Joyce Meyer

Of course, he wasn't sexually abused, but he didn't have any kind of decent parenting.

People just need, if they've gone through anything that I've gone through,

I think the first thing you need to do is face the truth.

This is what happened to me.

I can't go back now and have it unhappen.

But even if they want to use me for an example, if God got her through it, he can get me through it.

And so I've been able to help a lot of women who've been abused because most people won't, they never tell anybody.

They keep it as a secret because they're ashamed of it.

So I try to help them understand that it wasn't their fault and they don't have to live in shame.

And you know, you lead them to the Lord and

They learn the word and they make the choice to be a victim or to walk in victory.

And thousands and thousands of them make the choice to walk in victory.

It takes a long time to restore someone who's been sexually abused.

There's a lot of abuse, but sexual abuse is the most important.

Damaging, they say.

And so that's why I would like building these homes for women.

It has to be a long-term commitment to bring somebody from, say, being trafficked into sex and being used the way they are, which is probably much worse than what I went through.

And to bring them to complete wholeness is...

It takes a real commitment, but we want to do it, and we're already doing it in some places.

We have a couple of homes, and we support a lot of people that are doing it already.