Triumph After Childhood Sexual Abuse
Today’s post is quite different than what you may normally find here at Laced With Grace. However, after months of waiting and many prayers, Iris, myself and my friend Heidi want to share a video with you. It is our prayer that this video will inspire all of us and also bring comfort and healing to those who have been sexually abused as a child.
If you would like to talk with Heidi, she has graciously offered to reach out to you. Please email her and she will be glad to pray for you and help you walk your path toward healing through the power of Christ.
Please pop back here after watching and leave an encouraging word for Heidi in the comments.
We serve a God of healing and He can and will use your struggle, hardship, even tradgity to bring you healing and bring Him great honor. Today could be the day you step out onto that path. Please let me know if I can pray for you as well.
Blessings, Lynn
Thank you Heidi for sharing your journey toward healing from abuse as a child. May God use your story today to bring healing to others.
May God bless you precious one.
I want to say thank you to Heidi for sharing her story and thanks to you for having her share it. There are a lot of people who go through this sort of thing. Heidi’s testimony shows that God’s grace is sufficient for all of our needs.
As I was putting in this comment the captcha word was LORD. I believe Heidi is finding this freedom because she has made Jesus LORD of her life. You can find freedom in Him, also. May God bless you all!
My friends, Thank you for taking time to stop in. I have sent your words of encouragement on to Heidi. Please share this interview if you know a woman who has experienced this. Let them know they are not alone and God will use their pain to bring healing to them and to others. Hugging you, Lynn
Thanks for this – I was also abused as a four year old and I too have come to a place of freedom through bringing it to the light – And the amazing thing is that as I did so, I lost all feelings of shame.
Amen Jenny,
It’s amazing how things left in the dark can shame and hurt us and when we bring it into the light, the healing hand of God can do miracles. Praising God for your healing. Love you and thank you for sharing from a vulnerable place. Hugs, Lynn
Thanks Heidi for sharing your story. It’s very difficult when it’s a family member that abuses. Growing up I carried this guilt and shame and through your testimony I realize it is NOT my fault. Then I had to face one of my sons being abused in school years ago and then the pain resurfaces. I was able to tell him. It’s not your fault. I pray for continued healing in you and in others as Satan wants us to carry this shame. We all need to say NO MORE. We are free in Christ!
Thank you Heidi for your grace and love. This story I’m sure will help those us who have been hurt in one way or another. Showing the power of GRACE that only Christ can provide and realizing that we should never be ashamed of what is done to us by another. Your story reflects that Jesus’ blood was not shed in vain. By “His Grace” we are able. Thank you again for stepping our of the “box” and sharing. *Hugs* God Bless.
Heidi,
Thank you for sharing your story and your heart for Jesus! The biggest “stain” that sexual abuse has left on me is shame and you are so right in your message about not having to own that shame! Jesus has washed that stain away! Sometimes I have to remind myself that truth more frequently than I’d like to but that truth has set me free!!
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free” John 8:32
Much love to you on this journey and again, thank you!
Tanya
Hi Heidi. It’s Carol from bible study. Thank you for sharing your story. I, too, was molested as a child and know your pain. I have never felt ashamed because I know its not my fault. I do continue to be angry since ‘he’ should have known better. I also fear for my kids. Thank you for speaking out to help others. It seems to have helped you with the burden as well.
Thank you Heidi for sharing your story. I know God is now using you to comfort and help many women who have been sexually abused.
Heidi,
Thank you so much for sharing and your courage in sharing. I am starting the healing process now because I was sexually abused as a teenager.
This video came along at the perfect time because a friend who has a blog wants me to guest post on sexual abuse. I so agree with you- we do not need to be ashamed. We don’t need to live with that shame.
Thank you so much! I hope to see you more on here!
How can we email Heidi?
I wold like to email Heidi
Thank you for sharing your story. It is such a difficult hurdle for the victim’s of sexual abuse, to realise they are NOT to blame. I had 3 girls that I fostered quite a few years ago, age 14, 12, and 8. They had been sexually abused and it was so heartbreaking to watch what they went through, thinking that they were to blame. After hearing your story, I prayed for those girls and wherever they might be. I hope they’ve found the peace and the freedom that Jesus offers, just as you have! God bless you, my dear friend.
Hello Heidi & Lynn,
I have only just found lacedwithgrace.com and it has been such a blessing to sit and watch your testimony.
Thankyou Heidi for being so brave and sharing you story!! I have really needed your encouragement and witness!!
For a period of about eight years I was sexually abused and raped continually by a family member in my home. Earlier this year I finally opened up to my parents about what had happened and started to feel Jesus working in my life more than ever before. Everything that has played out since then has been so hard and painful but I can see Gods provision in all of this. As a young twenty year old woman of God, I do daily struggle to find the positives and the strength to continue moving forward, but with everything so raw and emotionally unstable, I am really really struggling.
At the moment I am working through the legal logistics of my abuse and I have been given the option to choose whether I charge my abuser and send him to jail. This person is my brother and I am not sure what I am suppose to do. In everything going on around me I am struggling to feel Jesus’s provision and guiding direction.
Any prayer would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Alicia.
Your Australian sister in Christ.