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DeidreSmith I was born and raised in Leesburg Florida, which was a small town but has grown over the years. I come from a family of three siblings with the same mother and HEADfather. We were raised closely and brought up to fear the Lord, and to love one another. My dad was a gospel singer and traveled when LINEhe was younger, my mom was a byaut horbeautiful loving woman who has established many other children throughout her life, due to the love that she gives to when I was told not to juniors, he moved back others. Growing up, I go to a dance and tried to San Bernardino was always the to sneak anyway with California, and I never smart, helpful and my older sister and thought I would see him outgoing child, I wore friends. I graduated again. After graduation, I a smile and everyone from Leesburg High was working my 2nd job outside of the home school in 1982, I failed at Wendy?s, had a 76? knew me as being a ninth grade after Pacer and started dating very friendly young getting into high school this motorcycle rider, lady. I only recall two watching the athletes. I who was hard working, instances of being started dating when I older than me, and disciplined for my got in the 10th grade going through a divorce, wrong actions, one to a young man who which I did not know when I ran into the was popular, but did much about. He and I back of my parents not know he was some grew close, and for home with the car black beauty. He was Christmas December that my uncle told cute, funny and 24,1982, I gave my me to pull too the outgoing but my daddy virginity to him, and had front, knowing I could saw all through this. a child who was born 3 nor drive, and two When we became

\" \" Sep t em b er , 1983. during the pregnancy, the ?rejection? coming over me again. So now, I During my pregnancy, and we began to fight. need to feel this void and this feeling of he stopped talking to He would stay out all rejection, and start going out to parties that me, and rode by me and night, and break in the would end at my house acted like he did not house to eat. During the over night. Covering the hurt, I began to want more even know who I was. I delivery, the baby was to take away the feeling of ?rejection? and ended up did not realize it then, suffering from amniotic going harder than marijuana to a drug that but this is when I fluid, and my pressure kept me spaced out, woke, paranoid and adventurous received my first was dropping low. They ?crack?. After going through the periods of not ?rejection?. This was a gave me an emergency c being wanted and left with low self esteem, I feeling that could be sect io n . Ever yt h in g continued on the comforted by no one, began to come together journey of getting high, after being raised from a again, and he would be dad who loved and home enjoying the three protected his daughters of us as family, until I from anything that became a punching bag would try to hurt . In for real. Eventually we October, 1985 I had a separated for good, I little girl, he was starting was alone raising my to draw away from me children and I can feel

which landed me in and out of jail, living a life that they feel is without hope. without hope, and without care. Family In 2013, the Ministry started growing in raised my children and I lived as I had me, and I started my first ministry nothing to live for but getting high. I Dimensions Outreach, outside in the made up my mind that all a man could yards, under the tree and around local do for me was give me money to get areas. Reaching out to the people in the high, I did a awful lot of things trying to way that I felt I wanted to be reached out support my habit. From 1988 - 2006, I too by feeding and love. Later, I started was broken, without any goals or plans renting a building, which became a small to do no more than what I was doing. assembly of women and children. The In 2005, I dreamed I was in a large women came in broken, rejected and place with a lot of women in white, losing hope, lesbians, single mothers, after always wanting to be a nurse, I and some with diseases. My heart is too interpreted the dream as me going to help women to become a better them, school and becoming a nurse, I was and to teach them how to apply basic life happy and was telling everyone while principles to overcome the thoughts of being high. 03/2006 I got busted and suicide, oppression and depression. This ended in prison where all the women past year has been hard, after losing the had on white. Here is where I sought building in 2019, and having no funding, for a relationship back with God with a I begin to try and keep it running while heart of repentance. I did not seek him being with other ministries. But their to get free in the physical but in the vision was unlike the one God has given spirit, and for the first time me, and a lot of the people who were with me stopped following because they the words of Jesus jumped out at me were being belittled and experiencing and he spoke to me saying ?Therefore that they were not good enough. The if any man be in Christ he is a new spirit of rejection is strong in our women, creature, old things are passed away and there are people that it takes a and behold all things are become special love to cause them to come out new?(2 Cor, 5:17) and ?Whom the Son of this fearful and tormenting state of set free will be free indeed?(John 8:36) mind. I have experienced full lesbians I wanted what he said I could be and get free and be transformed back to have, I wanted a new life, a new mind,a being beautiful women, I have seen new heart, a new appetite and it was women with aids be healed from AIDS here in this place where I was healed and Cancer. It is a work that takes a lot from rejection, low self esteem and of attention, sacrifice, through calls and delivered from all drug addictions. visits, and which causes you to be away Since then, I have had a heart to help from home. I endeavor to get this vision those that deal with rejection, and

in full force nation wide as I tell my story to other women so that they won?t make the same mistakes that I did and help them to overcome the brokenness of being rejected, feeling like an outcast or black sheep. There is a purpose in every woman who has been birthed in this world. We are queens, we are royalty We ar e Goddess! Read more click below

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