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"I have a burning desire to tell people who are hurting that there is a way out of their pain. There is hope for their lives."Stormie Omartian tells her compelling story of a childhood marred by physical and emotional abuse that eventually led her into the occult, drugs, and tragic relationships.Finding herself overwhelmed by fear and on the verge of suicide, she shares the turning point that changed her life and reveals the healing process that brought freedom and wholeness beyond what she ever imagined.In this poignant drama, there is help and hope for anyone who has been scarred by the past or feels imprisoned by deep emotional needs. It is a glorious story of how God can bring life out of death, life out of darkness.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 octobre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736950589
Langue	English

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Verses marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version , NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Verses marked KJV are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
All of the stories related in this book are true, but the names of certain persons mentioned have been changed in order to protect the privacy of the individuals involved. Each name that has been changed is marked by an asterisk following the name the first time it is mentioned.
All photographs in this book are the personal property of the author and may not be reproduced without written permission.
Cover photo by Michael Gomez
Cover by Left Coast Design, Portland, Oregon
OUT OF DARKNESS
Copyright 2015 by Stormie Omartian
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Omartian, Stormie.
Out of darkness / Stormie Omartian.
pages cm
Continues: Stormie. 1986.
ISBN 978-0-7369-5057-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-7369-5058-9 (eBook)
1. Omartian, Stormie. 2. Omartian, Stormie-Childhood and youth. 3. Abused children-United States-Biography. 4. Adult child abuse victims-United States-Biography. 5. Women drug addicts-United States-Biography. 6. Life change events-United States. 7. Spiritual healing-United States. 8. Christian authors-United States-Biography. 9. Christian biography-United States. 10. Women musicians-United States-Biography. I. Omartian, Stormie. Stormie. II. Title.
CT275.O54A3 2015
270.092-dc23
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Special Thanks
To my husband, Michael Omartian, for his faithfulness to God and to me.
To Suzy, Susan, and Roz, my prayer partners of more than 30 years, for all of your labor in praying for me and my family. I d pray that the blessings you have given me through your ongoing prayers would be heaped a hundredfold back upon you, but then again I don t want to limit God!
To my son, Christopher, and my daughter-in-law, Paige, and to my daughter, Amanda, and my son-in-law, Dallas, for your love and support. And to my granddaughter, Scarlett Grace, for bringing everlasting joy to me and my family. I love you all much more than mere words can ever express.
To Bob Hawkins, LaRae Weikert, Kim Moore, Terry Glaspey, and the staff at Harvest House Publishers for your constant support. Special thanks to L.Rae, T.Glass, and B.Hawk for all of those special times we spent together talking about the future and how to best serve God. Our more than 30-year relationship has been a source of great happiness and encouragement to me.
Contents
Special Thanks
Dear Reader
1. Paralyzed by Evil
2. The Great Escape
3. Sinking Deeper
4. Living in Darkness
5. Terminal Hopelessness
6. Failure to Commit
7. Choices for Death
8. Truth Without Freedom
9. Finding the One True Light
10. Not Guilty by Association
11. Meeting the Deliverer
12. Keys to Unlocking the Kingdom
13. Stepping Out of Darkness
14. The Unexpected Abuser
15. Unimagined Miracles
16. Hidden Unforgiveness
Photos
17. Peace Beyond Understanding
18. Confronting the Past
19. The Follower
20. Moving to the Promised Land
21. Ending Up in the Wilderness
22. The Giant Shake-Up
23. The Powerful Turnaround
24. A Near-Death Experience
25. In Sickness and in Health
26. A Place of Safety
27. Staying in the Light
28. Let the Redeemed Say So
Notes
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About the Publisher
Dear Reader,
For the first 30 years of my life, I believed no one had more emotional scars than I did. I know now that I was not alone. After I began writing books and went public with my personal story, people came out of the hidden places of their soul with similar stories of their own to tell me. All were heartbreaking. Some were horrifying. In fact, many stories were so shocking that it was difficult to even think about them. I had no idea that these suffering people even existed, let alone how great in number they were. I mistakenly thought I must be the only one.
You may wonder how I didn t know about the countless people who have suffered emotional brokenness due to things that happened to them or mistakes they made. It s because, at the time, these kinds of negative experiences weren t talked about. They were kept secret in the unfortunate tradition of feeling that people might not believe you, or they would blame you instead of your circumstances, or judge you for your suspected part in the situation. We were in the dark ages back then about emotional suffering. And though we are not quite yet in the age of enlightenment about this, it s far better now than it was.
Emotional damage doesn t all happen in childhood. People can experience a wonderful time growing up and still be scarred later in life by abusive people who inflict their own brand of cruelty on them, or by their own bad decisions, or through tragedies of one kind or another. Whatever the reason, people need to be brought out of the darkness of their life.
This is the story of my struggle to overcome the emotional damage of abuse in my childhood and the heartbreak of being a potential child-abuser. But you don t have to experience any of these things in order to relate to the miraculous restoration I experienced. No matter what pain, disappointment, or situation has placed you in a dark place in your life, there is a way to come into the light of healing and restoration.
It has never been my intention to blame anyone for what happened in my past. It s too easy to point out someone else s faults, because we all have them. And because no parent is perfect, it s cruel and unfair to hold them forever accountable for mistakes they have made. We have to let those things go and take responsibility for our lives now. We have to move on. It s my goal to point you, the reader, toward the source of all restoration and wholeness.
This is a true story, but some of the names have been changed to protect the privacy of people. When that occurs, following the first mention of that name, it will be followed by an asterisk (*).
I wrote about some of the things that happened during the first 35 years of my life in a book called Stormie that was published in 1986. I began the story at the major turning point in my life that started my climb out of darkness. I ve decided to again start at the point of deep darkness I was living in, in order to fully explain what drove me to the point of recognizing my condition and finding help. The facts are what they are, and I cannot leave them out because they are crucial to the rest of the story. The following 37 years after that point to the present day is all new, much of which I have not spoken about publicly before. But I feel the entire story should be told in order to prove that once you recognize the darkness for what is it, it s possible to walk out of it and into the light for the rest of your life.
This book is about my life, but it is not so much about me as it is about living in darkness and finding true light. We have all been there in one way or another. Because of the overwhelming number of people who experienced similar or far worse emotional hurt than I did, and because so many have given up hope of ever being healed, I m telling my story so that they, too, can find a way out of the darkness of their past and onto the path of healing and wholeness that awaits them. I desperately needed restoration and I found it. And not only that, I found transformation such as I never dreamed possible. If I can find it, anyone who wants that can find it too.
I have prayed continually that this book will bring the healing, liberation, restoration, transformation, and sense of high purpose God has for each one who reads it. To all who desire to receive all that, may God so bless you.
With much love,
That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
J OHN 1:9
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Paralyzed by Evil

I never dreamed I would live this long. I thought I would die before my late-thirties. And I certainly never imagined I would write this book. I loved to write from the day I could hold a pencil. I wrote plays, stories, essays, song lyrics, and poems. There was something in me that made it impossible for me not to write.
Writing is like breathing for me. In fact, I feel suffocated if I don t have time to write something every day. Writing always brought freedom to my heart and soul, and peace to my tortured mind-even if only temporarily. I wrote in diaries and journals about things that happened to me and the negative emotions I struggled to overcome. Writing released me and kept me alive.
I tried as hard as I could to overcome my situation and rise out of it. I wondered, Why can t I be like other people who have never had to struggle as I have? I clearly remember the day in my mid-twenties that became a turning point in my life. It started with a terrible tragedy