08/17/2026
PART 2 | I LIVED TO DECLARE IT. š«
There are some scriptures you read differently after youāve lived through something that could have changed the entire course of your life.
āI shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.ā Psalm 118:17 KJV
For years, Iāve shared my testimony and thanked God for keeping me. But going back through the details has reminded me that survival is more than simply making it to the other side. Sometimes itās not until you look back that you realize just how much God sustained you while you were in the middle of something you didnāt fully understand.
At 22, I couldnāt see 37.
I couldnāt see the woman I would become, the lives my testimony would touch, the ministry that would come from my experiences, or the day I would sit down and tell this story in this much detail.
But God could.
There was purpose on the other side of what I was surviving, even when I couldnāt see it yet.
And maybe thatās for somebody watching this series right now. You may be in a chapter where you canāt see beyond what youāre currently enduring. Your present circumstances are real, but they do not get to write the final chapter of your story.
Fifteen years later, Psalm 118:17 isnāt just a verse I can quote.
Iām living it.
And thereās still another layer to this testimony, because eventually I had to look beyond what happened to me physically and confront some things spiritually that I didnāt understand at 22.
Part 3 goes there. šļø
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