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| The Power of Sin: Broken at the Cross of ChristReader Letter, 6/20/03 "I cannot thank you enough from the bottom of my heart for your… obedience to Jesus Christ. Bless you, bless you, and bless you some more. "I am one who has endured every type of abuse from the time of my birth - sexual and emotional abuse by my adoptive father who was a leader for one of the largest Christian organizations across America. Due to this (only a reason - not excuse) I began at the age of 14 to marry abusive husbands and almost lost my life multiple times. "…what felt to be the hardest over the years was seeking healing - I was sent from group to group to counselor to psychologist to pastor to ... and it piled more and more burden onto my already desperate soul - it was as the blind leading the blind and the lame carrying the obese!… "He taught me by His word to take responsibility for my sin and helped me unwind what was my responsibility and what was others. He taught me to forgive those who had harmed me - and to lay it at the cross. He taught me to take responsibility for my sins and go to others and repent of my sins, and lay this at the cross. Because of my repentance, others in the churches continually told me over the past 10 years that I am too hard on myself, that my self-esteem was too low, that I needed to learn to love myself… But as you stated, Lisa, because they had been Christians longer, I felt I must have been wrong all of the time. "I even once witnessed a pastor inviting young women into the church from the community and only offering them psychology. Many of these young women were involved in the occult and I told him that they did not need psychology but they needed the truth of the cross of Jesus Christ - and that by his not offering this, he was inviting darkness into the church. He laughed at me and told me that I would be well one day. Not long after the woman who set up the communion told me that every time she would go behind the altar, a darkness would hit her and she could not do this anymore. "Anyways, I am just really excited about your book - what a wonderful blessing that God has raised you both for such times as these - to be such a powerful instrument of truth and to bless our beautiful and most powerful Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, that His glorious light may begin to shine across our countries… "I just really wanted to thank you, again, from the bottom of my heart for your obedience and courage to do what you are doing." --SS, Canada
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