Scars from the past can run deep. But God has a plan for redemption for all of us. Our friend Tayen shares her story of how knowing Jesus Christ helped her overcome pain, scars, questions and even her own poor choices.
Our friend Kytia shares about how God healed hurts from the past and redeemed her relationship with men.
Friendships are those relationships that enrich our lives. Friends build you up when you’re down and they walk with you through all seasons of life. But when the relationships closest to us do not have our best interest in mind and are abusive, they can tear us down. Our friend Johnny shares his encounter with domestic abuse and how the resulting brokenness could be healed if we were in a loving relationship with God.
It was another one of those rare nights; it was a wide open schedule. Tonight my friend Fred and I went to have dinner and then went for a nice cruise on our fixies on the bumpy under-budget paved streets of So Cal. Sounds nice right? In retrospect, it was a typical celebration of friendship. We saw some random things; a pile of snow in a parking lot in downtown Fullerton, a very cultish looking church service, lots of British people, people waltzing, but what was most out of place was on the way home…
We were heading up Lemon Ave. towards Fullerton and all of sudden, across the street, we saw what looked to be two men fighting. Okay that’s not that weird but like any other youtube video, pushing play was the next step. Turns out there was a 3rd person, it was a young girl, getting beaten by her drunk boyfriend. What?!
Do you believe in miracles? Our friend A shares an incredible testimony of how God instantly healed her back after more than 10 months in constant, overwhelming pain.
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate” - 1 Corinthians 1:19
It’s been a long hard 10 months of extreme back pain and not sleeping through the night… and as silly as it may sound, I knew there was something seriously wrong with my back pain issue when I had to stop wearing heels because my right leg became very weak and unstable.
My back pain stems from my past of extreme child abuse from my step-mom from the age of 5-17. Doctors have told me that every ligament that holds my spine together from the base of my neck to my tailbone is completely covered with scar tissue and therefore unstable.
At 17, I mustered up the courage to run away from home and soon became involved with humanitarian work and fought hard for children’s welfare issues; I helped build national campaigns for human welfare issues with organizations like The ONE Campaign, World Vision, Unicef, etc. A few years later, as a 3rd year undergrad at UCLA, I met God in power and truth and was baptized in the Holy Spirit….and I experienced a healing miracle - I was healed of asthma through a prayer from a pastor!
In 6 weeks, our good friends at Freedom & Fashion are hosting their 2nd annual Freedom & Fashion Showcase and Trade Show. The Editors of WitnessLA will be in attendance, so please join us for this great cause!
Freedom & Fashion is an innovative nonprofit that raises awareness of human trafficking and provides a forum for organizations to showcase their designs and products that raise money to change the lives of those victims.
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