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Bethany's Story

Bethany shares her story of finding comfort from God during exceptionally hard circumstances.

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Bethany's Story

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Bethany shares her story of finding comfort from God during exceptionally hard circumstances.

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[Dad] Hi Bethany!

00:03

Hi, I mean hola, hola!

00:06

[Dad] Hola, yeah.

00:08

My dad had a massive passion for life.

00:10

His motto was to live for today

00:14

and we did everything together as a family.

00:16

He was just, he was there and I always felt loved.

00:21

So often in life, there are things that you can't predict,

00:24

that just happen out of the blue

00:26

and once you walk through that door, you've had that moment,

00:29

you're never the same person.

00:31

And yeah, that big moment for me was definitely

00:34

when my dad died, yeah.

00:40

I was 12 years old.

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We hadn't had any history of heart problems,

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so it was a complete shock.

00:49

We just came home one evening, Mum and myself,

00:52

and we just found him.

00:55

It got really lonely,

00:57

'cause I didn't really have anybody else

00:59

who was my age and who got me.

01:02

I felt like everything in my world had just fallen apart.

01:09

Two years after my dad died,

01:10

I went to an event called Sole Survivor,

01:14

where there were thousands of people my age,

01:16

all gathered together to learn about God.

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There were so many people there so happy, so engaged,

01:25

so joyful, all just going for it

01:28

like it was the best thing that they could ever be doing

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and I went and it felt like all my pain,

01:34

and my sadness, and my grief

01:35

was just really weighing me down.

01:37

And I just went up in one of the main meetings to the front

01:40

and I just kneeled down and I just said God,

01:44

I need You.

01:46

I feel like I really just need a hug right now.

01:51

And it's really hard trying to describe it,

01:54

but it was like somebody had just knelt down

01:58

in front of me and just put their arms around me.

02:03

And I just felt God say, I'm here,

02:07

I love you, it's okay.

02:11

I had gone through so much pain

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and I'd gone through so much grief

02:16

and God was the first thing that actually made a difference.

02:22

I just felt so much of that pain just get released.

02:27

I know just what it feels like to feel hopeless,

02:31

to feel broken and to feel like there's nothing

02:36

that you can do to change your situation.

02:38

I look at my friends and I look at the world

02:40

and I see so much suffering in it.

02:44

I just thought you know, there's this love

02:48

that I've experienced, I just wanna give that to them.

02:52

Whether or not you're sure if you think there is a God

02:56

or you don't know what you believe,

02:58

there is a God who loves you

03:00

and he wants us to have just the best life.

03:04

He wants us to be in a relationship with Him

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and He just loves us that much.

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And no matter what you do, He will always be there for you.

03:14

All you have to do is ask.

03:18

(inspirational string music)

October 2019
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