Sweet Freedom in Christ
I am honoured to be able to present my testimony at any given moment. Thank you and praise God for your web site. I have a passion to see all those bound by the Occult set free in Jesus…
My childhood was bitter sweet; a wonderful mother, country home with lots of love, pets and mostly wholesome influences. When my father was home from work and the business trips he took, fear entered with the abuse of alcohol and his apparent stress. I think this fear drove me to search for comfort elsewhere. I remember having a distinct knowledge of Jesus as a child through occasional Sunday School visits and a childs bible somebody gave as a gift. But it was viewing a Uri Geller documentary when I was 7 that gave me an insatiable appetite for all things on the occult. I was doing séances at 9 and was interactive in paranormal activity. Satan was giving me experiences bit by bit to keep the interest alive and growing.
My mother was quite naïve and did not think my activities were wrong; she considered I had an active imagination and an inquiring mind. When she left my father and took my sister and I away, she readily bought me books on numerology and mystical folklore. I was doing palmistry (divination), analysing my dreams, studying astrology, and still doing séances all before I was a teenager. In high school I introduced my friends to spells, psychometry & astrology. They admired me and they were definitely influenced still to this day. It wasn’t until I got my own Tarot deck, that things accelerated quickly, and a backpacking trip to Europe included meeting many people (not by co-incidence – all planned by Satan). Many people introduced me to different areas in the occult, many books were given to me and my areas of focus grew darker and more hidden. I was constantly aware of the Spirit Guide I had (demon) and thought him to be my protector. I felt I could do anything with his protection; I felt totally empowered. Throughout my trip I would give people that I met readings and predict their future. Everyone marvelled at my talents and I received free accommodation and made many new friends.
In England, I joined a Spiritualist church and through that was invited to join a “home circle”. I was impressed that the congregation would speak out the Lords Prayer before a service and this helped blind me to the fact that spiritism was evil, the church also encouraged us to read parts of the Bible and taught that Jesus was a good man, a teacher and a prophet (this is a widely held belief which teaches that there are many roads to God and there are many great masters eg; Buddah, Krishna, Allah. It is an easy and comfortable belief to take on but it bypasses many truths including the sin issue, but mostly that Jesus is Lord of all). This agreed with me and made me feel good. I was approached by a practising witch who gave me gifts and wrote personal letters and fed me as much encouragement as I needed on my journey.
Things started to change when I told this lady that I was going home. The change in her personality was extreme and she tried everything to manipulate me into not leaving. When her true nature became apparent, I started to question foundations and the truth of my beliefs. Around this time I would get visions and dreams where a patch of perfectly normal looking skin would be torn apart to reveal a festering, putrid, cancer like substance underneath. This image kept in my mind and caught my attention and was the start of my search for truth. The Bible says that when you seek for truth in earnest, you will find it. When I got home to Australia, I went to a High School reunion and met my future husband who was a Christian who had walked away from the Lord. During our courtship, I would flood him with my thoughts and beliefs, but he never wavered from the truth he knew deep down. I wrestled in my spirit for a long time and had many arguments with him about why I would go to hell if I didn’t know Jesus as my Lord. At the same time, God was calling him back to Him. I did a Tarot reading and a voice told me not to do it again. I thought it must be God, so I decided to burn the Tarot deck. When I burnt the deck in the back yard, I left the Devil card for the last and the flames shot up in the air almost as high as me. I was stunned – as it was an obvious moment of anger from the Spiritual realm. The next was a very stark dream where I was in front of the throne of God and Satan was behind me. I could not see the Father but I heard his voice. He spoke with authority and said that all humans have demonic forces within them (this falls in line with the fall of man as a result of sin). Because I analysed my dreams and placed such importance on them, God continued to use this as a way of capturing my attention. Jesus appeared to me in 3 dreams, made of gold, stone and wood; he beckoned me in the dreams to reach out to Him. There was a battle going on though and Satan did not want to let go. He flattered my ego to keep me hooked and I met more people who said they were awed at my power and gifts. However, the love that I was beginning to be aware of and the obvious state of my sin was getting stronger. I was invited to attend a Charismatic Christian church service and went. The atmosphere was electrifying, the people warm and welcoming, but mostly the huge call of God on my heart and the thick presence of the Holy Spirit. Three months later I responded to an altar call to give my life to the Lord Jesus. That was a powerful moment, because although I still did not understand many things about the Christian faith, I knew that Jesus was who He claimed to be and I knew that I loved Him and wanted to do whatever needed to be done to give my life to Him. Then my husband re-dedicated his life to Jesus and was set free from drugs, alcohol and depression.
I gave my heart to Jesus because of His LOVE, Satan wins people through their egos, manipulation and all other areas of the flesh. God has dealt with me since then sometimes gently and other times confrontationally, but he has never left me and continues to take me to great places with Him. All my sins and everything that I did wrong has been washed clean away. I have been much forgiven and I love my Lord Jesus much. Gone is the desire for mystical experiences, psychic activity and controlling people and events through witchcraft. Nothing can come close to the love I receive from Jesus all the time and the desire to serve Him.
My prayer is that the precious people who are bound by Satan in occultist practices would see the truth, and if Jesus is or has been knocking on the doors of your heart that you would let him in as you are. For that is what God wants; for us to come to Him as we are…
God bless you all.
Anita
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