Join us as Joanna Ward shares her story of being freed from depression! Joanna grew up in a wonderful Christian home with loving, supportive parents. She lived a very protected life. In her early 20's she started to rebel & was living the way that she wanted to live. She began partying and was drifting away from God. During this time, she had 3 events happen to her in the same summer; She lost the job she loved, had a repressed sexual abuse memory come back suddenly & the guy she thought was "the one" ended up breaking up with her. This was not how it was supposed to be! She ended up depressed and spiraling in the wrong direction. The enemy took full advantage of that situation and started feeding her lies about herself. Joanna spent the next month planning to end her life. Praise The Lord, her sister found her & it ended with 3 days in ICU, a couple more in the hospital and she was walking out the doors. From there, Joanna battled chronic depression. She was told she would never be off medication again. What she didn't realize is this was a heart issue! God wants and desires our hearts and her heart was "deceitful above all things and desperately wicked" God started a journey to get Joanna's heart. Gory be to God who led Joanna through an 18 year journey that ended with her being freed from depression! She now is helping women all over experience freedom through Christ just like she did.
Thank you Joanna for sharing your story!
Scripture reference: Acts 10:34, Isaiah 40:28-29, Philippians 1:6, Revelation 12:11
Books: Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen - Captivating by Stasi Eldredge
