Tankard answered that call, was prayed over, but said she initially “didn’t really feel any shift.” When she got home that night, though, she decided to openly rebuke the fear she had allowed to overtake her for so long.
“I kind of had this out loud dialogue with the enemy and kind of was just telling him, ‘I’m done letting you rule my life. You have no power over my mind, no power over me anymore.’”
“After that, I kind of went to sleep, woke up, and long story short, I was literally completely free from fear and anxiety,” Tankard said.
It was a freedom she never could have expected. After so many years of dealing with a diagnosis of anxiety, she assumed she would spend the rest of her life trying to cope with these struggles. Now, she said she’s walking in true liberty.
“It is just a very overwhelming feeling…walking in freedom…and it’s still very new,” she said. “Six months ago, I definitely would not have been able to freely talk about any of this, like over like an interview, just because I would’ve been afraid of…being honest and I would’ve been afraid…to say the wrong thing.”
Tankard continued, “But…now I’m…an open book because I know that God delivered me and I know it’s gonna help someone else.”
What’s perhaps most interesting is that Tankard said she felt a strong sense from God that she needed to finish writing “Fear Didn’t Win”—but that prompting came a week before her deliverance from anxiety.
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