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With all of the negativity that circles around social networks with haters, rebels and criminals, this Stumbler stood apart from the wolves. This is the tale of Stumbleupons Cherie (Wordsword). A Christian, a mother, a wife, a friend, and woman in recovery.

WordSword is a 50 year old married woman from Pennsylvania, USA. Likes 1,038 pages, 56 videos, 66 photos • 121 fans • Received 49 reviews…Member since Jun 09, 2007

Her profile reads,

“In a nutshell, I was hooked on prescription drugs. I had gone into rehab to quit drinking alcohol, but had never really become sober in my mind and I eventually started abusing prescription drugs, such as, tranquilizers and amphetamines.

Drugs were my idol and I spent every moment of my life consumed with serving my addictions. When I was sober, I was contemplating when and how I would get my next fix. When I got a fix, I was concerned with how long this feeling would last and what to do when it wore off. When I had drugs, I was thinking about what I would do went I ran out. When I ran out, I was consumed with how I would get more.

It was a viscous, sick cycle of death. I wanted it to stop, but I was mastered by the fear that it would stop. How could I cope with life without becoming numbed by drugs? The answer was Jesus Christ. One day I heard the Gospel and said the salvation prayer. I asked Him to come into my life and be my Lord and Savior. I asked Him to heal me and take away the living hell of drug addiction and He did it. He healed me in my body, soul and spirit. He removed every desire to get high. He cleaned me up and made me a whole new person with a hope and a future. Now the past no longer defines my destiny.

My present is determined by my future and not my past. If you or someone you know is suffering from addiction ask the Great Physician for healing. He does not show favoritism. If He did it for me, He’ll do it for whosoever asks. He wants to set the captives free! To read my testimony CLICK HERE and find out I came into a personal relationship with Jesus and how he saved me from myself and delivered me from a lifetime of addictions. He also delivered me from many demons.”

Out of the blue one day, I received this card and above it Cherie said,

“I’m an R.N. and I used to live in Sterling, VA (Loudoun County). I worked in Manassas for the plastic surgeon that sewed together John Bobbitt after his wife Lorraina did that amputation on him. Do you remember that? Anyway I enjoy your site and thanks for all of the great links.
Have a great week.” (I live in Va very close to Sterling)

I had been going through a little bit of drama in my life and this couldn’t have come at a better time. So I went thumbing through her pages to see what other positive things I could find…trying to get to know her better. I’m so glad I did.

When I asked her if she wanted to do an interview she said, “I would absolutely love to do an interview with you for your site. I am not interested in promoting myself whatsoever, but I am interested in promoting hope to people in bondage to anything that is holding them in captivity.” And she means it too.

Others should know of her positivity, strengths in recovery and spirituality:

I was led to SU, actually, when I installed the Firefox browser. At first I goofed around on it a little, just for fun. It was pleasant and enjoyable to web surf this way. To be honest, I wasn’t that interested in making friends here because up until this point, I had been sort of a book worm and mostly interested in studying things having to do with the Bible and spirituality.

I stopped coming here when i found out about His Holy Space, which is a Christian version of My Space. I liked it because I felt kind of safe there, you know, with my own type of people, same values, etc. However, I got bored there quickly because of just that very fact. It was like everyone was on the same page and I couldn’t really impact anyone with my personal testimony in any kind of a life changing way. I really wanted to make a difference in people’s life through my testimony of deliverance from alcohol, drugs, suicide, poverty, homelessness and mental illness through the saving grace of God through Jesus Christ.

Initially, I thought that SU was a very dark place, in many ways, in a spiritual sense. However, if that was the case, then this was exactly the kind of place that I needed to be to shine a light out as a beacon of hope to others that where going through the same kinds of trials and tribulations that I had gone through and come out of victoriously through Jesus! I began to realize that this was a very power tool that I could utilize for evangelism. I used to hand out Gospel tract and then when i saw the traffic that I was getting at my site I started to post Gospel messages and decided to expose myself by giving my testimony at great personal cost because the thing which i’d been through were so humiliating. But since I am here to glorify God and not toot my own horn He has covered my shame .

The Bible says that if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all unrighteousness. And so by exposing myself to give God the glory for my deliverance he has set me free even more because since the past no longer determines my present or my future, thanks to Him, by revealing myself this was, I have become even my set free in my heart and in my soul.

BTW, I just want to share the message not beat people over the head to try to get them to change. I want my message to be a loving gentle one.

I guess I don’t need to ask her what she’d like to accomplish in Stumbleupon, ey? But I did anyway. And this is what she said,

“Kimberly,
My family was not happy when I became a Christian. Jesus said that anyone that decides to truly follow Him will suffer persecution:

Mat 10:32

“Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven.
Mat 10:33

But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven.
Mat 10:34

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Mat 10:35

For I have come to turn

“a man against his father,

a daughter against her mother,

a daughter?in law against her mother in law-
Mat 10:36

a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’[fn5]

Mat 10:37

“Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
Mat 10:38

and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:39

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Mat 10:40

“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.

I am not lying when I say that this happened to me exactly the way the scripture said that it would happen. When I was still in my sin, my family accepted me, but when I started living for God, they became like enemies, especially my spouse.

The thing that I want most to accomplish is to see peoples lives changed through the Gospel and through my testimony. There are a lot of people contacting me for prayer for deliverance from all kinds of addictions and health problems and poverty and disenfranchisement. I want them to understand that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that God is not a respecter of persons. he wants to set all of the captives free.

I also want people to know that it is by grace that we are saved through faith and not works. Jesus paid it all on the cross and we can not add anything to it or take anything away from it. This is all we have to do to get saved:

Rom 10:8

But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming:
Rom 10:9

That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Rom 10:10

For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.
Rom 10:11

As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”

I want people to understand that we all need a Savior and that nothing we do on our own will ever be good enough to justify us on judgment day. I want people to know that it is not about religion but about a personal relationship with the God of the universe through the shed blood of His Son, Jesus. God is calling out a people for Himself from every tribe, tongue and nation to separate themselves from the world and come into His heavenly kingdom and worship Him in Spirit and in truth.

I don’t want to beat them over the head or argue. This is not my word, but God’s word. God gave us all free will and it is His desire for us to choose Him out of love. He said in the Old Testament, “Today, I set before you life and death, choose life.” I just want to get the info out to people so that hopefully they will choose life!”

Well, that was Cherie. Big hearted Christian soul. Visit her and say, “Hi” if you like to be near positive people. If you have a problem with addiction you can visit either Cherie or myself. We’re both more than happy to help in any way possible.

Addiction is a difficult thing to eliminate. You have friends to help you. You are not alone. If you are not sure if you’re an addict, then it’s likely that you are. Reach out.

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