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Brett

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Dec 23, 2017
1 min

Brett

"I associated Christmas with death not birth. My Dad and grandparents died during the Christmas season. I felt pain during the holidays for years to come. Christmas was always stressful for me. When I started focusing on the real meaning of Christmas, Jesus, my life changed forever. Love, joy, faith, and kindness became present in my heart. When Jesus entered the world, hope was born. It is about the gift of new life, not the gifts we open under the tree. Jesus is the bes

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Chad

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Dec 21, 2017
1 min

Chad

“The Judge said 'since you're doing life on the installment plan, here's your next installment of 50 to 60 months'. Hopelessness man, hopelessness. I got another felony in prison while I was waiting to go to prison. I was fighting over somebody’s shampoo. I had to serve another year. I was in a 23hr lockdown for 13 straight months. I had no contact with the outside world. I had no family, no friends that were talking to me. I was scared to death. That was 15 years ago

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Vicki

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Vicki

“I remember my dad had a gun and shot it in the ceiling. I felt God put his arms and protection around me. I was five. I was sexually abused by three men. Things I went through as a child affected me now. I can see how it made my adulthood dysfunctional but I always had God. I went through trauma therapy to recover. I was 9 years old smoking pot, nobody taking care of me, people taking care of my mom. My dad was drunk one night and my mom would not sign papers for my aunt to

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Ronakorn

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Dec 20, 2017
2 min

Ronakorn

“I was born into a Christian family in Thailand where my dad is a pastor. Many people would say I am a Christian because I grew up in a Christian family. I really did not accept Christ until I decided, for myself, to get baptized when I was 15 years old. God really worked in me through my parents. I felt brokenness with family issues that I was having right after I got married. I had a hard time choosing my parents decision or other people’s desires in my life. I felt pulled

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Abby

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Abby

“I was kidnapped from my mother’s family, they were satanist. They had plans to make me into a female savior, which does not exist. They tried to make me kill this man and I said ‘no daddy, no, I can’t kill him’. I said no. I told Satan no. They beat me. They broke my nose and my wrist. They hung me on a tree. I was gasping and couldn’t breathe. The Lord revealed Himself to me. The Lord just touched me and I could breathe again. I lived. In 1980 I was sold to a child predator

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Zach

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Zach

“I was born 5 months pre-mature, I weighed one pound and ten ounces. It was a miracle. My grandma started taking me to church, she’s Christian. Through serving, I was able to learn and grow with God and form a relationship with Him. Jr. High is when I started developing my own faith. I wanted to go to church more. My Aunt baptized me at the end of eighth grade. I graduated High School and I was trying to go to Manhattan Christian College (MCC), but my family didn’t support me

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Amy

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Amy

I was 18 years old when I lost my mother. It was a week before finals during my first year of college. I felt like I was lost and did not know where I was going in life. My grandfather told me to go back and take my last two finals, college algebra and public speaking. I did not perform well on it. After that, I was not in the right state of mind. My past is my past, I let go of things I have done. I had my daughter when I was 21 years old. She was the best thing in my life b

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Jeff

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Jeff

“For 34 years I wasn’t acting like me. Whatever came out of my mouth did not come from God. I couldn’t sit still very well. I had to keep moving all the time. I didn’t like to sit in one spot for more than an hour or I would panic. I suffered from ADHD. God doesn’t want us to focus on all the stuff around us. When you focus on the things around you it’s going to distract you from God. If we keep our focus on Jesus and don’t think about the things of the world, we stay

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Danetta

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Dec 20, 2017
2 min

Danetta

“On August 2012 I got a call from my daughter: 'Hey mom, Yamari has been holding food in her mouth for 30 minutes and it looks like water. When we talk to her, she’s not responding. She has peed on herself 2 times today.' (Yamari is 5 years old.) About 12 o’clock that night, they did an MRI. We got the results and she had ventriculitis, swelling and bleeding on the center of the brain. They took her to ICU and put her on a breathing machine. They said they were going to treat

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Trevor

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Trevor

"My Dad passed away a few years ago. It was a strain on all the parts of my life. I was 15 and never had any experience with the church. I had a few friends that were Christians. In media, you kind of hear about what Christians believe and what it represents. I looked at that with a pessimistic curiosity. If Christianity has answers to offer me, maybe I can figure out why God took my dad from me. I went with some friends to a youth conference. Somewhere around the second nigh

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Paul

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Paul

“I had a defibrillator put in my heart. I have chronic heart disease, diabetes, and kidney failure. It’s all because of God that I’m still here. If it had not been for the Lord, I wouldn’t know where I would be right now. God is in the miracle working business. When you trust in God, your trusting in a power beyond your power. God is in full control. I put all my faith in God, For All I Trust Him. I’m a preacher and my Daddy was a preacher. I have 2 brothers preaching right n

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Kim

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Kim

“In October of 2015 I had emergency surgery, the CAT scan showed cancer. They took about eight inches of my colon and removed my appendix. The doctor came into my room, just like on television, and said you have stage 4 colon cancer. The big “C” word. I never thought that would happen to me, but here we are. In January of 2016 we went to the oncologists in Omaha, Nebraska. The oncologists pulled up a recent CAT scan on her computer and said ‘I don’t see anything.’ I wa

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Tien

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Tien

“I was a slave for three years in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. I witnessed my friends being murdered and I was barely fed. When Pol Pot’s soldiers weren’t looking, I would eat whatever I could find; snake, lizard, and wild potatoes. One night I had a dream that I was standing on a muddy clay path in the jungle. At the end of the path was a rusty gate with a large padlock on it. This gate represented freedom and escape from Cambodia. While standing on the muddy path, a

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Perry

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Perry

“Nobody cared. I was tossed out like a piece of paper out of a window. But there’s somebody that did care. I didn’t know it at the time, Jesus cared. When I got out of the military I got back on methamphetamines and I killed a man in Wichita over $12,000. I was doing the drug thing, you know. I went and did many years in the penitentiary for it. I got kicked out of my mom and dad’s house when I was thirteen years old, then I had nobody. I never went back. I lost ever

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Karl

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Karl

“In May of 76, I was at the brink of death. You can’t describe the emptiness that I experienced. I was hurten so bad. I was doing things that I wouldn’t normally do. I was out of control. I was trying to satisfy a void. I felt all alone. In 8th grade, one of my friends brought a green bible to school. I always wanted to be close to God. I bought that bible. The second semester of my senior year I took a death literature class in English. This class directed me to su

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Jenny

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Jenny

“On a foggy night in December of 2006, I had a head-on collision with a drunk driver. He was driving the wrong way on a freeway; there were lots of serious injuries. One thing I got out of the accident that has dramatically impacted my relationship with God was the traumatic brain injury (TBI). There’s no way to heal that injury, there’s just a way to learn how to manage life despite it. Now, I’m so dependent on the Holy Spirit everyday just to manage work issues, relation

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Elise

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Elise

“He raped me that night. I felt worthless, devalued, and filthy. There wasn’t enough soap in the world to make me feel clean again. I got a My Space message. It was from a stranger. They wrote in a way that was familiar to me. They sounded like a friend, someone I knew. We ended up talking on the phone. We met one time and we met a second time at my trailer. A few weeks later I took a pregnancy test and it was positive. I had to hear from God, I had to. I could not

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Ravon

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Ravon

“I got my last strike for drugs and was getting ready to go do my 3-year prison time. I dropped out of school in the 9th grade. I don’t have a high school diploma and I have 3 kids. I left all my kids with my mom to raise because their mother is not in their life due to drugs, also. I didn’t have nothing for myself; no future, no good way to support my kids. I felt hopeless when I was sitting in county. I was feeling bad. I just saw the light. I knew I needed to be a fa

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Sheresa

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Sheresa

“My husband recently had a stroke and now they found an aneurism on his heart. We were married in 2013. Without God, I wouldn’t have the comfort that your supposed to feel. Without God, it’s like this empty place in your heart. You want to curl up under a rock. I have my sanity as long as I read God’s promises. There are times when I cry, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have faith in God. I got saved about 10 years ago. I got to a point where I just got tired. I kn

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Pepper

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Dec 20, 2017
1 min

Pepper

“This all happened within a week. The FBI was looking for me. My human trafficker went to prison. I was back on the street. I had been raped and beat up by a drug dealer. The day after that, I went to jail. I almost died that night from an overdose of heroin. I knew I was in a vicious cycle and that I was never going to get out of it. I knew that I had to change. They got us out of jail to go to church. That’s when I started thinking that there has to be another way.

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