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About Kim Brooks

Award-winning author, licensed minister, national speaker and songwriter, Kim Brooks, of Detroit, MI is the Black Expressions Bestselling Author of, He’s Fine…But is He Saved?, it’s highly acclaimed sequel, He’s Saved…But is He For Real?, non-fiction debut, The Little Black Survival Book for Single Saints, and her newest release, How To Date and Stay Saved. 

She’s a graduate of Word of Faith Bible Training Center and member of its Ministerial Alliance founded by Bishop Keith A. Butler, and she’s an English graduate of Michigan State University.

An abstinence until marriage advocate, which is not only her speaking platform but also her testimony as she is a virgin in her early thirties, Kim has been featured in Gospel Today, JET, The Detroit News, and has appeared as a guest on The Word Network, and numerous times on Totally Christian Television, and Christian Television Network. She is also the 2011 recipient of The Promotion of Abstinence Award presented by American Clergy Leadership Conference founded by Pastor Yonggi Cho.

Kim’s ministry and message is spread throughout her books, blogs, songs, articles and poems and has been heard on airwaves nationwide including Rhythm and Praise with Pastor Marvin L. Winans, Strong Inspirations with Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard, The Praise Party with Ace Alexander, Rejoice Musical Soulfood, and many others.

As the President of Driven Enterprises, LLC and founder of Kim Brooks Ministries International headquartered in her hometown of Detroit, she has been a contributing singles columnist for Gospel Today and Hope for Women Magazine.

Kim also publishes an eNewsletter for single men and women entitled,The Single Heart, which ministers to thousands each month, and a free online daily devotional exclusively for single women.

With a high energy, down-to-earth approach while uniquely blending practical wisdom with God’s Word, Kim Brooks’ powerful message, which brings hope and healing to the nation, is that it is possible to live an exciting, uncompromising, drama-free, purpose-driven, Spirit-led, victorious life in the perfect will of God!

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“Confessions of a Thirty-Something Virgin” 
Kim’s story -- in her own words

Honestly, I never thought in a million years that I would be a thirty-something-year-old virgin

I had my first “boyfriend,” in kindergarten and shared my first kiss around age
10 in the driveway behind my dad’s van.

I remember days during grade school when my friends and I huddled
underneath desks during lunchtime to pick out the boys we thought were cute.
I’ve kept a diary since kindergarten and it seemed like every school year I had
a new crush.

Then there was the infamous folded note almost every girl longed to receive
from their crush…you know the one, it reads -- “Do you like me?” and has the
two boxes to be checked with either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’

Okay…so I may have been a little…um…”boy crazy”…

Even though I wasn’t raised in the church, and my parents never talked
to me about sex, I always had this ‘thing’ embedded in the back of my mind
that I wouldn’t have sex with someone unless I really loved them.

By the time I attended college I was actually mad that I hadn’t had any yet,
because I thought surely I would have fallen in love by now.  There was
this one guy I had strong feelings for in high school, but he didn’t reciprocate
at the time.

I got saved upon graduating from high school when some friends brought me
to their church’s gospel concert (hence my love for gospel music), but at the
time I just viewed my salvation as “fire insurance.”  You know what I mean,
I figured, “Well, I don’t want to go to hell so I may as well get saved.”

I received Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior, and went right back to the
club next weekend.

A year later a strange thing happened.

My best friend invited me to her church home, Word of Faith, and the pastor
preached a message that stirred something in my soul.  His preaching was so
relevant, it actually showed me how I could apply the Word of God to my
every day life.  After six months of visiting during mid-week services, I
eventually joined the church and began to grow
spiritually.

Honestly, I still clubbed at first, and I had actually met a cute guy, I’ll
call him Mark, at a club who came over my house one day while mom
was away.

Eventually Mark and I started kissing and making out on the couch,
and next thing you know he’s trying to rationalize why he didn’t see
nothing wrong with two friends having sex.

I knew I wasn’t about to “go there” with him, and I even told him I
wasn’t going to have sex with him because of ‘spiritual reasons.’  Now
that I think about it today, my rationale may have sounded silly at the
time seeing as though his hands were all over me on the couch and here
I am evoking God, but actually it was the spiritual food I had been
receiving at my new church home that was renewing my mind and causing
me to somehow stand strong in my faith.

I eventually asked Mark to get up off of me -- he did, took a
sip of red Kool Aid, and just looked at me.

I next asked him to leave, and he obliged.

Once he shut the door, I fell on my knees at the foot of the couch and
began to cry hysterically.

Even though Mark and I didn’t go “all the way,” I still felt as if I
hurt my Heavenly Father in some way.

It was then, at age 20, that I made the decision before God to maintain
my virginity until marriage.

Has it been an easy ride?  Hex no!

Since Mark I’ve had other relationships, and have definitely been tempted.

There is this crazy myth out there that just because you have never had sex
that you don’t have the desire for something you never had.

That’s a lie from the pit of hell!

God created us all as sexual beings so even if you’ve never had it…it’s still
just natural to crave it.

Sex is a good thing to be desired as it was invented by God, and it’s His way of consummating a marriage.

Sex is God’s creative and romantic way of bringing two married people closer
than they’ll ever be with one another according to Genesis 2:24.

It’s only been by the grace of God, because I know if it were up to me, I would
have had sex a long time ago!

But looking back I know that my experiences were God’s way of keeping me,
whether from my experience in high school, or me complaining about not having
fallen in love by the time college rolled around -- I am thankful that I can say the
first man I ever truly loved with my whole heart, mind, body, soul and spirit has
been my Heavenly Father, God.

He’s the one who’s never left me, nor forsaken me.

He’s the one who listens to me, when there’s no one else around to hear what
I have to say.

He’s the one who comforts me when I feel lonely, and let’s me know everything
is going to be all right when I feel afraid.

I thank God for the grace of God, and for the cleansing blood of Jesus, because
any woman reading this, whether you have had experience sexually or not,
can confess your sin before God with a pure heart and God promises to wipe
that sin away and make you, once again, white as snow, which means no virgin
can claim to be any better than you, because as a believer you both stand before
the Father, God, cleansed, healed, and whole (1 John 1:9, Isaiah 1:18).

So that’s my story.

God is Faithful, and it’s my heart’s desire to be an example to other
women that it is possible to be kept by God and still have a fun, exciting life
as a single Christian, and if you have had sex before you can commit, this
day, to saving yourself, from now on, and keep your goodies on lock until
after you say, “I Do.”

Know that I love you, but God loves you more.

I look forward to the day I can become one with my husband, but until then, I’ll enjoy remaining one with my Heavenly Father each day.

Much love in Christ,

Kim Brooks