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ria and the United Kingdom, but around the world. When you look at Erebor’s many accomplishments and how God uses her to enlighten, encourage and empower others, it may be hard to imagine how difficult life has been for her from early childhood. Her journey has been long and her path paved with pain, childhood abuse and domestic violence. Yet, rather than live her life as a victim, with God’s grace and mercy she has chosen to live victoriously. HimPower Magazine: What challenge or challenges have you overcome and how? Eturuvie Erebor: Well, I can say that my life has been one with many challenges. I lost my mother when I was eight years old which was a challenge in itself. After her death, my father’s two younger sisters moved into our home under the guise of looking after my sister and me but they didn’t like my mother and for them it was an opportunity to punish us for whatever it was they felt my mother had done to them. This 16  HimPower October 2016 was a very traumatic period of my life, I don’t talk about it much but it is challenging living with people who hate you and can’t bring themselves to say a decent word to you. I was abused, physically and verbally but in it all, God stayed faithful to me and brought me out. Then 12 years after the death of my mother, I lost my father and that came with its own set of challenges. And then I got married shortly after being called into ministry and got divorced and that brought challenges of its own. But like I already mentioned, God brought me out of it all. There wasn’t anything special that I did. Half the time I was even walking in rebellion and complete disobedience because I was angry at God. It seemed to me that He had everyone’s life nicely organized apart from mine and on countless occasions I told Him exactly how I felt. So if I came out of the challenges that life has thrown at me it is only because God showed me mercy, even when I deserved none. And it is only because God stayed faithful to me and to His promises to me in spite of