Finding Freedom: A Story of Hope and Restoration

By C.M. Wolfe

This is the dramatic real life story of Celeste: A woman, who from a very early age, was tormented with severe physical and mental abuse. As she grows up into a young troubled adult, her haunting past leads her into the self-destructive choices of drug abuse, sexual immorality, depression and the endless looking for love in all the wrong places.

Believing she can find and fill the empty void within herself she searches for years, her years turning into decades, all the while gaining chain after chain of sin sick bondage. Finally, at the end of her rope, filled with rage and sorrow..no hope in sight, she bitterly slips into the abyss of insanity which leads her into attempts to end her own life never realizing that God has a magnificent plan for her waiting just around the bend

Celestes story is a powerful testimony that no one is ever too far gone for redemption. That healing and restoration are always possible through the forgiving grace of our merciful Father in Heaven, who sent His Son, Jesus Christ to break our chains of bondage. (He, who the Son sets free, is FREE INDEED! John 8:36)

You will laugh.you will cry.and you will celebrate with Celeste as she shares her journey back home into Gods loving embrace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Apr 20, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546216322

C.M. Wolfe

Celeste M. Wolfe is a Cum Laude graduate of The School of Hard Knocks who wears many different hats in her life. First and foremost, she is a devoted wife, loving mother and blessed grandmother. Included in her repertoire; Author, Small Business Owner, Speaker, Spiritual Coach, Ministry Founder and Visionary. Humbly remembering it is only by His grace, mercy and love that she has overcome, she passionately lives her life to accomplish the assignments of God as she follows His lead to go wherever He says GO! She is faithfully committed to seeing the captives set free and sets her heart to build up and equip them to enjoy a life of abundance as He has promised. Her favorite hat to wear: Child of the Most High sitting snuggled in Her Daddys lap finding comfort and love in His sweet embrace. Quoted as saying, It is the absolute BEST place to be.. EVER!!!!!

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FINDING

FREEDOM

A Story of Hope and Restoration

C.M. WOLFE

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Published by AuthorHouse 04/19/2018

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Dedication

Personal Note

1)   May 30 From The Start

2)   June 2 The ‘Root’ of the Matter

3)   June 7 Into the Wild

4)   June 18 Grace……What a Wonderful Gift

Diagram A

Diagram B

Diagram C

5)   June 27 Blessed in the Womb?

6)   July 17 Curses Broken……. Blessings Begin

7)   July 19 Too Blind to See

8)   July 23 Heavy

9)   Aug 1 True Freedom Only Comes One Way

10)   Aug 3 ‘Choices’….Our Free Will

11)   Aug 9 High Ho, High Ho It’s Off to the Streets I Go

12)   Aug 31 A Flock of Seagulls

13)   Sept 4 The Chaos Continues

14)   Sept13 Another Transition, Another Child

15)   Sept27 Living My Reality, Over and Over and Over Again

16)   Oct 15 My Children, HIS Children, Our Beautiful Children

17)   Oct 16 Part 1: On and On and On It Goes, Where it Stops Only God Knows

Part 2: Facing My Giants, And Creating More

18)   Oct 27 My Knight, Lord Graham, Arrives

19)   Nov 8 Part 1: The Dam Bursts and Diagnosis Begins

Part 2: Earthly Treatment or Spiritual War?

20)   Nov 12 Only One Way Out….ONLY ONE!

21)   Nov 28 Not the End….Just the Beginning!

About the Author

Foreword

J esus says: I saw you while you were still under the fig tree (John 1:48). God sees us from our future while we are still in our current circumstances. His vision of us is NOT who we are today, it’s who we are to Him who is standing in our destiny calling us to Him. It is us who have to answer that call and allow Him in to do His work within us. We have to learn to let go of the past, learn to live in the moment and view ourselves from where He stands…in our destiny. In the pages of this book you will find a beautiful story of radical redemption and the freedom from a lifetime of sin for a Lady whom is very dear to my heart, Ms. Celeste Wolfe. She has the heart of a warrior; she has been beaten, battered and bruised from all that life has thrown at her. And I have a feeling, so have you. She is a mentor, teacher and confidante. Celeste understands this world and yet found the passion and desire to step out and rise above it; allowing the Lord to guide her every step of the way. Not all pathways are easy, but all are for the joy and fulfillment of His purpose for you. God is SO Good and He beams with joy towards you. Allow Him to love on you as you will see Celeste has done, and your Freedom will be just on the other side of these pages.

Freedom is all about Healing, Acceptance, Surrender and Dependence upon the One who created us in His image. Leading us into our healing there is a Bible story in John 5:3-8 that shows us how Papa is calling us to Him in all of our brokenness so we can surrender all to Him. The story tells us many who were sick, lame and paralyzed lie by the pool of Bethesda and wait for the angel of the Lord to come and trouble the waters. When the waters were troubled the first one into the pool would receive their healing and become whole. Father God showed me that YOUR healing is in YOUR faith and action of trust, yet you wait by the sidelines for someone to help you get where you do not feel you can go yourself. Now He’s personally asking you: Do you want to get well?

If your answer is yes, then your healing comes in your faith and action of trust. Even the smallest amount of faith, and your action in that faith, joined with the belief that He WILL do His work within you will ignite a Holy fire that heals you in that very moment. Other times it may take multiple times of continuously stepping out and coming to the Father with relentless faith that brings your healing. You see, it’s all a matter of trust. For you it is trust in the Father who sent His SON who, in turn, sent His Holy Spirit so we could receive ALL the Father has for us. He whom the Father sets free is free indeed! For Him, it is to see that He can trust you; to know that you desire your healing, but to know your heart is to seek HIM above all else. To know that you can confidently say: It is well with my soul, Papa!

What if this is YOUR season? Are you seeing troubled waters? Is everything around you falling apart, making you feel there is no one to help you? Are you in a season where all around you all you can see is the storm, the mighty rushing winds and no safe place to stand? Jesus is calling you into the deep. He’s asking you to trust Him and step out into the troubled waters, knowing full well that you cannot by any logical human standards stand firm upon a sinking substance….that is, not without Him. Therefore, everything surrounding you and your act of faith must be performed with supernatural faith. He is in the business of the miraculous! Are you willing to step out and step in to the unknown to receive your radical redemption and fiery testimony of His Power in YOUR life?

The waters are troubled, my friends, but the moment you step in, His power can calm the raging seas and your healing begins with an overwhelming peace that none can withstand. With just one small act of faith He will lift you up and take you to higher places. You will soar on wings of eagles under the shelter of His protection. He will raise you up because He LOVES you with all that He is because HE IS LOVE. Love, Peace, Joy and Beauty emanate from Him for He is radiant and He wants to share ALL of who He is with you…YES YOU! Freedom is in His name, Freedom is in your heart and Freedom is so close to you, you can hear it in your breath can’t you? Speak the word, say the name, and His love WILL come rushing in with more power than any raging sea. His troubled waters bring healing, so I dare you to let them wash over you and let His love overflow into your life, bringing that freedom you have been longing for; a Freedom like no other. He is worthy and… SO.ARE.YOU!

Why am I writing this you ask? Who am I? I’m not famous, but I don’t need to be because Our Father in Heaven has ALL the Glory we need. He orchestrates our every move, our every situation and sees us through. I am a servant of The Most High, but I also am redeemed and have been freed from a life of devastating sin. I was in a raging sea of trouble when He found me and called me back to Him. Back to Him? you ask. Yes, back to Him because we all came from Him; in the beginning, created in His image, He breathed His life and Spirit into us. I dared to step out into the vast deep where He was calling me so I could walk with Him. In that moment, when your heart is convinced that He is able, you can no longer focus on the depth of the seas or the