DAY 24

Amy Walker | Re:Hope West End

My answer to prayer is my testimony of coming to faith last year. 

I didn't grow up Christian and was very much in the world. I struggled massively with alcohol and drugs in my early adult life. I went looking for love in the wrong places and found myself fleeing domestic abuse and encountering homelessness. Ultimately, this affected my mental health to the point that I didn't want to live anymore.

After fleeing those situations and trying to rebuild my life, things were looking up for me but I always bore the scars of the trauma I had faced and my past always ended up coming back to bite me in the form of anxiety, depression and OCD. I had become numb towards people and towards love.

Last year I faced sepsis and it made me ask so many questions about life after death and what I truly believed in. I truly believe God placed someone in my life just as I was asking all these questions and exploring faith. I attended a Re:Hope service and tangibly felt the love of God that day, gave my life to Jesus, and have been transformed. God has turned my trauma into testimony and has provided me with purpose in life I never know I could have. 

My anxiety and OCD have been silenced since that day and God has truly brought me into a calling by giving me a love for people again. All glory to GOD. It is by His grace and mercy that I am the person here today.