Laurie Gomez:  

Let me tell you about God's great mercy and grace. I, Laurie, grew up in Los Angeles Heights and am the eighth of nine children. I started drinking and smoking pot and using other drugs when I was twelve years old. By sixteen I was pregnant, I aborted my baby and wanted to just die afterward, I left home right after that and became and alcoholic and drug addict. I was so addicted that at one time I weighed only eighty pounds. One night I went into the bathroom and got on my knees and cried out to God and said, God, if You are out there and if You are real and if this is not going to kill me, then please get me out of this, I can't live like this anymore. Shortly after that, I was back in San Antonio, God had delivered me from my addiction to the hard drugs overnight with no withdrawals. But I still wasn¿t saved, I still smoked pot and I became a drug dealer. Then one day I had to go to church with my boyfriend's parents because they were going to take me to see my boyfriend who was in rehab after church. I wasn't going to church to find God, but God found me. In that church something happened to me. The more the pastor spoke, the more I felt like he was talking directly to me. I remember thinking, How can he know that about me? The Lord was speaking to my heart and convicting me of my sins. By the time that service was closing, I felt completely uncovered, all of my sins and wickedness was exposed and I crumbled at the weight of it all. It was too much to bear. Then he told about the way of salvation, and that I could be forgiven and be saved. Tears of joy ran down my cheeks as I knew in my spirit that the God of all creation loved me so much that He sent ...Expand for more