Anita met Jesus Christ in a tiny Pentecostal church in Silverton, NJ on a Sunday night in April. 1982. A shy non-practicing Catholic girl, in bondage for many years and haunted by many ghosts of abuse, rape, shame and hopelessness. A glorious healing light burst through that night, even though she trembled under the growling, accusing voice of the tattoo-biceped, ex marine, who slammed his fist on his worn pulpit. His glittering black eyes bore through her.
"If you die tonight in a car accident.. Will you go to heaven or burn in hell?"
She declared the salvation prayer and in that small church, Anita finally found a loving, accepting family that she had always wanted. She bloomed, making up for many lost years, enrolling in college and graduating at the top of her class, Magna cum laude. The earning of that degree was interrupted though, by the courtship with a demented man who threatened to kill her if she didn't marry him. That domestic violent season which lasted almost two years nearly took away her exuberant faith and new-found nursing home ministry. But Christ never abandoned her.
Healing took place and resilience set her back on track. She met lead guitarist, Chris Durante at a church picnic where he invited her to front his Christian rock band with him. The Lord began to hone Anita in her new role as lead vocalist-lyricist of "The Promise" and Chris, her and the band shared the Gospel of Christ to the NJ, PA and NY maximum security prisons, family festivals and community showcases.
Anita also grew in leadership positions, teaching behavior modification classes at Nutri-System Weight Loss Centers and as a youth advocate for Youth Advocate Program. Just as she was enjoying her life, strange and debilitating symptoms sent her to the hospital where she was given a diagnosis of Lyme disease. 1992 was riddled with hospital intravaneous Rosephin treatments and Amomoxicillin antibiotic.
The next several years, with her immune system breaking down and battling many episodes of bronchial infections she almost died from carbon monoxide poisoning from her apartment's broken heater. The carbon monoxide did serious damage to her brain and deep depression set in and she was unable to sustain employment.
But God wasn't finished with her yet. She found herself once more with hope and found another accepting family at non-profit Christian outreach, Love in the Name of Christ, in the Fall of 1998. Executive Director, Carolyn Eyerman and project Manager, Joan Hodem saw things in Anita she never knew she had. The six years there taught her even more about people and serving their needs. This was also where her journey with the guitar started!
Dystonia is a complex, highly variable neurological disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions. Dystonia is a range pf movement disorders that involve extended muscle contractions. There may be twisting body movements, tremor and awkward postures. According to my research and personal experience, my Dystonia symptoms were caused my Mercury Amalgam poisoning, toxic Mold and nerve damage from carbon monoxide poisoning. EMF sensitivity and dirty electric can also cause the nervous system to overload.
The main treatment for Dystonia are Botox and DBS Deep Brain Stimulation..
I was diagnosed in 2007 with Dystonia. I was prescribed a muscle relaxant.
So, Anita Ivette Ferrer, was a gentle and fragile girl, easily frightened by the Outer Limits electricity monster and intimidated by her mother's raging temper tandtrums. Nonetheless, she had a dream. She sketched and sang and composed poetry in careful calligraphy hand.
A traumatic and threatening encounter with a bullying classmate in her favorite art class shattered her pre-conceived notion that people were kind and could be trusted. The bullying continued till graduation day and she wore her cloak of shame and rejection like a weighted anchor. Doors don't swing open wide for those who've suffered bullying, abuse, poverty and/or molestation.
But in April of 1982, Jesus Christ opened wide the door of grace and Anita walked through. Decades of deeply ingrained traumas and negative events were assuagged and she began to see more clearly that she had worth and God had a plan for her life..
Enrolling at Brookdale Community College, Anita discovered that door of favor swung wide open and she rediscovered her poetry, singing and art. No longer fearful and distrusting of people, she was deeply curious and disturbed about injustice and social issues. er professors were impressed with her empathy and passion to pursue studies in the humanities. Graduating with high honors despite great financial hardship and a violent failed, marriage, Anita knew that the best was yet to come.
Anita's journey with Christ led her to chase and slay many giants, particularly health. Lyme Disease came in 1992 and then carbon monoxide poisoning almost took her life in 1997.All during this time, Anita chronicled her life events through her journaling and then came an invitation to learn the guitar.
Her health lost it;s resilience from the damaging environmental assaults on her nervous system, but her love for composing songs and performing continued. Then were menntoring broken women, youth outreach and hospice. Outwardly, it looked as if Anita's continual suffering and down-spiraling health would diminish her calling, but herdevotion and trust in Christ's promises was her saving grace and anchor.
Despite her present and most daunting giant, oromandibular-TMJ Dystonia from mercury poisoning, she continues to sing, write about and express her gratitude of facing death...and helping others to live!
Anita hopes to find a cure for the Dystonia so that she can travel and tour, speaking and singing about overcoming and getting better with age.Her heart beats for the glorious expectation of God's best through her. She hopes that her music and art will provoke intimacy with Christ and a deep empathy for hurt and broken people. She champions the underrdog because she is a giant slayer.
PRAYER FOR THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, Christ’s Beloved, for the dark times ahead.
I thank you, Abba Father for this new day. I will give you thanks and praise you because you are high and lifted up and your train fills the temple Isaiah 6:1
As great judgment approaches the earth, I do not fear because you said that you are with me. You said I am precious in your sight and you love me. You honor me and hear my prayer because I know your name. You grant me long life and salvation .Psalm 91:15 & 16.
As I hear of wars and rumours of wars drawing near, approaching against me, I am confident to abide in the shelter of El Shaddai, the shadow of your wings. Psalm 91. 1 seek to abide in your house,all the days o f my life where I can gaze upon your beauty and inquire in your temple. Psalm 27:4. In my time of trouble, You hide me in your pavilion and set my feet upon the rock. Psalm 27:5.
Walking with you, Jesus Yashuah, there will be many afflictions of the righteous, but you Abba Father, deliver me from out of them all. Psalm 34:19. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of Adonai shall lift up a standard against him. Isaiah 59:19.
I will not be afraid of the terror by night, not the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence walking in darkness, notr the destruction that lays waste at noonday. Psalm 91:5&6.
You, Abba Father, will guide me continually. You satisfy my soul in drought. I will be a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. Isaiah 58:11. My great trust in you, Abba Father, makes me as a tree planted by the waters, spreading out the roots. The heat burns me not because my leaves are always green and I am not anxious in the year of drought. Jer. 16: 7&8.
When I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. Psalm 37:25
Thank you, Father, that you are a wall of fire and the Glory in the midst of us! Zech 2:1
So, to add to my chagrin of battling some disabling symptoms, and hearing about some pastors’ complaints of Osteoarthritis, I decided to do some research. I believe that learning some new information about debilitating health assaults (and reversing them), can contribute to a more productive and joyful lifestyle. I can attest that getting poor sleep each night wears away the immune system and can greatly diminish our creativity and relationships. Many of us who suffer chronic pain often stay isolated. Who wants to socialize when our bodies are in pain or discomfort?
I constantly battle all kinds of weird symptoms and despite spending hundreds of dollars a month on expensive supplements, it can get depressing for me, honestly. I am grateful that being way over 50, I still have the ability to be physically active and productive. There is always much work to do on a 25 acre property and having joint issues would be a big problem for me.
The past several months, my sleep has been disturbed by terrible pain in my right knee and other nights, my right hip bone. It puzzles me because I am committed to a very strict dietary regimen, (organic as much as possible), low sugar and starches and distilled water. I also am aware of how toxic Glyphosate is, so I also have been taking Glycine powder to detoxify the Glyphosate on my produce and fruit.
As I’m thinking about and praying how I can improve my energy and immune system, I remembered my days delivering telephone books in Monmouth, Ocean and Burlington County, New Jersey.. I was outdoors everyday and Chem-trails were in abundance. At the time, 15 years ago, I was unaware of the toxic load my body was accumulating, but remember my doctor informed me of the results of my blood test. He was very surprised to see elevated levels of Mercury, Barium and Aluminum. I also had to deal with one amalgam filling which was improperly removed by an inept dentist who didn’t use a rubber dam for the Mercury removal. (If you have any dental fillings of amalgam, there are good dental websites about holistic dental amalgam removal. Mercury is highly toxic and contributes to many serious illnesses). All of this information made sense as to why I was still struggling with somewhat disabling and chronic g symptoms.
I also wish to remind you that Our great God Almighty has provided us with miraculous natural substances for our healing. Let us pray, believe and take communion daily, for Christ is our healer and it is God’s pleasure that we be in health and prosper, 3 John 1:2 . Many of us suffer needlessly and die because we were ignorant of the availability of non-pharmaceutical drugs. Many terminal Cancer patients were healed through entirely natural and non-invasive means. May we be open-minded and do our just research!
Indeed, heavy metals can significantly impair joint collagen repair and overall joint health. Exposure to toxic heavy metals, particularly cadmium, lead, and mercury, is linked to the degradation of cartilage, inhibition of collagen synthesis, and the promotion of inflammatory joint diseases like osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
. How Heavy Metals Affect Joint Collagen and Repair:
Destruction of Cartilage Components: Cadmium (Cd) has been shown to reduce the levels of proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) while inhibiting the expression of type II collagen, which is critical for cartilage health.
Inhibition of Collagen Production: Toxic metals like cadmium, cobalt, and nickel inhibit the synthesis of Type I collagen and other structural proteins needed for repair.
Increased Enzymatic Degradation: Cadmium increases the expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), such as MMP13, which are enzymes that break down the extracellular matrix, including collagen in joints.
Oxidative Stress and Inflammation: Heavy metals induce reactive oxygen species (ROS) and trigger inflammatory responses (TNF-α, IL-6), leading to joint cartilage degradation, synovitis (inflammation of the joint lining), and synovial cell apoptosis.
Interference with Essential Minerals: Heavy metals can displace essential minerals like Zinc, Iron, and Manganese, which are necessary for proper collagen synthesis and joint repair.
Other Factors:
Contaminated Supplements: Research has indicated that some collagen supplements may contain heavy metals (arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium) due to poor sourcing or manufacturing practices, potentially contradicting the benefits of the supplement.
Impact of Smoking: Cadmium accumulation from smoking is strongly linked to the development of musculoskeletal diseases and the impairment of joint health.
In summary, heavy metal accumulation in the body disrupts the delicate balance of joint remodeling, favoring degradation over repair and contributing to chronic joint pain and structural damage.
It is a peaceful Shabbat here in a most rural area of southwestern Georgia. Beautiful, ethereal music is playing on my stereo, Julie True’s CD, “Let My Life Be Worship.” The divine atmosphere of my bedroom is in far contrast to what is happening in Minneapolis Minnesota.
As I prepare to spend time in prayer and receive Jesus’s peace and my Heavenly Father’s wisdom and comfort, my mind keeps going back to the turbulent scenes my husband Mark and I see on INFO WARS.
No Far-right nebulous rantings, political rhetoric nor religious rebukings. I am speaking as a sensitive artist who is a devoted disciple of the lord Jesus Christ since 1982. My greatest joy has been participating in Jesus’ work of divine transformation of a broken soul. He is the restorer of the breach and the ransomer of decimated hearts. During my travailing prayer, my heart is weeping for the millions of precious people enslaved by everything opposing God’s perfect will. My heart hurts to see young men (and women) possessed by explosive rage, kicking vehicles, spewing obscenities, and casting molotov cocktails into cars and buildings. I feel somewhat embarrassed for them in that they seem to take pride in their activity. But in reality, moral, sane people like us are shocked and disgusted!
Wisdom tells me that God looks down from His throne with great displeasure and Jesus is weeping as all their activity is recorded in their book of life in heaven. Oh, what a terrible waste and tragedy that God’s enemy, Satan, has so beguiled most of God’s creation.
People, please wake up and think with a critical and wise mindset. This war raging is not earthly but of a spiritual dimension. Meditate on this:
2 Cor. 10 3-5 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
I join with national intercessors, (24/7 National Strategic ConferencePrayer group every day and we militantly confront the powers of darkness according to how our Lord Jesus instructed us in Luke 10:19.
Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you. NLT
Christian brother or sister, are you praying Biblical scriptural prayers or lame, powerless and doubting prayers? We are in the End times, spoken of in Revelation and it is time for us to walk in all the authority GodAlmighty has given us. Wonder why our nation is presently embroiled by powerful and destructive demonic activity? You’d better believe that the powers that be have released gigantic and powerful beings to control those in power.
Those of you who do not believe in God or Christ, I ask you to ponder the purpose of your life and the purpose of humanity. Have you asked, “What is the purpose of all the rioting, pillage and murder? What are the good fruits of violent activities? It is time to be still, and think critically about purpose and the abundant life that only Jesus Christ can offer
The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows]. John 10:10 AMP
Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live! Duet 30:19 AMP
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MY debut album, song collection Produced by Ernie Wilkens, Gary Dates and Daryl Dahrouge. An eclectric collection of folk-rock, jazz hip-hop and jazz rock.
So, I met Chris Durante at a church picnic in the summer of 1989 and he asked me if I would front his Christian hard Rock Band, The Promise. I was just a folk soprano who sang a capella with twin sisters in ursing homes. Who knew that God was preparing me for greater ministry and service to people through my non profit Brave Flame Productions. Chris 's artistry has embellished most of my songs and albums over the years and we are grateful for the influence and inspiration of the the Holy Spirit through us frail and fragile instruments!
John Mulrenan, producer-engineer, Acorn Digital, Howell, NJ has also been a long-time friend and music partner. He has lent his artistry to my projects on keyboards, piano, bass and programming. His expertise has been invaluable. He is an underrated and transcendent talent!
And last, but not least is my talented husband, Mark, who has been my sound engineer.since we married. His extensive experience doing sound for NJ's best bands has been a valuable asset to my music. Bless God for giving me such a devoted husband!
1989 Maximum Security Prisons & Correctional Facilities
The Promise Christian Band
1998 Love in the Name of Christ Christian non-Profit
Coordinator: Just the Right Touch
One on One Mentoring, Helping welfare recipients & displaced homemakers transition to the work force, supplying appropriate business clothing & resumes & mentoring,
Youth Advocate YAP, Youth Advocate Program.
Mentoring youth in social & life skills: liaison between parents/guardians with social service agencies
