Growing up, I was fortunate to have been raised in the church where I developed a biblical foundation. Through my young adult life, I had started to wander from my Shepherd like a sheep referenced in Psalm 23. Grace Restoration helped bring healing and understanding to who I was and who my God was to me. Throughout my wandering years, I realized that even though I knew about the Lord, I also developed my own personal assumptions and falsities about Him, which stemmed from a life of sin and trauma that I experienced throughout my walk. Instead of seeing God for who He really was, I saw Him through the lens of falsities which distorted the reality of Him and intimacy with the Father. GRC helped me tackle these falsities head on through repentance of sins and the demolishing of lies set up to entrap me by the enemy. I recognized that although I was saved, I was not living as a free daughter of the King. 1 Peter 2:16 says, ““Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.” The enemy used all kinds of personal strongholds against me such as self-idolatry, idolatry of others, fear, abdomenment, immorality, depression, just to name a few. But the Lord was calling me to freedom and GRC walked there with me. Through this ministry, the Lord began to reveal Himself to me in a personal way I’ve never known before. I’ve always read in the Bible how Lord would often speak to his own, but it wasn’t until my sessions at GRC where I was enlightened that the same God who spoke to Moses desired to speak to me too. I am now awakened to His desire to speak to me intimately and personally through His word, through visions and whispers to the heart. Because of this ministry, I have found intimacy and restoration to my Shepherd and I can see how the Lord has been working through every situation in my past to connect me back to Him. He has been pursuing me all along, through every trial, through every situation. To this day, I remain connected with the ministry and have received prayer through other life challenges that have come along the way into my adulthood. From college years to job search to marriage to pregnancy loss to healthy pregnancy, GRC has walked alongside me as I’ve walked alongside my Shepherd once again. I now trust Him as my Shepherd because I don’t just know about Him, I know Him and I recognize His voice. And by His grace, I choose to walk with Him to green pastures or through the valleys of the shadow of death, if that is where He is leading me. 1 Peter 2:25, “For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.