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Welcome, everyone. My name is Denise Copeland, wife, to the host of this podcast for Sean Copeland. I was born and raised in Puerto Rico. And later throughout the years, I moved to Florida where I had my first encounter with Jesus and following that led me to where I am living right now, which is in Oklahoma City with my husband and my baby boy and my second child on the

way. I am currently a stay-at-home wife, mom. I love being at home serving my family and the body of Christ.

It hasn't always been this way. That's where Jesus comes in in the picture.

There was a time in my life where I was young. I was only 20, I think 19, 20 years old around there. And I wanted to do whatever I

wanted. I wanted to have fun. I wanted to be free. I wanted to enjoy in the pleasures of what

this world had to offer. And so I gave into it. I hung out

wherever I wanted. I was staying with my parents at some point and I ended up leaving their

house and staying with a friend for a few months because I wanted to be free. What I called

freedom was actually leading me into bondage. And so I ended up, you know, doing the party lifestyle and surrounding myself with the wrong crowds. I ended up in bad relationships, broken relationships, broken families.

And it was a time where it was really dark for me. I did not know who I was.

I wanted acceptance and worth. I wanted to feel loved. I wanted to feel like I matter and that I was seen.

And so all I ever did was

blending with the world and keep up with the trends and keep up with, you know, everything that

everybody else was doing. So Jesus met me in my car in Florida as I was driving out three

in the morning to my house. And I just remember just breaking down and crying out and feeling so unworthy and repenting

of everything that I had done in my past and in my life.

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