Page 10 - Kingdom News Edition 3

othing is more pow- this time my fiancé was fac-
erful than the Holy
Spirit developing Faith
in
N A New creature in
Christ. As a young
girl at the age of 16, I always
felt different from the other
young women around me. I
knew I was set apart, but I did-
n't know that it was a mark of
God that separated me from
others. As a teenager, you
never want to feel as if you are
strange, or an outsider. You
want to be well-liked, and first
runner up in the popularity
contest. My Desire to fit in did-
n't start to run rapid until the
age of 18. By the time I
reached my freshman year of
college I had made the deci-
sion to live life on the edge, as
if I didn't know who God was. I
took advantage of all the free-
dom I was receiving and pro-
ceeded to live my life how I
saw everyone else living
theirs; stealing, drinking, smok-
ing, and engaging in unpro-
tected sex. By the age of 19, I
had faced so much adversity,
from getting pregnant, to hav-
ing an abortion, to being sent
home with a lost scholarship,
all to find myself pregnant
once again! Before I knew it I
found myself at a local com-
munity college, living with my
(now) Fiancé and his mother,
wondering how in the world I
was going to be able to afford
to raise a child on my own
making $7.00 an hour at
Lowes Home Improvement! By
Kingdom News Magazine—March 2017 Volume 3 ~ Page 10
is on Lock: A young woman's
ing prison time and I could spiritual guide to honoring God
just see my life coming to a through celibacy” in the Spring
screeching halt. I didn't un- of 2017. Also, I am a college
derstand why God was allow- student currently pursuing a
ing me to experience all of Bachelor’s degree in nursing
these things at just a tender all while being a mother to my
age. I remember being in my beautiful daughter Kynleigh
room on my knees crying Simone’. How did I get here? I
questioning God on why my can attest to you that it was
life had taken such a drastic nothing but the Faith and Trust
turn for the worse? I didn't I developed, in the Lord. God
even know how to pray at the showed me that storms aren't
time, but I was on my knees meant to be a breeze, but they
pouring my all
out to God, ask-
ing him to make
me over and
how I was done
living a chaotic
life without him
in it. I vowed to
be celibate and
to live my life
according to his
will. It was in that
moment that I
heard God’s voice
for the first time, Books Available Now
and he had re-
vealed to me
that I had a call
on my life. God
Revealed he was going to definitely aren't meant to last.
bring me out of my situation You will always come out
and then use me as a vessel, stronger then the way you
to testify to other young wom- went in. As long as we believe,
en my age through my celi- trust, and praise him through
bacy covenant. December 28th any and every situation, he will
marks the day that I have prove himself mighty in our
been celibate now, 4 years. I lives. No matter where you are
am now a young entrepre- in life right now, it is not an in-
neur anticipating the release dication that you will always
of my first book “My Temple remain there. ■