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I got some attention… I can make him happy… I am
        ok…

        Young  Katie  is  now  in  her  mother’s  shoes.  Fights,
        beatings,  thrown  down,  spat  upon,  asphyxiated,  but
        didn’t die. Grandmother taught Katie how to pray and
        she  bargained  with  God.  “Get  me  out  of  this  and  I
        won’t do it again, God.”  That man went to prison.
        Further walking in the shoes of her mother, Katie also
        had  to  help  raise  her  siblings  until  they  were  old
                                   enough  to  take  care  of   nurse reaches the end of the bed and touch your feet,
                                   themselves.  In  2002,  her   everything in you is going to come out.”  And it came
                                   brother was killed.          to pass as God said it would. Since that moment, Katie
                                                                was set free. And was 20 years ago.
                                   At  the  age  of  21,  she
                                   traded  an  abusive  rela-   The poison, the chains, the shackles, the abuse, the past
                                   tionship for an adulterous   stigma:  “Everything that was in you is going to come
                                   one.  Her  next  love  was   out.”
                                   married  with  children,
        over 30 years older than her. Despite that, Katie had   Psalm  118:17,  “I shall not die, but live, and declare
        children by him. She was living her life settled for the   the works of the Lord.”  Remember we are all created
        leftovers of a married man.                             and  sent  to  earth  to  do  the  will  of  the  Father  from
                                                                which we’ve come. Never were we born to be slaves or
        The day that everything stopped was when her 3 chil-    commodities for someone’s fulfillment. We are Glory
        dren, 2 daughters and 1 son; died in a fire. Burying 3   Carriers. The Lord is our portion, He holds our inher-
        children at once, wrecked her world. She dropped out    itance.  Sin is not our heritage but a virus that ravages
        of relationship with the married man. She Lost all      the soul of mankind even unto death. Even as her body
        Hope.                                                   was  enslaved,  and  the  traffickers  entertained  them-
                                                                selves with her pain; they could not overtake her. En-
        You Will Not Die:  Your Story                           during tremendous loss and giving up on hope; Death
        Will Be Told                                            could not place that period and end her timeline. God
                                                                Said NO.

                                         Desperate  to  end     Romans  5:15,  “God’s  grace  has  been  extended  and
                                         her suffering, Katie   overflows  to  many  (all  who  accepts  this  gospel)  be-
                                         tried to kill herself.    cause of what one Man, Jesus Christ, did for us.” Re-
                                         Too    fearful   to    covering what Adam lost, our freedom to be the crea-
                                         shoot  herself,  she   tive,  ruling,  loving,  reflection  of  God.  What  Satan
                                         overdosed on drugs     meant to gain, he has forever lost but the victory given
        27 times.    Yet  she  lived.  In-between  her  suicide  at-  to us by the Lord Jesus Christ, Our Savior. Who Satan
        tempts:  Katie’s grandmother passed away when she       meant to capture, is now forever free through Jesus the
        was 34; and  her  father, who emerged every decade,     Messiah.
        died of AIDS.  One her last overdose, she was admit-
        ted  in  a  mental  institution.  While  there,  lying  on  a   Chains broken. Mind and Soul reborn. Keys to Hell
        bed, she cried out, “God, if you are who my grand-      and Death Snatched!
        mother said you are, deliver me!  Set me free and let
        me know what it feels like to be loved.”  Writhing in   God has Katie now, Satan and no one can pluck her out
        pain, after taking an unknown number of pills, Katie    of  his  hands. No  longer a commodity  but a treasured
        heard a voice so clear and still, “You will preach this   daughter of Adonai.
        gospel.  You can’t die. You won’t die. You need to
        get up.”  Filling with disbelief of what she heard, she   Isaiah 43:19,  “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it
        rebuked  that  voice  in  the  name  of  Jesus.  No  good   shall  spring  forth;  shall  ye  not  know  it?  I  will even
        thing can come from her, right?  She said “No, God.     make  a  way  in  the  wilderness,  and  rivers  in the  de-
                                             th
        Not me, I dropped out of school in 9  grade.  Can’t     sert.”
        be me.” Again, the voice of the Lord said, “Before the

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