Dear LaDonna,

I had been struggling with depression for around 9 months to a year. I have served the Lord all of my life, but this last year I have felt so weighed down. The simplest decisions were stressing me. I was upset and angry all of the time. Sleep has been very difficult.

This morning you asked for people struggling with depression to come to the front. I went. You came to me and put the end of the violin on my heart. I began to feel a physical burning in my chest. A knot in my lower spine began to move up my back. I felt stress being released out of me and my fingers began to tingle. The more you played, the more relaxed my body became. My back and left shoulder had begun hurting off and on due to stress. Now I am pain free!

I have had the depression lifted off of me and I have been smiling all day. I also know that the depression was brought on because of a struggle that I have had over a direction God had been leading me and I have not been listening. Besides the depression being lifted, I also have the knowledge as to the cause.

Darla Posey
Northside Assembly (Pastor B.J. Smith)
Texarkana, Texas
May 5, 2002