Testimony, Trials & Trusting Yahuah
Testimony, Trials & Trusting Yahuah

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Christa Marie Hewson shares how a hospital near-death experience led her into Christ-centred sobriety, structured rehab and deepened faith in Yahuah. She reflects on grief, detours into new age practices, ongoing struggles and how Scripture and fellowship shape her recovery today.

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55:43•15 May 2026

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Testimony, Trials and Trusting Yahuah in Sobriety

Episode Overview

Addiction is presented as a spiritual battle that belongs to the Lord, easing the pressure of carrying it alone.
Detox and residential treatment are described as hard but vital stages where humility, routine and work-based therapy rebuild character and faith.
Fellowship in NA, AA and faith communities helps people stay grounded, supported and connected to a higher power.
New age practices such as yoga, tarot, reiki and idol worship are framed as deceptive, leading Christa to remove them after conviction by the Holy Spirit.
Trials, grief and ongoing struggles like postpartum depression are linked to biblical teaching that hardship can build endurance, maturity and deeper trust in Yahuah.

“Faith doesn't make things easier it makes things possible.”

How do individuals turn their lives around after addiction? This episode of the sobersalvationpodcast follows Christa Marie Hewson as she shares a raw, faith-centred account of sobriety, loss and finding trust in Yahuah.

Christa takes listeners back to 6 December 2018, waking up in a hospital after an accident and describing an out-of-body experience where she heard a clear message: “No, it is not her time.” That moment of “an overwhelming sense of love and forgiveness” became the line in the sand: if she didn’t stop drinking and using drugs, there would be no more chances.

From there, you’ll hear how detox became “a battleground” rather than a holiday, and how moving into The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center in Providence turned work therapy and humble tasks into a foundation for being “truly born again”.

Christa explains how seeing addiction as a spiritual battle changed everything, saying she came to understand that “we can only be saved through Yahusha… so that we don’t have to carry the weight of the addiction… alone.” She also talks about meeting her fiancé Stephen in treatment, years of involvement in NA and AA, and the role of fellowship in staying grounded.

The story takes a darker turn as she describes grief, new age practices, yoga, tarot and reiki pulling her away from Yahuah, before the Holy Spirit “convicted” her and she burned the cards, threw out idols and sought deliverance again. Weaving Scripture throughout, Christa reflects on trials, postpartum depression, ongoing therapy and daily Bible study, stressing that hardship can build “spiritual muscles” and steadfast faith.

It’s a candid, spiritually rich share aimed at those in recovery who resonate with Christ-centred sobriety and want honesty about both miracles and messy days. If you’re wrestling with addiction, new age spirituality or crushing trials, could this be the reminder that faith might be the strength you’ve been missing?

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