 Alicia, can you just please let's begin with, how did you hear about hungry generation and what was your life like before you gave your life to Christ? I was invited to come last year and I came a couple of times but it wasn't until earlier at the beginning of this year that I was dedicated to this church. Prior to hungry generation, I grew up in a Catholic background. We went to church regularly. God was in our life but I don't believe I started following him until I came here. My life was consumed with fear. It was something that I didn't realize but until recently that it was passed down to me and then I had passed down to my girls and it basically everything we did revolved around it and it became a normal. I didn't know that we were covered with the spirit of fear and it was a generational curse. And so a lot of times we have those normal fears of we're like okay don't go here because obviously the aftermath if you were to jump off a cliff there's some of those natural fears but tell us a little bit about the fear that was operating in your life that almost just took away your peace and just took away your everyday living. As a little girl, I couldn't go play outside because someone was going to kidnap me. It ended up being to where I tell people until I got married and left my parents home. I was my mother's charm bracelet because if we went to a restaurant I couldn't walk to the bathroom by myself. I had to have my mother come with me. I was a teenager in high school who couldn't go to the bathroom by herself. My children, my oldest, she is so well behaved because I used the same tactics my parents did raising me which were the scare tactics you know you got to stay in line and be good and do as I tell you otherwise God's going to punish you and that was basically what it was. The bad things that happened in our life was because we did something wrong and God was punishing us and we accepted it and we were going to live the punishment and my youngest potty training her was hard because even the flushing of the toilets terrified her. She would tremble. She would hold her ears. She would scream because little things like that going to the ocean to vacation the waves just terrified her the sounds everything. So I realized after reading the break free series that it was the spirit of fear that was consuming us and it wasn't just me but it came down from my mom and it came down from her mom and her dad and that we as a child of God had the authority to not live it that we can take ownership of this and say no you are not welcome here. So as soon as I started learning more of the word of God and when I started coming here when I started coming here earlier this year I decided to give my life to Jesus. That day I met Kelly and she invited me to her home group two days later I was at her house and after home group she helped me aside and said God talk to me today and she said and he sorry Kelly said God talk to me today and he said that he wanted me to give you a few Bible verses the first one was Psalms 91 and the sex the second one was Exodus 12 and with that she also gave me a tiny vial of oil that she bought in Bethlehem and she said I know this was meant for you and God wants me to tell you that you don't need to be afraid anymore so when you go home you pray around your house and you put oil over your doors and your windows and you pray and it's gonna be okay immediately I started crying because for the first time I knew God was hearing my prayers from years of years of living in fear he was hearing my prayers immediately after I noticed my girls were no longer afraid to be at home they didn't know they didn't know why they were so afraid but they knew something was had them terrified and I talked to them and I said we're gonna pray and they didn't need to be afraid anymore and I could see the difference and it wasn't until recently that I knew it was just overwhelming us the fear in our home and it wasn't necessarily us but just the pass down of this of the spirit and so earlier in the month of November Kelly prayed over Aliana after one of our churches this is Aliana right here Kelly prayed over Aliana and two days later when we went to home group I took the girls with me and we all prayed as a group together and later on that week Aliana decided to give her heart to Jesus it was on November 16th the next day we saw my mother and she was just all over the place and my mom says what's going on with her why is she so happy and jumping off the walls and I said that's the spirit of God mom the day after my Viviana right here this is Viviana she decided to give her life to Jesus and we went to visit my father afterwards and my father's wife says why are all you girls so happy there's a change in you and I said because we gave our lives to Christ all of us since then I've noticed Aliana who is mostly tormented the worst of all of us she talks herself out of being afraid she sees things that terrify her and I can hear her saying no it's not this it's not that and like takes that away on her own come on come on and I know that it wasn't just because I've been you know dedicated to church and whatnot it's because I've learned that this isn't something we have to live with and we can't take authority of it and remove it from our lives so I've learned that this is something we can take care of ourselves and it's not something we have to deal with so I've decided that I was gonna purchase a book for each one of my mom's family members her sisters and her brothers and give it to them for Christmas the break free series because as Catholics these are things that we are sheltered from we are protected from those scary things but they use those to keep us in line and I really want my family to know that we don't have to live like this at all we don't have to amen thank you so much Alisa give them another just great applause thank you so much