DELIVERED FROM SLAVERY: This book didn't leave me alone!

This book didn't leave me alone!    

"When I read these words, I wept, for all my life I had struggled.

From my earliest childhood, my life was marked by disappointment. Unloved by my parents, I wanted to find love in the world. I sought happiness in music and drugs. I was employed in a local authority office, and outwardly everything was in order. But inside me was the hell of heroin addiction.

One day, I was arrested and imprisoned in Munich. The doctors thought I wouldn't survive. I was full of drugs and had bad jaundice. But God saved me from death. After a dreadful week, I survived the physical detox, but went on with my life as before. Until I found a Bible. I put it in the back of my cell, determined not to read it.

Strangely enough, that book in my cupboard wouldn't leave me alone. Finally, I picked it up, opened it, and what I read shocked me. It says that God is the Lord, the King. He is the Lord, strong and mighty, mighty in battle. And it says that this Lord is my helper; I shall not be afraid psalm 25, psalm 118.

When I read these words, I cried, because all my life I had struggled to find attention and love.Then I prayed: “God, if you really want to fight for me, then I want to come to you”; That was in August 1986. Since then, I've come to know God better, and He has delivered me. I'm grateful to Him from the bottom of my heart.

Sylvia (from Bonne semence 2025)

OVER 2000 YEARS AGO : THE ADULT WOMAN John 8:1-11

THE ADULT WOMAN John 8:1-11 

Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. But early in the morning he went again to the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down and taught them.

Then the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst of the people, they said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Moses, in the law, commanded us to stone such women: so what do you say? They said this to test him, so that they could accuse him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

As they continued to question him, he stood up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone at her. And stooping down again, he wrote on the ground. When they heard this, they withdrew one by one, accused by their conscience, from the oldest to the last; and Jesus was left alone with the woman in the middle.

Then Jesus stood up and saw only the woman, and said to her, "Woman, where are those who accused you? Has no one condemned you? She answered: No, Lord. And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you: go and sin no more.