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I was 15 years old.

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'I was 15 years old. I found out through Facebook that my boyfriend had cheated on me with another girl. I was heartbroken.

I had not felt proper pain or rejection before that. I got my Bible out. I had heard it read on a Sunday but had kept it in a drawer and didn’t understand the fascination with it.

But then, the words spoke into how I was feeling and the situation I was in.

The first thing that I read was in Psalm 118.8: “It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man”.

I realised that I could trust in God. For the next few weeks, I heard God speaking into my life through the Bible every night.

It was such an exciting time. Every night I was excited to go to bed and read the Bible.

The Bible gave me a new freedom. If God thinks I’m amazing, I realised, then I could have a different outlook on life.'

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