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Mariah grew up as a fun-loving and happy child. But when her family left the church, they also took God out of the picture and continued life without Him. Then a loved one verbally abused her as a pre-teen. That caused her to make her first suicide attempt and cut herself. She then went on a lot of psychotropic medications that caused confusion in her mind.

To ease and cover up the pain Mariah felt, she resorted to different kinds of vices. She started drinking alcohol and smoking weed. By 16, Mariah was doing cocaine. And at 17, she got pregnant and had an abortion. Amidst all this, she wanted to die and then spent the next few years in a drug-induced haze. Broke and having no job, the teen also stole money. As a result, she ended up in jail.

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At 18 years old, Mariah began selling herself to sustain her addiction to drugs. That’s when everything became black, dark, and empty for her. She was in and out of psych wards and ran away from home. Soon after, Mariah also tried doing heroin.

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Then one day, a childhood best friend of Mariah’s connected her with a sister program of Teen Challenge, a women’s Christian home. After rehab, she joined the program. And for the next nine months, Mariah struggled with the withdrawal of her body from drugs. She suffered from migraines and she couldn’t sleep. By her sixth month, Mariah even relapsed and cut herself again. But leaders at the Christian home responded in prayer.

These Christian leaders in the home prayed for Mariah to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

“It felt like just this liquid love poured into my body like I literally felt the Holy Spirit come into my body!” she testified.

After nine months, for the first time, she slept for over eight hours. She woke up the next day praising God.

What an amazing transforming journey! Watch the whole story.

"Liquid Love Poured Into Me!" - Freed from Heroin, Suicide, Self-harm, & Addiction

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The Ministerial Committee for Legislation ratified on Sunday Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s bill proposal to impose fines on individuals who pay for sex.

The proposal will be submitted for approval on the Knesset floor when parliament returns from its summer holiday in October.

The proposal stipulates fines of up to NIS 1,500 for persons convicted of utilizing the services of a prostitute. A second offense within three years will lead to a doubling of the fine. The fines can be appealed in court; however, the court will also have the option of increasing the penalty up to NIS 14,400.

“(This is) another achievement in the struggle against prostitution,” said MK Shuli Moalem-Refaeli (Bayit Yehudi), a proponent of the law. “(Ratifying this measure) is an important milestone (for Israeli society) on the road to becoming an exemplary society that condemns the ongoing exploitation and abuse of prostitutes,” she said.

Opposition MK Shelly Yachimovich (Zionist Union) also praised the decision to target prostitutes’ customers with legal action.

“This is a historic landmark marking the beginning of the end of an era in which women are an accessory to trade in, severely harming their freedom, their bodies, and their souls,” she said.

“The transfer of responsibility to those who carry out these acts on the bodies of weak women is both a moral and practical statement.”

MK Aliza Lavie (Yesh Atid), the chairwoman of the of Subcommittee on Combating Trafficking in Women and Prostitution, said the law would help to reduce the demand for prostitution

“I am convinced that through legislation, effective enforcement, rehabilitation, education and public awareness – we will dramatically reduce the scope of this phenomenon.”

During the discussions over the bill, Justice Minister Shaked clarified that the current legislation is just part of a broader program by the Ministries of Justice, Welfare, Education, and Health to offer assistance to sex workers and their customers. The program will deal with two main issues: Expanding therapeutic and healthcare options for prostitutes and persons buying sex from prostitutes and creating rehabilitation programs for women with a past as prostitutes.

In 2016, the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security published a survey that estimated the number of persons employed in prostitution in Israel at 12,000, mostly women, and the amount of money paid for prostitution in Israel at NIS 1.3 billion.

Written by Mara Vigevani/TPS | Photo by Hillel Maeir/TPS

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