OVER 20 PLUS YEARS AGO I MARRIED MY LATE PASTORS SON. "I" WAS SO IN LOVE, YOU COULDN'T TELL ME ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT THIS MAN. I HAD ALWAYS WANTED MY OWN FAMILY, IT WAS MY DREAM FOR MY LIFE. ESPECIALLY AFTER BEING DELIVERED FROM DRUGS, PROSTITUTION, MOLESTATION AND VERBAL ABUSE, AMONG OTHER THINGS. AFTER PRAYING TO BECOME PREGNANT, IT WAS PROPHESIED TO "ME" THAT I WAS ABOUT TO BE BLESSED WITH MY PRAYER REQUEST. SURE ENOUGH, IN JUNE OF 1995, I CONCEIVED. THREE MONTHS INTO THE PREGNANCY, MY MOTHER-IN LAW TOLD ME TO FAST FROM HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH MY HUSBAND, HER SON. OF COURSE THAT DID NOT SIT WELL WITH ME.. BY MY FOURTH MONTH, SHE PASSED AWAY, SHE NEVER KNEW I WAS PREGNANT (HE WOULD NOT ANNOUNCE IT), NOT LONG AFTER THAT, WE WERE LIVING IN HER HOME AND ALL HELL BEGIN TO MANIFEST.

ONE SUNNY BUT COOL DAY, MY HUSBAND WENT TO WORK, THAT AFTERNOON I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM A WOMEN UNFAMILIAR TO ME, ASKING FOR MY HUSBAND. NAIVE AND BLIND SIDED, IT WAS HIS GIRLFRIEND, HIS MISTRESS (I WAS UNAWARE OF WHO SHE WAS). THAT NIGHT HE DID NOT COME HOME AT HIS USUAL TIME, SO I DID WHAT I USUALLY DO, GOT READY FOR BED. AS I PRAYED THAT NIGHT I HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT TELL ME TO LEAVE, OF COURSE I WAS NOT RECEIVING THAT. AS I LAID DOWN AND FELL OFF TO SLEEP, MY ENTIRE BODY SHOOK, IT SHOOK SO HARD I WOKE UP AND REALIZED WHAT I HAD DONE.

WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT TOLD ME TO GO, MY RESPONSE WAS "OH NO DEVIL, IM NOT LEAVING MY HUSBAND." WRONG ANSWER!!!! I JUMPED UP GOT ON MY KNEES AND ASKED TO BE FORGIVING FOR MY DISOBEDIENCE. AS I PREPARED TO LEAVE MY HUSBAND COMES HOME. NEEDLESS TO SAY, WE HAD A CONFRONTATION AND HE ENDED UP BEING PUSHED INTO A CLOSET, FELL INTO A BIG BOX AND STRUGGLED TO GET OUT. THIS GAVE ME THE CHANCE TO GET OUT THE FRONT DOOR AND ON MY WAY.

LONG STORY SHORT, FIVE MONTHS AFTER MY SON WAS
BORN, I GOT A PHONE CALL. IT WAS HIM TELLING ME HIS FRIEND HAD DIED IN HIS ARMS, HE NEVER SAID IT WAS "HER." TWO DAYS LATER HE CALLED AGAIN, BUT THIS WAS A LIFE CHANGING PHONE CALL.. HE PROCEEDED TO INFORM ME THAT HIS FRIEND THAT DIED WAS THE OTHER-WOMEN AND SHE DIED FROM FULL BLOWN AIDS. WHICH SHE HAD NOT ONLY PASSED DOWN TO THREE OF HER CHILDREN, BUT TO HIM ALSO.

THROUGHOUT MY PREGNANCY, ALTHOUGH WE WERE NOT LIVING TOGETHER, I WAS STILL SLEEPING WITH MY HUSBAND. HE TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE HIV VIRUS, BUT MYSELF AND MY BABY WERE SPARED. THE MERCY AND GRACE OF GOD IS UPON ME...

MY SON WILL BE 21 (JANUARY 2017), HE IS IN HIS SECOND YEAR OF COLLEGE, HEALTHY AND HEADED TOWARDS A GOOD AND BLESSED LIFE. THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR GOD. FAITH IS KEY, A KEY THAT OPENS UP DOORS OF UNBELIEVABLE OUTCOMES, THAT SUPERSEDED ANYTHING MAN COULD THINK OF. I STILL SERVE GOD AND NOW I MINISTER TO ANYONE OPEN TO RECEIVE IT.

LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLE, GOD IS WITH YOU,JUST OPEN UP AND RECEIVE IT...

LOVINGLY SUBMITTED,

MINISTER GINGER J.