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Deliverance From Sin

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.: My Testimony :.
Though some of you out there may be interested: My Testimony Following Christ has been something that was instilled into my life at a very early age, but I never took in seriously until later in life. I was raised Baptist and kind of threw the beliefs out the window and put up a “front” for the real believers in my family. I’m sure most of my family was under the impression that I was a believer at a really early age. Not True. Satan has been after my soul for years, tempting me with this, and tempting me with that. Making unrealistic things look so tempting and real to me, that I believed most of what he was telling me. I think the small belief that I had in God as a child, slowly lacked conviction and follow-through. When I was 11 my mom went to prison for 3 ½ years and that really changed my out look on everything life had to offer me. After all the “moms” of the world, hung the moon right? Well I quickly learned that mine didn’t. No one’s had. My mom came home attached to a guy! Not surprising….. After we moved into a house with my moms “boyfriend”…my relationship with her took a drastic and unseen change. She never spent time with me, accept by force (on her part)…she’d have me go with her here, and go with her there….even though I really had no interested in going. Her relationship with her boyfriend tampered with my relationship with her. Her boyfriend wasn’t the nicest guy in the world, and really ended up not liking me. His daughter came to live with us (lived with us for 2 yrs) and things took a drastic turn for the worst. He would make up obscene rules (can’t use the bathroom after 10 for example). Because of all the change, and partly due to influence from my mother (who I though put the Earth in rotation…) I began to have lots of boyfriends…mainly one impaticulare. Anyways…I became sexually active at the age of 15 and became pregnant. After I explained (rather tearfully) the situation to my mother, she got upset, and told her boyfriend. They both got really mad, her boyfriend nailed my bedroom windows shut and at one point took the door of the hinges. Then abuse set in, well is was more like neglect with lots of verbal bashing. Things became to hectic and I had a miss carriage. My mom and her boyfriend were going on vacation and sent my sister (mom’s boyfriend’s daughter) and I to a Christian camp for a week. It was the best decision my mom has EVER made for me. I met some of the most wonderful people there, and received salvation on July 14, 2001.