By Dale P. Kruse
(Taken From Chapter 13 of the Book: The Nature of Spiritual Warfare)
In order to deliver someone from demon possession and keep them free, you must do the following seven steps:
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First, Fast and pray while waiting before the Lord for His revelation and instruction.
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Second, eat protein and build up your strength.
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Third, make sure the person has truly come to saving faith in Jesus.
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Fourth, identify and write down all doorways to demon possession or oppression.
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Fifth, have them confess and repent of these doorways.
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Sixth, bind and command the related unclean spirits to leave in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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Seventh, explain to them what they must do to stay clean and delivered.
Those who have followed these steps have had 100% results in deliverance without exception.
FIRST, FAST & PRAY
Before prayer for deliverance is carried out, it is good to first fast and wait before the Lord while reading His word, seeking His Holy Spirit wisdom and grace, strength and power for each individual situation you involve yourself in for demonic deliverance until the Lord has made plain His will for you in whether deliverance is what is needed or not and how He wants you to proceed.
SECOND, EAT PROTEIN
AND BUILD UP YOUR STRENGTH
Once you have received the Lord’s answers and assurance of victory, before you go into deliverance, take a couple of days to eat extra protein and build up your strength. You are now ready to assist the Lord in delivering your brother or sister from demonic possession.
THIRD, MAKE SURE THEY HAVE
RECEIVED JESUS AS SAVIOR & LORD
In order for a person to be delivered from possession of an unclean spirit, first the person needs to in Jesus’ name denounce Satan, surrender to and confess Jesus as the only Lord and then receive Jesus into their heart as Savior from their sins and as Lord of their life. Have them pray like this:
In the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Satan I renounce and confess Jesus Christ of Nazareth as the only Lord and God.
Jesus, I confess to You that I am a sinner and repent of my known sins. I ask You now to come into my heart as Savior from my sins and as Lord of my life. Heavenly Father, thank You for forgiving my sins through Your Son’s death and shed blood on the cross and that I now have eternal life. Now take control of my life, and through Your Holy Spirit lead me into your will and plan for my life; in Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth’s name, amen.
If the person is unable to do this because they are being hindered by the unclean spirits, then in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth bind the unclean spirits and command them to release the person’s will and to stop hindering the person from receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. Then if the person is willing, have them do what I just said above. This is the first step to deliverance.
Once the person has confessed and received Jesus as Savior and Lord, They now have the power of the Holy Spirit in them to deliver themselves from demon possession (Acts 10:43-44, Eph 1:13-14).
FOURTH, IDENTIFY ALL KNOWN DOORWAYS
TO DEMON POSSESSION OR OPPRESSION
The next step to deliverance is to identify the doorways which led to demon infestation. There are primarily 3 doorways which lead to demon infestation:
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Inheritance
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Sexual sins
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Any involvement in the occult
What is a doorway? The Bible states that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The term doorway refers to any sin which defiles our temple. Through that doorway of sin demons can enter and cause problems in our lives. The person needs to determine what sins they committed in which of these areas. The first category is not their sins, but the sins of their ancestors. God says in His word:
Exodus 34:6-7 "Then Yehovah passed by in front of him [Moses] and proclaimed, Yehovah, Yehovah God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations." (See also Num 14:18, Deut 5:9)
If the person has received demons through inheritance because of there parents involvement in the occult or the other areas above and they are aware of it, then what they need to do is confess and repent of the sins of their ancestors, thank Jesus for His forgiveness according to 1 John 1:9 and then ask Jesus to cleanse them of the sin of their fathers.
If they have become infested through sexual sin, meaning intercourse outside the bounds of marriage or through any other kind of sexual deviation outside of marriage, they need to write down every contact they had and confess it to God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, Nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Ephesians 5:5-6 "For this you know with certainty, that no fornicator or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience."
Colossians 3:5-6 "Therefore put to death your members that are on earth to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil lust, and covetousness which is idolatry. For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come."
They need to do the same with any involvement with the occult: write down on a piece of paper each individual involvement such as Ouija Boards, séances, seeking out Psychics or Fortune Tellers, practicing Witchcraft, etcetera. The sole purpose of the occult is to seek out and communicate with demons. Therefore, any activity which led them to seek communication with demons needs to be confessed. These are the sins which led to possession.
FIFTH, CONFESS AND REPENT
OF ALL KNOWN DOORWAYS
They next need to confess and repent of each of these doorways and any other sins they are aware of in their lives. They must be brutal with themselves, they need to confess and repent of each of these sins individually to Jesus and then thank Him for His forgiveness according to 1 John 1:9 and then ask Jesus to cleanse them of that sin. They need also to in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth denounce Satan in each of these activities. Pray like this:
In the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Satan, I denounce you and the occult and this activity.
Until the person confesses and repents of each specific sin of involvement in any of the three areas mentioned and any other known sins, attempts of deliverance will be futile. The Bible teaches:
Proverbs 28:13 "He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion."
Proverbs 22:8 "He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, and the rod of his fury will perish."
Isaiah 59:1-2 "Behold, Yehovah’s hand is not so short that it cannot save; neither is His-ear so dull that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear."
The only basis for deliverance is true repentance and a sincere desire on the person's part to want to be delivered and willingness to carry out whatever is necessary to be delivered. Repentance according to John the Baptist in Matthew 3:1-12 and Luke 3:1-14 means to confess our sins to God, make right our wrongs confessed and then to bring forth fruit, continued changed behavior in keeping with repentance. Once the sins have been confessed to God and repented of and God’s forgiveness is received by faith through Jesus’ death and shed blood on the cross, the demons will then have no alternative but to obey and leave when the person in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth commands them to leave.
SIXTH, BIND AND COMMAND THE
RELATED UNCLEAN SPIRITS TO LEAVE
Once each sin is confessed and repented of and Jesus forgiveness is received by faith through His death and shed blood on the cross, this removes any legal ground the demons have to stay. The person can then by faith in Jesus' name bind the unclean spirits and command them to leave forever and they will leave instantly. You command all the demons at once to come out related to the sin that let them in.
In the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I bind all unclean spirits related to this sin and command you to come out and be gone forever!
Deliverance does not require knowing the demons name or anything about the demon or demons. This is not the key to deliverance and in no way helps the process of deliverance. The Bible is very clear about our not communicating with unclean spirits. We are not to communicate with them except to in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to bind them and command them to leave after the conditions the Bible lays out are met as explained above. By unclean spirits I mean demons. Demons are fallen angels, part of Satan’s unseen kingdom. We are not to seek them out or communicate with them. When you talk to a demon, you in essence make the person possessed a medium and you are disobeying the Bible's clear command to not communicate with demons. Because this is forbidden in Scripture, doing so will hinder you from being able to deliver the person possessed. Here are passages which clearly teach this:
Leviticus 19:31 "Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am Yehovah-your-Elohim."
Leviticus 20:6 "As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people."
Leviticus 20:27 "Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Deuteronomy 18:10-13 "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yehovah; and because of these abominations Yehovah your-Elohim will drive them out before you. You shall be blameless before Yehovah your-Elohim."
Isaiah 8:19-20 "And when they say to you, ‘Consult the mediums and the spiritists who whisper and mutter,’ should not a people consult their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn."
The only exception to this is when dealing with people who have been involved in the occult who have worked with familiar spirits. In this case these familiar spirits must be rebuked and bound in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and commanded to leave by name. These people will already know the names of these familiar spirits. If they say they do not know, they are lying. Understand however this does not mean this requires you to have the demon speak or for the demon to manifest itself in order for the person to be delivered from the demon. They simply must in the name and the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth bind it and then by name command it to come out and be gone forever. The more the person controls the demons inside them, the quicker will be their deliverance.
James 4:7 "Submit therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you."
Acts 5:32 "And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him."
Luke 10:19 "Behold, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy and to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and nothing shall injure you."
Mark 16:17 "And these signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues."
Once the person commands them to leave, the Holy Spirit will let you know that they have left. They must then by faith accept that they are gone. This means they must accept it on the basis of God’s promises in His word: the BIBLE! as stated above, not on how they may feel. Feelings are an organ of our fallen soul which Satan has access to and can manipulate. Therefore, feelings must be ignored, not determined as a basis for deliverance. Our basis for deliverance is the promises of God’s Word, the BIBLE!, alone, which brings up another basis for deliverance: You must believe the BIBLE is God's Word and believe it LITERALLY! Otherwise, how can you have faith in the promises of God in the BIBLE for deliverance? Jesus said in John 5:46-47, "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote of Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" Jesus said if you don't take Moses literally, you won't take his words literally either. Jesus made it plain that if we are to have faith in any truth in the BIBLE you must take all truths taught in the BIBLE literally. Our faith and power against Satan in Jesus' name is based on our having faith in the literalness of God's Word: the BIBLE! Note what the Bible says about God's promises in His Word: the BIBLE!
Joshua 21:45 "Not one of the good promises which Yehovah had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass."
Numbers 23:19 "Elohim is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent; has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?"
1 Samuel 15:29 "And also The-Glory-of-Israel will not lie or change his mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind."
Psalm 89:34 "My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips."
Psalm 119:89 "Your word is settled in Heaven forever, Yehovah."
Psalm 138:2 "You have magnified Your Word according to all Your name."
Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our-Elohim stands forever."
Malachi 3:6 "For I, Yehovah, do not change."
Matthew 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away."
Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, and forever."
Hebrews 6:18 "It is impossible for God to lie."
Titus 1:2 "In the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long ages ago."
Hebrews 11:6 "And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him."
2 Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith, not by appearance."
How we know the BIBLE is absolutely true and reliable:
John 2:22 "When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken."
If the person has gone through the six steps laid out above but the person is truly not yet delivered, it means there are sins they have not yet confessed. The person must ruthlessly confess and repent of all known sins, otherwise commanding the unclean spirits to leave in Jesus' name will not work. If they don’t know what they need to confess due to lack of memory, then have them pray and ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom to bring back to their memory specific sins they have not yet confessed and repented of according to God’s promise in James 1:5,
"But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." (James 1:5)
Whatever the Lord shows them, have them go through the steps above and then accept by faith it is done.
SEVENTH, WHAT THEY MUST DO
TO STAY DELIVERED & CLEAN
Once delivered, in order for the person to stay clean they must absolutely ruthlessly disassociate themselves from whatever led to there possession in the first place. They must cleanse their home of all familiar objects related. By familiar objects, I mean that which is associated with their involvement with the occult, all porno magazines, films, pictures, occult objects, ancestral objects related to the occult, etcetera. These also will hinder the person from being delivered and staying delivered. Passages in the Bible which talk about removing familiar objects are the following:
Deuteronomy 7:25-26 The graven images of their els [gods] you are to burn with fire; you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to Yehovah your Elohim. And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.
Exodus 32:19-20 And it came about, as soon as Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water, and made the sons of Israel drink it.
1 Corinthians 10:19-20 "What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons."
Acts 19:17-19 "And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, who lived in Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all and the name of the Lord-Jesus was being magnified. Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of all, and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver."
In order for the person to to stay clean, if you helped them to get there, you will need to stay with them in follow up for at least six months until they are strong and stable enough to stay clean themselves. Ideally, you should have them live with you. This is because it takes time for this person to get to the place of being strong enough in themselves to fight off Satanic forces which will try to come back and re-establish their home there.
Matthew 12:43-45 "Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it. Then it said, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’; and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes, and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first."
If you want to be in the deliverance ministry, you will then need to be committed to stick with this person for as long as it takes to help them become stable and be able to stand on their own two feet and stay clean of demons. You can't do this unless you are willing to take them into your own home where you can be with them day and night for as long as it takes.
John 21:15-17 "So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ‘Simon, son of John, do you-love [agape, focus of effection love] Me more than these?’ He said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord; You know that I-love [phileo, loving someone as a Friend or brother] You.’ He said to him, ‘Tend My lambs.’ He said to him again a second time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love [agape] Me?’ He said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord; You know that I love [phileo] You.’ He said to him, ‘Shepherd My sheep.’ He said to him the third time, ‘Simon, son of John, do you love [phileo] Me?’ Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, ‘Do you love [phileo] Me?’ And he said to Him, ‘Lord, You know all things; You know that I love [phileo] You.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Tend My sheep.’"
To stay clean they will have to regain control over their thought life. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 10:5 "We are subverting computations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." Demon infestation is the result of a passive mind, a person giving over their thought life to Satan. The spiritual battle is in the mind. It is in the mind a person decides what he will or will not focus on. What he focuses or does not focus on is what will determine who he or she is and how much control Satan will have over them. Therefore gaining control over their thought life is the first step to staying delivered.
How do they do this? First, by studying and meditating upon God’s word. Paul wrote in Philippians 4:8-9,
"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind, dwell on these things. The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you."
What is true, pure and excellent? Joshua wrote in Joshua 1:8,
"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success."
David wrote in Psalm 119:11 "I have hidden Your word in my heart, that I might not sin against You." Other Bible passages teach us about God’s word:
Psalm 12:6 "The words of Yehovah are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times."
Proverbs 16:20 "He who gives attention to the word shall find good, and blessed is he who trusts in Yehovah."
Proverbs 22:17-21 "Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge; For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, that they may be ready on your lips. So that your trust may be in Yehovah, I have taught you today, even you. Have I not written to you excellent things of counsels and knowledge, To make you know the certainty of the words of truth that you may correctly answer to him who sent you?"
Psalm 19:7-11 "The law of Yehovah is perfect, restoring the soul; the testimony of Yehovah is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of Yehovah are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Yehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yehovah is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of Yehovah are true; they are righteous altogether. They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them Your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward."
John 17:17 "Sanctify them in the truth, Your word is truth."
Ephesians 6:17 "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God"
Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is spiritually-alive and energetically-affective and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the conscious-reasonings and intentions of the heart."
The first step to their gaining control over a passive mind is to study, memorize and meditate on God’s word. Chapter 2-4 also talk about how to gain control over a passive mind and the flesh and how to keep the flesh from sinning.
Second, they need to be in the fellowship of believers. A Christian cannot live the Christian life in his own strength. He or she needs the support of other believers. Jesus commands in His word in Hebrews 10:24-25,
"And let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more, as you see the day drawing near."
Hebrews 12:12-13 states "Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed."
Third, you need to instruct them about the importance of spending a daily quiet time with Jesus in His word to submit themselves to Him and His will and plan for their lives, and to draw upon His Holy Spirit grace, strength and power to carry out His will. James wrote in James 4:7 "Submit therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you." Jesus said in Matthew 26:41 "Keep watching and praying, that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." 1 Chronicles 16:11 & Psalm 105:4 state "Seek Yehovah and His strength; seek His face continually." Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might." Again a Christian cannot live the Christian life alone in His own strength. He needs the strength and support of other Christians, and the strength and power of the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life. Proverbs 3:6 states "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." Jesus promises us that when we submit ourselves to Him and acknowledge Him in all our ways, in our day, that He will give us the power of the Holy Spirit to keep our ways straight in Him.
Fourth, you will need to teach them the importance of seeking God's will in their use of time and then for them to obey the Lord in their use of time. In Chapter 4 we shared that the flesh never did obey God's laws and it never will (Rom 8:6-8, Rom 7:14). If this is true, how then does one keep their flesh from sinning? How does a person who has been delivered out of the occult and cleansed of demons stay out of the occult and cleansed of demons? Paul gives us the answer in Galatians 5:16. Paul wrote "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh." How does one know when they are walking in the Spirit and when they are not? We are walking in the Holy Spirit when we are using our time according to God's will (Rom 13:14, Eph 5:15-17). When we are occupied in our use of time from the time we get up until we go to bed with Jesus’ will, there is no opportunity for the flesh to carry out its desires and lusts. Paul tells us in Romans 7:14 that the flesh is in bondage to sin. What this means is that when the flesh is idle, when given opportunity through being idle, the flesh will gravitate to its lusts and it will sin. This is why in Romans 13:14 Paul doesn't say get rid of the lusts of your flesh because on this side of heaven that is impossible. Instead, what Paul says to do is to not give the flesh an opportunity to carry out its lusts. How do we do that? by keeping the flesh so occupied it doesn't have the opportunity to focus on or pursue its lusts. Therefore, the way you teach the person how to have victory over their sinful lusts and desires is by instructing them to daily seek God's will in their use of time and then encouraging them of the importance of their using their time as God has instructed them to. This is the only way they will be able to keep from slipping back into the sins of their flesh which is by putting "on the Lord Jesus Christ. . ." and making "no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts." You do this by instructing them to fill their time from the time they get up until they go to bed with God's will.
See The Nature of Spiritual Warfare, Victory Through Time Management, and The Nature of the Flesh which explains this principle in greater detail and how to put it into practice.
See also the book titled Jesus Is The Answer To Your Needs. This book explains to a believer how to relate to Jesus in prayer for the answer to their needs, how to know what is truly Jesus’ voice, how to know what is His will and plan for their lives and how to succeed in that plan. The book can be purchased through this website.
For more information on spiritual warfare, see the following articles on this website:
1. How Satan Gains Control of the Mind
2. How to Have Victory Over a Passive Mind How To Have Victory Over Sexual Sins
Sincerely in Jesus,
Dale P. Kruse
Pastor-Evangelist
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C.S. Lewis once said: “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” and Albert Einstein said:“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism”
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The personal testimony of Clarence F. Sargent.....
C.S. Lewis once said: “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” and Albert Einstein said:“What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism”
My name is Clarence; I’m a Minister of the Gospel of the true and living God. My life was changed in Aug of the year 1979 when I accepted Jesus into my heart. I now ask you to sit back and listen to what I have to say, don’t judge what I’m saying before I finish. I have no illusions that I will change your mind about what God can and will do for your life; BUT I do know for a fact that IF you will believe what I’m telling you today that your life will never be the same. I was raised in a small town called Taunton Mass after having moved from Ellsworth Maine where I was born where to this day, I do not know who my real mother and father were but because I know of the Sovereignty of God and his personal care of my life, I can go on with my life knowing his plans have my best interest at heart. In his plan, I was adopted at birth by a very loving couple who was childless and really wanted me, my mother Mary a back-slidden Baptist and my Father Alexander Sargent an agnostic when it came to all things spiritual. But realize that I only found out about my adoption at 29 years old; long after both my mom and my dad had died and I had already become a Christian, I received a letter from the social security administration telling me of a Sister who wished to get in touch with me. My Sister Shirley told me that my real mom ( A full blooded native American Indian) had wanted an abortion because she could not care for me and my siblings (this is the ultimate rejection of a child before they have time to ever see the world.)
She was actually at the doors of the clinic when some pro-life people talked her into adoption instead of murdering me, thank God for those who will stand up and stand out in this world for something good; if they had not, I would be among the millions a dead babies in a dumpster somewhere.
I think you know where I stand on abortion as a result of this personal experience?
I was rasied in a lower middle class family and not used to the so-called "good things in life" as far as wealth is concerned but I was loved and that’s what really mattered anyway.
BUT all that was soon to change because of a stupid decision of mine. I began to practice the occult in my teen years; but it all started one afternoon when I was 6 years old sitting in front of the “boob tube” watching an innocent television show called “Bewitched” from the moment that show aired I was hooked on the concept at least, of witchcraft; very innocently at first but nevertheless hooked. The Craft appealed to me on so many levels both physically and spiritually. I was already an introvert with very few friends and low self esteem in school, other than the few "out-casts" smoking dope in the parking lot of my school. And being an only child caused me to develop many imaginary friends. Now I believe this is Healthy, to a point, but as I grew up these imaginary friends transformed to drive my interest in the Occult and Drugs. They were demonic in nature and not the "imaginary friends" I thought they were. My interest was peaked and driven by these "familiar spirits" while watching that show and I went headlong into a downward spiral from there. But EVEN AS a child I knew that " Hollywood Witch-craft " was not the real thing; which is the reason I desired to know the real practices and THEREIN lies the true danger of parents allowing their children to view and read things WITHOUT PROPER SUPERVISION; the television is NOT a babysitter. Please understand, that it’s alright for an older child to be curious about these things. Just as long as YOU the Christian parent are there to guide them away from the "evil nature" of the content. Explaining to them why God hates those things in a reasonable manner not to frighten but inform. Let's face it;it’s the great special effects that are the lure into the trap. But that will not stand before a holy God at the judgment seat as your excuse why your family fell victim to the Crafts lies.
I dedicated myself without any direction from adults, to find out about this ancient earth religion. As I began studying and looking for deeper truths in the world of magic and sorcery I was witness both to its "beauty of focus" and its pure "savagery of intent".
It wasn’t until after my adopted Mom died when I was only 17 that I was free to do as I pleased....and boy did I do as I pleased!
I jumped headlong into drugs, Drinking, and Partying while trying to keep up a c+ to b average in high school. Failing many courses because a lack of focus on them and because many of my teachers just wanted me out of their classes passing me through without the proper training. I became a Wiccan but only as a private practitioner taking a course in the art of magic by Gavin and Yvonne Frost.
The Wiccan fascination I had did not last very long as I was hungry for a darker side; the more power and knowledge of the occult the better. I began to delve deeper and deeper into the so-called "Deep things of Occult Knowledge“. I found myself reading Anton LaVeys "Satanic Bible" just to rebel against the God who I felt “TOOK MY MOM FROM ME”.
I began mixing in Aleister Crowley's works on magic with the Wiccan practices. I would study these books and many others on my lunch and library breaks. I found that the the "Man, Myth, and Magic" encyclopedia series was a great source of knowledge and read from it every day. But Just about anything dealing with works on Witchcraft I would give place to, "Drawing down the Moon" was a favorite of mine.
The occult became an obsession! A lifestyle that I was hooked on just like my drug use, it became a “Mind-altering“ experience. I learned still more from friends and people I didn't know closely. Many of them were Questionable at best but they knew what I wanted to know, how to tell fortunes and use Tarot cards and playing cards to make money on the side.
I began to cast spells on others, while I worshiped the horned god and the goddess. I mixed all this knowledge together to form my own form of the Craft, never being a conformist I made it my own and would put it all in my journal called a "Witches Book of Shadows".
The Book of Shadows is a Witch's greatest tool. It provides a place for all personal Craft secrets, your spell work, rituals, family traditions if you have any, almost anything a Witch can think or act on is contained in this book.
As I figured out what my personal practices were I would write them in this journal.
This was my personal "bible" to turn to anytime I needed help with a spell or spiritual concept, its ancient name is called a "Grimoire".
I soon found out that when I would cast spells of evil intent on those I hated or disliked it began to work and I would also work "good magic" on those I liked that worked also. Everything seemed to be going my way. But the problems I was going through at this time in life had nothing to do with what happened to me in the daytime hours when I worshiped other gods and goddesses. It wasn't even my study time in the craft when I gained deeper knowledge and power as a black witch. My real problems began at night time, it was an issue of fear and discontent both in my dreams and waking hours. I was in a constant deeply seated fear at the height of my power as a witch. And no matter what anyone tells you about the Craft; good or bad it will produce the same results that any lifestyle outside of God’s grace produces, and that is DEATH IN YOUR LIFE.
Deut. 7:26 says:
“Do not bring a detestable thing into your house or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. Utterly abhor and detest it, for it is set apart for destruction.”
Lev. 20:27; 19:26 the second part of the verse says:
“A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist (wizard KJV) among you must be put to death. You are to stone them; their blood will be on their own heads. Do not practice divination or sorcery.”
Lev. 20:6 says: “I will set my face against the person who turns to mediums and spiritists (wizards KJV) to prostitute himself by following them, and I will cut him off from his people.”
Is. 47:13-14 says clearly:
“ Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you. Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot even save themselves from the power of the flame. “
I am a Christian now and I’m proud of it, but I’m NOT RELIGIOUS and will not fit willingly into any denominational mold.
I mean let’s be real here-Religion has killed and maimed it’s share of truth at the alter of good intention JUST as atheism has murdered it’s share FREE-THOUGHT.
Let’s face real facts here for once shall we? BOTH RELIGION AND HUMANISM have dropped the ball as far as getting it right is concerned, so let’s not blow smokescreens up each others HINDQUARTERS about what’s true and what’s not.
A personal relationship is what God requires, he’s never been interested in “Church-ianity” or any form of man-made silliness.
It’s about YOU and God, and not about YOU FITTING INTO A MOLD of like minded minds. I am always amazed when those who hate God say “I cannot be a part of a faith that attacks science and reality.” as if science were a humanistic invention, if you believe that you must have failed in history. Science has many Christian roots. Most of the early scientists were Christians such as Copernicus, Galileo, Pascal, Isaac Newton, Johannes Keppler, Robert Boyle, Louis Pasteur, Jean Henri Fabre, Michael Faraday, and John Ambrose Fleming.
These great scientists operated within a Christian framework.
An interesting fact is that the vast majority of all scientific development has come out of western civilization, what are the odds of that happening? And IT had Christianity as its basis to top that off.
The idea is that the “laws of nature” came from Christianity, NOT HUMANISM; not to mention that the concepts of subduing nature and being stewards of nature are right from the first book of the Bible--Genesis and not in any way the invention of witches.
THAT IS WHY I view God as a rational and trustworthy person, which implies automatically that His creation is rational and orderly and thus can be examined FOR EVIDENCE OF HIS FINGERPRINTS.
Nature in the Christian view (as compared to our non-Christian worldviews such as witchcraft) is that nature is no longer an object of fear and worship, because let‘s face it…we only “worship in ignorance” what we “Fear in ignorance”. God on the other hand only DEMANDS KNOWLEDGEABLE WORSHIP. It is “False Religion” that MYSTIFIES GOD to the point that you can’t relate to him BUT must “BLINDLY FOLLOW PRECEPTS AND RULES THAT MAKE NO SENSE” to a freethinking mind. We need to do a self-check, to make sure we get rid of all of our idols, good luck charms, crosses, medallions, and demonic symbols. We must repent fully of trusting in fate, destiny, and luck: and put our whole trust in the Living Christ, follow Him wholeheartedly without exception to our fears from the past.
Trusting in fate or luck is clearly a dependence upon evil spirits which I knew as “familiars.”
Now getting back to my testimony, as I alluded to earlier God’s plan for my life was set long before I was ever born and no matter what bad decisions I was making; up to this point, in fact I was on the very path to running into his power; that I had been running from, because he had the nerve to put two Christians into my life that could not be SCARED OR MOVED by my appearance or actions.
REMEMBER I was a full out witch in both dress and lifestyle, they kept coming anyway, day after day and that impressed me. They were always inviting me to go to their church and NEVER GIVE UP ON ME!
And so, one fateful Wednesday night Bible Study I sat at the BACK of this little Church of God in Cheyenne Wyoming. I came into the sanctuary half Drunk and half High, not wanting to be there at all.
Much of the service I cannot recall BUT I do remember hearing the statement that God “did not hate me for what I'd done, no matter how bad but that HIS LAWS REQUIRED HIS JUDGMENT on my soul”
God’s LOVE reached down and touched this Witch and suffered him NOT to live a life without hope, reviving me into NEW LIFE with Christ!
I witnessed a literal shaft of Light shine down into my darkened mind and for the first time in over 8 years I could think for myself without the "VOICES OF DEMONS" interfering with my thoughts. That evening the "night in my soul" became "DAYTIME" for me and now I can proudly say I am a new creation. All the OLD dark things "HAVE PASSED AWAY" as useless relics of the past and Jesus is my Lord and Savior!
Of course there are those who will think "Well, that's you, you were "special to God" and he loved you then, more than me now. I've done too many "sick and unforgivable" things for God to love me!" THAT IS A LIE!
God loves ALL MANKIND EQUALLY AND WITHOUT BEING PARTIAL TO ANY PERSON.
It is Satan, the MASTER of the HALF-TRUTH that tells us these things.
It is only because HE LOST IT ALL TO HIS OWN PRIDE that he wants YOU to suffer for his stupidity by following his path.
Don't let him lie to you, God thinks as much of you as he does of his own son. Just give him your heart and he'll do the rest!
A spiritual adventure of another witch:
"My walk in darkness began when I was about three. I was sexually abused by my father. Unable to cope with the trauma, I developed alternate personalities to carry out the everyday demands of life. I retreated from life as much as I could, and had no real friends until Eighth grade.
Growing up in a hostile, abusive environment, I became addicted to seconals as a teenager, and I experimented with a great many drugs. My preference was always LSD. I dated and married abusive men. There was much violence in my life, a lot of death, a lot of horror. I never knew peace. Because my father read the Bible a lot, and shouted scriptures, I was confused about Jesus.
I became fascinated by the occult. I believed that my will, if strong and directed properly, could change anything. This is one of the foundations of witchcraft, which I started to embrace. I found the study appealing at the time, though difficult.
I began to be haunted in my dreams by a woman dancing in a way I had never seen before. It was breathtakingly beautiful. Supposing she must be another witch who wanted to teach me something, I began looking for her.
I was getting sick. Physically, the doctors could find nothing wrong. I was getting thinner, and increasingly, the spirits I thought I controlled were beginning to control me - taking over the body, while I was somewhere on the ceiling watching the horror they inflicted.
I called my best friend, who knew Jesus. She said, 'The Lord will bring a sword between us if you don't come out of witchcraft.' She had never known I was involved in witchcraft. I had kept her from knowing my beliefs. Then she asked me to visit a church where she knew they weren't afraid to help abused women. She asked me to promise to just sit through one service. I promised. She knew I would do all I could to keep my word.
I'm glad of that promise, because it was the only thing that kept me in my seat. I had been in and out of all kinds of churches, but none of them affected me because they were spiritually dead. The presence of the Lord was not there. But it was very different in this place! I was ill before I reached the door. Nauseous, and in pain - tearing pain - I rode an emotional rollercoaster. It was like some bad drug having an alien affect on me. Suddenly, I wanted to hurt people in the church. I wanted to hit them and tear the skin off their faces. I knew I had no personal problem with these people, to cause all these feelings to erupt. Then, when the haze of pain began to clear, who should I see dancing before the altar worshipping the Lord but the woman in my dreams!
Now, beside the promise, I had another reason to fight to stay. I was beginning to realize that there must really and truly be a God, a supreme God, just like all the Bible stories. That woman in my dreams was here. I gripped the chair in front of me until my knuckles turned white, and I stayed.
The pastor was such a gifted speaker, that even the pain and nausea began to fade as I concentrated on what he was saying. He was talking about Jesus but in a real way - one that I could relate to in everyday life. He had my attention.
As he was beginning to draw to a close, he stopped, as though he could hear something that we couldn't. Then he said, 'There is someone here whose only wish is to die, because she is so tired. Rae? Rachel? Rachel, will you come to me?'
In one overwhelming second, I suddenly knew that this God loved me, called me by name, and wanted to know me. Without hesitation I stood up. I had tried committing suicide several times in my life. I was so tired; all I had really wanted was to die. But God knew this. He had to have told this man, who was a stranger to me and yet had called me by name. I had to get to the front of the church! But the spirits took over and the battle was on. They recognized the pastor, and told him in the ugliest voice ever to come from my body, 'I know you!'
The pastor, must have somehow known by the Holy Spirit about these spirits. 'You will stop tearing the child,' he told them.
The pain stopped, but I began slithering like a snake. Then pray-ers in the church surrounded me. I couldn't breathe. I discovered later that that is an important sign. When evil spirits quit trying to intimidate, and show off by making the person unable to breathe, they are about to exit the body.
When I accepted Jesus, I immediately saw a glorious Being that I could not lift my unworthy face to look at. But the light . . . ! I can't describe it! There was a sword in his hands. It was covered in leaping flames. 'Take my sword,' he told me.
When I reached up for it I came into his world - Christ's realm. I was whole, and crying a river of tears - me who before would never allow myself to cry. There was healing in those tears.
I was also aware of the fear that the demons were in in those final moments. The Bible really is true: Every knee shall bow before Jesus. He is indeed Lord of Lords, King of Kings, and the Savior of our soul. There is no life and no peace without Jesus.
This is my birth experience into the Kingdom of the Living God. As 2 Timothy 1:7 says:
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline."
Fear was the first spirit to enter me, but one of the first things I learned is that God is love."
I was a sold-out, goddess-worshipping witch!
. . .by William Schnoebelen
"I was a witch! I was a sold-out, goddess-worshipping witch!
When my "lady" and I chipped the ice out of a stream in the middle of Iowa wilderness to bathe and then celebrate the March equinox naked under the stars, we were totally consumed with zeal for the Wicca. We drove 170 miles one way every weekend to teach classes in Wicca in a car with a bumper sticker which said "In Goddess We Trust!"
We were kicked out of almost every apartment we tried to rent for wild circle dances and burning frankincense; and we had a firebomb thrown into one temple because we dared to publicly proclaim the goddess!
Wicca is one of the more seductive deceptions that Satan has come up with.(1) It is the contemporary name for the cult of so-called "white" witchcraft or Neo-Paganism, which has been enjoying a renaissance in the United States.
It claims to be a "back to nature" religion which worships the sky and earth, and thus has attracted many adherents among those sympathetic to environmental and ecology issues. Yet, for all its charm and nostalgic fantasy, Wicca drew me into the deepest quagmire of satanic evil imaginable.
Almost everything we did back then raised eyebrows. Regrettably, we see people today doing things openly that we had to do in secret. We see books that used to only be available in dark, musty occult bookstores now being sold openly in shopping malls. The meditation practices we taught in secret witchcraft circles are now being taught in "respectable" churches.
Naturally, we believed we were doing good. I was a sincere devotee of the chief deity of Wicca, the Great Mother. At first I believed the rites we did were for the benefit of humanity and the earth itself. I also believed what I was told: that there was a profound difference between the Wicca and those called satanists or devil-worshipers.
I thought that the whole meaning of Wicca was beneficial rituals to nature deities like Pan, Diana or Cernunnos; and of course rites of passage and initiation. I stood, blindfolded, naked and bound at the edge of the Circle "which is placed between the worlds." I heard the words of the Great Mother and felt the prick of the swordpoint challenging my courage. I was anointed as a "Priest of the Goddess" and learned her secret name. I gave my life to her service.
I truly believed that she was the One "who was with me from the beginning, and who was attained at the end of desire." I walked the earth and felt her a living, breathing thing; and I worshiped her as "Holy Mother Earth."
It took me sixteen years of ardent devotion to her and the Craft to find out that I was terribly wrong. I had to learn the hard way that my only hope for true spiritual fulfillment in life was Jesus Christ!
I finally learned in the most graphic fashion imaginable that the difference between witchcraft or Wicca and satanism is actually non-existent. To be sure, an anthropologist or sociologist of religion might find them different, but such distinctions mean little when you are gambling with the eternal fate of your own immortal soul.
The actual spiritual difference between Wicca and satanism might best be illustrated this way: Practicing Wicca is like having a hand-grenade blow up in your face, in terms of the spiritual impact. Practicing satanism is like having a neutron bomb detonate in your face. The difference is there and discernable, but it is still an utter disaster for you, either way.
In eternal perspective, the disaster of Wicca is altogether real and no less dangerous than that neutron bomb.
Why Should YOU Believe This Warning?
Before we discuss this subject, allow me to give my credentials. I was initiated into the Alexandrian Wicca on Imbolc, February 2, 1973 and made a High Priest and Magus is September of the same year. That summer my lady and I were also promoted to the High Priestly rank in the Druidic Craft of the Wise. We also helped establish a Church of All Worlds "nest" in Milwaukee and studied under Gavin and Yvonne Frost and their Church and School of Wicca.
Wicca has many "denominations" or traditions. Some are large and well-known, like the Alexandrian, Gardnerian, Druidic, Welsh Traditionalist, Gerogian, Dianic and Church of Wicca. Others are as small as a single coven or 13, or even a family tradition.
My wife and I established covens all over the Midwest; Dubuque and Davenport, Iowa; Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Chicago. Over the years, we advanced to higher levels of witchcraft. Up to our departure from the city of Milwaukee in 1984, we were presiding over one of the oldest and largest networks of covens in the Midwest.
About a year after becoming a High Priest (1974), I was told by our initiators that Wicca was not what it seemed. Although much of the extant literature written by witches (and Dr. Margaret Murray's work(2)) would lead one to believe that Wicca is a survival of the ancient pagan fertility cults, especially of Northern Europe and the British Isles; there is not a shred of real historical proof for any connection between Bronze Age cults and modern witchcraft.
I learned from our initiators that it seemed that Wicca is, in fact, a manufactured religion not much older than this century. There did not seem to be evidence for any Book of Shadows (a combined "bible" and ritual book for Wiccans) much older than the 1910's!
You see, Wicca is one of Satan's "nicer" creations, tailor-made for the last half of this century. Although it may have existed for perhaps a century at most, it "came out of the broom closet" in 1951, when the British laws against witchcraft were repealed.(3) It is nothing really new, but its packaging is subtly different, tailored to a world strangling on its own technology and dying for romance, idealism and meaning.
A Cult of Deception
You may say: "So you got sucked in too deep. So what? I've been a witch for years and never got into that satanic junk. It's just a Christian myth for real losers. As long as I stay where I am, I'm cool. I'm happy!" That may be so, but do you honestly want to belong to a cult that deals in deception?
Let's look at the word, "Wicca," as an example. The OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY reveals that the word does not mean "wise one." It means twisted, bent, or warped. Even Margot Adler admits that the word has its roots in the Indo-European roots "wic" or "weik" meaning "to bend or to turn." Of course, she tries to put the best possible face on it by saying that:
"According to this view, a Witch would be a woman ( or man) skilled in the art of shaping, bending and changing reality." (4)
Elsewhere, she asserts that:
"The lexicographical (dictionary) definitions of witch are rather confusing and bear little relation to the definitions given by Witches themselves."(5)
But this is playing games, the same sort of word games most cultists play to conceal the truth. By this standard, anyone, including Anton LaVey, could say they were a witch and be right.
Yet you should hear the howls of rage among the Neo-Pagan community when even Gavin and Yvonne Frost first claimed to be witches. They couldn't be witches, they were monotheists, fakes and gay-bashers! So all of a sudden there WAS an objective standard of what makes one a witch. Yet like many things in occultism, it vanishes like mist when you try and pin it down.
In my own personal development as a witch, and the development of almost all our colleagues, I found that after about five or six yeaars it was necessary to begin pursuing the study of the "Higher Wisdom" of Satan in order to keep growing. Magick is like a drug. You keep needing more in order to stay at a level at which you feel fulfilled. There is no end to it!
If you've stayed a Wiccan or "white" witch for a long time, it's only because you don't have enough of the Promethean itch to grow. OR it may be that you have many Christian friends or loved ones praying for you. Did you ever think of that?"
FootnotesIntroduction1. Wicca, pronounced "Wicha," contrary to popular practice, is the term most witches prefer to use for their faith. They pronounce it "Wikka" and frequently assert that it means "Wise One."2. Margaret Murray's books, THE WITCH CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE and THE GOD OF THE WITCHES, did much to popularize the concept that Wicca is a survival of ancient religions. In recent years, though, their scholarship has been seriously challenged.3. See Margot Adier's DRAWING DOWN THE MOON, Beacon Press, Boston, 1986 rev. ed., p.46.4. Adler.p.11.5. lbid.p.10.
* This chapter was used by permission from William Schnoebelen's book Wicca:Satan's Little White Lie". &nb sp;
Kimberly's Story - From Wicca to Christ
"When I read Candace's story I couldn't help but feel an eerie sence of familiarity. Much of what had happened to her happened to me, just not to the same harsh extent.
Growing up I had never been to church (beyond the occasional wedding) and my family never really spoke much of God or religion. We were a happy family and maybe that's why we never talked about God or questioned his existence. We never had anything bad happen to make us ask "why?". Then I became a teenager.
I don't know why I was attracted to the rebellious side of being a teen. I wasn't doing it on purpose, it's just what I really wanted to be like. My "crowd" wasn't a bad one, at least we didn't think so, but we got into trouble now and then. I started smoking, ciggerattes and marijuana,drinking and staying out all night and lying to my Mother. I was having sex at 13 and pregnancy scares at 14. I didn't care, I was having fun. Then it all went downhill.
I had broken up with my boyfriend of 5 years, and I was only 16. I started to do anything for any guy who would give me the time of day. Then I did get pregnant, and I thought maybe I had found love again, but it wasn't so. He never beat me but the verbal abuse I put up with threw me into a deep depresion. I tried so hard to be a good mother and house wife (even though we were not married) and nothing was ever good enough. He called me a slut and a whore. He refused to claim his daughter when he knew I was with no one else. He called me fat and lazy while I was pregnant. Sometimes I wished he would have beaten me. It probably would have hurt less. When I thought I could not take it anymore and was on the verge of suicide I happened upon something that would change my life.
I was watching an afternoon talk show one day. The subject was a new religion called Wicca. I heard them talk of thier love and worship of nature and all living creatures and the spiritual force of the earth and I was hooked. I went out and found everything I could on wicca. I trained and practiced and finally I proclaimed myself a bonafide witch. Wicca had opened up a whole new world for me. It gave me hope, it helped me with struggles, and it made me friends. It was a community where I belonged. For once I was happy. I found the courage to take my 3 year old daughter and leave her father, and it was the best choice I had ever made. I moved into my own apartment and I was in total bliss. No more complaining if something wasn't cleaned right or put away in the right place. I was finally on my own. But on your own can be a very lonely place.
I started to pray to my God and Goddess for someone to love me the way I needed to be loved. Someone that understood me. And it happened. He was perfect in every way and we really got along great. We saw each other for a couple of weeks and then we slept together and I never heard from him again. I found out a while later that he was a virgin and that he had only used me to "get it over with" so to speak. I was crushed. What self-esteem I had rebuilt was gone and I went wild. I started sneaking into bars and taking guys home I didn't even know for meaningless sex. Sometimes these guys were 30 or 40 years old and I was only 19 going on 20. I had gone from having had slept with nine people to twenty seven people in two months. I had given up all hope of ever finding someone to love. Then I met Jeff.
I met him while I was working at one of my twelve jobs that I had had in that year. I had never seen him before but I just couldn't get him out of my head. Well he kept coming back and it turned out that his ex-girlfriend was my co-worker and he had her ask me out. I said yes and we went to the only place I knew how to talk to guys at, the bar. We hit it off instantly and I could tell that he wasn't like other guys. At the end of the night he asked for my phone number but I knew as I handed it to him that he would never call. Much to my surprise the phone rang the next day and it was him asking me out on a second date. I twas the start of a long and beautiful relationship. But there was one problem. My beliefs were a conflict to his.
He was a strict Christian and I was a witch. He never said anything but I could tell it bothered him. So finally one night we sat down and talked about it. I explained to him that it was what I had chosen because I knew of no other choice. He would talk to me about God and the Bible and I had no idea of anything that he said. So he taught me. I resented it at first but then I started to see so many things falling in to place that I had given dumb luck and Wicca credit for. He explained to me that Christianity was not a religion, it was a relationship. He never got frustrated, even when I did and was patient.
Almost a year into our relationship I accepted Jesus Christ and became a Christian. I have never been happier. I realize now that my ultimate unhappiness came from not knowing where I was going. I know now. "
Kimberly S. Pa
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WHY NO ANSWERS FROM SKEPTICS?
Using Him is EASY following His word proves your manhood or womanhood!
Detailed exploration of our Christian Faith! And Islam by Ex-Muslim"s!
- ANSWERING THE SKEPTICS!!
- Bible Contradictions...EXPLAINED!
- Bible Skeptics and God Haters -By Rick Dack
- Biblical Trinity is NOT borrowed from the pagans!
- Birth and Death of an Atheist
- Christian vs Atheist DEBATE!
- EX-ATHEIST SITE!
- EXPLORING CHRISTIANITY!
- FAMOUS (In their minds) RELIGOUS SKEPTICS & ATHEISTS!
- FOXES BOOK OF MARTYRS ONLINE
- Is Christianity a Cult? Find out!
- Islam is "Repackaged Polytheism".
- ISLAM WATCH
- REASONABLE FAITH WEB-SITE!
- Science Proves the Bible
- The Resurrection in HARMONY!
- THE SKEPTICS DICTIONARY(KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN)
- What do we know about Jesus - from non-biblical sources?
- Where Belief Meets Reality!
THIS IS WHAT JESUS DID FOR YOU!
If this isn't LOVE what is?
Find out more about the HISTORICAL JESUS!
- Rebutting the Myths about Jesus! Myth #1
- The Real Jesus: Myth #2
- The Real Jesus: Myth #3 on the Virgin Birth!
- The Real Jesus: Myth #4 His Birth place!
- Contradictions in the Gospels? Myth # 5
- The Real Jesus: Myth #6 Miracles: Fact or Fiction?
- The Real Jesus: Myth #7 Being Raised from the Dead
- Was Jesus a REAL PERSON? Find out!
- The Resurrection..did it happen?
- The Jesus Institute.org
- Facts About Christ...for Every Student!
Deliverence FROM Darkness is possible!
- 101 Scientific Proofs the Bible is Fact!!!
- NO PROBLEM IS TO BIG FOR GOD! If you need help contact these people!
- EX-PAGAN for CHRIST!
- Exposing Satanism & Witchcrafts
- Salvation Tesamonies from U.S. &Canada
- The Bible & the Occult
- What the Bible says about addictions!
- Harvest Warriors- Rebecca Brown M.D.
The Bible stands TRUE no matter what!
EVER SINCE THE EARLY PROPHETS & KINGS MADE THE STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN THE WORD OF GOD: THE ENEMIES OF GOD HAVE "TWISTED" AND MISAPPLIED WHAT WAS SAID BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT BRING THEMSELVES TO OBEY THE MESSAGE PRESENTED TO THEM! BUT FOR 2,000 YEARS THE BIBLE HAS STOOD AS A TESTIMONY TO THE STRENGTH OF GOD AND HIS PEOPLE!
Sites to find FACTS about God!
So you like your N.I.V. so-called bible! TRY THIS!
Will the REAL word from God stand out!
- Gail Riplinger's Response to James White's Critque
- Bibles friendly to New Age Doctrine
- New Age Bible Versions, by Gail Riplinger
- Manuscript Support for the Bible's Reliability
- The Bible's Manuscript Evidence
- BIBLE VERSIONS, Which is the real Word of God?
- The Real Bible at Charles Finney.com
- What the other side says about K.J. Only!
- Which Bible verses did the NIV Delet?
- The New Testament As It Gained Acceptance by the Early Church
- The Book of the Shepherd of Hermes
Messianic Jewishness of the Church!
- The New-Testament in Hebrew!
- The Mystery of the Menorah Revealed!
- Sabbath Truth!!
- Scripture for the Whole House of Israel!
- Learn Biblical Hebrew here.
- The Early Jewish Writings.
- All the Writings of the Early Church.
- REMEMBERING THE HOLOCAUST FOREVER!
- Myth's & Facts about Israel
- Messianic Jewish online!
- Why should my church learn it's Jewish Roots?
- JUST FOR FUN: Comic Book Religion
- The Virtual Jewish History Tour
You can't SELL your Soul if its not yours to sell!
ALL CONTRACTS NULL & VOID IN JESUS CHRIST! Have you SOLD your soul to your present lifestyle? Do you think..:
"I can't change what is now, I've gone to far from what God wants!" DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT, SATAN CANNOT KEEP WHAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM! He has deceived you into believing that you could sell your soul to him, YOU CAN'T SELL WHAT IS NOT YOURS TO SELL- YOUR SOUL BELONGS TO GOD NOT YOU...IT WAS CREATED TO SERVE HIM NOT SATAN!
Links to free videos online! About Creation!
A Creationist's DARE YA! Go ahead TRY!
The Evidence on Video streaming!
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