Finally Free: Living in Peace by Releasing Your Past

by Jennifer Kostyal

Overview

"... a testimony of grace and bondage-breaking healing ... the masses need not despair."
-Jason Lanier, Pastor of Worship Ministries, Lee Park Baptist Church
"I am blessed to use her material in my counseling practice."
-Joanne G. Davenport, MA, CAS, NCC, LPC Licensed Professional Counselor
"... a living testimony used to set others free."
-Phil Ortego, Senior Pastor, Scotts Hill Baptist Church

Are you being held prisoner by your past? Do fear, rejection, low self-esteem, anger, or anxiety seem bigger to you than your future? Jennifer Kostyal shares spiritual insight on how she overcame her past of sexual, mental, and physical abuse. Statistics reveal that one in four girls and one in six boys are sexually abused before the age of eighteen. Raised in a religious cult, molested for years by a family member, and lured into an abusive relationship as an adult, she contemplated suicide as her only choice to be free. Freedom from her past came through divine intervention that put her on the path to mental and spiritual wholeness.

Finally Free: Living in Peace by Releasing Your Past is your step-by step guide to help you walk out of the darkness and pain you have endured so that you can enter into the light of hope and healing today. You, too, can be Finally Free, no longer being defined by your painful past but rather the peace and joy of your future. Your freedom and destiny await!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982059098
Publisher:	HonorNet
Publication date:	05/15/2012
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jennifer Kostyal is a dynamic speaker, teacher, author, and the founder and director of Jennifer Kostyal Ministries. She has been featured on The Coral Ridge Hour, Daystar Television's The Celebration Show, The Word Network, Babbie's House, CBN, and more.

She is a popular speaker in churches and at women's conferences. In addition, she has a passion to reach women in the prisons, the largest majority of whom have experienced some form of physical, verbal, emotional, or sexual abuse. In 2009, she received the Volunteer of the Year award from the North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women.

Jennifer graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education. Through her personal testimony and teaching of the Word of God, she shares her belief in the power of Jesus to heal and make whole. As she shares her healing from years to subjection to a religious cult, sexual abuse, and mental torment, it gives people hope to believe again.

Jennifer and her husband, Dave, "one of the best presents Jesus has ever given [her]" make their home in Wilmington, North Carolina, along with their two children, David and Rebekah who are both active in the ministry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement xix

Preface xxi

Chapter 1 A Little Girl from a Street Called "Mud" 1

Chapter 2 Family Secrets 3

Chapter 3 The Confines of Dead Religion 7

Chapter 4 The Monster Within 11

Chapter 5 Church Secrets 19

Chapter 6 Fun and Games at My Expense 23

Chapter 7 My Real Friends 29

Chapter 8 Raped 35

Chapter 9 First Love 39

Chapter 10 Starting Off on My Own 47

Chapter 11 The Black Family That Adopted This White Girl 55

Chapter 12 Supernatural Encounters 59

Chapter 13 Miss Congeniality: A Magnet of Abuse 63

Chapter 14 Sleeping with the Enemy 69

Chapter 15 The Cycle of Abuse 77

Chapter 16 Getting Out 81

Chapter 17 My Knight 87

Chapter 18 Confession Time 93

Chapter 19 The Haunting of the Past 99

Chapter 20 Crisis Brewing 105

Chapter 21 Spiraling Out of Control 109

Chapter 22 End of My Rope 115

Chapter 23 Delivered from the Past 121

Chapter 24 Confrontation 129

Chapter 25 Disowned 137

Chapter 26 My New Family 141

Chapter 27 Carving It Up 147

Chapter 28 Discovering the Truth?I Grew Up in a Cult 151

Chapter 29 One More Time 155

Chapter 30 "Why Did You Let It Happen?" 161

Chapter 31 Breaking the Cycle 167

Chapter 32 Becoming Finally Free 175

Appendix Scriptural Tools for Your Breakthrough 177

A Note from the Author 191

About the Author 193