God pressed me to share my abortion story

Kate Battistelli is living proof that God can and will use anyone if they’re willing. Kate experienced infertility, miscarriage, an abortion at age 18, and four failed adoption attempts; which all wreaked havoc on her life. Kate had a life-changing experience while as a young actress in New York City. Kate and her husband laid down their careers and the Broadway theatre. They moved out of New York City and into a life of homeschooling and a home business. As their daughter grew and began expressing her gifts in music and song writing, they learned there was a bigger purpose than they had imagined. Kate is mother of GRAMMY-Award winning Christian recording artist Francesca Battistelli. Kate is a natural encourager and believes in people’s ability to change the world.
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[@wandalester8624]

Such a beautiful testimony, l carried my last baby l'd be able to have due to the damage of a double procedure abortion twenty minutes apart, two years earlier. I didn't know l was pregnant. I was laying on the floor watching TV. All of a sudden l felt tiny feet kicking really fast. I sat up and put my fingers on the spot, it was in my groin area. I thought, oh no, if l go to the Doctor, they will tell me you can't carry a baby there. I didn't see a doctor until l was seven months pregnant. At the time l delivered my baby, l still had a waistline, so the doctor said my baby wouldn't weigh 5 pounds as l looked like l was about six months pregnant. My baby boy weighed 7 lbs and was 21 inches long. They said, "where was he at". He was on my pelvic floor. I begged God everyday to help me carry my baby in a displaced position. He did. I was never able to have another child.

[@chrissyarlena286]

Such a blessing 💗 and a great miracle from God .

[@wandalester8624]

@@chrissyarlena286 Yes! Your comment makes me cry, l am so blessed to have felt those little nubs before they were feet! God bless you mightily friend!!!

[@song8777]

🤍🙏

[@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks]

God Bless you and your Baby Boy, Wanda. Jesus loves you and so do I! God is so good. Lots of love and prayers and hugs to you 🤗❤️❤️❤️

[@wandalester8624]

@@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks Thank you for your comment!

[@cathyrieper9502]

What a beautiful testimony of how the Lord took her through the pain & shame of abortion. God told me to share my story with my church about an abortion I had when I was 19. I am now a pastor's wife and told God I would share everything except the abortion. But I told my story and it brought healing to others who lived with the pain & shame abortion brings as well. Thank you Kate for listening to God and helping many people through your testimony. God bless you and your beautiful family.

[@floraattiba7813]

I was also dis it , it was hell , I became depressed alcoholic and more but Jesus set me free , come to the lord he will heal your heart and your womb

[@christianordonez6675]

That desert part hit me. I have been loving God for what he can provide rather than who he is. I humbly ask you all to please pray for me. I'm hungry to know God on a deeper level and I need him.

[@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks]

Same here, Brother. Praying for you ❤️

[@anitamathews7158]

The silence part is the place I'm right now, ur questions are mine too, only thing I'm fluctuating coz I'm going thru so many things at the same time, I feel lost ,(I too am a theater, television, and movie actress had a great encounter with the LORD, wish I had this platform to share) 35yrs walk with the LORD, I feel I'm not able to move forward HIS silence hurts.prayers appreciated.

[@gregorybezanson]

Many young women are pressured by their boyfriends to abort their baby. Women not having control over their bodies.

[@amyvalentine1984]

Your story is my story, when I was 18 I was more less forced to have it by my husband. If I didn't have it he would go to my parents and tell them the baby wasn't his it was somebody else's. My whole life my mother always said don't do anything to embarrass your father. He was a minister and I felt like that would be the biggest embarrassment to him plus my mother said that the church would take his license if I did something wrong, like being married and sleeping with another man. Planned Parenthood put me on the pill without my parents permission when I was 17 years old. Then for the abortion they did not counsel me talk to me about anything that might have changed my mind if they had. And like you I was one week away from not being allowed to have it. The only thing these people ever said to me was don't tell anybody you will be hated by everyone even nurses. It's awful and it's hard to forgive yourself for doing something like that when you were so young and scared to death over causing my dad to lose his minister license. But maybe he wouldn't know but it's too late now I haven't told many people. My family is a family of church going Christians. I would be judged I don't tell nobody

[@sophietyrrell3131]

As the years progressed, I realised that I would never do anything that would violate my conscience (the inner sense of fundamental wrong and right) no matter the external pressure. Coming out of 23 years relationship with a narcissist set me on a course of no tolerance for evil agendas. It even increased in 2020 when I turned my back to everything that was triggering an alarm. Left a house church, left a bible college, never complied to any of covid restrictions. Never wore the mask, never social distanced, never opened my window in the middle of winter to celebrate Christmas, never did any test, will never be intimidated in taking a poison into my body to protect my neighbour. I was puzzled by my strong stands that caused me to loose many relationship.If that was a test, I think I passed it. It comes down to choosing to never do purposely anything that would go against God's principles and ur conscience (if u still have one which has not been suffocated by compromises and violations of ur conscience). I rather please Him than men. It did help when I started to think like this : who cares what they think, they do not feed me (they are not my source, God is).

[@maranatha8148]

@@sophietyrrell3131 Well said xx

[@maranatha8148]

Sweetheart, praise Jesus He can forgive all our sins... because I need(ed) 2 for my abortion(s). 💔 I feel you so much. Sending love to you deeply. You'd never do it again, you repent. Jesus then opens His arms to us... Thank God He is so merciful. Thank you our King, Jesus. Please Jesus, give our sister peace, strength and joy again. Her heart comes before you humble my Lord... please spread your love over her like a veil from the darkness trying to enter her heart to deny your Love. Please Jesus in your Might Name, make the darkness flee from her forever more. 🙏❤🌈 Amen. Much love sister.

[@annescholl420]

What a beautiful woman of God with such a beautiful testimony. I love Francesca music. Her songs are beautiful. God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️‍🩹✝️🙏

[@luckyduckydaisyflower2344]

An unease..the ache in my heart has changed many times..God please help me

[@flimsyjimnz]

God's plans and *love* for you aren't dependent on you being perfect -your failings aren't a disappointment to Him.

[@luckyduckydaisyflower2344]

@@flimsyjimnz thankyou

[@kanishaarmstrong1078]

💪🙏

[@kellychoo1]

Thank you for sharing your journey with the LORD. The desert time is really a God’s moment - “be still and know I’m God”. ❤️👏😊👍🙏

[@susanakahlhamer2015]

Thank you so much for sharing your testimony!!! Jesus is good!

[@davidmc1489]

I spent a lot of years in the military.....i am so glad that i never was put in a situation where i had to kill anyone....cant imagine how it feels to know you ended a hearbeat....especially a child that never got to see the light of day...

[@jedblessed3221]

I am a Kenyan mum.I have a dream of helping young girls in my village get pads...I sympathize so much when I see a girl being cheated by men in the name of being bought for pads... How do I get to help...It's so much in my heart,I wish I could help

[@Charity.S]

pray if its God`s will it will happen

[@wandalester8624]

Praying for you, Jed blessed!

[@cookiemonster5565]

What kind of pads? Menstrual? Or do you mean IUDs?

[@charlottehatch6696]

@@cookiemonster5565 So many women and young girls in various places worldwide do not have menstrual pads. It is shameful and shocking. So many young ladies and children miss school each month because they do not have access to a basic necessity.

[@charlottehatch6696]

@@Charity.S God's will through people. People have to act.

[@leogomes-newworld]

Simply one of the best testimonies.

[@---wu3qj]

Thank you so much for this encouraging testimony!❤️

[@sophietyrrell3131]

How sad! 1 out of 3 women got an abortion. I was offered one over the counter by a pharmacist. That really shocked me. She approached me without me asking. I had a miscarriage for my 5th and that was devastating. God healed me emotionally just by me praying in tongues and I was able to fall pregnant again 2 months later. Terrible judgement is coming in the world because of abortion. No amount of prayers can change that. The blood of the innocents are crying out from the ground, opening doors to demons and empowering them in our world. Old testament human sacrifices to Molech, Baal repeating themselves today but on steroids.

[@agnestaku9542]

Shutup this comment was ignorant . Every sin is equal moron . Not one is worse than the other. He saved witches & abortion is where he draws the line? Yea go get a grip of that bible love.

[@shelteredsparrow2736]

I needed this today

[@yonayehezkel3150]

Why We Do Need So Many People in the World At the start of the 20th century, the world population was roughly two billion people. Today, it is roughly eight billion. Of those eight billion, most are poor, and over a billion people are hungry to the point of starvation. Providing for so many people at a decent level seems too formidable a task for Earth. Moreover, each day, more bots, robots, and automatic machines are replacing human jobs. Humanity is producing enough to provide for everyone, so the question is why we need so many people. Would Earth, and humanity, not be better off if we were only four billion, for example? The truth is that we wouldn’t be better off; we would be much worse off. There is a good reason for the exponential growth in humanity’s population over the past century or so. When we look at people, we see faces and bodies, human beings, and nothing more. But the truth is much more complicated and intricate than that. Try to imagine any animal without relating it to its environment, and you will realize that it is a lost cause. The shape, color, behavior, size, longevity, and every other aspect of its existence derives from the environment where it exists. Animals are not isolated from their environment; they rely on it, follow its laws, and at the same time make up the environment that sustains them and of which they are a part. Humans, too, make up a system. We think of ourselves as isolated individuals, but we are actually parts of a global human society. We influence it, it influences us, and almost everything that is true for the animal kingdom is true for us. There are only two differences between animals and people, though they are fundamental differences. The first is that people are inherently mean and selfish, while animals are not. The second is that our desires grow and intensify, while those of animals remain largely the same. While we want more money and power the more we have of them, animals settle for what they have once they have had their fill. Worse yet, from generation to generation, we are becoming more greedy, domineering, and narcissistic. Conversely, animals’ “aspirations” do not change from generation to generation: Give them enough grass, or enough game, and they are happy campers. The reason why our desires grow while those of animals remain the same is that an increased desire makes us accelerate our development. Eventually, humans are not intended to perceive only the physical existence, but to penetrate through it and perceive the connectedness and interdependence among all of us not only intellectually, as I am explaining it here, but in the senses, just as we perceive the physical world, if not more so. Our constant desire to search, explore, discover, and learn stems from our aspiration to know the deepest levels of reality. That knowledge is the sole prerogative of humans since only people develop such profound desires. As our desires grow, we must learn to direct them toward discovering the purpose and structure of life. New desires first appear on the crassest level, and we must cultivate them, raise them to the level where they enhance our perception of reality. Because these desires are so intense, we need more people to “share the load.” As just said, although we feel isolated, we are in fact one system. Everything we think is ours is actually part of the system of humanity and all of humanity shares it. Therefore, our desires are also not personal, even though they feel as such. Every time we elevate one desire from the corporeal level to the higher levels of perception, we influence all of humanity. And every time a person dies, the burden of elevating our common desire grows heavier on all of us. This is why the life of every person is precious. It determines the pace of advancement of all of humanity. If we realized how deeply we are connected, and what harm we cause by mistreating other people, if we felt it as it really is-that we are torturing ourselves-we would not dare mistreat each other or leave one person uncared for.

[@stepone6159]

Oh how I needed to hear Kate's comments about the dessert time. How I have questioned the silence. Even questioned my salvation because of the length of time in the dessert. Sad to say that I am still not wanting Him for who He is more than anything else on this earth.

[@wandalester8624]

Step one, l am praying for you!

[@stepone6159]

@@wandalester8624 Thank you.

[@wandalester8624]

@@stepone6159 Still praying for healing! John 14:1-6 ; John 17, The whole chapter KJV.

[@catholicfemininity2126]

I used to be so angry at people who got abortions and would say, "serves them right, we tried to warn them and they wouldn't listen."...... Now that I am closer to God and pray the Rosary, I feel sorrow in my heart, I COULD HAVE been these women if it weren't for God, the Saints, and my family/upbringing.... Angels and Saints please pray for them, to the Lord our God.

[@luckyduckydaisyflower2344]

You are so right i really feel this too

[@wandalester8624]

John 17. The Lord's Prayer for us.

[@johnioane2804]

I know abortion is an individual thing but afterwards even an animal can feel she had a baby before and she'll never forgets it!

[@sixteen.candles.4644]

Damn thats deep. Im glad i kept my 2 kids.

[@liliyasgardenchannel8876]

Thank you for posting

[@heidi7902]

Proposal is

[@landosazo7506]

beautiful....

[@leaozturk9923]

Thank you Lord

[@jerryf6983]

I struggle with the total silence

[@kpballa1009]

1:09 - There should be a guest that molested children in the past that shares his experience so other child molesters/rapists also can be set free. Set free from the guilt and shame. There are a lot of men that held on to the secret for many many years and have someone share so they set themselves free. They can know they're forgiven, redeemed, and know God loves them.

[@chrissyarlena286]

❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🏿✝️❤️

[@loriolson1143]

Not only is it wrong but it's painful and gross. How can you spread your legs and lay some tear a human life to shreds?

[@markthomas36]

What is a God dare??

[@wwtjoygbths3993]

It just staggers me that the this woman like most are clueless to the wage the sin of fornication and adultery earns. If God quickly and exactly judged you us for your wickedness, the act itself would be judged worthy of the death penalty immediately. Then what about that baby that could not live in a corpse.

[@kimlowe705]

Amazingly epistemically irresponsible!