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I was partying and drinking and doing all those things to feel accepted by my friends. But every time I was doing that, I saw my life getting from bad to worse. My relationship with God was on and off. I went to some church services, but I still didn\u2019t give myself fully to God the way He wanted.<\/p>\n
I had a bunch of friends. I liked to hang out with my friends. I was always around people who were not a good influence on me. Drinking or smoking, whatever they did, I also wanted to be involved. I wanted to see what they were doing, and I wished to be with them and be like them.<\/p>\n
I would also skip school a lot. I had a lot of absences. I had a bad relationship with my mom. I held a lot of grudges towards her and a lot of anger.<\/p>\n
I was always scared of the dark. I had to have some sort of light or sleep next to someone because I would hear footsteps. I would hear noises or hear voices that led me to not be able to sleep for nights.<\/p>\n
Even with a lot of people around me because I came to have a lot of friends, it still wasn\u2019t enough to fill the loneliness that I had. I thought that the friends I had were true friends. When I found out that all this time and this love and all the stuff that I did to show them I cared for them was not enough, and they actually didn\u2019t care at all. They left. They let me know that they did not care.<\/p>\n
I went home and I really just cried and told God, \u201cSo what’s the point? What\u2019s the point of being here? What\u2019s the point of living? The people I thought cared, they don\u2019t care about me.\u201d I started feeling guilty and ashamed. I wished I could turn everything back. Everything I did, the time I poured into the friends, into the people, into the stuff that I did, it wasn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n
I wanted God to give me a chance. I wanted to change, and I knew that He was the only one who would do that. After seven weeks of participating in the Chains of Prayer<\/a><\/span> at The Universal Church,<\/a><\/span> participating, praying sincerely, being delivered, and my decision to seek God with all my heart, I saw positive changes.<\/p>\n I slept better, I would wake up feeling better, more happy. I started wanting the Holy Spirit and it took me a really long time to figure that out and understand that what I needed was the Holy Spirit. It was God inside of me that was going to fulfill me.<\/p>\n I wanted to be different, and I wanted all those holes I had, I wanted God to fill them. I gave myself to Him. I gave my soul, spirit, my life, my future, everything. I gave it to Him.<\/p>\n The Holy Spirit came upon me. He gave me happiness, instant happiness, instant peace, instant reassurance. Surrounded by people or just by myself, I know who I am, who I have, whom I follow, whom I trust, which is God.<\/p>\n Nobody could have done, could have solved, and could have pulled me from where I was if it wasn\u2019t God.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2014Katheryn<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was partying and drinking and doing all those things to feel accepted by my friends. But every time I was doing that, I saw my life getting from bad to worse. My relationship with God was on and off. I went to some church services, but I still didn\u2019t give myself fully to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":342850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6063,20],"tags":[210,6121],"site":[],"class_list":["post-342440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-transformation","category-real-life-stories","tag-testimony","tag-the-holy-spirit"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342440"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342960,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342440\/revisions\/342960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342440"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=342440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}