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Every time I tell this story, I am filled with tears.

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Even right now, I'm filled with tears because I never thought I would see this day.

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In the mighty name of Jesus Christ!

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That unclean spirit - you have no right to stay in her body.

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I say, get out right now!

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Be released in Jesus’ name!

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Be released, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!

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Oh Holy Spirit, touch her right now - touch her spirit, soul and body.

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Liberate her soul! Liberate her spirit! Liberate her body!

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That pain of the past - be released right now!

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Be set free right now! Be set free in Jesus’ mighty name!

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Thank You, Jesus. Our sister, you are free to the glory of God.

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Rejoice. Rejoice in your freedom!

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Thank You, Lord.

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My name is Anita from Botswana.

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I graduated in 2017 and before I graduated, there is a process in our country where

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we need to undergo an internship in order to graduate.

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So I studied Journalism and Media, and I was opportune to do

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my internship with a newspaper called Sunday Standard.

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After three months of my internship, I was given employment

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without undergoing the process of applying or going through interviews.

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I really enjoyed my job and I still enjoy my job.

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As time went on, the whole world suffered from COVID, which changed a lot of things.

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Because of that, there was a shift in the atmosphere in how we were working,

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as well as with payments and many other things.

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I started developing depression and I lost interest in the job that I was working in

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and the industry in which I was in.

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And then I decided to start applying for jobs

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so that I could go into other fields of communication.

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Unfortunately, from 2021 till this year,

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I was applying and I never received any letters -

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either a regret letter or just to acknowledge that they have seen my application.

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I would apply and never get any feedback. Nothing.

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There was a year, which was 2022, when I applied for over 200 jobs

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and not even one of them responded back.

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I would send emails every week. I would be applying for jobs every week.

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And I would never receive any email telling me that I had been shortlisted

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or I should come for an interview or whatsoever.

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It was really depressing and I didn't know what was wrong.

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I didn't lose hope and I didn't lose faith.

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I continued to apply. I continued praying,

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I just believed that one day, there would be change.

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I was also suffering from nightmares.

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In these nightmares, I would see myself in dreams having sexual intercourse.

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It could be with people I didn’t know.

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Sometimes, it would be with demons or creatures I couldn’t recognise.

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I didn't tell anyone, not even my mother or family,

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because I was afraid of what they would think or say.

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So If I refused, I would wake up sometimes with bruises.

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Sometimes I would be in a position where I saw these entities

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having sexual intercourse and I was not taking part in it.

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And whenever I saw such a thing, I would not see anything good coming my way.

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In the beginning of this year in January, my mother introduced me to God's Heart TV

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and she told me about the Interactive Prayer with Brother Chris.

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I sent a prayer request for Interactive Prayer. I didn’t think much of it, honestly.

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For me, it was just like any other prayer or church service I’d been involved in.

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On January 30, I sent out an application to be part of a youth leadership training program.

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And after that, three days later, I received an email to be part

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of the Interactive Prayer Service with Brother Chris, which I joined.

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Physically, nothing special happened.

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I didn't shake. I didn't vomit. I didn't... nothing.

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It was just a normal prayer that I joined and I didn't take anything into consideration.

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Little did I know that God was working behind the scenes for me.

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Every time I tell this story, I am filled with tears.

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Even right now, I'm filled with tears because I never thought I would see this day.

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On February 21, a week after the Interactive Prayer Service,

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I received my first call to come for an interview.

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Apparently, that interview session lasted for three days.

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I came on the last day.

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As much as there was a lot of people, there was no fear within me.

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For me, I felt like the fact that I made it to this interview after so long,

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after three years of applying and not receiving anything - it was enough for me.

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It shows that God has truly turned my case around.

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I walked into the interview room and the panel were so shocked that I was smiling.

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They didn't know why I was smiling because everyone who walked in

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was having serious faces, and I was the only one who smiled.

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And they were asking, ‘Why are you smiling? Why are you so happy?’

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I couldn't even tell them why I was happy.

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I just sat down, carried on with the interview and I went back home.

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And the shocking thing is, unlike other interviews, mine lasted for about ten minutes.

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Others were less than five minutes.

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So when I heard others saying the interview was short,

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I said to myself, ‘Did I say something wrong?

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Did they have to correct a lot of things?’

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But little did I know I was accepted for the program,

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to be part of the Youth Leadership Training Program.

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It's a nine month leadership training program offered by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Botswana.

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And they gave me this opportunity to be part of 20 youths of Botswana

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to participate in this nine month program.

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I forgot to mention that while all this was happening,

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because it was happening week after week,

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I was also opportune to be part of a special Interactive Prayer with Brother Chris.

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I joined in that prayer session.

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I have never experienced those dreams again till today.

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I sleep peacefully. I don’t wake up with scars or anything.

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Even on the day when I received the email that I had been accepted,

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instead of having those bad dreams, I was awarded a white envelope in my dream.

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And after I received that white envelope, the following day I received an email

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saying that I had been accepted in the training session.

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In terms of my career, I've been a journalist for the past seven years.

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And in the seven years, I had never received any recognition.

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I was just like any other journalist.

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But lo and behold, on March 19,

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I received an email that I was nominated for the first time in my life to receive an award.

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I prayed about it, and on March 23, I was awarded the ‘Vunani Annual

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Botswana Woman’s Sports Award’ as Journalist Of The Year, Print.

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And here is the award - my first ever award!

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It is over all Botswana but this one is the sports category because I'm a sports journalist.

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In 2020, I joined a nonprofit organisation called Young African Leaders Forum.

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This is a nonprofit, youth led organisation,

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which empowers the youth of Africa within the continent as well as the diaspora.

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We advocate for the needs of others and we encourage the youth

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to just participate in the country, in society.

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I was doing this work for free. I was just volunteering for this job.

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I didn't think anything of it.

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And in this process, I was using my resources.

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On April 18, I was appointed the Regional Coordinator for the Southern Region of Africa

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for a two year period, to lead summits in this region

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The youth of the Southern African Region is my responsibility.

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And to add on it, I am preparing a summit that will be hosted in Zambia in November

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for the first time in Southern Africa, and it can only be by the glory of God.

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This one comes with payment.

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For this appointment, I will be paid.

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I will also be paid for being an ambassador for my country.

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It’s actually two payments at once.

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So what's your advice to our people who have joined us today from all over the world

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about what Jesus Christ can do in their lives?

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First and foremost, when I took part in the first Interactive Prayer, I did one thing -

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one thing that changed my entire life.

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I surrendered to God and I opened my heart.

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Those were the keys to unlocking my blessings.

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Had I not done that, I don't know if I would be here to testify.

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So I would encourage everyone to search deep down in their hearts

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and to surrender everything to God.

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I want you to know that disappointment doesn't mean God has forgotten you.

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Everything has its own time.

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God managed to shower me with blessings in a period of three months,

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For many people, it would take a longer time to achieve whatever I achieved.

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So I would encourage you to keep on going, to keep on praying and to keep on believing.

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Don’t hold back or doubt God in anything.

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God is capable of changing your story in a blink of an eye.

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It doesn't take Him a long time to change your story.

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If we can just reposition ourselves, we will get everything that we need from God.