My name is Patricia Acquisto & I was born and raised in California.  I lived in Las Vegas Nevada for 10 years.   I was brought up in a church (religion).   My brother was killed when I was fifteen and my Mother died of Cancer when I was sixteen.  At that time I felt very alone and empty.   I never understood why I was left with no mother.

I began to search for my security with men, and in drugs and alcohol.   I had my first miscarriage at the age of seventeen years old, and felt another life had been taken from me.   I got deeper and deeper into drugs and men, and more drugs and more men.   Trying to find my self worth in one or the other.   It left me empty and desolate.

I just kept trying to fill it with anything I could find.  After years of this there wasn't a single day that went by that I didn't either have a needle in my arm a drink in my hand or a pipe in my mouth.  I ended up injuring myself on my job and having to go on disability.  The diagnosis was four protruding discs in my neck and three in my lumbar spine, a torn rotar cuff and a pinched nerve.
Two years of therapy, and surgery and I was now addicted to one more thing....prescription drugs.  I was more numb and emptier than ever.   Depression now set in.  All I did was cry and sleep.

The Dr. put me on anti-depressants which made me sleep more.   One day my therapist's receptionist told me about Joyce Meyer.   I began watching her while I lay in bed.   I lost my home, my house was robbed and all my stuff destroyed.   I returned to Las Vegas awaiting my settlement from my accident.

By the grace of God I was strongly impressed in my spirit that if I did not get out right then and there I never would make it.   I moved to Arkansas with my parents and six weeks later gave my heart to the Lord.  (Sept. 7th 2003)  I stuck like glue to my wonderful Pastors for the first year or so.   Three weeks after being saved my Pastors took me to a meeting to hear Pastors Stuart and Colleen Price speaking at a local church.  It was there that Pastor Price layed hands on me and God instant
ly healed all my injuries, and set me free from so many bondages.   My Pastors Brad & Cindy Short have broken generational curses over me, and God has restored so much that the enemy had stolen.   Even my deliverance from cigarettes, and I never thought that that could ever happen.

I praise God everyday for giving back so much in my life & filling me with joy, and I now have a wonderful job teaching pre-school children.    I give Him all the glory!