Welcome to Celebrating Life in Recovery, 00:00:10.17\00:00:11.67 my name is Cheri your host. 00:00:11.70\00:00:12.96 Sometimes we have issues that are so big we think 00:00:12.99\00:00:15.63 that God can even reach that area and 00:00:15.66\00:00:17.89 I'm telling you He can. 00:00:17.92\00:00:19.51 Come in and join us it is way cool. 00:00:19.54\00:00:20.76 Welcome back! 00:00:49.07\00:00:50.16 You know I was reading in Psalms 51 where God says, 00:00:50.19\00:00:54.47 according to your loving kindness, according to your 00:00:54.50\00:00:58.83 mercies, according to all that kind of stuff, please, 00:00:58.86\00:01:01.38 please wash me clean. 00:01:01.41\00:01:03.59 And I love that because when I came to Christ 00:01:03.62\00:01:06.04 I was such a mess and I thought, how are You ever 00:01:06.07\00:01:08.28 going to ever do this. 00:01:08.31\00:01:09.34 And it goes on to read, and I'm not going to read the 00:01:09.37\00:01:11.67 whole thing because I'm not good at that, 00:01:11.70\00:01:13.10 but I went on to read in that Psalms about all this 00:01:13.13\00:01:15.93 stuff that had happened in David's life, 00:01:15.96\00:01:18.48 and I was of course thinking about my own life. 00:01:18.51\00:01:20.22 It got to the part where it says whatever you decide 00:01:20.25\00:01:23.10 about Me, what ever Your judgments are about Me, 00:01:23.13\00:01:25.09 they are 100% right on. 00:01:25.12\00:01:28.04 Then I read that He decides that I'm not guilty. 00:01:28.07\00:01:33.39 Then he laid all that on Christ, Christ took it all. 00:01:33.42\00:01:36.15 He said I just want to wash you clean and want to 00:01:36.18\00:01:38.76 restore in you all the stuff. 00:01:38.79\00:01:40.68 I want to give you a new heart, and a new mind, 00:01:40.71\00:01:42.83 and all those kind of things. 00:01:42.86\00:01:44.00 And by the time I get to that part I'm just delighted. 00:01:44.03\00:01:46.96 I'm thinking are you kidding me, with everything in my 00:01:46.99\00:01:49.80 background you are going to restore all that back to me? 00:01:49.83\00:01:52.82 You are going to not only just fix the heart inside me, 00:01:52.85\00:01:56.53 you're going to actually give me a new one 00:01:56.56\00:01:58.22 and I'm so grateful. 00:01:58.25\00:01:59.69 Then I read this part where it says, the reason I'm 00:01:59.72\00:02:02.03 going to do that is because I want you to turn around 00:02:02.06\00:02:04.48 and help someone else, bring someone else out of the 00:02:04.51\00:02:08.45 very thing that you came out of. 00:02:08.48\00:02:10.02 Please let them know that I'm bigger than that, 00:02:10.05\00:02:12.27 let them know that I can restore you. 00:02:12.30\00:02:13.93 So right now I'm letting you know, God is bigger 00:02:13.96\00:02:15.95 than that and He can restore you. 00:02:15.98\00:02:17.23 A want to introduce you to some friends of mine 00:02:17.26\00:02:19.29 who have come from some pretty intense places, 00:02:19.32\00:02:22.20 but God is bigger. 00:02:22.23\00:02:25.13 So I wanted to say that I'm so glad Sarai you are 00:02:25.16\00:02:28.10 on the program and Charlie. 00:02:28.13\00:02:29.87 I have heard your testimony, and I have heard where 00:02:29.90\00:02:31.94 you come from, I've heard where you are, and I have 00:02:31.97\00:02:35.02 been in your place of Ministry, and been blessed by you. 00:02:35.05\00:02:38.48 but I'm going to take you all the way back, 00:02:38.51\00:02:40.47 Sarai and ask you where did you first start turning toward God? 00:02:40.50\00:02:45.91 I actually first started turning toward God at a 00:02:45.94\00:02:49.66 brothel called the Chicken Ranch, where I was an 00:02:49.69\00:02:51.25 employed prostitute, a legal prostitute 00:02:51.28\00:02:53.44 near Nevada, near Las Vegas. 00:02:53.47\00:02:56.00 But that's not really, I would have to back up because 00:02:56.03\00:03:00.90 if I just start here it will be a little confusing. 00:03:00.93\00:03:03.06 Cheri: right, and you were young at that point? 00:03:03.09\00:03:05.12 I was 21 years of age when I came to know Jesus. 00:03:05.15\00:03:09.18 Cheri: prostitute working in Vegas and so when you 00:03:09.21\00:03:13.52 say I have to go back, take us back how do you get 00:03:13.55\00:03:16.48 to that point at 21 years old? 00:03:16.51\00:03:18.17 For me how I got to that point, my mom raised me 00:03:18.20\00:03:23.75 as an Orthodox Jew. 00:03:23.78\00:03:25.10 My dad had a form of Satanism as his religion and 00:03:25.13\00:03:28.58 his lifestyle and he was also an alcoholic. 00:03:28.61\00:03:31.22 So I grew up all one side of my family, strict rules 00:03:31.25\00:03:37.86 according to the Old Testament by the book. 00:03:37.89\00:03:40.86 My mom was a severely hurt woman, had schizophrenia, 00:03:40.89\00:03:45.77 have a lot of issues that she was dealing with. 00:03:45.80\00:03:48.35 That obviously when you have a dad - so let me, 00:03:48.38\00:03:52.09 when you just say, a cause a lot of people. 00:03:52.12\00:03:54.31 Because I have a lot of junk in my own life so when 00:03:54.34\00:03:57.42 someone says my mom was schizophrenic, 00:03:57.45\00:04:00.06 are you talking about diagnosed schizophrenic and 00:04:00.09\00:04:02.37 if you are, what does that mean for somebody that 00:04:02.40\00:04:04.80 doesn't know, what does that look like in your home? 00:04:04.83\00:04:07.56 Would it look like my home is a lady who goes in 00:04:07.59\00:04:12.05 fits of severe depression were she can't get out 00:04:12.08\00:04:14.49 of bed for 3 or 4 days at a time. 00:04:14.52\00:04:16.68 When she comes out of that depression she begins 00:04:16.71\00:04:22.03 to hallucinate and she is paranoid and thinks that 00:04:22.06\00:04:24.55 people are trying to get her. 00:04:24.58\00:04:27.01 Cheri: even her children at times. 00:04:27.04\00:04:29.22 Even her children are trying to get her, her husband, 00:04:29.25\00:04:31.25 outside people from the synagogue whatever 00:04:31.28\00:04:34.16 are trying to get her. 00:04:34.19\00:04:35.50 Now that is what she was diagnosed, I don't know 00:04:35.53\00:04:39.37 that she was all that paranoid or schizophrenic in 00:04:39.40\00:04:43.01 reality knowing what I know now. 00:04:43.04\00:04:46.26 But it took some time to get to what I know now. 00:04:46.29\00:04:49.72 With my dad having a form of Satanism I was used 00:04:49.75\00:04:54.45 in several rituals that would cause him to have more 00:04:54.48\00:05:00.04 power in his group of people that he belonged to. 00:05:00.07\00:05:04.96 In these rituals he would do things like hit me 00:05:04.99\00:05:10.71 over the head on a weekly basis and crack my head 00:05:10.74\00:05:14.43 open and wait for the blood to let out. 00:05:14.46\00:05:16.27 He would take me to a graveyard and there were be a 00:05:16.30\00:05:20.73 group of people and it would take several of us young 00:05:20.76\00:05:24.71 girls, I was probably 3 or 4 years old at the time, 00:05:24.74\00:05:27.74 and they would bury us alive. 00:05:27.77\00:05:29.17 They would have a small pipe sticking out of the 00:05:29.20\00:05:32.37 coffin and they would literally go through the whole 00:05:32.40\00:05:34.24 thing of burying us and we did not realize there 00:05:34.27\00:05:37.85 was a pipe sticking through it. 00:05:37.88\00:05:39.13 It was all a part of, in their twisted little covenant, 00:05:39.16\00:05:43.55 it was more of a scare tactic type of thing to go 00:05:43.58\00:05:47.79 through the mock ritualistic things. 00:05:47.82\00:05:51.42 What is really interesting to me and I didn't know 00:05:51.45\00:05:53.63 this for a while, is that in some of those satanic 00:05:53.66\00:05:56.66 cults is that energy, that fear comes off people and 00:05:56.69\00:06:00.81 they suck it into their own person. 00:06:00.84\00:06:03.13 There is a belief that they get energy from that fear. 00:06:03.16\00:06:06.07 So the fear can't be token, it has to be realized 00:06:06.10\00:06:10.17 Sarai: it has to be real for it to count, - exactly. 00:06:10.20\00:06:12.41 You know when you said that,3 and 4 years old my heart 00:06:12.44\00:06:15.74 just went oh man, because for some reason you see it 00:06:15.77\00:06:19.62 in the movies and you don't think it is actually real. 00:06:19.65\00:06:22.47 You want to block that and say that couldn't possibly 00:06:22.50\00:06:25.32 happen and yet I'm looking at you and saying, I'm sorry. 00:06:25.35\00:06:29.28 So how did, what happened from that point? 00:06:29.31\00:06:32.56 Well I would like to explain the rituals and what got 00:06:32.59\00:06:36.51 me to the point of prostitution is there were those 00:06:36.54\00:06:41.59 type of issues, those type of things running through a 00:06:41.62\00:06:44.60 graveyard thinking there were dead bodies hanging from 00:06:44.63\00:06:46.27 trees and I am trying to escape. 00:06:46.30\00:06:47.95 and there are several children, and it's these types of 00:06:47.98\00:06:52.13 issues, having a goats inners cut out and being 00:06:52.16\00:06:55.28 placed inside of a goat with different incantations 00:06:55.31\00:06:59.08 spoken over you, things to those affects. 00:06:59.11\00:07:01.71 So on one hand I am going through this stuff and then 00:07:01.74\00:07:06.20 on the other hand with my mom, it's rigid Judaism. 00:07:06.23\00:07:10.93 It is following the ten Commandments, it is sacrifices. 00:07:10.96\00:07:15.45 Having my pet pigeons in the backyard and having them 00:07:15.48\00:07:18.53 sacrificed every time I committed a sin come every time 00:07:18.56\00:07:21.57 I spoke back to my parents - because she literally 00:07:21.60\00:07:24.35 - she literally went according to the law. 00:07:24.38\00:07:27.09 She would take my sister and I and ties to a pepper tree 00:07:27.12\00:07:31.39 out our backyard and lash us 39 times according to law. 00:07:31.42\00:07:35.00 Just things like this, she would put us in potatoes 00:07:35.03\00:07:39.72 sacks and put fireplace ashes inside of the potato 00:07:39.75\00:07:44.67 sack, and place us inside of it, and put us in a large 00:07:44.70\00:07:47.66 outdoor barbecue that is about 3 or 4 times the size of 00:07:47.69\00:07:50.73 this table, and leave us out there for days at a time. 00:07:50.76\00:07:53.36 To repent in sack cloth and ashes - wow! 00:07:53.39\00:07:57.87 Life has to appear normal, I'm sorry did you 00:07:57.90\00:08:01.88 want to say something? 00:08:01.91\00:08:02.94 Life at the same time, going to Temple would have 00:08:02.97\00:08:06.55 to appear normal. 00:08:06.58\00:08:07.72 So for me what I was able to do without knowing it, 00:08:07.75\00:08:13.61 I was able to disassociate. 00:08:13.64\00:08:17.31 When I say disassociate, I mean - God bless you for that. 00:08:17.34\00:08:21.43 - Praise God for that. 00:08:21.46\00:08:23.05 Cheri: you know a lot of people do not understand that. 00:08:23.08\00:08:25.24 You know a child coming from that much junk, if you 00:08:25.27\00:08:28.76 don't find something that is going to work for you, 00:08:28.79\00:08:30.57 you will literally die. 00:08:30.60\00:08:32.88 Because it's how can I survive this, and you said I 00:08:32.91\00:08:35.76 survive this by dissociation, but explain to us 00:08:35.79\00:08:38.35 what does that mean? 00:08:38.38\00:08:39.64 It means, look at this glass of water. 00:08:39.67\00:08:42.63 If I am going through such terrible trauma that I 00:08:42.66\00:08:46.46 can't bear it and you just think of this little 00:08:46.49\00:08:49.26 girl saying I can't believe this is happening to me. 00:08:49.29\00:08:50.92 It can't be happening, this is not real, this isn't 00:08:50.95\00:08:52.96 happening and you are just looking into this glass 00:08:52.99\00:08:55.59 and it literally can go way. 00:08:55.62\00:08:57.38 You just I would look at the light, or I would look 00:08:57.41\00:09:02.09 at something and I will go away in this other part of 00:09:02.12\00:09:05.29 me, the other part of myself would take up and 00:09:05.32\00:09:09.42 imagine itself to be strong enough to handle 00:09:09.45\00:09:11.89 whatever the pain was that was going on. 00:09:11.92\00:09:16.35 Whether it was sexual abuse at the time, the fear, 00:09:16.38\00:09:19.52 the panic, what ever it was. 00:09:19.55\00:09:22.29 At the time of my first suicide attempt where it 00:09:22.32\00:09:27.58 finally became known to other people, 00:09:27.61\00:09:29.32 I was 4 years old. 00:09:29.35\00:09:30.51 I had my first suicide attempt, I had slit my arms 00:09:30.54\00:09:33.53 from my wrist all the way up to my elbows with a steak knife. 00:09:33.56\00:09:37.32 They had to end up taking me in to a hospital to get 00:09:37.35\00:09:42.19 stitched up and that was the first time anything. 00:09:42.22\00:09:45.14 Cheri: let me just say something, before I ended up 00:09:45.17\00:09:48.94 going into nursing program and worked Psyche for awhile 00:09:48.97\00:09:53.33 I worked a children's unit and I couldn't believe when 00:09:53.36\00:09:56.23 3 and 4-year-old come into the hospital with suicide attempts. 00:09:56.26\00:09:59.46 So the only reason I want to say that is for a lot of 00:09:59.49\00:10:01.79 people they'll say no way not that young. 00:10:01.82\00:10:04.00 I'm just here to validate you, yes that young. 00:10:04.03\00:10:08.69 Kids sometimes don't even know what it means, I just 00:10:08.72\00:10:11.28 can't do this anymore. 00:10:11.31\00:10:13.13 You just said as a child I can't do this, I can't 00:10:13.16\00:10:17.30 survive one more day. 00:10:17.33\00:10:18.84 Right, and it was severe, I don't know for was on a 00:10:18.87\00:10:22.01 daily basis or every week or every few months, but it 00:10:22.04\00:10:26.33 but it was continuous enough 00:10:26.36\00:10:27.76 and it was one thing after another. 00:10:27.79\00:10:31.12 The Judaism stuff going on with my mom. 00:10:31.15\00:10:33.45 He was the Satanism stuff going on with my dad. 00:10:33.48\00:10:35.57 I had two older brothers that were sexually abusive to my 00:10:35.60\00:10:40.66 sister and I and then they would involve their friends. 00:10:40.69\00:10:43.04 We were gang raped on the way to school. 00:10:43.07\00:10:45.67 On a normal school day you would get up, make your 00:10:45.70\00:10:47.82 breakfast and get out the door. 00:10:47.85\00:10:49.40 You would walk three blocks to the school and a block 00:10:49.43\00:10:52.46 away from school there we are with five guys that are 00:10:52.49\00:10:56.37 my brothers friends coming and gang raping us and 00:10:56.40\00:10:59.62 dumping us in the large green garbage dumpsters and 00:10:59.65\00:11:02.13 piling rocks on top so we couldn't get out. 00:11:02.16\00:11:04.45 Then a garbage truck would come by and find us there. 00:11:04.48\00:11:08.68 This was a daily life type of thing, so at the age, 00:11:08.71\00:11:13.17 I could go back into a lot of different stuff but I 00:11:13.20\00:11:17.04 won't go into it were sake of time for the show. 00:11:17.07\00:11:19.77 But that is just to give you an idea. 00:11:19.80\00:11:21.65 My mom had been an actress before she was a big 00:11:21.68\00:11:28.03 movie star, singer, dancer in Spain before coming 00:11:28.06\00:11:31.85 to the United States. 00:11:31.88\00:11:33.30 It was all about performance, it was all about you 00:11:33.33\00:11:37.93 are here to please your man. 00:11:37.96\00:11:39.45 All woman is good for is having sex and you need 00:11:39.48\00:11:42.72 to be good at it, so we were trained. 00:11:42.75\00:11:44.74 My sister and I were trained that you need to 00:11:44.77\00:11:47.55 look good, you need to sound good, 00:11:47.58\00:11:48.86 this is what it was about. 00:11:48.89\00:11:51.16 That along with all of the sexual abuse stuff 00:11:51.19\00:11:54.67 going on, later getting into pornography by the 00:11:54.70\00:11:58.30 time it was 8 years old, I was in full-time 00:11:58.33\00:12:00.73 pornography with my brothers. 00:12:00.76\00:12:03.28 I finally got placed in a home for abused kids 00:12:03.31\00:12:09.44 this is after about 30 different foster placements 00:12:09.47\00:12:12.91 when it started showing in school, not being able to 00:12:12.94\00:12:17.77 concentrate, not being able to - so someone 00:12:17.80\00:12:21.75 stepped in at one time. 00:12:21.78\00:12:23.24 Sarai: Several times, at the first foster place I 00:12:23.27\00:12:27.72 was about 9 years old at the first foster placement. 00:12:27.75\00:12:32.09 It was where my parents ended up divorcing when 00:12:32.12\00:12:35.06 I was 6, but the custody battle went on all the 00:12:35.09\00:12:39.83 way until I was 15, but neither one of 00:12:39.86\00:12:43.43 them really wanted us. 00:12:43.46\00:12:44.84 In all fairness I need to say this, my mom was a 00:12:44.87\00:12:47.75 sick lady, but she loved me with a passion which is 00:12:47.78\00:12:52.64 really hard for some people to understand. 00:12:52.67\00:12:54.67 She loved me more than anyone could ever imagine 00:12:54.70\00:13:01.94 and there is something about who I am now that came 00:13:01.97\00:13:05.70 from what ever lovingness I have in me, 00:13:05.73\00:13:08.66 that has stayed with me came from her. 00:13:08.69\00:13:11.79 She is dead now, she committed suicide when 00:13:11.82\00:13:13.97 I was 21, but I wanted to put that in there 00:13:14.00\00:13:17.17 as part of my testimony. 00:13:17.20\00:13:18.62 Your mom, it sounds like she tried to do the best she could 00:13:18.65\00:13:23.63 through this schizophrenia, through the mental 00:13:23.66\00:13:25.57 illness and I just want to say thank you for saying 00:13:25.60\00:13:27.77 that because a lot of people really struggle with that. 00:13:27.80\00:13:31.06 A lot of people really want to do the right thing, 00:13:31.09\00:13:33.30 want to say the right thing, want to love their kids. 00:13:33.33\00:13:35.28 They are twisted with generational mental illness. 00:13:35.31\00:13:39.01 See this is how I see it, I think that my mom's heart 00:13:39.04\00:13:42.87 was that she wanted so much for us not to suffer 00:13:42.90\00:13:45.58 the way that she did. 00:13:45.61\00:13:46.85 That she wanted us to have a strong biblical foundation 00:13:46.88\00:13:48.89 and she did the best she could, but she was functioning, Her 00:13:48.92\00:13:53.07 idea of Judaism, was functioning through schizophrenia. 00:13:53.10\00:13:55.63 It was a major dysfunction, it wasn't true Orthodox Judaism. 00:13:55.66\00:14:00.70 True Orthodox Judaism is nothing like that, 00:14:00.73\00:14:04.27 for those that practice it today, but in her heart 00:14:04.30\00:14:07.48 and her mind she really believed that she was doing us a favor. 00:14:07.51\00:14:12.34 She thought she was training us, and there's all 00:14:12.37\00:14:14.45 different religions do that, but when ever you 00:14:14.48\00:14:17.35 have rules without relationship it's going 00:14:17.38\00:14:21.33 to be a problem right? 00:14:21.36\00:14:22.74 Whenever you have law without mercy it is not going 00:14:22.77\00:14:26.68 to work, it's going to breed resentment, it will breed 00:14:26.71\00:14:29.55 something that isn't what God is all about. 00:14:29.58\00:14:35.87 True Judaism is about God, so that being said 00:14:35.90\00:14:42.15 I have to get back on track. 00:14:42.19\00:14:43.73 Cheri: and you know I'm glad, just glad you said that. 00:14:43.76\00:14:46.15 Especially you get that reality on top of that 00:14:46.18\00:14:50.82 a lot of us deal with, we are a little tweaked, 00:14:50.85\00:14:53.24 we're bipolar, we've got a little bit of depression from 00:14:53.27\00:14:56.84 family generations and then you add religious 00:14:56.87\00:14:58.72 into the mix of that and you haven't brought 00:14:58.75\00:15:01.09 that just said God help me and got into a true 00:15:01.12\00:15:05.73 relationship that everything gets tweaked. 00:15:05.76\00:15:08.44 That sounds like that happen with your mom and 00:15:08.47\00:15:10.45 definitely with your dad the whole Satanism, you 00:15:10.48\00:15:13.66 were just in the middle of all that. 00:15:13.69\00:15:15.49 So I ended up being placed in, I don't know keeping 00:15:15.52\00:15:18.66 track, but somewhere between 20 and 30 foster homes. 00:15:18.69\00:15:21.76 It didn't work out, I was shut down and just 00:15:21.79\00:15:26.77 rock on a bed back-and-forth and not speak. 00:15:26.80\00:15:29.00 I was a self-elected mute for a very long time, 00:15:29.03\00:15:32.68 things to that affect. 00:15:32.71\00:15:34.60 The last placement I was back with my mom, 00:15:34.63\00:15:38.16 and I don't know what the surrounding situation was. 00:15:38.19\00:15:41.77 She had tried to kill me, to smother me with pillows and 00:15:41.80\00:15:45.50 stuff and my sister got involved and called the police. 00:15:45.53\00:15:48.65 That was the last time I was ever at home. 00:15:48.68\00:15:51.60 From there I got placed in home for abused kids, 00:15:51.63\00:15:54.75 and in this home I was in it turned out to be a 00:15:54.78\00:16:00.48 cover, also, for a Satanic occult. 00:16:00.51\00:16:02.74 But it was more on the New Age level of stuff. 00:16:02.77\00:16:06.94 So what do you mean by that? What did that look like? 00:16:06.97\00:16:09.10 That look like the officer of the day, which is the one 00:16:09.13\00:16:12.51 who kept rounds of the premises, he came to me whenever 00:16:12.54\00:16:21.29 somebody was being disciplined, for something or watched, 00:16:21.32\00:16:28.28 suicide watch, any of these things you are put in a room 00:16:28.31\00:16:30.85 with a counselor, house parent, an officer of the day. 00:16:30.88\00:16:33.79 A moment took place where the officer of the day and I 00:16:33.82\00:16:38.52 were in the room at the same time, where we shouldn't 00:16:38.55\00:16:40.76 have been there by ourselves. 00:16:40.79\00:16:42.56 He very quickly made comments to me, and he said, 00:16:42.59\00:16:47.65 you're my princess and you are not of this world, 00:16:47.68\00:16:52.61 but I'm going to show you who your real family is, 00:16:52.64\00:16:55.97 and if you really want to meet them you will have 00:16:56.00\00:16:59.34 to go through me. 00:16:59.37\00:17:00.43 Then that was it, it was that quick of a interview 00:17:00.46\00:17:06.11 type of thing that he had with me. 00:17:06.14\00:17:07.82 That was the very start. 00:17:07.85\00:17:09.21 After a long period of a couple years, I had learned 00:17:09.24\00:17:13.24 Astra Body Projection and all this other stuff. 00:17:13.27\00:17:17.05 At least part of me had. 00:17:17.08\00:17:18.37 So there is the main Satanism and there is that also 00:17:18.40\00:17:24.41 so I was one confused puppy, but the thing is 00:17:24.44\00:17:28.52 I'm so compartmentalized. 00:17:28.55\00:17:32.17 When you and I were talking that I'm very controlling. 00:17:32.20\00:17:34.69 Well I'm a very controlling person but you have to 00:17:34.72\00:17:41.90 understand in my mind this part of me deals with 00:17:41.93\00:17:46.05 physical pain, this part of me deals with emotional 00:17:46.08\00:17:48.63 pain, this part of me deals with religious aspects, 00:17:48.66\00:17:50.90 this part of me, it is all compartmentalized and 00:17:50.93\00:17:54.02 that is what makes up a multiple personality. 00:17:54.05\00:17:57.02 That's how you survived - that's how I survived 00:17:57.05\00:17:59.38 what I was going through. 00:17:59.41\00:18:01.00 The bad part about that is that you don't know, 00:18:01.03\00:18:04.04 I could be talking to you and have a conversation, 00:18:04.07\00:18:09.23 but the next minute I am not me anymore. 00:18:09.26\00:18:12.52 I'm somebody else and having a conversation with him 00:18:12.55\00:18:15.73 and I have no recollection of who you are, 00:18:15.76\00:18:18.41 or who I was five minutes ago. 00:18:18.44\00:18:20.84 So my life from my earliest memories is what I call 00:18:20.87\00:18:26.18 waking up and then you have to just cover up for 00:18:26.21\00:18:29.88 why you weren't there. 00:18:29.91\00:18:31.35 I could be in school and I'm trying to play catch-up, 00:18:31.38\00:18:34.02 because as far as I know I just got there. 00:18:34.05\00:18:36.83 Something triggered me, somebody walked up behind me, 00:18:36.86\00:18:41.39 scared me and made another part of my mind switch over. 00:18:41.42\00:18:45.30 And now I'm somebody else trying to say okay I recognize 00:18:45.33\00:18:50.04 this room, I don't know what day it is, I don't know 00:18:50.07\00:18:54.79 don't know what we're talking about, but it went like 00:18:54.82\00:18:58.56 that my whole life. 00:18:58.59\00:18:59.74 Okay, at the age of 21, well let me just back up 00:18:59.77\00:19:05.78 a little bit more. 00:19:05.81\00:19:07.18 This was my life and an issue happened at the home 00:19:07.21\00:19:15.52 I was in, okay, for abused kids. 00:19:15.55\00:19:17.90 For whatever reasons I believe that I was about to be 00:19:17.93\00:19:24.20 made to disappear, because I was catching on to some things. 00:19:24.23\00:19:27.05 I was starting to talk to God for the first time and 00:19:27.08\00:19:32.55 I was starting to realize... 00:19:32.58\00:19:34.49 Cheri: let me just ask you Sarai, when you say 00:19:34.52\00:19:37.31 starting to talk to God, where do you think that 00:19:37.34\00:19:40.69 God was in any sense a part of the picture, 00:19:40.72\00:19:44.00 or did your mom give you enough of the face of God 00:19:44.03\00:19:46.72 that you can move in and say God. 00:19:46.75\00:19:49.22 Sarai: I don't know she gave me a face of God, 00:19:49.25\00:19:51.75 I think my mom, I think between my mom and my dad both 00:19:51.78\00:19:58.14 I got the gist that God was there and Satan was there, 00:19:58.17\00:20:02.50 and both were very powerful. 00:20:02.53\00:20:04.31 I didn't know which side was which. 00:20:04.34\00:20:06.63 Okay, it was the typical view of the sacrifice, 00:20:06.66\00:20:16.17 you must sacrifice yourself type of view of God, 00:20:16.20\00:20:19.98 but there was some sane part in me still 00:20:20.01\00:20:24.34 that I believe God put there. 00:20:24.37\00:20:26.77 A part that cries out to Him, you know how the 00:20:26.80\00:20:28.09 Bible says that God has given everybody 00:20:28.12\00:20:29.77 a measure of faith, okay. 00:20:29.80\00:20:32.30 With that little measure that I had in me at about the 00:20:32.33\00:20:37.53 age of 16 or 17, I would be sitting outside smoking a 00:20:37.56\00:20:41.62 cigarette and looking at the heavens and seeing those 00:20:41.65\00:20:44.67 stars and saying why am I like this, why? 00:20:44.70\00:20:48.27 It was just the beginning, I never stayed for an answer. 00:20:48.30\00:20:51.24 It was the questioning began, okay - Amen. 00:20:51.27\00:20:54.75 I think that is the first time I remember looking back 00:20:54.78\00:20:59.62 now that I can say God started my recovery at that point. 00:20:59.65\00:21:04.15 He started interjecting in my life and it was at the 00:21:04.18\00:21:08.31 very first time I started asking. 00:21:08.34\00:21:10.46 Cheri: you know I'm going to be brazen enough to say you 00:21:10.49\00:21:14.15 recognized Him at that point, because I think that I 00:21:14.18\00:21:17.57 look back and I think He was there so long before that. 00:21:17.60\00:21:21.30 Sarai: oh He was, I didn't mean it to be like that it 00:21:21.33\00:21:23.45 just was where I could physically see issues were God 00:21:23.48\00:21:26.91 was really intervening, there have been other things 00:21:26.94\00:21:29.77 that He was doing all along which I will bring up later, 00:21:29.80\00:21:31.99 but if I can say that's where it actually started 00:21:32.02\00:21:36.40 just a little bit. 00:21:36.43\00:21:37.62 In a foster home, smoking cigarettes 00:21:37.65\00:21:39.09 - in a home for abused kids, it's an institution. 00:21:39.12\00:21:41.34 I didn't get any help anyway I was fearing for my life. 00:21:41.38\00:21:46.80 I started to realize that a whole occult thing was 00:21:46.83\00:21:50.20 going on and I was starting to pull away. 00:21:50.24\00:21:53.12 I was saying I don't want this, I don't want to be 00:21:53.15\00:21:55.81 like this and I started to pull away. 00:21:55.84\00:21:59.36 I needed to run away, I was fearing for my life. 00:21:59.39\00:22:02.96 I got married to a kid from school, first guy I could 00:22:02.99\00:22:07.78 find it would run away with me physically and marry me. 00:22:07.81\00:22:11.29 During that time, the first year we were together, 00:22:11.32\00:22:15.26 right after we're married he went to boot camp and 00:22:15.29\00:22:19.18 decided to drop out of school, his mom was going 00:22:19.21\00:22:21.45 to sign him into the Army. 00:22:21.48\00:22:22.61 He goes, during the first three months he was 00:22:22.64\00:22:26.68 in boot camp, his mother was murdered. 00:22:26.71\00:22:28.74 She was stabbed over 70 times and his little 12-year-old 00:22:28.77\00:22:33.61 brother was almost completely decapitated. 00:22:33.64\00:22:36.36 He blamed me and said if it hadn't been for me 00:22:36.39\00:22:39.87 he would have been there to protect his mom. 00:22:39.90\00:22:41.89 It just seen my life seem to go from 00:22:41.92\00:22:44.87 one trauma to another. 00:22:44.90\00:22:46.40 Cheri: I just have to say that there are people 00:22:46.43\00:22:51.19 in the café and watching is that what I have seen 00:22:51.22\00:22:55.54 happen in my own life in other people's lives is 00:22:55.57\00:22:58.12 that where are so traumatized and so chaotic and so 00:22:58.15\00:23:00.73 dysfunctional that the only people I draw into my life 00:23:00.76\00:23:06.11 are people that are chaotic and 00:23:06.14\00:23:07.29 dysfunctional and traumatized. 00:23:07.32\00:23:08.97 So when somebody says my life went from one trauma 00:23:09.01\00:23:11.33 to the next is because of that. 00:23:11.36\00:23:13.67 Because as soon as God pulls us out and we become 00:23:13.70\00:23:16.07 healthier it's almost like we pull in people that 00:23:16.10\00:23:18.93 are healthier and the trauma decreases some. 00:23:18.96\00:23:21.57 So if you feel, if you're watching and you feel that 00:23:21.60\00:23:24.70 your life goes from one trauma to the other, 00:23:24.73\00:23:26.63 one chaos to the other just know that that 00:23:26.66\00:23:29.51 is common for all of 00:23:29.54\00:23:30.74 us and God says I promise you, I promise you that 00:23:30.77\00:23:34.69 I want to bring you out of that. 00:23:34.72\00:23:36.93 So I just wanted to say for a lot of us we think 00:23:36.96\00:23:39.48 what is wrong with me? 00:23:39.51\00:23:41.33 And I am sure Sarai you were sitting there and 00:23:41.36\00:23:43.84 saying what is wrong with me, why is it that there is 00:23:43.87\00:23:46.56 one more thing and one more thing and one more thing. 00:23:46.59\00:23:48.41 Actually to me it was normal life, to me and I hate 00:23:48.44\00:23:54.15 to say but it's true, I can look back now and say 00:23:54.18\00:23:57.19 wow I can't believe my life was like that. 00:23:57.22\00:23:58.88 But at the time from where I come from has 00:23:58.91\00:24:01.42 followed suit for where I was at. 00:24:01.45\00:24:03.26 But I went through that, we stayed together, he wanted to 00:24:03.29\00:24:11.32 have a baby really badly, and I wanted to have a baby. 00:24:11.35\00:24:14.33 Turned out I couldn't have children. 00:24:14.36\00:24:16.51 He got one of my best friends pregnant, let me just 00:24:16.54\00:24:21.57 stop here and say, every man that I had ever known in 00:24:21.60\00:24:25.05 my life, every woman I had ever known in my life was 00:24:25.08\00:24:28.14 sexually dysfunctional. 00:24:28.17\00:24:30.01 There was not one person that I know of that wasn't 00:24:30.04\00:24:34.00 perverted sexually in one form or another. 00:24:34.03\00:24:37.23 This was huge to me, alright, because my mother had 00:24:37.26\00:24:43.34 instilled in me that all woman is made for is to 00:24:43.37\00:24:46.51 sexually please her husband and keep him there, okay. 00:24:46.54\00:24:50.37 And it is all about what she looks like and how she can 00:24:50.40\00:24:52.55 perform, so not been able to have children was huge. 00:24:52.58\00:24:55.39 That was a real even trying to make it in a 00:24:55.42\00:24:59.40 non-abusive world, trying to get out of that 00:24:59.43\00:25:03.10 seemed impossible to me because of my view how people are. 00:25:03.13\00:25:08.65 So I went from that husband and ended up getting a 00:25:08.68\00:25:14.08 divorce from him and with it a few weeks as married 00:25:14.11\00:25:16.62 again to my second husband. 00:25:16.65\00:25:18.30 He ended up seeking, he was in the Army, 00:25:18.33\00:25:23.29 we got stationed in Las Vegas. 00:25:23.32\00:25:25.16 He started seeing prostitutes, and my way of 00:25:25.19\00:25:28.65 vindicating myself is well if you'd rather pay money 00:25:28.68\00:25:33.44 to see a prostitute, then I'll just become one. 00:25:33.47\00:25:35.52 If that's what you want, if that's what it takes then 00:25:35.55\00:25:39.78 that is what I need to become. 00:25:39.81\00:25:41.29 I was so used to trying to become perfect, what ever I 00:25:41.32\00:25:45.50 needed to be too pleased whoever I was with, 00:25:45.53\00:25:47.42 that's what I did. 00:25:47.45\00:25:48.85 So that is how I ended up in a brothel. 00:25:48.88\00:25:51.15 Cheri: can I say can I say little bit about this 00:25:51.18\00:25:54.21 disassociate disorder now are people are not going to 00:25:54.24\00:25:56.46 understand this, and I understand you too well. 00:25:56.49\00:25:59.04 But a disassociate disorder is when you disassociate 00:25:59.07\00:26:03.51 and become the prostitute, or the dancer, or the church 00:26:03.54\00:26:09.35 secretary, what ever it is your personality takes on, 00:26:09.38\00:26:12.11 you take that on with absolutely no moral questions. 00:26:12.14\00:26:15.75 You know what I mean, so it is like as you step in you 00:26:15.78\00:26:19.36 don't step in with a right or wrong, you step in as 00:26:19.39\00:26:21.94 this is what a prostitute is and this is how it is 00:26:21.97\00:26:23.88 and how you look and how you perform. 00:26:23.91\00:26:26.03 Should dissociate became that, it added that to your 00:26:26.06\00:26:30.42 group, then I just wanted people to know that this is not 00:26:30.45\00:26:33.74 a right or wrong decision, 00:26:33.77\00:26:34.80 this is you are this and you are good. 00:26:34.83\00:26:37.53 So here I am in the brothel and here's the next big 00:26:37.56\00:26:46.90 phase, or big thing that happened. 00:26:46.93\00:26:48.96 Over the years, I believe that all the demonic 00:26:48.99\00:26:56.55 activity that was going on in my life had so attached 00:26:56.58\00:26:59.93 itself to me that I was demon possessed. 00:26:59.96\00:27:03.01 In that demon possession, because it seem like 00:27:03.04\00:27:06.38 something beyond myself, okay there was an anger and 00:27:06.41\00:27:09.31 rage that was beyond me and I don't know 00:27:09.34\00:27:11.91 how else to explain that. 00:27:11.94\00:27:13.30 But it's like being a multiple, you're one altar behind, 00:27:13.33\00:27:17.14 you are one step back from whoever is at the surface 00:27:17.17\00:27:20.20 doing life, okay. 00:27:20.23\00:27:21.62 But there felt like there was something else 00:27:21.65\00:27:23.60 guiding you or pushing you. 00:27:23.63\00:27:25.51 I knew that it was demonic. 00:27:25.54\00:27:27.97 one night I went out to the pool area at the brothel 00:27:28.00\00:27:32.06 and I talked to God probably for the first time that I 00:27:32.09\00:27:38.22 had actually had a real prayer, a real hitting the 00:27:38.25\00:27:42.16 breaking point for me. 00:27:42.19\00:27:43.94 I had been planning to commit mass murder of all the 00:27:43.97\00:27:50.32 people that I felt ever hurt me in my life, 00:27:50.35\00:27:52.39 or who had failed me. 00:27:52.42\00:27:53.64 I have been collecting an arsenal of weapons I kept in the 00:27:53.67\00:27:57.21 trunk of my car, but there was a part of me that 00:27:57.24\00:28:01.37 didn't want to do that, but I felt so pushed, so 00:28:01.40\00:28:05.57 compelled constantly. 00:28:05.60\00:28:07.46 Whether it was through nightmares, or the voices, 00:28:07.49\00:28:09.35 or whatever, but they were not voices on the outside, 00:28:09.38\00:28:11.86 like schizophrenic voices on the inside. 00:28:11.89\00:28:14.06 So with whatever sanity I felt like I had left, 00:28:14.09\00:28:19.55 I think of the demoniac, you know that he's somehow 00:28:19.58\00:28:23.76 communicated this to the Lord too, but he wanted help. 00:28:23.79\00:28:27.07 Cheri: That little tiny particle - that little tiny 00:28:27.10\00:28:29.58 particle, that little seed of faith knowing that God gave 00:28:29.61\00:28:32.99 that little measure as small as a mustard seed is all it took. 00:28:33.02\00:28:36.49 But I cried out every God's name that I had ever 00:28:36.52\00:28:40.29 heard and said this is my plan. 00:28:40.32\00:28:41.72 I do not know what I do with my life, I don't know how I got 00:28:41.75\00:28:46.14 myself to this place. 00:28:46.17\00:28:47.65 I don't understand anything but I need the real God to 00:28:47.68\00:28:51.51 please stand up, if You can do something with my life, 00:28:51.54\00:28:53.97 I'll serve you forever. 00:28:54.00\00:28:56.60 I cried out Satan's name, Allah, Buddha, everything 00:28:56.63\00:29:02.52 that I could think of and I didn't cry out Jesus 00:29:02.55\00:29:04.99 because I had been raised to believe that Jesus was 00:29:05.02\00:29:07.38 just a false prophet and that He was the enemy. 00:29:07.41\00:29:11.84 And that He had no power and somewhere in me knew 00:29:11.87\00:29:15.76 that Satan had more power than Jesus, at least 00:29:15.79\00:29:18.49 in my opinion at that time. 00:29:18.52\00:29:20.09 Cheri: isn't that weird how the devil does that? 00:29:20.12\00:29:23.68 It really is but look what God did! 00:29:23.71\00:29:25.60 It was like a movie screen flashed in front of my face. 00:29:25.63\00:29:29.59 I don't know if that was a trance or what anybody wants 00:29:29.62\00:29:31.76 to call it, I don't care but it was a movie screen in 00:29:31.79\00:29:34.65 front of my face and I saw those little yellow VW bug, 00:29:34.68\00:29:37.15 car and it had a bumper sticker on the back that says 00:29:37.18\00:29:40.61 smile Jesus loves you. 00:29:40.64\00:29:42.18 Well you know I'm a bumper sticker girl... 00:29:42.21\00:29:46.44 Cheri: how funny is that? 00:29:46.47\00:29:48.42 Because God use that of all things, of all the things that 00:29:48.45\00:29:53.66 God could use, God used that for me and it was incredible. 00:29:53.69\00:29:57.31 And I said okay Jesus too, what ever or whoever the real 00:29:57.34\00:30:00.98 God is please stand up I'm going to give you 3 days 00:30:01.01\00:30:03.67 and then I am going to go out and commit this act. 00:30:03.70\00:30:05.99 I was going to commit the murders and then suicide. 00:30:06.02\00:30:08.95 So my heart and mind were made up, I threw out my 00:30:08.98\00:30:12.91 cigarette and went back inside and went to work. 00:30:12.94\00:30:15.40 Got a couple hours sleep, got up for the morning 00:30:15.43\00:30:18.52 shift and the working girls had their own kitchen 00:30:18.55\00:30:22.52 and in our kitchen we have a phone booth. 00:30:22.55\00:30:24.81 In that phone booth there was a number that only 00:30:24.84\00:30:28.50 the working girls knew, you personally had to give 00:30:28.53\00:30:31.05 out that phone number. 00:30:31.08\00:30:32.30 I had been in Alabama with the military in my 00:30:32.33\00:30:36.45 ex-husband and stuff and so I had a real strong 00:30:36.48\00:30:39.31 Alabama accent at the time when I begin working. 00:30:39.34\00:30:42.32 The name Bammer kind of stuck as my working name, 00:30:42.35\00:30:46.15 so only people that really knew me knew to call me 00:30:46.18\00:30:50.65 Bammer and knew that phone number. 00:30:50.68\00:30:52.32 Well that next morning, that was 3 hours after I had 00:30:52.35\00:30:55.59 prayed that prayer, I went in to breakfast and the 00:30:55.62\00:30:58.48 phone rang and one of the other girls answered the 00:30:58.51\00:31:00.94 phone and said, Bammer the phone is for you. 00:31:00.97\00:31:03.63 I'm thinking who's calling me, my husband isn't going to 00:31:03.66\00:31:06.67 call me, it's not his time to call. 00:31:06.70\00:31:09.20 So I went to the phone, the voice on the phone says 00:31:09.23\00:31:13.64 you don't know me and I can't believe I am calling you, 00:31:13.67\00:31:17.70 I can't even believe there's a Bammer, the person was 00:31:17.73\00:31:20.91 just tweaked mentally over the fact that there 00:31:20.94\00:31:24.78 was this person, she says all I know is that I became 00:31:24.81\00:31:28.33 a Christian a year ago and I have been praying for a 00:31:28.36\00:31:31.62 year that God would use me and God gave me this name 00:31:31.65\00:31:35.23 and this phone number and told me to tell you that 00:31:35.26\00:31:36.67 Jesus heard your prayer. 00:31:36.70\00:31:38.27 And I said who is this? 00:31:38.30\00:31:42.16 And they were not the words that I used 00:31:42.19\00:31:45.82 - and you know even as I'm saying that I just want 00:31:45.85\00:31:48.74 to say I so have a crush on God, how could you not 00:31:48.77\00:31:50.76 love Him for that? 00:31:50.80\00:31:52.77 Oh you can, but she said, after I said who is this, 00:31:52.80\00:32:01.18 she said my name is Lisa and when she said that I hit 00:32:01.21\00:32:09.56 the floor because I knew from her saying her own name, 00:32:09.59\00:32:13.15 if you ever have a sister or brother that says your name 00:32:13.18\00:32:15.89 all the time and they have a special way of saying your 00:32:15.92\00:32:18.05 name that you know it is them. 00:32:18.08\00:32:20.33 That person turned out to be my sister who I had not seen for 00:32:20.36\00:32:24.91 years, because she had run away and left me behind. 00:32:24.94\00:32:29.25 She had been my protector for so many years through 00:32:29.28\00:32:32.01 all the abuse, but she saw her moment when she hit 00:32:32.04\00:32:35.42 13 and she bailed. 00:32:35.45\00:32:36.77 She became a Christian a year earlier and had been 00:32:36.80\00:32:41.34 praying for me, - not knowing it was you 00:32:41.37\00:32:44.09 - praying for me not knowing it was me. 00:32:44.12\00:32:45.85 And she called that payphone and God had given it 00:32:45.88\00:32:48.31 to her prophetically, and she called that payphone 00:32:48.34\00:32:50.35 and said Jesus heard your prayer. 00:32:50.38\00:32:52.81 When I finally stood up and realized this is Lisa isn't it? 00:32:52.84\00:32:58.55 And she said, shut up, long story short she was in 00:32:58.58\00:33:05.90 Ridgecrest California and it was my week off that was coming up 00:33:05.93\00:33:11.00 from the brothel and I flew out there and went to see her. 00:33:11.03\00:33:15.09 One of the first thing she did was take me through 00:33:15.12\00:33:17.52 the prophecies in Isaiah, because when we were raised 00:33:17.55\00:33:21.21 as Jews right, we had to memorize a quarter of the book 00:33:21.24\00:33:24.86 of Isaiah in Hebrew for our Bat Mitzvah. 00:33:24.89\00:33:28.55 So they left out much of the prophecies of Jesus. 00:33:28.58\00:33:33.19 We weren't giving that version - exactly. 00:33:33.22\00:33:36.35 So she took me through and she said look what they 00:33:36.38\00:33:39.07 left out, because that were somewhere my mind still had 00:33:39.10\00:33:40.86 it memorized, because you have to do the chanting thing 00:33:40.89\00:33:44.01 word is called cantering and you have to learn all that. 00:33:44.04\00:33:46.99 So she took me through Isaiah and showed me the 00:33:47.02\00:33:50.07 prophecies, and she took me through the road to Romans 00:33:50.10\00:33:52.75 and showed me what my salvation was going to depend on 00:33:52.78\00:33:57.63 me looking at what Jesus had done for me. 00:33:57.66\00:34:00.76 Then she took me through the book of Revelation and 00:34:00.79\00:34:03.41 scared the daylights out of me. 00:34:03.44\00:34:06.28 According to what I had believed and she had believed at 00:34:06.31\00:34:10.36 the time about Hell being a place and not an event. 00:34:10.39\00:34:17.09 The next day she said would you please come to church 00:34:17.12\00:34:20.73 with us, that was a Saturday that I was there and Sunday 00:34:20.76\00:34:24.34 we went to Little Pentecostal Holiness Church and I 00:34:24.37\00:34:26.81 ended up giving my life over to Lord at that time, 00:34:26.84\00:34:30.48 I literally crawled up the aisle of her small little church. 00:34:30.51\00:34:35.04 I had like 3,000 dollars in the back of my pants 00:34:35.07\00:34:38.22 pockets and I don't know much about little churches 00:34:38.25\00:34:42.44 but they really struggle for money. 00:34:42.47\00:34:44.76 This pastor was incredible because he said, 00:34:44.79\00:34:48.79 he took an offering at the end 00:34:48.82\00:34:51.24 I'm already up there crying and 00:34:51.27\00:34:52.31 said the sinner's prayer. 00:34:52.34\00:34:53.95 You know I'm wanting Jesus and I pull out 3,000 out of 00:34:53.98\00:34:58.76 my back pocket and his hand goes, honey, and his hands 00:34:58.79\00:35:00.90 shaking and he's going I can't take this. 00:35:00.93\00:35:02.89 He's saying, because you know what Jesus will never ever 00:35:02.92\00:35:08.84 forgive me if I ever give Satan a foothold to think 00:35:08.87\00:35:11.82 that you purchased your salvation. 00:35:11.85\00:35:13.42 That stayed with me all through my Christian life. 00:35:13.45\00:35:18.60 Cheri: we are going on a break just because I wanted 00:35:18.63\00:35:22.14 to say that I want to come back and get into exactly how did 00:35:22.17\00:35:27.59 God take this child, that is fragmented, 00:35:27.62\00:35:31.71 that is disassociated, just so damaged and 00:35:31.74\00:35:35.42 how did integration happen, and how did healing happen. 00:35:35.45\00:35:38.19 That is my favorite part about God because I just think 00:35:38.22\00:35:40.76 that each one of us has this junk. 00:35:40.79\00:35:43.62 You definitely have more junk than the average bear you know 00:35:43.65\00:35:46.40 that so I'm just going to - I got more joy too so it's 00:35:46.43\00:35:49.99 okay - I love that, I love that. 00:35:50.02\00:35:52.18 You know I just wanted to say we're going to take a 00:35:52.21\00:35:54.74 break right now I feel like I need to take a breath, to 00:35:54.77\00:35:59.74 take a breath and come back and hear what God does with 00:35:59.77\00:36:02.24 all this, it's incredible it's incredible. 00:36:02.27\00:36:04.39