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February 2019 Prayer Letter
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![Healing Hearts Ministries Internaional [LOGO]](https://www.healinghearts.org/nimages/HHLetterhead_Web700.png) Dear Friend,  Part of our 2019 series of leadership testimonies  Twenty-five years ago, I never would have dreamed that someday I would reveal the secret buried deeply in the darkest recesses of my heart—my abortion. But our God is the God who woos and pursues us in His desire to snatch us from the slippery slope of sin. That is exactly what He has done in my life, and He used Healing Hearts Ministries to help me discover the healing and redemptive power of His grace. My life before Healing Hearts was one of brokenness—broken childhood, broken dreams, broken marriages. I was searching for “something” better, but always in the wrong places. I left my third marriage and comfortable life in pursuit of that “something.” It was the desire to fill that void in my heart and find a better life for my two boys that led me into a religious cult. The better life did not happen and the consequences of my choices have had lasting effects on my sons. After 4 years in the cult, I found myself pregnant with the cult leader’s child. My rationalization and the pressure to take care of the “problem” ended a life. The enemy’s lies and deception are the same whether we know God or not (Gen. 3:1-5). Any hope I had was replaced with fear, anger, and hatred, and my heart grew hard. Still, I know the Lord was with me during those dark times. He did not allow my heart to harden towards His Word but protected my mind from the lies being “preached.” Sadly, it would take another 3 years for me to break free from the control and influence of this man. Even then, I went from the frying pan into the fire. God was wooing me to Himself, but I chose another path—New Age. My life had become a cesspool of promiscuity and I was circling the drain. It was at this time I met my husband. Both of us brought plenty of baggage into the relationship, but we recklessly moved ahead following the New Age lies. After we were married we attended Unity Church in Seattle. It looked good, sounded good, made sense, and it “was desirable to make one wise” (Gen 3:6). After a few years we decided to look closer to home for a church. Eventually we found ourselves in a small church where the people were warm, friendly, and very “seeker sensitive.” We had been attending there about 3 months when a woman shared a powerful testimony about her abortion and the help she received from Healing Hearts Ministries. At that time I had NO intention of ever telling anyone, not even my husband, about my abortion. But God had other plans. I was put in touch with a Healing Hearts counselor, who listened quietly as I blurted out Ihadhadanabortionandwantedtohelpotherwomenwho-havehadabortions all in one breath. I feared if I didn’t get it out I would change my mind. At her suggestion, I made a commitment to attend an 11-week Bible study sponsored by Healing Hearts. Little did I know what God had in store for me! For the next few weeks we were immersed in the Word of God, learning about how we rationalized our abortions, the consequences of our sin, and the effects of guilt and shame on our lives. When we came to Chapter 5, the Cross of Christ, God peeled back the scales from my eyes. I knew of Jesus, but I didn’t really KNOW Jesus. Now I came to know my Lord and Savior and was broken over my sin—all my sins. It was my sin that nailed Jesus to that cross. It was here I received grace and mercy, was washed clean and given a new heart—a heart of flesh, not of stone (Ezekiel 36:26). The snare of cultic and New Age thinking was broken. Now there was right thinking—God’s thinking through His Son Jesus Christ. I love what Paul Tripp has to say: “If you’re God’s child, you are a gallery of his glorious grace. The walls of your heart have been festooned with the gorgeous artwork of redemption: wisdom for the foolishness of sin, power for the weakness of sin, forgiveness for the guilt of sin and deliverance from the bondage of sin. Grace means that beautiful things are being done for you and happening within you.” When I look back on these past twenty-five years, I see the beauty of “the gallery of His glorious grace” replacing the darkness and futility in which I once dwelt. I truly could not have imagined that this broken woman would be used by God to help lead other women to healing and redemption. It is only through His grace that I have grown from being a brand new leader, scared to death to lead my first group, to Area Coordinator with as many as 13 leaders to disciple, to now WA State Coordinator. My greatest joy is watching the transformation in the hearts and lives women—to watch as Jesus brings good news to the afflicted, binds up the broken-hearted, proclaims liberty to the captives, and sets prisoners free. For those men and women who are struggling with the feeling of being too far down the “slippery slope” of sin, please know that God’s redemptive power and love can reach you and bring you back to Him. Isaiah 43:1-3a says, “But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O (put your name here), And He who formed you, O (put your name here), Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine! When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you. For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior…” He is indeed! Thank you for giving to Healing Hearts! You are helping us to reach out into the messy and broken hearts of women and men and restore them with the hope and healing that can only be found in Christ Jesus.
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