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Cassie's Story

Cassie had gone away from church, until a family crisis made her re-think her life.

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Cassie's Story

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Cassie had gone away from church, until a family crisis made her re-think her life.

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I thought I'll be a Christian when I have

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children or when I'm older and

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I'll send them to church and be godly like that.

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My name is Cassie and this is my story.

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I was raised in church,

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I wouldn't say that I had a relationship with Jesus,

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I was kind of going to church because it was

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fun, and because my friends were there.

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When I was 15 I kind of fell away from church

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and got distracted.

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I was a hard party goer, I like parties,

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like to go out, like to get drunk.

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I was in a long-term relationship

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so I thought sex was okay.

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I think that I was just putting a relationship with God off

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because it meant that I would need to change my life.

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So we had a big family crisis which

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kind of brought me to my knees really

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and I've been blessed

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that all around me there were people

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encouraging me.

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My fiancé's mum and sister

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were the ones who invited me to church

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and they had been inviting me for a long time.

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Maybe a couple of weeks after I

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started going to church, I rededicated my

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life back to Christ.

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What I didn't understand why I was so peaceful.

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Because I was waiting to break and I just didn't.

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I just continued to get stronger and stronger

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and to be able to encourage people.

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And then I came across Philippians 4:6-7

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about the peace that surpasses understanding and

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I didn't know that scripture, but when I came across it

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that's when I understood why I'm so peaceful.

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It's because Christ gave me peace,

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and he gave me strength.

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Since becoming a follower of Jesus,

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I've changed more, mentally.

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I've stopped a lot of things - I've restricted myself,

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and just mentally so much more peaceful and calm.

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And I think it's made me a wiser person.

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I guess that in situations

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you're not, you don't fret or your not worried or your not scared.

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You recognise spiritual things and you know just to go

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straight to God and to pray.

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I think a lot of people carry around a lot of guilt,

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especially those that have been at

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church before and then had strayed

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but they don't think that they're worthy

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of so many things and it's a deception.

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Because Jesus forgives us completely

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and so you have to keep trying,

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because it's that continued relationship.

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God is our Father so he wants to forgive us,

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He doesn't want to punish us

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and He doesn't want to stay angry at us.

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