Why
Baptized in Living Waters
Soteria Koinonia is a ministry created by Alex, a 27-year-old female disciple of Christ. Born after a Job year, after a miraculous exodus, during the wilderness—it is meant to exercise exhortation and teaching of the Gospel to believers who struggle with their faith and mental health, Job seasons, and unbelievers. As God encountered me as a former agnostic almost 9 years, and almost 6 KJV readings ago.
Miraculous Mental Healing
It is at rock-bottom that you encounter the living God, Yahweh, Jehovah Rappha, Elohim. He miraculously delivered me of depression and anxiety when He saved me 9 years ago, renewing my heart and mind—taking my thoughts captive and making them obedient to His Word.
During my Job year, the thorn in my own flesh was born, I reached heights of human suffering that made me cry out as Elijah once did.
“Where is your God?” a family member mocked me as I sobbed. My God was in both the depths of despair and in the heights of deliverance and miraculous blessings.
Miraculous Physical Healing
God inclined His ear unto me, heard my cry, and led my Exodus out of a Job year. “Do you want to be healed?” I heard right before the Great Physician Jesus Christ delivered me instantly during prayer of a chronic stress-induced illness four daily prescriptions did nothing to cure.
Almighty Adonai delivered me once again a year later, post-exodus, from yet another stress-induced illness that landed me in the hospital for the first time in my life. I stubbornly refused to take medicine after that, and woke up healed after proclaiming His Word and crying out to Christ. Family couldn’t understand, one person said it became a chronic issue for them, and said surely it was the one out of 14 doses I was supposed to take that did it. What’s impossible through man, is possible through God.
Miraculous Exodus Out of My Own Egypt and Provision
Faith precedes the blessing. God led my exodus out of an emotionally abusive environment through miraculous prophetic signs received as I was on my knees praying for deliverance for my dying loved one.
God’s will (including His yes, no, and not yet) are best, and so is His perfect timing we can abide in by walking in obedience and leaving the consequences to Him. At God’s divinely appointed kairos time, the promises of Amos 9:13 and Joel 2:25 happen fast, and bigger than you’ve ever prayed for.
What years of striving couldn’t achieve, God did in three weeks—God led my exodus out of an oppressive environment full of spiritual warfare, into a miraculously approved spacious, new home while I was unemployed, with terrible credit, and no cosigner. While I was grieving, traumatized from abuse, with no plan but to obey God’s call to flee.
I moved within two weeks of the approval into an environment of freedom and peace for the first time in my life, and within another week—got a call for a FAANG job I didn’t even apply for. All while walking in pure obedience, not through human striving. God is the God of the impossible—so that He may be glorified by His mighty hand, not through our own human efforts.
Within this time in the wilderness, I have seen His deliverance in—healing of trauma of emotional abuse, deliverance of escapist sin as a coping mechanism for suffering, healing of my first heartbreak in my naturally monastic, consecrated heart, and miraculous provision of open doors just as I’d reached a point of resignation, despair, and crying out, “where are You in this, God?” while still praying Scripture of God’s promises, and singing gospel as I panicked over an eviction notice, past-due bills, a broken phone, and job that didn’t cover my bills.
God had already worked all these worries out—He even told me, “I have a surprise for you,” and there it was—I saw it over a week late from having a broken phone. His ways are higher than our ways, His timing perfect, His sovereginty reigning over all. God has weighed in the circumstances, non-sinful, good-faithed mistakes, and our characteristics we perceive as shortcomings, into accomplishing His absolute sovereign will. And this much was evident in even the ‘small’ things—a broken phone I: first refused to head to God’s plan to fix and ended up short on rent because of my lack of faith, I showed up late to fix it when I did head to the plan later, there was still a warranty issue—but God was fulfilling the promise of Romans 8:28—He worked it all for good. I didn’t even pay the warranty fee—it was free—a whole new phone. I was not left with my checking account at $0 again until my next paycheck.
And now, the Job year, and this wilderness has stripped away all desire but one of discipleship—God’s ultimate goal for humanity (not just salvation which we are sealed by the Holy Spirit when baptized). God called on me to testify of His ways, so I may help those who battle in the spirit against depression, anxiety, Job seasons, and faith struggles caused by what seem like delay and dissapointment. To testify of His love and strength even in my grief. To testify of His calling for all believers. To exhort, edify, and admonish others through epistles, testimony, and educational writing from my various readings and study of the KJV Bible.
Truly
Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Matthew 6:33: But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Matthew 28:19-20: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
