I Am Not a Home Wrecker

By Kristen Sheri

I Am Not a Home Wrecker is a powerful devotional that will confront the areas in our lives that contribute to low self-esteem. In this book Kristen challenges you to watch what you let into your house and describes the devastation that depression, anger, fear, just to name a few, can have on your life. Through her own personal battles, she will testify that God is a life changer and that you dont have to live your life as a home-wrecker but as a new creation in Christ.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781514479643

Kristen Sheri

Kristen Sheri has a passion for the word of God and receives her spiritual food from the church she has been all of her life, True Vine Community Church of God in Christ. Under the dynamic leadership of Bishop Leo C. Brown, Kristen is able to exercise her gift of dance in her local and statewide church. She works diligently in the children’s ministry and has chosen Early Childhood Education as her profession. Kristen has co-written and directed plays for her local church’s Christmas and Easter Programs. This book was birthed out of a heart wrenching divorce, causing Kristen to look at the mirror and confront what she saw yet embrace the person that God said she was.

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Copyright © 2017 by Kristen Sheri.

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ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5144-7966-7

                 Softcover        978-1-5144-7965-0

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CONTENTS

DEDICATION

WHAT IS A HOMEWRECKER

ANGER

JEALOUSY

PRIDE

UNFORGIVENESS

BITTERNESS

ADULTERY

FEAR

DEPRESSION

IMAGE

YOU ARE MADE NEW

Amplified Bible

Scripture taken from the Amplified Bible, copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

NLT – New Living Translation

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DEDICATION

This is my first book. My first born, my first fruit. Therefore, I dedicate this page to the Father, Son and HolyGhost. I pray You are well pleased.

God, My Father I thank you for loving me enough to send your precious son, Jesus Christ to be born and die on the cross just to redeem me back to you. You are an amazing God. I could not have made it through the most difficult time of my life without you. I wouldn’t have had the best time of my life if it wasn’t for you. Your Word has breathed life into me in ways I didn’t even know it could. Thank you for forgiving me. What would I do without it. Thank you for creating me. When I didn’t know my purpose, when I question and doubt my purpose, choose not to live out my purpose, you called me good and still called me to my purpose. Wow. Sometimes that’s the only Word, I need to hear. Good. I think you’re marvelous and crazy at the same time for using me, for believing that I’m worth it, for giving me and mankind dominion over anything. You see we keep messing up, we keep being homewreckers! But out of your mouth, you said not so. It is because of you, I am able to decree and declare everything you have called me to be and a homewrecker is not one of them. I thank you God. I thank you for a relationship. It is the greatest one I have ever known. Even when I messed our relationship up, you sent Jesus to get us straight again. Wow. Just wow. How and why would I not serve you.

Jesus, I thank you. You interceded for me when I didn’t know I needed to be interceded for. Forgive her Father, for she knows not what she is doing. On more than one occasion I have been guilty of just not knowing. But because you were willing to be my Savior, the one who conquered death, I now have life. I thought I was dead. I thought I was a homewrecker. I thought I would never make it through. But just like you waited for and spoke to that woman at the well, you waited and spoke to me. I’m shouting at the top of my lungs, Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Thank you, for saving me! I need you always. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for walking with me, for healing me, for dying for me. You took my place. It should have been me. I am so happy you are in my life. I am truly blessed to be counted as one of your sisters, and not just a servant.

Holy Ghost! My comforter! My keeper! If Jesus didn’t send you… where would I be! Lost for sure! In my feelings, dazed and confused, a total wreck! When I thought I was going to go crazy and lose my mind, you kept me. Thank you for comforting me during those times when I was by myself. No one saw my tears but you. For the times I wanted to cry and just couldn’t, You got me through it. Times when I wanted to do wrong, you were right there in my ear whispering not to, that my Heavenly Father had it all under control. You told me to keep trusting Jesus. To keep pushing. You lead me to scriptures that I never knew existed. Who reads Ezra, for crying out loud! I apologize for the times that I have grieved you and for the times I will grieve you again. I am like David, God you can take anything from me but do not take your Holy Spirit! You mean that much and more than anything I need you to make it in this life. Life changes people, but you don’t change. Thank you!

WHAT IS A HOMEWRECKER

A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands Proverbs 14:1 NLT

I will never forget the devastation or the feeling of defeat when the question are you happy being a homewrecker, plagued my mind. The mention of it pierced my soul like nothing I had ever experienced before. I never set out to be one. It’s not something that I aspired to be when I was a young girl. No girl or woman says to herself, When you grow up, you’re going to be a homewrecker! The name itself gives off an unwanted aura. Its negative effects and consequences are not one I want to be associated with. No one wants to be a homewreckers friend, no one has empathy for a