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<\/a>Mrs. Delilah Marrow with her family<\/p><\/div>\n
Her love for the Lord is paramount, and while she was baptized in a Baptist church, Delilah came to a personal relationship with Jesus at 30. She surrendered her life to the Lord in her bedroom after listening to a Jimmy Swaggart cassette tape, titled \u201cAll Satan\u2019s Apples Have Worms,\u201d that a lady gifted her. Delilah joyfully described how the Holy Spirit convicted her while she was in her pajamas and her hair in rollers: \u201cHe met me at the well where I was and gave me water that I\u2019d never thirst again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afterwards, she was so<\/em> excited to tell everyone what had happened to her, but her family was not receptive. They thought she\u2019d \u201clost her mind.\u201d The change within her frightened her family, but Delilah knows that God shielded her from their reaction, and in turn, the controversy pushed her closer to the Lord. She knew that she had finally received genuine redemption because she had repented, asking God to forgive her and cleansing her of all unrighteousness.<\/p>\n Delilah\u2019s experience with the Lord and other situations early in her life have also made her specially equipped to be a foster and adoptive parent. Regardless of the trauma she experienced, Delilah shares, \u201cI don\u2019t wear it. God delivered me from it,\u201d and she truly feels compassion for what the kids are going through.<\/p>\n Even with her magnificent heart, fostering was not something Delilah originally saw herself doing. It was in 1966 when her friend, Esther, prophesied that Delilah would help children, but it wasn\u2019t until 2004 that another friend offered her the opportunity to buy a home that would be large enough to foster multiple children. God provided, and a year later, Delilah became a licensed foster parent. In her tenure, she has helped forty-five children. <\/em>One of her adopted daughters is a junior in college, and Delilah recalled their early time together:<\/p>\n \u201cShe was failing and struggling academically, and the school wanted to hold her back, but I prayed and prayed, and we took her to a charter school. By the time she graduated, she was on the honor roll! Then, during her first year of college, a professor shared how impressed they were with her writing.\u201d<\/p>\n As a foster parent, she believes in practicing prayer and modeling a relationship with the Lord for the children in her home. Of the three children currently in her home, Delilah and her husband are in the process of adopting two of them.<\/p>\n