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12:21 says, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with<br />
good.”<br />
Many Rwandans have suffered with wounds from the past just<br />
like I did. We were all broken people that needed healing. As<br />
days went on, the burden for the restoration of my people<br />
became heavier on me, and in the process, I grew in salvation<br />
and in the work of God. The more I prayed, the more I realized<br />
that salvation and forgiveness was needed among the people. I<br />
came to understand that failure to forgive hurts the victim more<br />
than it does those that need to be forgiven. I started thinking of<br />
ways I could reach as many people as I could to tell them about<br />
forgiveness. There was no way my voice alone could be heard. I,<br />
then, began to look at my life experience as training ground for<br />
the work that was ahead of me. Had I not been trained the way<br />
I was, I would never have turned out the way I did. I started<br />
asking God to tell me what I could tell people who were facing<br />
various problems. Whether they were problems similar to mine<br />
or not did not really matter. All I needed were people who were<br />
burdened, so that they could be released the way I was released.<br />
The most pressing message I wanted to pass on to them was<br />
that forgiveness was for their benefit more than for those that<br />
hurt them. With time, the idea of sharing my testimony came to<br />
my mind, and that is how this book was birthed.<br />
Making the decision to write my story was not easy. This is<br />
something that affected me personally and involved my<br />
relatives, friends and loved ones. However, after encountering<br />
the saving grace of my Lord Jesus Christ, I remembered His<br />
words in Mathew 10:8, where He says; “Heal the sick, cleanse the<br />
lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received,<br />
freely give.” With this in mind, I set out to freely share the love<br />
and forgiveness God gave me. In spite of the constant voices of<br />
condemnation reminding us of the wrong we have done, we<br />
must throw out all pessimism and appreciate the good that we<br />
already have in Jesus Christ. Healing and forgiveness did not<br />
come automatically for me. It took the grace of God, working in<br />
me through the revelation of His free gift of salvation and<br />
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