My name is Karen Lizette Villarreal Flores, I am 28 years old. I was born in Mexico City and I am studying my third and last year at CAMP (House of Worship and Prophetic Music) at the Roca Blanca Mission Base. Like dew from heaven in the middle of a scorching desert heat, that’s how the last six months of my life have felt. I have reached what aeronautical pilots know as my “point of no return”. It hasn’t been easy at all, but anything worth so much usually is not. Today I want to tell you about a miracle. Something that God orchestrated in advance for me and that I have been living in recent years.

Since I was a little girl there was a curiosity and a desire in my heart to learn music. Growing up and the ideas that other people had created of me and had placed on my life made that passion in my heart go out little by little. Over the years, circumstances plunged me into depression and alcoholism. Being a girl of only 18 years old, darkness filled my entire being. I thought I could never get out of there again. I felt trapped in a prison from where there would never be an escape and suddenly He arrived!  His word was fulfilled, light came into my life and darkness could not prevail. I had an encounter with the love of Jesus and my life was never the same again.

Eager to give my whole life to the Lord after he saved me, I applied to study at the Victory Bible Institute in 2014. I was accepted, but unfortunately, forced by circumstances, I had to return home. Years of disappointment, tears, sleepless nights, anxiety, and depression ensued after the above event. God was preparing my heart for something I didn’t know yet. Finally in 2019, I was able to go back to study something I always wanted, I was able to study in CAMP.

These three years have been a challenge in my life as I have had to remove structures that for years were imposed on my mind. I have cried, I have fought, I have nearly died, I have exhausted myself, but I have also known God in new ways. I have known him as my pastor, as a friend, as my father, and as my provider. After so much and with tears in my eyes, I can only say one thing, God has been faithful!