Grace, Mercy & Miracles

“But earnestly desire and strive for the greater gifts [if acquiring them is going to be your goal]. And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one of the choicest graces and the highest of them all: unselfish love].”
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭12‬:‭31‬ ‭AMP‬‬

A true story about how God works.

When we met Mary (not her real name) she was 19 and living in a shelter. She aged out of foster care and was in college studying criminal justice. She was eleven years old when her mother’s boyfriend raped her and got her pregnant. Her mom tried to kill her and the baby after she refused to get an abortion. Thankfully the mother’s attempts to make the situation all go away with more evil failed and a baby girl was born. The baby was placed with a loving family for adoption and they stayed in contact with Mary to let her know how her baby was growing. They sent photos and shared her life with Mary because they knew how important it was for her to know her baby was safe and loved.
At age eleven she was wise enough to know that her baby had value and she did what most all others would never do. She sacrificed her own life and was severely abused repeatedly by her mother who was trying to cause her to lose the baby. Mary didn’t give in but she fought to ensure a baby who came from a horrific crime of rape would not be destroyed, but instead would have the life that Mary never got as a child.
Mary would pray asking God to keep her baby safe and He did.
When Mary turned 22 she got to meet her 11 year old daughter for the first time. They looked like twins! The same height and same features. Mary had suffered such a horrific trauma at age 11 that she actually stayed at the same height and never grew after that, but she really didn’t need to because she was already more mature than any adult.

Mary is now married and has a beautiful baby girl with her husband and everything that she dreamed and prayed, God did for her. She wrote letters to her younger self and left them at our house. So I read a few of them and found myself weeping at the heart of this beautiful girl who acted so tough sometimes when she was afraid of getting hurt.

She had so much love and the purest heart that I have ever known! She cared more about her baby at age eleven than most women at age thirty who have husbands and no reason to abort a baby. Mary not only fought for her baby but she had to sacrifice her own body and years of suffering and sadness in order to ensure that baby had a good life.
How many people are willing to live a life so selfless and loving that they are willing to do the right thing even when the worst things have happened to them?
I want to tell you how I met this girl, because it wasn’t an accident but it was a divine set up by God.

I prayed for God to help the children who were being sexually abused and trafficked and He immediately answered my prayer. He even let me meet the first girl rescued by my prayer and she was friends with Mary. The two girls had been homeless together after they both left foster care with no families to support them.
The girl rescued had been kidnapped while living in a park. No one but Mary cared or even knew that she had been taken by traffickers who told her they had a job for her and a place to shower when they tricked her into getting in their vehicle with them.
They drugged her and began selling her at a motel in Scottsdale, AZ. She had only been with them a few days when I cried out in prayer asking for the Lord to rescue just one a day from that hell. I told the Lord that I didn’t need to know who he would rescue, because I trusted Him to just rescue someone and I said that I didn’t need to see or know who He rescued but I would just believe He would do it, because I asked Him to help.

A few hours later Mary’s friend was rescued. Someone made an anonymous call to the authorities to let them know where Sara (not her real name) was being held against her will by traffickers. The authorities immediately responded to the call and found Sara (not her real name) handcuffed to an old heater in the motel. Sara was heavily drugged and told me that none of what happened seemed real to her because it was all like a bad dream. She witnessed another girl’s murder by the trafficker who beat her so badly that she died in Sara’s arms.

Sara has gone on to live a productive life after her rescue. She is a single mom devoted to the care and safety of her child.
These two teen girls were dealt terrible circumstances and endured the most heinous of crimes against them, and both of them were fully restored by God to live full and productive lives and be amazing mothers to the next generation.

That is what I call a reason to praise God and rethink the easy road of abortion and consider that every life has purpose and value.
Eleven years old and wiser than every doctor and pro-choice advocate who has ever lived, because she knew how to love when she gave up her own life to save her unborn.
I forgot to say how I knew this was all from a plea in prayer for God to save just one victim. He told me that she was alive because of my prayer. And He then told me to pray bigger because He wanted to save more than just one a day like I had originally asked.
That is one part of a very beautiful story because it all came out of only one prayer, and I prayed thousands of prayers the five years that followed because my faith was massive and I knew I would have everything I asked for in prayer, because I was asking from a heart that was pure and full of love, because it was God’s heart. I asked God how I could help see an end to the evil in the world. He gave me His heart and I prayed for all that He put in it. He answered all of those prayers and the full impact of what He did is impossible for anyone to comprehend. But that is how God works. He is awesome and wants us to understand that He can do anything if we are willing to just care and believe.

I don’t want to condemn anyone for past mistakes, but I want to make known that there is healing and mercy for all who call out to Jesus.