After a car accident, Donna went from being a high-level executive to a cognitively impaired, brain injury survivor. For 13 years she suffered with a loss of her short-term memory until her friends introduced her to Andrew’s free online teachings.

I had a very high-profile job I had a

photographic memory several people

several organizations sort of several

consulting groups working for me if you

would knew me or you talked to me I

would tell you all about what I did for

a living and that was all my identity

was then the brain injury came and my

identity for the next 13 and a half

years became the brain injury anyways

six 1995 my car skidded on black ice I

ended up hitting my head and I hit the

bar on the side of the car window it

should have killed me the first doctor

diagnosed me with a traumatic brain

injury I fell below the 25 percentile

anybody below the 25 percentile is

considered legally disabled cognitively

I fell in the fifth tonight percentile I

was a math major and I could not do a

simple third grade math problem one pain

felt like my head was like maybe a

pumpkin and somebody had a machete knife

and was just stabbing my head another

pain felt like an electrical current

that shoot from one side of my head to

the other I think deep down inside of me

I knew there was a journey I was about

to begin in an instant Donna Jones a

high-level executive went from having a

photographic memory to being cognitively

disabled her diagnosis would include

severe pain and limited mobility but

even more detrimental would be the loss

of her cognitive abilities specifically

her short-term memory this is a story of

how Andrews free teachings broke through

a dysfunctional brain to help one woman

from New Jersey realize her identity in

Christ this is the healing journey of

Donna Jones

this healing journey begins years after

Donna’s car accident where even as a

brain injury survivor she managed to

find creative ways to maintain both an

active life and her corporate position

at work it took me over two hours to get

ready in the morning I would forget to

eat breakfast so I would have this a

checklist that I would go through take a

shower brush your teeth get dressed it

was very difficult for me to be around

people it was very difficult for me to

be around a lot of noise my life became

sitting on the sofa just sleeping for

days

every year since I was 21 we would go

skiing and I would really just stare out

that window and just dream about seeing

the mountains again work was so great at

compensating they you know they gave me

a private office I people that would go

food shopping for me I had people who

paid my bills because if I looked at the

bill and then I went to look at the

checkbook that just moment would just

vanish

Donald was working at AT&T at the time

the largest telecommunications company

in the world and she didn’t know what

the flashing light on her phone was she

asked me she goes what is that I can’t

get rid of that it means you have a

message that made me realize yeah she

needs help we worked on a team together

that was really close we were together

you know a lot so we got to know each

other very well

and it wasn’t long before I found out we

were both saved she thought God gave me

this brain injury she would say it’s a

gift I thought he was in control of

everything so I really believed that God

chose me I was gonna raise awareness I

was gonna get the word out about brain

injuries I was gonna be the spokesperson

for those brain injured people who could

not articulate what they were going

through

Donna’s whole identity was wrapped up in

the brain injury and thus her cycle of

pain confusion and checklists continued

for years that is until the day that her

co-worker Alisa introduced her to Kathy

who was teaching a women’s Bible study

based on Andrews teaching God wants you

well

Alisa who was the girl said you know hey

Donna has a brain injury and I’d like

you to talk to her and I just told her

you can be healed of that brain injury

you know and I remember looking at her

going now she’s crazy

I have MRIs cat-scans I have all these

doctor reports and she doesn’t

understand the full extent of this

injury you know but God used that to

plant a seed in my heart you know I gave

her some scriptures and I pointed her

towards Andrews web site and I said you

know listen to some good teaching on

there watch some of the healing videos

and things that are on there and she did

Nikki’s popped out for me a lot of the

symptoms she described were very similar

to my symptoms I identified with her and

if she got completely healed I knew I

could be as well and I think that was um

that was something that was really

powerful for me at that moment

from that moment on Donna believed it

was God’s will for her to be healed and

with the help of ELISA and Kathy was

determined to listen to Andrews

teachings until something broke through

her damaged mind and became a personal

revelation Donna didn’t have to unlearn

anything because it was gone so she had

this childlike faith unlike anyone that

I’ve ever met when she got a hold of a

scripture she believed it myself and

ELISA

we would on a weekly basis share

Scripture with her Kathy was very good

at directing me to where to go to listen

so I would just click on those links and

just listen to him over and over I don’t

think my natural brain was processing

and understanding the information but I

really believe my spirit was hearing

every word I had to be healed

emotionally first before I could be

healed

the emotions of not feeling worthy the

emotions of being insecure it says and

put on the new man which after God is

created in righteousness and true

holiness you aren’t in the process of

becoming righteous and holy you were

created that way it was

you were just changed instantly when you

got born again if you can begin to

understand that and focus on that it

will just automatically make the

problems and the things that you’re

struggling with fall away my identity

changed from being a brain injury

survivor to being a child of the Most

High God

I believed that Jesus by His stripes

took that two thousand years ago and

something just clicked I had a green

bracelet that I worn my wrist and it was

to raise awareness because remember I

thought that I chose me to raise

awareness about brain injuries they took

that green bracelet off almost like I

didn’t need that anymore I also had a

handicap sticker said if God really

truly healed me I don’t need that

handicap sticker anymore I don’t need to

have any identity with this brain injury

so I actually took that handicap sticker

off a couple days later we were sitting

in church and there was an altar call

for healing ELISA was standing there and

she had her hand on my back as we’re

praying I see a timer like a egg timer

with that red dial on the top and I

heard the thing of it being done

something went whoosh off the top of my

head I could actually feel like it was

lifting up to heaven the manifestation

took place when I was completely healed

of the pain and the disability and

everything I lived with for thirteen and

a half years

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then something interesting happened five

years later on my way to work one

morning I was stopped at a traffic light

and somebody crashed into the back of my

car while I was perfectly still the

impact was so significant I remember

just sitting there going this is

familiar territory I’ve been down this

road before and this is this doesn’t

feel good

I remember them coming back and then

giving me that diagnosis again I had

another traumatic brain injury so for

about three weeks I lived with those

symptoms again the pain was so bad in my

eyes I literally could not move if I

moved at all I could the pain was just

would just ripped through my head in my

eyes to the point where I would sit with

the phone and I would dial nine one and

I would sit there and say how bad does

it get before I dial that last one I

have the TV on and I you know somebody

came on and they would just said call

out to Jesus I just said Jesus Jesus

Jesus and something physically fell off

me and it fell from the top of my head

to the floor we’re to the point where I

was actually like trying to catch what

was falling it was that significant and

God told me fear fell off me

I would started to fear that I was gonna

live like this again that my journey

again was gonna be living with this

brain injury and when God broke and

Jesus broke that fear off me then my

brain completely woke up and I was just

you know completely healed again

radically healed

Jesus already bought and paid for my

healing those stripes he took on his

back or from my healing it was for my

disability it was from my pain so it

means it’s already done it’s a done deal

I’ve already got it

Cathy and I go out and teach now and we

have a ministry called Helius for

everyone we’ve really want to reveal

God’s heart that God really wants you

well faith begins where the will of God

is known and once she discovered it was

not God’s will for her to have a brain

injury but rather Jesus paid for her

healing faith was easy he’s got an

amazing story but the story’s bigger

than just her experience the stories

about hope and the stories about faith

she’s really tuned in turned on and I

don’t think I could keep up whether

she’s running a million my house and out

I’m ecstatic about see where she’s going

because she’s not done yet in addition

to her teaching ministry with Cathy

Donna has published multiple books on

healing including two focused on her own

journey Andrew would like to encourage

you to visit their website at healing is

for everyone calm as if she wasn’t busy

enough already

Donna has just headed westward on her

next adventure to attend Karis Bible

College where she’ll learn even more

about the truths that set her free I

just want to thank the partners of

interval mechs ministries and the

ability for these teachings to be free

and online it has just been such a

powerful resource

it’s literally changed my life and Donna

is just one example of the lives

transformed thanks to the free teachings

made available by our friends and

partners as for Donna’s desire to see

the mountains again let’s just say that

God is giving her quite the view

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