from the Almighty. That is why I can confidently say: “No matter what happens, I will be alright. Everything will be okay.” Some people don’t understand all of this and that can make me feel disconnected from the people I love with all my heart. But I don’t ever want to go through life asleep with the things that don’t matter again. I was blind, but now I see! 

[Shana Schutte]

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Gender Affirming is WRONG

My feelings of being in the wrong body started when I was a toddler. I hated girl toys, and I only wanted to play with boys, I had short hair and dressed myself like a boy. I didn't understand other girls my age, so I felt out of place. When someone would mistake me for a boy, I would feel so good, much to the chagrin of my older sister who would quickly correct them and exclaim, "that's my SISTER." 

At 4 I worked up the courage to ask my mom, "Does God make mistakes, because I think I was supposed to be born a boy?" My mother replied, "No God doesn't ever make mistakes, he made you exactly the way you're supposed to be, a beautiful little girl." And that was that. I didn't have any more delusions because my mom cleared it up for me right then and there. 

Don't get me wrong I still didn't like my body and dreaded growing breasts one day, but I didn't have to question if there was something wrong with me. I was allowed time to grow up, and once I hit puberty, I not only felt like I was in the right body, but I became a girly girl! 

If I was born in our society today, I know I would have been "affirmed" by my teachers and started on a cascade of interventions that would have left me infertile, mutilated and without the husband and two beautiful children that I have today. Our kids don't need to be socially or medically transitioned. They need to be left alone, and they need time to grow up." 

[Brittany Traynor]

Psalm 139:13-14 ... For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.  I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. ❤

Be Changed!!

 You have never gone too fat that God can't redeem you. Retore you. Forgive you.

The Lord is a God of second chances.

1 John 1:9 ... If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ezekiel 36:26 ...  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Colossians 1:14 ...  In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: ❤

Answered Prayer

My wife married me as a crushed single father, struggling to make ends meet. We lived in a townhouse apartment up against a freeway. Literally. We needed to move out of our rental two years ago. Because of my bankruptcy due to my divorce, years prior, my credit was shot. We needed a miracle. With hardly any rentals on the market and 40-70 other families with excellent credit to snatch up the houses, we really did need a miracle. 

My simple prayer, “LORD, I know you can custom lead us. We don’t have selfish ambition. Please show the children your goodness. That You can custom provide for us, even if we are not ‘money focused’, please show the children Your goodness and faithfulness, in Jesus Mighty Name.” 

God led us in a few distinct ways that would have been impossible without paying attention to His ‘inspired directives’. GOD DID AN AMAZING MIRACLE. 70 families were interested in this house, but God miraculously gave us favor! The rest is History!! 

Overlooks sheep. Private Creek. Private Pond. Multiple Fruit Trees. In fact, this is the first fruit from this Summer. We just picked it tonight! 

I remember when we were three weeks away from being homeless.  Our good friend who happens to have a powerful prophetic gift, told us, “I see God blessing you guys with a house that will be BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS." I remember at the time feeling more fear than faith. I still felt at peace, but I would have just been happy with a tiny clean ‘whatever’. 

God, again, showed us just how good and amazing He really is!! This house is so far beyond what I could have imagined that I am still beyond speechless. 

[Troi Nelson Cockayne]

Deuteronomy 7:12-13 ... Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:  And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 

Ephesians 3:20 ... Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, ❤

One Day ~ Today

Five years ago, I lived a lifestyle of total perversion according to the bible. I was strung out. I was promiscuous. I was everything that you see on television today. There wasn’t anything that I wouldn’t try. I was called a reprobate by the church. (And rightfully so) I was told that God would NEVER save me. I was told that I had gone too far and stayed too long. They told me Jesus didn’t love me and that he hated me. I believed them. 

One day Jesus just showed up and changed my life. While I was YET a sinner Christ died for ME.  Jesus Christ has done absolutely everything that everyone said that he wouldn’t do for me!

Last weekend I spoke to a crowd of 500 about the delivering power of Jesus Christ. That church called me yesterday and filled me in on what God is doing in their church since I left. Baptisms. Repentance. Convictions. I am so encouraged by their testimonies. Today I am washed clean! You won’t catch me wearing a possum around my neck anymore. You won’t catch me dressing like a woman anymore. I am a man of God today. Jesus Christ cleaned me up. I am pure! I am saved and I am delivered!!! I am a new creature. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new to me. 

What a difference 5 years will make in your life! Trust God today. Start today. Today is a good day for repentance. If Christ changed me there is absolutely nothing that he won’t do for you!! I was a wicked sinner, but I have been washed in the blood of the Lamb!! I traded in the rainbow flag for the blood-stained banner.  There is no greater life than being filled with the Holy Ghost!! I give God praise for TOTAL deliverance from homosexuality. I wasn’t born that way. Thank you, JESUS, that I am no longer trapped in sin. The hold the devil had on me he ain’t got no more! Satan is a liar. 

Come and be a Christian with me! 

This is the greatest life! 

 [Ben Bland]

2 Corinthians 6:2 ...  (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) ❤

Who was Jenny Evans Moore?

Jenny Evans Moore was a woman in attendance at William J Seymour's revival. This was before Azusa Street. She lived across the street from the family who was housing the traveling preacher. Jenny was filled with Holy Spirit at the house on Bonnie Brae. She was one of the first seven people to be receive them baptism of fire. 

What was the evidence? When Jenny was filled with the Holy Ghost, she sat down at the piano in the front room of the house on Bonnie Brae and played worship. She played it perfectly. Multiple songs. She played all day. She sang one of those songs - over and over - each time in a different language. She did this 6 times, in 6 different languages. The six languages were French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Hindustani.  

Jenny had never played the piano before, not a day in her life. Nor did she know any languages other than English. She went on to become the wife of William J Seymour and a great Pentecostal evangelist in her day. 

We as believers need to see beyond the veil. Remove anything that keeps us remaining in the old way of thinking; and walk into the NEW! 

 

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Ephesians 4:17-24 ... This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.  But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. ❤

"Gold Pan"

This image (below) has so much meaning to me. Often, I refer to my journal as my ‘gold pan’, because it is the place where I learned to see the difference between the sand of my thoughts from the Gold of God’s voice. God’s words are lighted, and they always have a life to them. I had no idea that God could be so personal. God caused me to discover this amazing truth. No better place to engage with the Living Word than on the pages of your own personal journal. Cry out to God in its pages and I guarantee True Love ‘will answer.’

[Troi Nelson Cockayne]

Jeremiah 29:12 ... Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Jeremiah 33:3 ... Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. ❤

Made New.

I grew up without a father and had a warped view of men from bad examples of men I've seen in my life. I carried rejection and pain with me from that. In school I was bullied and called gay all the time because I was more feminine than other boys. I didn't even know what gay was. Then I became angry and hung with the wrong crowd drinking, smoking weed, etc. At a party a male friend of mine sexually took advantage of me and this opened a door of confusion in my life. I began to experiment with makeup, cross dressing/drag as a way to cover myself and hide behind an alter ego.

Then, I started getting involved in new age witchcraft. Doing spells, crystal work, kundalini yoga, spirit guides, etc. I was living these ways for years. A little over a year ago I started feeling empty and these things didn't fill the void in me. I cried out to God and said if this isn't what you want for my life give me a sign. The next day I got a dream from God of the Bible verse Ezekiel 6:4 telling me to stop doing witchcraft. But I still had one foot out and the other in trying to figure out the truth.

Some time passed and I came across a video of a testimony called From New Age to Jesus. This video convicted me, and I put all of my new age/witchcraft stuff in a trash bag and threw it in the dumpster. I began to experience demonic attacks after this. These beings I thought my spirit guides were actually demons. I was experiencing sleep paralysis, demonic dreams, attacks, etc. I looked into why these things were happening to me and found out that this is a very real thing. Demons are real.

Around this time, I also received a dream of Jesus telling me to be set apart and follow him. Time goes on and I came across an online map where I connected with a believer in my area. She gave me the gospel and talked to me about being born again. I knew this is what God was calling me to. I set up a day on January 3rd to meet up with people in my town I had never met before to get baptized, set free of demons, and filled with the Holy Spirit.

I received freedom and a new life. It took some time for me to find good people to fellowship with and grow with. But I finally did find some good brothers and sisters, but I still felt like God was calling me for more. I was having dreams of traveling with a couple that were missionaries, but they were out of country and weren't planning on coming back. Little did I know when I was having these dreams that God was telling them to come back to America. When they came back, they visited Chariton and I told them about these dreams, and they shared with me God was putting on their heart for me to travel with them. God began to confirm again and again this was what he wanted. So, I put in a 2 weeks' notice at my job and left Chariton and am traveling wherever God's calls, learning and growing each day, and trusting him in everything.

Jesus can change your life if you let him. I'm a completely different person than I used to be. I tried just believing in God or saying a prayer to be "saved", but there wasn't true freedom in my life until I obeyed the gospel and stepped into the watery grave where I left my old life behind.

You can't enter the Kingdom of God without being made a new creation. There has to be a death and rebirth spiritually. And this is through water baptism and being filled with the Holy spirit. Repent, be baptized, and receive the Holy Spirit. (Acts 2:38) There will be signs that follow. Mark 16:17-18 "And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." This is for everyone.

God wants us all to walk in the full inheritance he gives us when we become children of God. Yes, Jesus paid it all when he died, but we still have to make a choice and obey the gospel to become a part of God's Kingdom and walk it out every day.

[Skylar Stroud]

Acts 26:18 ... To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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From Slavery to Freedom!

 A slave to drugs.  

Made free by Jesus.  

God can change anyone!

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Romans 8:21 ... Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

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Darkness to Light

This is my friend Carl. These pictures are a couple of weeks apart. He denied God and hated him since he was 5 years old. He ran around and got high and drunk for the majority of his life. He went to prison for nearly 10 years altogether and he literally destroyed everything around him. A couple of months ago he came into our church for the first time in 35 years.

He came with an open mind and a willing heart because life had reared its ugly head and had him on the brink of destruction. I looked back during the service and watched the power of God fall in that sanctuary and I immediately saw him bawling his eyes out. We didn’t even get to the preaching yet because we were still singing, praising and worshipping.

We didn’t even make it 15 minutes in that service before he ran to that baptismal tank. Today, he’s a worshipper. Today, he’s a believer. Today, he’s my brother in Christ. It’s like the old song says, "there’s just no telling what you’re going to do, in that moment Jesus gets ahold of you!” Praise God!!!!

[shared by Rich Walters]

Acts 26:18 ...  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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Delivered and Healed!

I started my journey back in 2015. I knew of Him, but didn't care to understand, because it wasn't cool and felt my choice was unchangeable. Yet I never stopped fully believing in God but accepting more and more of the world's lies. I was told my coming out and gay/trans identity would bring me fulfillment and satisfaction through accepting my attraction and desire for all things feminine and gay.

I was traumatized by bullies throughout my childhood into adulthood. So much so, that in an effort to escape in fantasy, I would try on my mom's clothes as a kid and imagine myself as a girl. I watched Jem and the Holograms and the Little Mermaid etc., as a kid that inspired me to think that some magic idea could change me into the person that was confident, happy, and healthy. It stuck with me into my adulthood where because I was traumatized by my childhood experiences in which drag as an adult was meant to find purpose and reason for these feelings. This path led to me thinking I was gay and then transgender.

The problem many people have including myself is that I was unhappy no matter who I became or what success I had. The unhappiness stemmed from a void and emptiness inside because I was missing a relationship with my Creator. He opened up my mind to the start of my new creation the day He healed me of my transgenderism and showed me an open door to a new life in Him.

[Dane Erik] 

Psalm 51:1-10 ...  Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.  Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.  For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.  Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.  Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.  Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

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You Cannot Save Yourself!

When I was unclean, He sat with me in the low place. Every sin I did was being stored up for the day of judgement.  The day when all things will come to the light. People talk about Karma. No. Reality is much more intense. I didn't realize I was lost. I was just trying to survive.  The world had crushed me and it's what I learned: to crush others so that I wouldn't keep getting crushed. Interesting that I thought that way, doing everything I could in my own power just to breathe and was still unable to under the weight of my own sin.  "If I can just. suppress the pain, if I can make enough wild memories, if I can get enough attention, maybe I can forget the wounds.  Just don't focus on it. I don't like the cards I was dealt; I have to manipulate someone else's cards to build me a better stack." 

Beloved, this is not the way. I was a child of Satan but don't be confused, so are many people who are reading this. I had people I wanted to kill and had people who wanted to kill me. My God picked me up from the bottom of the floor while I was pretending to be on the top level. 

My God did something unthinkable, unfathomable even. He did what I couldn't do. He defeated the flesh.  He laid down His own life so that I could be reconciled to Him. He saw my bowl of wrath, and He poured it out onto Himself 2000 years ago. It's not selfish to ask God to take your burdens from you. We were not created to live a life without God. We were not created to live a life with burdens. We were created to carry the presence of the Lord with us and to bless people with the heart of God. His heart is to heal. To bless. To give mercy. To make all things new. His name is JESUS! 

So do not tell me that I saved myself. Do not tell me that I had the strength to get up. Do not tell me to give myself more credit. None of you will save yourselves. Surrender to the name above every name because He is mighty to save, and His arm is not too short to reach you. 

JESUS SAVED ME FROM: 

The Pain of my Dad's Death, Stripping, Prostitution, Pimps, Homelessness, The Love of Money, Meth, Heroin, Weed, Spice (K2/Katie), Cocaine, Pain Pills, Caffeine, Alcoholism, Psychedelics, Ouija Boards, Rejection, The Pain of being Raped, The Pain of being Molested, Ungratefulness, Depression, Selfishness, Self-Pity, Self-Seeking, Projecting Pain onto Others, Pornography, Murdering, Being Murdered, Nightmares, Anxiety, Neglecting the ones who love me. 

RESULTS OF SURRENDERING TO JESUS: 

Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Gentleness. Faithfulness, Self-Control.  

Believers, don't forget the main character of your discussions. Non - Believers, don't let the believers stop you from seeking God. We will all stand in a single file line for judgement day. The angels are recording everything you say, think, and do (including your motives and intentions). 

May every soul that reads this be blessed by God, with the authority of Jesus I pray, Amen. 

[Schultz Katelyn]

Proverbs 13:7 ... There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

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Brand New!!

15 years ago, I lost my family in a bizarre tragedy. I lost my mom, my little brother and my dad, almost lost myself too. If you’ve been my friend since my old Facebook days or my new account, you know I’ve never posted about my family. But today, I made the decision to do so because I have stepped out of the box/bubble and my comfort zone. I believe this story can touch or change or even encourage you to take that first step in whatever you’re going through. When I was 15 yrs. old, one usual morning my dad decided to do something. “Like what?! You may ask” well, he used a 10 KG sledgehammer, killed my mom, my brother and hurt me (not realizing I wasn’t hit hard enough to die) and killed himself. 

I don’t remember seeing anything but, all I remember is waking up in pain and then I go back into a coma for about a week or so. Finally, I woke up not knowing everyone’s dead. And the story goes on... Just imagine the only one to be alive in bed full of blood. My life changed overnight. I was filled with anger, rage, bitterness, and was the most cold-hearted young girl I’ve ever come across. Was bad named all my life for the things I never did; I was only a survivor. But, today, I am living life. I have been restored, completely healed physically from the wounds. I can tell you my story and not be broken, today I am free from my bondages. I have forgiven my dad, and I love him just like I loved him since I knew him as a child. I know my true identity. 

Today, I am capable of understanding anyone’s pain because my pain inside has been healed. Today, I realize the value of all the people in my life because I know the reason. And I am able to overcome my everyday obstacles because I know, I have the power and the strength it takes. And all of this has been possible only because of JESUS. From day 1 to today, he’s never given up on me. He’s always been there, and I only had to say ‘yes’ to Him. He’s no religion or law-based God. Jesus walked on this earth just like you and I, 100% man and He is able to understand. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, how many people you’ve dated, how many tattoos you have or how many piercings you’ve got, don’t listen to religious people. Jesus sees only your heart and He loves you so much, that He’s already forgiven all your sins and keeps no record of wrongs. 

I want you to experience the same closeness with Him and today choose to be free from all that’s dragging you down. The enemy stole my family away, but Jesus has restored many more families into my life This is my testimony, and I am not ashamed to share it. I am nothing without Jesus and today I AM EVERYTHING HE SAYS I AM! Only Jesus can restore what’s broken into BRAND NEW.

[Kavitha Ramaraj]

2 Corinthians 5:17 ... Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 

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The Power of God!!

I felt to share what the power of a believer in Jesus Christ is capable of. If you have never seen the power of God before, well take a long hard look at these photos. I can tell you that God is most definitely real and he is a restorer.  

I was an addict for 25 years.  I've done every drug known to man.  I have used needles and I was pretty much slowly killing myself and I was so blinded to the truth of who God was, even though my parents taught me everything I knew about who God was and what he was all about.  I guess you could say I was a prodigal son.  

I wasted most of my life away because of drugs.  I've ruined relationships, friendships, I've even hurt people who loved and cared about me. I loved fulfilling the lust of my own flesh and I didn't care who I hurt.  I isolated myself, become very distant and when God would use people to try and get me to realize how much he loved me, I would say I'm not ready, stop judging me, I live my life how I want and I didn't care about other people's feelings.  

One day, God used a man of God to share his story with me and then I had an encounter with Jesus Christ.  From that day, the scales fell from my eyes and I wasn't blind spiritually anymore.  The truth set me free from the bondage and the anointing destroyed the yoke the enemy had over me.  Someone needs to know there is hope and it's only found in Jesus Christ. 

 [Robert Carroll - a.k.a. certified Jesus freak]

1 Corinthians 6:11 ... And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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New Life!

On the left is the old man. Always running away from God rejecting him. A hell deserving sinner. A blasphemer. Ungodly. Anti Christian. Lived for myself. Selfish and self centered. Suffered anxiety and depression for a long time. Always seeking something else to believe in. Studied and followed Satanism. Followed the black metal music culture and expressed it through my style. Spiritually dead. 

On the right is the new man saved by the Lord Jesus Christ, born again in the spirit. Jesus forgive my sins. He took me away from my old life of sorrows and give me a new life of joy. He controls my destiny now. I put my faith in him because he died for us so that we may live forever. What a wonderful savior he is! 

[Daniel Jamison]

 Acts 4:12 ...  Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

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Hope.

No one had hope for me, a homeless heroin addict of 15 years. But then Jesus stepped into my mess and today I am here to tell you that Jesus can step into the most hopeless situation and turn it around for His glory. Jesus used my journey for a reason. So that others may know that Hope has a name, and that name is Jesus Christ. He came so that we may have life. 

Much love,  Daniela

[Daniela Beukman, Hope Again Wellness Centre]

Romans 8:28 ... And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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