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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">My story is about total deliverance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>To make a long story short, my Christian boyfriend and I became sexually active in college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was a very new Christian when I found out I was pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was overwhelmed and marriage wasn’t going to happen, so when I was 3 months pregnant I had an abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I was 19 years old and had minimal coping skills needed to deal with the after-effects of having an abortion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>It truly took years to recover from it emotionally.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I was the only girl of 5 children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>My parents never had “the talk” with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Later when I learned that my oldest brother was conceived out of wedlock, I wondered if “the talk” never took place due to hypocrisy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Since my parents didn’t know the Lord, they had never experienced total forgiveness from the Lord.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">I’ve rejoiced often when I have read in scripture special versus that helped me with recovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The one that has helped the most is Psalm 103:12 which says, “As far as the East is from the West, so far has He removed our transgressions from us”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>Keep in mind that the East and the West never meet!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Over the past 35 years Satan has tried to pull me back into shame and quilt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>The weapons of warfare that the Lord has given us to defect the enemy (Satan) are so powerful!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>I have to stand on any and all provisions the Lord has established to keep me <span style="text-decoration: underline;">free</span>, spiritually and emotionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Needless to say, I look forward to meeting my child in heaven one fine day.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Over the years God has put me in powerful places to minister to others who have had devastating abortions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>He has allowed my experience to be used to help others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Romans 8:28 says, “All things work together for good to them that love God”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">When something very detrimental happens and it happens to you personally, there’s nothing better (next to being saved) than the Lord’s forgiveness. No sin is too great for God to forgive!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">  </span>Amen</span></p>
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