I grew up in Buffalo, New York and lived in an area called the Fruit Belt on Orange Street. I am the second child of seven children and the oldest of the two girls. I was fighting all the time, sleeping around at a young age and I was worse than my brothers at times. My mother sent me to live overseas with my Uncle Jimmy in Madrid, Spain. I lived there 4 years and returned back home to the United States around the age of 15. I ended up pregnant with my oldest son and didn’t know what to do with a child so I kept running away from home. I tried to kill myself. I laid back in the tub and slit both of my wrists’. God allowed someone to find me and get me to the hospital. While I was laying in the tub I didn’t feel any fear but I could feel my life draining out of me. I heard the lady that came in the house that I was staying with at the time say, you’re going to be alright, you can’t die yet God’s not ready for you to go and when I woke up, I woke up in the hospital. My oldest son ended up in a home and his father went to court to get him and he raised him.
I left home and moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan with this guy that said he loved me and when we moved there I was beat and abused at least 3 years of that relationship and one day I was gang raped by his brothers and nephew. I was left in Grand Rapids, Michigan and stayed there in relationships of abuse until God finally sent me help through a woman to get me out of there.
I finally came home and ran into my other two children‘s father and we dated awhile. I then moved in with him, had two children and he had affairs on me and abused me as well…during my second pregnancy my children’s father slept with my best friend at the time and I ended up by myself, crying, hurt and abused and not knowing which way to turn, I moved. I met a young lady that moved downstairs from me and she heard me fighting all the time with the guy that had moved in with me. One day she told me that God loved me and I didn’t have to live that way. She was going to a church that would be able to help me. She started taking my children to church and I finally got the nerve to go with her.
Through all the abuse and all the pain I was seeking help to live a life that I and my children could be proud of. I needed to break the cycle of abuse and pain and to seek God’s forgiveness for my life. I was learning who I was, living alone with my children now and studying the Word of God more than I ever studied anything in my life. Then one day my house caught fire and we had no where to live so the Red Cross put us in a hotel. One of the Deacons of the church called to check on my children and I and we began to talk. For the first time in my life here was someone who cared about us with no attachments. We started talking and he helped me move into an apartment on Maple Street and he continued to live in his apartment. Today we are married and have been married for 19 years. The pastor of that church past away and we didn’t go back, because of the abuse we had taken from people in the church.
Since that time I have been raped spiritually and naturally in the church world and God has gotten me through some very rough times. I was so messed up. I committed adultery and would leave my family home for days at a time. God has restored my mind, heart, body and spirit as well as my marriage and my family. After so much hurt and pain, “God how do I make it through all of this”…I cried out to God and Jesus heard my cry. As I began to talk to God with all honesty and sincerity I said, “Lord, please change me, change the way I am, help me to do better, to live better, to love the way you love me…please Lord save me from myself and give me the strength to go in your name.” “I need your help Lord I can’t do it without you.”
Today I am still married to a wonderful husband of 19 years and two children here in the City of Buffalo, my oldest son is in the Air Force and is married with two beautiful children. I am the Pastor today of Divine Healing Ministries where God has allowed our ministry to heal the hearts, minds and spirit of others through the cleansing of the Word and His Love. I pray that this helps someone to realize that Jesus saves, heals and delivers. It does not matter what you are going through, Jesus is able to bring you out, just as HE brought me out. We are the church on the corner where Love is!
Written by: Pastor J. E. Gant
Divine Healing Ministries
1121 E. Ferry Street
Buffalo, NY 14211
Phone: (716) 578-0442 (OR) Email: divinehealing922@yahoo.com
Our Schedule of Services:
Sunday School 11:00am
Sunday Worship Service 12:00noon
Youth Bible Study Monday 6:30pm-7:30pm
Prayer and Spiritual Warfare 1:00pm
Adult Bible Study Wednesday 6:00pm
Prayer and Spiritual Warfare Saturday 1:00pm
Our clothing pantry is open to the public on an as needed basis. Our Prayer lines (716) 578-0442 or (716) 462-4389 are open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
Divine Healing Ministries “With his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5)
“The Church on the corner where Love is!”
