About Wallking With Heaven
Our Mission
At Wallking With Heaven Books, we believe in the transformative power of God. Our mission is to provide inspiring and healing books that bring healing and freedom to the heart and soul of every believer in Jesus Christ.
The Founder
Dr. Vanessa Janusz, DCC has received her Doctorate of Christian Counseling, graduated seminary and has dedicated her life to bring to others:
WHOLENESS and POWER through soul-healing,
COMPLETE FREEDOM through deliverance, and
VICTORY and ROYAL IDENTITY to the beloved of Jesus Christ.
She lives with her wonderful Christian husband in New York and has spent her entire life in love with her Savior, Jesus Christ, following Him.
More About Dr. Janusz
You may also want to know a little about Vanessa's background and what qualifies her to share anything at all about the Lord.
MY STORY BEGAN
I gave my little heart to Jesus when I was seven years old.
And it "took"!
My mom and dad were both first-generation Christians, which meant that no one else in their families knew God before they did. They both gave their hearts to the Lord and then through prayer and living their lives let their families see that God is real and loving and good. Then their families began to come to know Christ Jesus as well...most of them.
My sisters and I were raised to, as my father put it, "follow hard after Christ". He would say, "You don't go to church, you ARE the church." so we all came to believe in Jesus young.
THE TRANSFORMATION
One night we were sitting in church, near the back and I was BOOOORED as any seven-year-old would be during the sermon. But this one night, at the end of the talking part (the sermon)...I felt something! It was strong and new to me. My heart was being drawn to the front where the altar was in this little Nazarene church. Something stirring up was pulling me to go forward to give my little heart to Jesus. I learned about Him in Sunday School, but this was something different. This was REAL.
So I tugged the sleeve of my mom who was standing up to my right, who was singing (probably 'Just As I Am'). She shook me away, so as not to bother. We were not supposed to do anything to distract during the 'altar call' when God might be working on people's heart to go up. But God was working on my little heart! I tugged her sleeve more insistently. She bent down.
I told her I wanted to go up and get "saved" as we were taught in Sunday School. She told me she thought I was too young for such a decision. She got dad who sat beside her. He leaned across her and asked me what I thought it meant to get "saved". I told them, both listening now, that I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart and live to be good for Him, forever.
He looked at mom, mom looked at him and they both shrugged as if to say, "That's really all it is." So daddy took my hand and walked me forward up that aisle. It looked a long way for a little girl and I remember being a little scared to walk up in front of everybody.
Then, about only half-way up, it was as if the Holy Spirit, full of love, came running down the aisle and met me half-way. I felt as if I was suddenly surrounded by love and sweetness of Heaven. I began to cry (hard) with such joy and my heart was changed before I even got to the front. I still feel it today, even as I tell you now. I have never forgotten or lost that love of God.
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER & SINCE
I began to start hearing God speak to me at a very young age. He would sometimes tell me things through His voice (words) or through pictures or feelings (nudges or warnings). My church gave no teaching on anything of this nature, really, so I didn't know this was God. It wasn't until I began reading my Bible to learn that God has always spoken to humans like that.
Since then, and for more than 50 years I have continued to follow hard after Christ, searching to know Him better and loving Him more every time I have experienced Him. I have learned that it is all about RELATIONSHIP which is an experience nad life-giving, not religion which is life-draining. It is all about the heart and about love and Spirit-life, not about rules or condemnation or being 'good-enough'.
I have lived being led by His Spirit, leading others to the Lord, praying and seeing miracles - instantaneous healings and God's hand move, being bowed face-to-floor by the weight and glory of God as I have been in His presence.
I have also had bad times - fallen on my face, in the dirt, by the wayside, even leading to a nervous breakdown in my thirties and completely losing myself in despair. But my Heavenly Father never left my side. He was there to pick me back up, clean me back off, fill me with more grace and glory, healing my heart of wounds, some which I had lived with my entire life, and give me new strength and refreshing. He has become to me more than life itself. I love Him with my whole heart.
I have spent time on the mission fields, both in the U.S. and abroad, served every church I have attended and grown several churches, starting new ministries and leading them, raising others up into those leadership positions while I stepped down to begin other ministries the Lord showed me were needed.
I have learned of Him through the Bible, a million sermons and teachings and trainings, conferences and videos, radio sermons, books by inspired authors who know Him too, and often, over these many years, just spending time with Him, talking to Him. In thse intimate, personal times, He has answered my questions and taught me things I never even knew to ask. He has opened the Word (the Bible) to me and told me to go to this verse or that verse and showed me things no man ever taught me. I will sometimes hear, years later, someone teach on some of these, but not often. He is my friend and mentor, my counselor and my God. Thank you, Jesus!
SUMMING UP
I have at times in these past 60+ years been poor, half-starved, sick and alone, struggling and sometimes stupid, but in my humanity, the Holy Spirit of Almighty God has never once left me or condemned me. I have even heard Him laugh at me at times, but only in a way that makes me laugh, too, as a friend who loves me to the end. Laugh instead of cry. And His correction, even the harsh corrections I have needed, have always been with His love and His promise that He wants better for me than that.
He truly IS LOVE. And I want to share Him with the world, through counseling, teaching and mentoring, training and teaching and sharing those wonderful things I have learned from Him all these years.