June 20, 2025 • 32 mins
What happens when the people proclaiming faith on Sunday mornings become monsters behind closed doors? Kimberly's raw testimony exposes the devastating impact of religious hypocrisy and generational abuse that nearly destroyed her life. But this isn't just a story of trauma—it's a powerful testimony of transformation. Kimberly reveals how authentic faith helped her become "the center of the hurricane," finding calm amid life's storms.
Have you been living with family dysfunction that feels impossible to overcome? Remember Jeremiah's powerful words: "There is nothing too hard for you, Lord." Your impossible family situation can become the setting for God's transformative power.
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Now streaming on all major podcast platforms, edifying your
mind, body and soul. We welcome you to listen now to
Soul Food with your main host, Bishop Joshua.
Here. We are always ready to share a
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you go, Quench your spiritual hunger.
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Give the food that lasts foreverhere on the Soul Food Podcast.
Once again, together with The Naked Truth, the segment of our
program where we uncover the truth, we show the way it is
with facts, evidences, and the stories that are real.
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Not stories that are made-up, but stories that are real
because we are human beings likeyou.
Yes, we are. We feel what we feel.
We had the same problems you have.
We overcame these problems and now we are here to show to you
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what to do and how to do it to overcome.
I have this Bible verse that says I mean reading here
Jeremiah 3217. Jeremiah said our Lord God, our
Lord God, behold, you have made the heavens and the earth, the
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heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched
arm. There is nothing too hard for
you. That was his statement.
He said there is nothing too hard for you.
You are the one who created heavens in earth.
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There is nothing too hard for you.
What has been too hard for you? What has been so impossible for
you? What is your impossible case?
You have something in life that has been impossible.
What has been impossible for you?
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There is. Is there anything too hard to
forgot? No, there is nothing that is too
hard to forgot. He is the one that can make your
impossibilities become impossible in your life.
Together with me, I have Kimberly all the way from
Louisiana. She's our guest today and she's
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going to reveal the truth. She's going to tell you how her
life, the dark side of her life.Now of course, she has a
different light. The light of God has shine upon
her and the dark side of her life was expelled by the light.
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When the light comes, darkness has to vanish.
Hello Kim, How are you? Thank you for joining me here in
The Naked Truth. Hi, how are you?
I'm very well. How are you?
Good, good. Thank you for joining us.
And I want to you start by saying, talking about the dark
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side of your life. How dark was it?
It was as if I were living in another world compared to the
one I'm living in now. It was absolute misery.
It was full of hate and anger. Actually, anger is a small word
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compared to how I felt. It was full of rage.
It was. I was just so full of rage.
It was the only emotion really left inside me.
Right. Tell me now, what was the
problem? How did your suffering begin?
It began, really began. The root was in my family a long
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time before it actually affectedme personally.
My great grandfather was a hardcore alcoholic that used to
beat my great grandmother, really beat her.
And then my grandmother was beaten and ironically, she
became abusive to her own children, which is my mother.
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So my mother was abused, physically abused terribly, and
that made my mother really weak.Actually, my mom was scared of
people, scared to stand up for herself.
And that started the root in my own life because my mom was
afraid to stand up for herself, afraid to stand up for her own
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rights as a human being. And so when she was faced with
difficulty, she folded. She wasn't strong enough to
stand up for her kids. And my father, when I was a
little girl, abandoned our family.
She got remarried to someone whowas a Christian on the outside
but was not a a Christian on theinside.
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Hold on for a SEC. Hold on for a SEC.
I want you to explain that to me.
A Christian outside but not a Christian inside.
He was a Deacon in the church. My mom was the, at one point,
the choir director. She was a Sunday school teacher.
They did all kinds of volunteer work in the church, but at home
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it was some totally different story.
It was constant fighting, screaming, throwing things,
hitting beatings. And when I say constantly, I
lived in fear constantly, every single day.
Honestly, I lived in fear. I was afraid constantly.
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And my stepfather used to yell so loudly that the neighbors
later told me that they could hear him with our front door
shut across the street with their front door shut, They
could hear him inside their house.
That's how loud he would yell. So we have seen that in your
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case there you came from problems to problems.
So grandmother, mother, you are bothered by your your father.
She remarried and now it seems that she had everything to work
the relationship, to rebuild thefamily.
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But then you found yourself having a stepfather that was
having this kind of double life.In the church was one, in the
home was another person. Let us watch now what people say
behind closed doors. Outside, one person, but behind
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closed doors somebody else. Sunday morning you wake the
kids, your husband, you prepare breakfast and you're off to
another great Sunday morning service, going to church as a
happy family. Apparently there is no problems.
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But what happens as soon as you go home?
Fights, division, lack of communication, addiction,
unfaithfulness, misery. Put on a smile every Sunday, but
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your life is falling apart. Is it worth it?
So behind the closed doors you are somebody else.
In church everybody prays, worship God, but behind the
closed doors you are somebody else.
You can call US 1-888-332-4141, call this number, or else you
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can send us a text. The tax number is there,
1-888-312-4141. This is my text number.
You can send a text asking for help, spiritual help, for
counseling, and I will be able to assist you.
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Let me speak again to Kim Kimberly from Louisiana.
So you are facing many problems in your childhood.
How did it affect you, your sister, your mother?
Because now you had a man that was the step daddy in the church
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was a Christian, inside of home was somebody else.
Well, you know, I was here. It was interesting because the
pastor of our church, I believe,really had the Holy Spirit.
He would preach about Jesus and about salvation, and he would
give examples from the things that Jesus did, the way that he
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lived, the way that he treated people.
And I took that inside me. I really, I really took that in
and I realized that was the right way to live and that was
the way life was supposed to be if you were close to God.
But I was seeing the exact opposite at my house.
And it made me have this really bad attitude towards church,
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towards religion. I really hated hypocrisy.
I didn't respect my parents at all because I looked at them as
the world's biggest hypocrites. I hated them.
It really created a hatred for my parents inside.
And in this way. Me off about church.
In this way, many people do not want to go to church, especially
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the teenagers. We have seen our days, the
things that they hate going to church because they see what you
saw. The parents in the church
beautiful, smile like a happy family.
But going home fights, problems,disagreements.
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Exactly. And the other thing that really
got to me was that there were people who knew how bad it was
for me at home. Other adults knew it was, it was
very hard to hide. But there were other adults who
knew who did nothing about it, which just made me angrier.
You know, there were other family members who knew.
There were teachers who knew theschool principal who knew.
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There were Sunday school teachers who knew.
There were people in the church who knew about it.
There were many people who knew how bad it was for us at home
and did nothing to help the kids.
Nothing. You know, the kids, we're stuck
in it. There's no way out for us.
Talking about your, talking about yourself, your life
growing up. It's an age and adult woman how
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much you suffer. It turned me into a honestly, it
turned me into a terrible human being.
It made me. It enraged me to the point where
I was cold hearted. It made me miserable.
It made me hate life. It made me hate myself.
It may be just to the point where, you know, I was listening
to a news report about a man whokilled his children and his wife
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because he just wanted, he just couldn't take the sound of the
screaming and arguing anymore. And it made me remember the kind
of pressure that that kind of life puts you under.
It's like a terrible pressure. It's like a pressure cooker of
rage and hate and you just can't.
You just feel like you can't take it anymore.
You just want it to end. And at some point you really
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don't even care how it ends. You just want it finished
because you can't take it anymore.
So I think in when it gets to anextreme level, you either become
homicidal or you become suicidal.
It's bad. It's people who have never been
in it cannot imagine the pressure.
That's why you say that you became a terrible human being.
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If you are watching us listen toher story and you say I relate
to it. I am facing the same problems
Kimberly had in life. Actually, you do not have a
family. You don't.
You do not have a family. What you have is a lot of people
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under the same roof, but you do not have a family at all.
If your family is is stuck or falling apart or it's already is
destroyed. So then just Sunday, we are
going to cry out and pray to rebuild your family.
Christ is alive. Don't stop listening, soul.
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Food. Has more to feed.
You. You are.
Listening to Soul Food with Bishop Joshua.
We'll be right back. Went to the grave expecting to
anoint a dead body. They saw the Angel sitting there
and they said, where is Jesus? The Angel said he is not here,
he is risen. I submit to you tonight that
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that's the greatest news the world has ever heard.
He is not here. He has conquered the grave.
He's alive. You breathe in stars, in pain,
the sky, yet hear me every time I cry.
The King of Heaven knows my name, and still you love me just
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the same. The storms obey your sovereign
court, yet you still catch me when I fall.
Your mercy wakes me every day. You lead my feet and light my
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way. No choir could sing what you
deserve, But still ioffer heart and word from ash to gold You
lift tater rays. So here I stand on with all my
praise from nothing You have made me whole with every breath
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that bless my. Soul.
All my praise I live to you for you often and still will do.
You took my pain, replaced it whole to you, my God and key of
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all faith. Used to chase dreams that left
me empty. Now I'm running with the God who
defends me. Didn't earn a thing but he gave
me breath, pulled me up out of sin and even near the desk.
Man, I was broken. Ego loud like Thunder.
Now I drop to my knees full of holy wonder.
Be firm my guilt in the grace, fear into power.
Now walk in the truth every second, every hour.
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No stage, no fame, no check could replace what I feel when
I'm caught in the arms of this grace.
People think strength is a flex.Overthrown but real strength
found when you trust him alone. This ain't just a song, this is
war crap praise for the king whobroke every one of my pain.
So I don't need dog, don't need the applause, just heads to the
sky and the heart for God. Praise ain't weak.
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It's the hardest dance to lift your voice when you missed your
chance to sing, when the pain still stings inside.
To dance when the tears still haven't dried.
But I praise him, filled with the lion's tone for the battles
he fought that I've never known.From lost to found.
I raised his name, my life, my pen, his holy flame.
No choir could sing what you deserve, but still Ioffer heart.
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Edward, from ash to goat you lifted a raise.
So here I stayed on with all my praise from nothing You have
made me whole with every breath that bless my soul all my
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praise. I live to you for you often and
still will do. You took my pain, replaced it
whole to you my God, and kill ofall faith.
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Let the beat drop like Jericho'sballs, because when he shows up,
every stronghold falls. Didn't need a pulpit.
It didn't need a crown. Just the crossing, the blood
that holds me down. I was blind to the truth.
Now I see real clear. Was a slave to my past.
Now I got No Fear. You could cancel me my block
unfollow. I still praise the one who drank
my sorrow. This world don't get why lift
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this out. But I know what it's like to be
pulled from the ground to state religion.
It's a rescue called a savior who stood so I wouldn't fall.
So when I I rise, but when I break, I give him glory for
every age. Not for show, not for fame.
No choir could sing what you deserve, but still Ioffer heart
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Edward from hash to go. So here I stay with all my
praise from nothing You have made me whole with every breath
that bless my soul, all my praise I live to you for you
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often. Well, Kimberly, your house, your
home was broken. What did you expect for the
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future back then? The only you know what?
I didn't even see a future for myself.
I lived literally day-to-day, day-to-day.
I wanted out of there so bad. I was willing to do anything to
get out. I didn't care.
I just want it gone. I left when I was 17 at 2:30 in
the morning with a little tiny suitcase and $34 in my pocket.
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I was out of there. I didn't care if I had to sleep
on the street. I don't.
I didn't care. I was just, I was done.
I was absolutely done because I knew, honestly, I had gotten so
homicidal. I knew that if I'd stayed, I was
going to end up killing my stepfather.
So I got out because it was, it was a matter of survival to get
out. It was that bad.
So of course that just set up another decade or two of
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disaster because I wasn't prepared to get out of my own.
But I was so desperate to get out of the situation that I just
went from one. I was like a pinball machine.
I went from one disaster to another after that, but I didn't
care. I just wanted to get out.
I can't imagine him. So by coming to this ministry,
what did you learn? What did you do?
How is your life now? I learned, you know, it's
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interesting. I learned, I think I just want
to say one small thing. If you're, if you're living in a
house right now where people break things or your doors are
broken from people kicking them open or slamming them open, you
have holes on the wall from the doorknobs, that's a sign that
your family desperately needs help.
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So I want you to think about that for a minute.
If you're listening right now and you can look around your
house and think about things that have been broken from
people being angry or doors thathave been opened so hard or
kicked open and they're broken. That's a really strong sign that
your family is in desperate needof help.
So you are talking about the things that you the.
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Second thing I want. Things that you use to see
inside of your house. Yes, for sure.
Lots of things smashed, broken doors, broken holes in the wall,
things like that. If you start, if you can think
about your house right now or where you live and think about
those things happening. Your family desperately needs
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help or if you're the one doing them, you desperately need help
because those things are not normal.
So don't accept those in yourself, and don't accept those
around and the people around you.
Right what? What is the second thing you
want to share with us? The second thing is you have to
become the center of the hurricane.
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You have to become the calm in the middle of the hurricane
around you. You have to have the Holy
Spirit. You have to have Jesus in your
life. You have to change first before
anybody else around you will change.
I was really hard thinking. I was saying today that God
always chooses someone. He chosen Noah's in the days of
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Noah, the flood. He chose Job in the Bible.
He always chooses someone. So, and this person watching us
right now, listening to us, you are the one as she's saying that
you have to be in the midst of this hurricane to calm things
down and to overcome. Now Kim, tell us, how is your
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life now? My life is like a flower that
opened up. It's really beautiful.
It's peaceful. It's even when things are crazy
around me, it's calm in the middle, I'm calm in the middle.
Even when things are messed up, I'm calm.
I know God is with me. He helps me be strong even when
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I have problems and I'm facing something that's difficult.
You might be in the craziest of situations that would make a
normal person react in a really bad way, but you don't.
It's like you're in the middle of this protective bubble, and
even when things are coming at you, they sort of bounce off.
Well, I have my own business, somy financial life is stable.
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My family is 1 by 1, getting better.
So I've been fighting for my family and they're getting
better. My dad was saved and he passed
away last year, but I was at peace with that because I knew
he was saved. My mom came into our church, she
was delivered, she was baptized,and she's getting stronger every
single day. And now I'm working next.
I'm working on my sister. So 1 by 1, the dominoes are
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falling. So my family's getting better.
I see progress in my family. My and I want to talk about my
husband. I have a really strong man of
God in my life. He's a good Christian man.
He serves God every single day. We serve God together and the
most important, so that's the, you know, to me, that's the
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second most important thing. So job, family, my husband, but
the most important thing is my spiritual life and my spiritual
life is strong. I'm strong and I'm strong enough
now I can give back. You know, other people gave to
me. They helped me when I was messed
up. So I want to be there for other
people who need help. I want to be there when people
come in the church and you know,there are families that would
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scream at each other. You know, the husband and wife
are beating on each other. And it can go both ways.
It can be the wife beating on the husband or the husband
beating on the wife or the kids are coming in and they're,
they're saying, can you know, I'm in the CBC as a Sony school
teacher and the kids are saying my parents need help, help my
parents. Now you can help others.
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Yeah, now I want to help other people.
What's the address of our churchover there?
It's 138 N Broad St. It's at the intersection of
Canal and Broad basically here in New Orleans.
So we're open seven days a week and I love the fact that this
church is open seven days a week.
This is a when they say it's a non-stop ministry, they're not
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kidding. We are here and I say we because
I'm part of it. We are here for you.
Come in. We're here for you.
Kimberly, thank you very much. All the best for you and for the
family. Bye bye.
Thank you. Bye.
Bye. You see, my friend, what?
What else shall I add to hate story?
Nothing you you heard the beforeand after, so you can be the
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next. Just Sunday at every Universal
Church, a prayer will be made for your family.
A family that prays together. It stays together.
When a woman gives birth, the sweetest sound to her ears is
her newborn baby's cry. She can never forget the first
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time she hears his voice. Everyone in that delivery room
celebrates the beautiful sound. Beautiful because it's a sign of
life. But as a child grows, it's cry
signifies hunger, pain, or an unmet need.
A cry is like an alarm demandinga mother's urgent help.
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It is time for you to act, O Lord, for they have regarded
your law as void. When she hears her child's cry,
a mother instinctively knows it's time to act.
And when God our Father hears his people crying out with an
act of faith, he also knows thatit's time to act.
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Evil forces have been lying to God's people, treating God's
Word as worthless and void. How can we stand by and allow
these lies to take hold of us? It's time for God to act, and He
is ready to remove the lies and pain from our lives.
Yet we need to act our faith first.
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By standing upon this promise and determining that it will
come true for us, our cry of pain to God can transform into a
shout of joy for the many blessings we receive.
It becomes a sign of new life. Do whatever it takes to show the
world that God is alive, that His words are true, and that the
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lies and shame are gone. God is ready to act Are you?
Even if you do not believe what God did in the life of Kimberly,
he's going to do in yours as well.
Let us pray. Let us talk to God.
This is now the moment of the prayer.
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It's now the moment of prayer. Let us talk to God.
Here I am in this moment of prayer, so despised, without
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love. Need to.
Talk with my Lord. Oh my Lord and my Father, God of
the Bible, Kimberly's family wasrestored, her life was restored,
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but there is this person on the other side that is broken.
The family is falling apart, actually has already fallen.
There is nothing good that you tell about this family.
Oh Lord, is there anything too hard for you?
There is nothing too hard for you.
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You are the creator of heavens in earth.
You can create a new life for this person.
Enter this body. Lord, remove this pain, take
away this pain that is consumingthis body day by day.
Lord Jesus Christ, I ask you that you may change, transform
the life of this person that just lost someone, a family
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member. There is this person that lost
the place to stay. She's going crazy day by day.
Oh Lord, coming to heal this broken heart, come to heal the
soul that is better. Lord Jesus, this person cannot
sleep. Is there anything possible for
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you? No, Lord, there is nothing,
absolutely nothing impossible for you.
So I pray for the transformation, for the change
of this person's life. You can do that, my Lord.
Oh yes, you can do that. So transform this person's life.
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Let your peace, yes, your peace,shine upon this person's life.
Wipe away their tears, my God, remove their sadness.
Let disperser that is sick be healed.
Those who are on addictions, crack cocaine, marijuana,
deliver dispersed words and for all in the name of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit. When disperser drink of Jesus
water, will you drink thy power,Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. This water is blessed.
This is the power of God. With all your faith, drink your
water. The Lord God heard our prayers
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and our voice. If you need the spiritual help,
do what Kimberly did. She came to us.
Her life was transformed. 7075 SW Freeway.
The church is just between Bel Air and the Hillcroft.
Open every single day, seven days a week.
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All right, I finish right now. The program.
May the God of the Bible bless all of you.
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Here. We are always ready to share a
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Word of Faith, unpack powerful testimonies, divinely inspired
music to enhance your faith. Walk, feed your faith wherever
you go, Quench your spiritual hunger.
(00:48):
Give the food that lasts foreverhere on the Soul Food Podcast.
Once again, together with The Naked Truth, the segment of our
program where we uncover the truth, we show the way it is
with facts, evidences, and the stories that are real.
(01:12):
Not stories that are made-up, but stories that are real
because we are human beings likeyou.
Yes, we are. We feel what we feel.
We had the same problems you have.
We overcame these problems and now we are here to show to you
(01:34):
what to do and how to do it to overcome.
I have this Bible verse that says I mean reading here
Jeremiah 3217. Jeremiah said our Lord God, our
Lord God, behold, you have made the heavens and the earth, the
(02:00):
heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched
arm. There is nothing too hard for
you. That was his statement.
He said there is nothing too hard for you.
You are the one who created heavens in earth.
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There is nothing too hard for you.
What has been too hard for you? What has been so impossible for
you? What is your impossible case?
You have something in life that has been impossible.
What has been impossible for you?
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There is. Is there anything too hard to
forgot? No, there is nothing that is too
hard to forgot. He is the one that can make your
impossibilities become impossible in your life.
Together with me, I have Kimberly all the way from
Louisiana. She's our guest today and she's
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going to reveal the truth. She's going to tell you how her
life, the dark side of her life.Now of course, she has a
different light. The light of God has shine upon
her and the dark side of her life was expelled by the light.
(03:30):
When the light comes, darkness has to vanish.
Hello Kim, How are you? Thank you for joining me here in
The Naked Truth. Hi, how are you?
I'm very well. How are you?
Good, good. Thank you for joining us.
And I want to you start by saying, talking about the dark
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side of your life. How dark was it?
It was as if I were living in another world compared to the
one I'm living in now. It was absolute misery.
It was full of hate and anger. Actually, anger is a small word
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compared to how I felt. It was full of rage.
It was. I was just so full of rage.
It was the only emotion really left inside me.
Right. Tell me now, what was the
problem? How did your suffering begin?
It began, really began. The root was in my family a long
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time before it actually affectedme personally.
My great grandfather was a hardcore alcoholic that used to
beat my great grandmother, really beat her.
And then my grandmother was beaten and ironically, she
became abusive to her own children, which is my mother.
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So my mother was abused, physically abused terribly, and
that made my mother really weak.Actually, my mom was scared of
people, scared to stand up for herself.
And that started the root in my own life because my mom was
afraid to stand up for herself, afraid to stand up for her own
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rights as a human being. And so when she was faced with
difficulty, she folded. She wasn't strong enough to
stand up for her kids. And my father, when I was a
little girl, abandoned our family.
She got remarried to someone whowas a Christian on the outside
but was not a a Christian on theinside.
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Hold on for a SEC. Hold on for a SEC.
I want you to explain that to me.
A Christian outside but not a Christian inside.
He was a Deacon in the church. My mom was the, at one point,
the choir director. She was a Sunday school teacher.
They did all kinds of volunteer work in the church, but at home
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it was some totally different story.
It was constant fighting, screaming, throwing things,
hitting beatings. And when I say constantly, I
lived in fear constantly, every single day.
Honestly, I lived in fear. I was afraid constantly.
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And my stepfather used to yell so loudly that the neighbors
later told me that they could hear him with our front door
shut across the street with their front door shut, They
could hear him inside their house.
That's how loud he would yell. So we have seen that in your
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case there you came from problems to problems.
So grandmother, mother, you are bothered by your your father.
She remarried and now it seems that she had everything to work
the relationship, to rebuild thefamily.
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But then you found yourself having a stepfather that was
having this kind of double life.In the church was one, in the
home was another person. Let us watch now what people say
behind closed doors. Outside, one person, but behind
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closed doors somebody else. Sunday morning you wake the
kids, your husband, you prepare breakfast and you're off to
another great Sunday morning service, going to church as a
happy family. Apparently there is no problems.
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But what happens as soon as you go home?
Fights, division, lack of communication, addiction,
unfaithfulness, misery. Put on a smile every Sunday, but
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your life is falling apart. Is it worth it?
So behind the closed doors you are somebody else.
In church everybody prays, worship God, but behind the
closed doors you are somebody else.
You can call US 1-888-332-4141, call this number, or else you
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can send us a text. The tax number is there,
1-888-312-4141. This is my text number.
You can send a text asking for help, spiritual help, for
counseling, and I will be able to assist you.
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Let me speak again to Kim Kimberly from Louisiana.
So you are facing many problems in your childhood.
How did it affect you, your sister, your mother?
Because now you had a man that was the step daddy in the church
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was a Christian, inside of home was somebody else.
Well, you know, I was here. It was interesting because the
pastor of our church, I believe,really had the Holy Spirit.
He would preach about Jesus and about salvation, and he would
give examples from the things that Jesus did, the way that he
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lived, the way that he treated people.
And I took that inside me. I really, I really took that in
and I realized that was the right way to live and that was
the way life was supposed to be if you were close to God.
But I was seeing the exact opposite at my house.
And it made me have this really bad attitude towards church,
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towards religion. I really hated hypocrisy.
I didn't respect my parents at all because I looked at them as
the world's biggest hypocrites. I hated them.
It really created a hatred for my parents inside.
And in this way. Me off about church.
In this way, many people do not want to go to church, especially
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the teenagers. We have seen our days, the
things that they hate going to church because they see what you
saw. The parents in the church
beautiful, smile like a happy family.
But going home fights, problems,disagreements.
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Exactly. And the other thing that really
got to me was that there were people who knew how bad it was
for me at home. Other adults knew it was, it was
very hard to hide. But there were other adults who
knew who did nothing about it, which just made me angrier.
You know, there were other family members who knew.
There were teachers who knew theschool principal who knew.
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There were Sunday school teachers who knew.
There were people in the church who knew about it.
There were many people who knew how bad it was for us at home
and did nothing to help the kids.
Nothing. You know, the kids, we're stuck
in it. There's no way out for us.
Talking about your, talking about yourself, your life
growing up. It's an age and adult woman how
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much you suffer. It turned me into a honestly, it
turned me into a terrible human being.
It made me. It enraged me to the point where
I was cold hearted. It made me miserable.
It made me hate life. It made me hate myself.
It may be just to the point where, you know, I was listening
to a news report about a man whokilled his children and his wife
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because he just wanted, he just couldn't take the sound of the
screaming and arguing anymore. And it made me remember the kind
of pressure that that kind of life puts you under.
It's like a terrible pressure. It's like a pressure cooker of
rage and hate and you just can't.
You just feel like you can't take it anymore.
You just want it to end. And at some point you really
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don't even care how it ends. You just want it finished
because you can't take it anymore.
So I think in when it gets to anextreme level, you either become
homicidal or you become suicidal.
It's bad. It's people who have never been
in it cannot imagine the pressure.
That's why you say that you became a terrible human being.
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If you are watching us listen toher story and you say I relate
to it. I am facing the same problems
Kimberly had in life. Actually, you do not have a
family. You don't.
You do not have a family. What you have is a lot of people
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under the same roof, but you do not have a family at all.
If your family is is stuck or falling apart or it's already is
destroyed. So then just Sunday, we are
going to cry out and pray to rebuild your family.
Christ is alive. Don't stop listening, soul.
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Food. Has more to feed.
You. You are.
Listening to Soul Food with Bishop Joshua.
We'll be right back. Went to the grave expecting to
anoint a dead body. They saw the Angel sitting there
and they said, where is Jesus? The Angel said he is not here,
he is risen. I submit to you tonight that
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that's the greatest news the world has ever heard.
He is not here. He has conquered the grave.
He's alive. You breathe in stars, in pain,
the sky, yet hear me every time I cry.
The King of Heaven knows my name, and still you love me just
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the same. The storms obey your sovereign
court, yet you still catch me when I fall.
Your mercy wakes me every day. You lead my feet and light my
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way. No choir could sing what you
deserve, But still ioffer heart and word from ash to gold You
lift tater rays. So here I stand on with all my
praise from nothing You have made me whole with every breath
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that bless my. Soul.
All my praise I live to you for you often and still will do.
You took my pain, replaced it whole to you, my God and key of
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all faith. Used to chase dreams that left
me empty. Now I'm running with the God who
defends me. Didn't earn a thing but he gave
me breath, pulled me up out of sin and even near the desk.
Man, I was broken. Ego loud like Thunder.
Now I drop to my knees full of holy wonder.
Be firm my guilt in the grace, fear into power.
Now walk in the truth every second, every hour.
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No stage, no fame, no check could replace what I feel when
I'm caught in the arms of this grace.
People think strength is a flex.Overthrown but real strength
found when you trust him alone. This ain't just a song, this is
war crap praise for the king whobroke every one of my pain.
So I don't need dog, don't need the applause, just heads to the
sky and the heart for God. Praise ain't weak.
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It's the hardest dance to lift your voice when you missed your
chance to sing, when the pain still stings inside.
To dance when the tears still haven't dried.
But I praise him, filled with the lion's tone for the battles
he fought that I've never known.From lost to found.
I raised his name, my life, my pen, his holy flame.
No choir could sing what you deserve, but still Ioffer heart.
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Edward, from ash to goat you lifted a raise.
So here I stayed on with all my praise from nothing You have
made me whole with every breath that bless my soul all my
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praise. I live to you for you often and
still will do. You took my pain, replaced it
whole to you my God, and kill ofall faith.
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Let the beat drop like Jericho'sballs, because when he shows up,
every stronghold falls. Didn't need a pulpit.
It didn't need a crown. Just the crossing, the blood
that holds me down. I was blind to the truth.
Now I see real clear. Was a slave to my past.
Now I got No Fear. You could cancel me my block
unfollow. I still praise the one who drank
my sorrow. This world don't get why lift
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this out. But I know what it's like to be
pulled from the ground to state religion.
It's a rescue called a savior who stood so I wouldn't fall.
So when I I rise, but when I break, I give him glory for
every age. Not for show, not for fame.
No choir could sing what you deserve, but still Ioffer heart
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Edward from hash to go. So here I stay with all my
praise from nothing You have made me whole with every breath
that bless my soul, all my praise I live to you for you
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often. Well, Kimberly, your house, your
home was broken. What did you expect for the
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future back then? The only you know what?
I didn't even see a future for myself.
I lived literally day-to-day, day-to-day.
I wanted out of there so bad. I was willing to do anything to
get out. I didn't care.
I just want it gone. I left when I was 17 at 2:30 in
the morning with a little tiny suitcase and $34 in my pocket.
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I was out of there. I didn't care if I had to sleep
on the street. I don't.
I didn't care. I was just, I was done.
I was absolutely done because I knew, honestly, I had gotten so
homicidal. I knew that if I'd stayed, I was
going to end up killing my stepfather.
So I got out because it was, it was a matter of survival to get
out. It was that bad.
So of course that just set up another decade or two of
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disaster because I wasn't prepared to get out of my own.
But I was so desperate to get out of the situation that I just
went from one. I was like a pinball machine.
I went from one disaster to another after that, but I didn't
care. I just wanted to get out.
I can't imagine him. So by coming to this ministry,
what did you learn? What did you do?
How is your life now? I learned, you know, it's
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interesting. I learned, I think I just want
to say one small thing. If you're, if you're living in a
house right now where people break things or your doors are
broken from people kicking them open or slamming them open, you
have holes on the wall from the doorknobs, that's a sign that
your family desperately needs help.
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So I want you to think about that for a minute.
If you're listening right now and you can look around your
house and think about things that have been broken from
people being angry or doors thathave been opened so hard or
kicked open and they're broken. That's a really strong sign that
your family is in desperate needof help.
So you are talking about the things that you the.
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Second thing I want. Things that you use to see
inside of your house. Yes, for sure.
Lots of things smashed, broken doors, broken holes in the wall,
things like that. If you start, if you can think
about your house right now or where you live and think about
those things happening. Your family desperately needs
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help or if you're the one doing them, you desperately need help
because those things are not normal.
So don't accept those in yourself, and don't accept those
around and the people around you.
Right what? What is the second thing you
want to share with us? The second thing is you have to
become the center of the hurricane.
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You have to become the calm in the middle of the hurricane
around you. You have to have the Holy
Spirit. You have to have Jesus in your
life. You have to change first before
anybody else around you will change.
I was really hard thinking. I was saying today that God
always chooses someone. He chosen Noah's in the days of
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Noah, the flood. He chose Job in the Bible.
He always chooses someone. So, and this person watching us
right now, listening to us, you are the one as she's saying that
you have to be in the midst of this hurricane to calm things
down and to overcome. Now Kim, tell us, how is your
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life now? My life is like a flower that
opened up. It's really beautiful.
It's peaceful. It's even when things are crazy
around me, it's calm in the middle, I'm calm in the middle.
Even when things are messed up, I'm calm.
I know God is with me. He helps me be strong even when
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I have problems and I'm facing something that's difficult.
You might be in the craziest of situations that would make a
normal person react in a really bad way, but you don't.
It's like you're in the middle of this protective bubble, and
even when things are coming at you, they sort of bounce off.
Well, I have my own business, somy financial life is stable.
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My family is 1 by 1, getting better.
So I've been fighting for my family and they're getting
better. My dad was saved and he passed
away last year, but I was at peace with that because I knew
he was saved. My mom came into our church, she
was delivered, she was baptized,and she's getting stronger every
single day. And now I'm working next.
I'm working on my sister. So 1 by 1, the dominoes are
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falling. So my family's getting better.
I see progress in my family. My and I want to talk about my
husband. I have a really strong man of
God in my life. He's a good Christian man.
He serves God every single day. We serve God together and the
most important, so that's the, you know, to me, that's the
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second most important thing. So job, family, my husband, but
the most important thing is my spiritual life and my spiritual
life is strong. I'm strong and I'm strong enough
now I can give back. You know, other people gave to
me. They helped me when I was messed
up. So I want to be there for other
people who need help. I want to be there when people
come in the church and you know,there are families that would
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scream at each other. You know, the husband and wife
are beating on each other. And it can go both ways.
It can be the wife beating on the husband or the husband
beating on the wife or the kids are coming in and they're,
they're saying, can you know, I'm in the CBC as a Sony school
teacher and the kids are saying my parents need help, help my
parents. Now you can help others.
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Yeah, now I want to help other people.
What's the address of our churchover there?
It's 138 N Broad St. It's at the intersection of
Canal and Broad basically here in New Orleans.
So we're open seven days a week and I love the fact that this
church is open seven days a week.
This is a when they say it's a non-stop ministry, they're not
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kidding. We are here and I say we because
I'm part of it. We are here for you.
Come in. We're here for you.
Kimberly, thank you very much. All the best for you and for the
family. Bye bye.
Thank you. Bye.
Bye. You see, my friend, what?
What else shall I add to hate story?
Nothing you you heard the beforeand after, so you can be the
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next. Just Sunday at every Universal
Church, a prayer will be made for your family.
A family that prays together. It stays together.
When a woman gives birth, the sweetest sound to her ears is
her newborn baby's cry. She can never forget the first
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time she hears his voice. Everyone in that delivery room
celebrates the beautiful sound. Beautiful because it's a sign of
life. But as a child grows, it's cry
signifies hunger, pain, or an unmet need.
A cry is like an alarm demandinga mother's urgent help.
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It is time for you to act, O Lord, for they have regarded
your law as void. When she hears her child's cry,
a mother instinctively knows it's time to act.
And when God our Father hears his people crying out with an
act of faith, he also knows thatit's time to act.
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Evil forces have been lying to God's people, treating God's
Word as worthless and void. How can we stand by and allow
these lies to take hold of us? It's time for God to act, and He
is ready to remove the lies and pain from our lives.
Yet we need to act our faith first.
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By standing upon this promise and determining that it will
come true for us, our cry of pain to God can transform into a
shout of joy for the many blessings we receive.
It becomes a sign of new life. Do whatever it takes to show the
world that God is alive, that His words are true, and that the
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lies and shame are gone. God is ready to act Are you?
Even if you do not believe what God did in the life of Kimberly,
he's going to do in yours as well.
Let us pray. Let us talk to God.
This is now the moment of the prayer.
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It's now the moment of prayer. Let us talk to God.
Here I am in this moment of prayer, so despised, without
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love. Need to.
Talk with my Lord. Oh my Lord and my Father, God of
the Bible, Kimberly's family wasrestored, her life was restored,
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but there is this person on the other side that is broken.
The family is falling apart, actually has already fallen.
There is nothing good that you tell about this family.
Oh Lord, is there anything too hard for you?
There is nothing too hard for you.
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You are the creator of heavens in earth.
You can create a new life for this person.
Enter this body. Lord, remove this pain, take
away this pain that is consumingthis body day by day.
Lord Jesus Christ, I ask you that you may change, transform
the life of this person that just lost someone, a family
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member. There is this person that lost
the place to stay. She's going crazy day by day.
Oh Lord, coming to heal this broken heart, come to heal the
soul that is better. Lord Jesus, this person cannot
sleep. Is there anything possible for
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you? No, Lord, there is nothing,
absolutely nothing impossible for you.
So I pray for the transformation, for the change
of this person's life. You can do that, my Lord.
Oh yes, you can do that. So transform this person's life.
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Let your peace, yes, your peace,shine upon this person's life.
Wipe away their tears, my God, remove their sadness.
Let disperser that is sick be healed.
Those who are on addictions, crack cocaine, marijuana,
deliver dispersed words and for all in the name of the Father,
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the Son and the Holy Spirit. When disperser drink of Jesus
water, will you drink thy power,Jesus name, Amen.
Amen. This water is blessed.
This is the power of God. With all your faith, drink your
water. The Lord God heard our prayers
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and our voice. If you need the spiritual help,
do what Kimberly did. She came to us.
Her life was transformed. 7075 SW Freeway.
The church is just between Bel Air and the Hillcroft.
Open every single day, seven days a week.
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All right, I finish right now. The program.
May the God of the Bible bless all of you.
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