Amen. I have an amazing story that I want to share with you guys today. It's a very unique
story about the life that was transformed radically by the power of Jesus and today,
I have Brittni De La Mora who's on Zoom today, this morning and she's in California currently
but through social media, we have the privilege to have her in the same room as us. So Brittany,
thank you so much for agreeing to share your story. Why don't you start by telling us from the
beginning, how your life was like before Christ? So before Christ, I grew up in a dysfunctional
household. We didn't know the Lord and there was a lot of verbal and emotional and physical abuse in
our households. So I started looking for love in all the wrong places. In my search for love took
me to like just different relationships, where my heart was broken and eventually I found myself
in the adult film industry. So I performed in pornography for seven years of my life. I battled
with a heroin addiction, crystal meth addiction, I mean, anything under the sun like I did it all.
And then I met Jesus on an airplane, to film what would become my very last important scene. I had
received a Bible at one point in my porn career and I brought my Bible on the airplane that day
and I was reading this Bible verse and the Holy Spirit really started to minister to me
and He said, Brittni, this isn't the life that I have for you. The life that I have for you will
overflow with so much love, peace and joy and if you would just quit the porn industry today,
I would bless your life like, no man ever could. Wow! let's give Jesus some praise for that.
Brittni, so you were on this plane and on this plane, you have an encounter with Jesus. What
changes in your life because it didn't happen overnight correct, your change?
Yeah, it didn't happen overnight. So after I quit the porn industry, I started going to
church and I fell so in love with the presence of God that I knew that what I felt at church,
I needed that in my everyday life. So I started seeking the Lord through prayer, through worship,
through reading the Bible and I started fasting a lot as well and by applying these principles
to my life, I really just grew in God and He began to heal my heart. He healed my soul. He
gave me the strength to forgive, every person that ever hurt me and it was a process. I also
knew that I needed to take a year off of dating because men were my weakness and I
wanted to grow strong in the Lord. So I made a commitment to Him, I said, I'm not going
to date anybody for an entire year. So there was definitely a process of a healing journey
but after I got through that, I mean the Lord has really done what He said He would do. He blessed
not only my soul but He blessed me externally with an amazing husband. He is a pastor and now we lead
lovealwaysministries.com We have two beautiful daughters and we're helping people get set free
from porn, that watch porn but also performers, who are in the industry. We are also helping them
encounter Jesus as well. So God's doing incredible things. Wow, let's give Jesus a clap offering.
Not only were you in the industry but now, you are set free and you're helping others. Can you
share a little bit more about your ministry and where people can go, if they're you know, either
battling with porn or know somebody who might need some guidance in the area of purity? Yeah, so we
have our website it's lovealwaysministries.com We have a course on there that we created for
people who are battling with porn and if you guys go to Hungrygen and you want this course,
you can shoot us an email on our website. We'll give it to you guys for free because
we love your pastors so much, so we want to give that to you guys and then we have a book called
'Purity' and then if you are in the entertainment industry or know somebody who is that wants out,
you can have them connect with us, we'll be there for mentorship, spiritual guidance and so forth
and we also have online connect groups, coming as well to help people who are battling with
pornography, so those will be coming out this year. Wow! thank you so much for sharing that,
I have one last question for you Brittni, if somebody is sitting here in this room
or maybe watching this and they are having a secret struggle with porn or maybe you know,
the remanence of shame and guilt, what would you advise them, what would you tell them?
Yeah so I love that you said secret struggle because that's the reality is that,
most people that battle with porn especially in the church, they keep it as a secret struggle
but if you look at the statistics, we learned that 70 of men in church, watch pornography,
30 of women in church, watch pornography and even 50 percent of pastors and leaders in church,
watch pornography and that's why, we have to break the stigma that it's a secret or an isolated
incident because so many people are struggling but because so many churches stay silent,
people suffer silently and that's where it is up to you, to get open and open up to a pastor,
open up to a leader, it is okay to admit that you are struggling, nobody is perfect,
we have all fallen short but if you stay silent, then you're gonna have to battle
this on your own and Jesus never intended for you to battle these things on your own. We need His
presence but we also need accountability, so you've got to break the shame. Amen. Brittni,
thank you so much for sharing. Let's give her a round of applause. We serve an Incredible God
and no matter what situation you find yourself in, I hope this injected a little faith that
God can meet you where you are and He can set you free, no matter what chains bind you. Amen.