Left for dead underneath a dead body

Kimberly Wallace's abbreviated testimony

I am a survivor of War, child sexual molestation, drugs, promiscuity, spousal abuse, having multiple abortions, multiple divorces and abuse in the church.  

I was accidently found half dead under a dead body in South Korea by soldiers who were moving thousands of bodies into a pit that served as a mass grave. At the age of two, I had no home, no family, nothing.

But God’s hand was on my life. I was adopted into an affluent American family when I was roughly three years old.  Before I arrived in the States, people at the orphanage prayed that I would someday come to know the Lord as savior, and serve Him with my life.

As I tried to understand the white faces and round eyes around me, I became painfully aware that I was different. Extremely different. Kids at school called me names, adults spat on me or shunned me  because I looked different. This grew deeper roots of  rejection in my life.

From the age of five to the age of twelve I was sexually molested by baby-sitters, family friends and a brother.  Scarred from the experiences of almost dying and being a victim of sexual molestation, I buried the pain and memories of that abuse so deep, it was as if it never happened in my conscience mind.

As a teenager I got teased for looking different, being a brain, and a  bookworm, so I buried the pain of rejection in drugs and promiscuity.  I would trip for weeks at a time on acid, peyote or magic mushrooms.  And stoned?  I was stoned all the time  Anything to change my reality.

As a young adult, I thought I grew up because I quit doing drugs. I became self-sufficient, trusting no one to help, provide, or protect me.  I was not going to let anyone see my pain.  Not EVER.  
                            
I looked for affirmation through relationships. I married and divorced several times and was a survivor of spousal abuse. During this time I realized I had a great business head. Others had discovered how good I was at starting businesses, growing them and making money.  People trusted me.  People respected me. I became a  somebody  in the community, I was  successful , a millionaire.  People sought my council and my ideas.  I had truly come into my own as far as the world was concerned...Yet I was still empty.

Through other peoples prayers, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and savior in April of 1992. Suddenly that emptiness was filled.  As I learned the Word of God I discovered His love for me and my worthiness as a new creature in Christ. He had a plan and purpose for me, He knew me even in my mother's womb.  But just because I had become born again, didn't mean I didn't still have problems.

No one can know why God chooses to instantaneously heal some, for others His miracle is a process, a miracle in motion; and yet for others still, their healing will come in heaven.  I am a living, supernatural miracle of God and my miracle was a “miracle in motion.”

Back in 1989, I literally almost died before I was diagnosed with an extremely rare, incurable, terminal liver disease, that I had had five major operations and seven minor operations for.
    
The beginning of my miracle was in August of 1992. I had a seizural attack during a Wednesday night service.  The church prayed for my healing. That night God spoke to me in an audible voice,  “Kimberly if you attach your faith to My faith and have the faith the grain of a mustard seed, I will heal you.” Then He told me that I didn't need my medications anymore, so I stopped taking them.

Every day I prayed this simple prayer:  God, by your grace, give me the faith, that I am healed.  Day by day I got stronger. Days of health, turned into weeks of health that turned into months of health.
Satan sent lies of severe pain in October 1993. The Doctors wanted me in the hospital because of the pain and high fever. I refused.  I asked friends and the church to pray for me.

The radiologist ran ultra sounds and found multiple liver stones.  A couple hours later, they sent me for cat scans to determine exact locations, and found no stones. The cat scans from 1992 showed that half my liver had been surgically removed and yet that day, my liver was whole  The doctor proclaimed this a miracle  God manifested his promises and blessings through me   I am a living, walking miracle of God  I should have been dead but I was alive.

After completing Bible College, I began serving at church in any area that I could and serving in other people’s ministries. I kept myself too busy surviving to notice the ways I had been hurt by the abuse.  God loved me so much that He didn’t want me to remain wounded.

I began my journey of hope for healing from the child sexual molestations.. Sometimes the pain seemed too much to bare.  There was desperation to let the pain out, now that the memories had been unburied. How many others have suffered this same pain? God continued to transform me as I walked out the “daily saving of my soul”.

Because “things” still owned me, God had me give away everything I owned, my home, money, jewelry, furniture, even clothing. He allowed me to keep my car and some personal things and told me to move west. I experienced contentment living on food stamps and medi-cal for a season  In my obedience to the voice of the Lord, He brought over 3,000 miles and blessed me with a husband.  Being “older” newly married’s had it’s challenges. But God’s faithfulness is ever abundant in every area of our lives  God is transforming our marriage into the Godly ordered marriage of Ephesian 5:31, Men love your wives, wives respect your husbands.

We arrived at our current church as wounded warriors, after being wounded repeatedly by others in the church body. In God’s infinite wisdom in caring about who I am, He planted us in a church that has brought me to the revelation of the need to be whole; to walk in the character and integrity of Christ, empowering me to continue my journey of fulfilling God’s destiny.

Who knew?   God called me, and that changed my life  I am a Reverend and work in Africa 3 to 4 months a year doing ministry work with Bishops, Pastors, church leaders, business leaders, orphans, aids victims and multiple churches. I have travelled to Amsterdam and various parts of the UK ministering as well  

When I am stateside, my husband and I have a ministry home where Pastors, missionaries, ministers and leaders can come and have a retreat for restoration and inner healing or be recluse for a season. I also minister locally.