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I was brought up in an
environment where I was stupid,
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I was worthless, I
wouldn't amount to much.
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My name's Adele and this is my story.
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Before I became a Christian
my life was riddled with fear.
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My life was dominated by lies.
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It was a very broken life, and
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because these lies dominated my life
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I made very many poor choices.
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Well, I was married for 10 years
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and it was a chaotic marriage
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because both me and my husband
were both broken people.
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We didn't know the word of God.
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The word of God wasn't anything
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that was ever introduced to me.
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My husband at that time went into a rehab
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and went away with somebody else.
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I was left devastated
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and I was left with children.
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I was on my knees and I was saying,
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"God, I can just about cope with anything
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except for my children growing up
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and feeling and being
treated the way I've been."
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And I cried out to God and God came.
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What made me follow Jesus was all my life
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I sought pleasure outside the will of God.
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I didn't know that.
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I took painkillers in all
sorts of different ways
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and when I started to explore Christianity
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one of the greatest revelations I got
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was forgiveness was the
greatest painkiller there is.
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And once I received not
only forgiveness for me
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but I was able to forgive others,
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I started to live in a level of freedom
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I didn't know was possible.
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When He revealed to me that the sins
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that had been committed against me,
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for example my husband going
away with somebody else,
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when I had the revelation
that God died for that sin
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and that if I would give it to Him
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that it would no longer have an effect
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and that blew my mind.
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It says in the Bible
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that God's kindness
leads you to repentance
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and as God revealed His kindness to me
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I was a very hurt, frightened individual,
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but He gently revealed Himself
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and so walked me through
all the different areas
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in my life I was broken
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and brought healing and
turned it, made it beautiful.
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God's forgiveness, I believe,
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is so much more powerful
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than we really understand
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and that's why I so understand when God
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says we have to forgive others also
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so that He can truly heal and set us free
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from the sin that keeps us
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wounded and powerless.
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I can't help but share my
faith in Jesus with others.
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I just get alongside people
I believe to be raw and real,
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to speak into the difficult situations,
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to just listen to people
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that maybe others wouldn't
take the time to listen to.
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I tell people what happened to me
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and tell them I was once like that
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to teach them about forgiveness
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and how all the pain
you're in could be erased.
