For many years, I lived a life I am not proud of. My name is Sarah (and you can share my name with this testimony) and I was once trapped in the world of prostitution, breathe, yes prostitution. I felt very worthless, rejected, and stuck in a cycle of shame and sin. I grew up in a broken home and trust me this is no excuse but I just want to give a background of my life , with no real sense of love or security. By the time I was in my teens, I was searching for love and security in the wrong places and with the wrong people.I was looking for a way to survive my messed up life and that search led me down a very bad path of darkness. At first I thought I was in control of my choices as everyone would say, 'it is my life and I am in control of my life'. But as time went on, I realized I was in bondage, self destructive bondage that I had put myself into and which had opened evil doors that you can imagine. My heart was filled with pain and emptiness, no matter how much I tried to fill that void with relationships, money, or temporary pleasures, alcohol, partying unfortunately the void only grew larger. That void was evident and it was not going anywhere. I looked at myself in the mirror and I absolutely hated myself for what I had become, and I believed that there was no way out. Who would want this ugly tainted thing that was looking back at me in the mirror. I looked at my eyes and I couldn't recognize the face that was looking back at me. But God had a different plan for my life.
One night, as I stood on the street in all my prostitute glory waiting for someone to pick me up, broken and desperate, a woman from a local church approached me.There was something about her and I was ready to be defensive and screwed up my face so that she won't talk to me and just pass me by. She didn’t judge me or look down on me. Instead, she looked into my eyes with compassion and said, “Jesus loves you. He has a plan for your life” Those words pierced my heart, but I didn’t respond immediately. I thought, “How could God love someone like me? How could He forgive me after all I’ve done, the sinful life that I live?” The next few weeks were a battle for me I don't want to lie. I kept hearing that woman's words replaying in my mind like an old school record on repeat. For the first time in a very long time (years) I started praying, well more like talking but I guess it is the same as praying. I asked God, “If You’re real, if You truly love me, show me a way out.” It was my daily prayer.I didn't even know whether it was heard but child of God that’s when things began to change.
A few days later, I ran into the same woman at a grocery store. Like I mentioned earlier there was a light on this woman, love, that is what it was, she had this love about her that brought peace.This time I couldn’t hold back my tears, I told her everything that had gone on, how I was feeling and what I wanted for the future. I told her how I felt trapped, ashamed, and hopeless. How I felt dirty, unforgiven, unclean and she just hugged me me and let me cry till I was ready to let go. She invited me to her church and immediately I said no, I did not want to be judged and I am sure most people who attended that church knew me and knew what I was all about so I did not go. The woman would call me and pray with me, at times we would meet for a coffee and she would help me understand certain things. Then one day she gave me a beautiful box and it was a bible. That is when things really started to change when I went into the word and I started praying more. I would still go to the streets and the difference is I started to feel bad about it and I started hating it. One day I told this angel of a woman that I wanted to follow her to church and see how I would feel.On that day I was hesitant last minute but I decided to go.
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That day changed my life forever. At the church, I heard about the love of Jesus in a way I had never understood before. I learned that He had died on the cross for my sins, that His grace could cover even my darkest past. I realized that no sin is too big for God’s forgiveness. As the pastor spoke about the story of the woman caught in adultery, and how Jesus told her, “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11), I felt as though He was speaking directly to me. At the end of the service, I went forward and surrendered my life to Jesus. I confessed my sins, repented, and asked Him to take control of my life. In that moment, I felt a weight lift off my shoulders, a weight I had been carrying for years. I felt clean, forgiven, and loved for the first time in my life. Since that day, my life has never been the same. God has been transforming me from the inside out. He has healed the deep wounds of my past, and He’s teaching me to see myself through His eyes, as a beloved daughter of the King. The shame and guilt that once consumed me is gone. I now live with hope and purpose, knowing that I am a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). I am sharing my testimony because I want others to know that no matter how far you have gone, no matter what you’ve done, God’s grace is greater. If He can rescue and redeem someone like me, He can do the same for you.
Today, I own an online business and I volunteer with the same church very church that helped me. I make it my personal ministry to reach out to women who are where I once was. I tell them about the precious gift of salvation and what that woman told me: “Jesus loves you. He has a plan for your life.”Jeremiah 29:11
I’m living proof that God’s mercy is limitless and His love is relentless. To Him be all the glory!
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