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@blackapplechannel16481 year ago (edited)
To anybody who are watching this and thinking to commit suicide, I pray for you, you have the strength to hang on, maybe your life is full of difficulties, maybe your surrounding dissapointed you, but God loves you unconditionally, you made it to this point you can at least try to move forward, seek help, call the suicide care line, call the church line, call your family or friends, or make an appointment to psychiatrist, you are a strong creature, Sending virtual hugs and lot of love. God bless you
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@debbierennox9312 months ago (edited)
God bless you my Brother yes Jesus heals mental illness my strategy is each morning I cover my mind in the precious blood of Jesus I was. Diagnosed with complex post traumatic stress disorder at 50 year old. Satan has tried to destroy me all my life . When we truly surrender to Jesus he will heal us each morning I cover my Mind in the precious blood of Jesus thank you my precious brother in Christ for sharing your testimony may you be Holy Spirit lead and used to help others to Come to have a personal relationship with our mighty saviour Jesus
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@franklollo88441 year ago
For anyone here who is deep in this and needs something, I just want to say this real quick. I’ve had OCD for 2 years and have gone through what this man has talked about. I read the Bible and prayed throughout the pain but it wasn’t until I really encountered the Holy Spirit and got relational with God until I started seeing things change. Similarly to what Will talks about, God could take away our OCD in a snap, but if he did that, we wouldn’t know how to handle ourselves, because we’re so used to going through these motions. God wants to teach us to work through it so we know how to handle and attack the situation. Just remember that today, thanks :).
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@jimmacdonald22142 years ago
I have been mentally I'll since I was 15. Lately my sanity has been restored and I am talking more sensible. I accepted jesus into my heart recently. It's not that He left me. I strayed away from Him even though he was not that far away. I attest that a friend witnessed to me. These days I am elated by the fact that I am building myself back up and reading down strongholds. Amen!
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@mayeecellona72402 years ago
There was this time when I was asking God why there is Depression as I really want to help a lot of friends. Then I opened my bible and saw these words in Ecclesiastes 12:1 - Be mindful of your Creator when you are young, before the time of sorrow comes when you have to say, "This gives me no pleasure". With this verse I realized that it's really important to have an intimate relationship with God. SEEK HIM and ask for joy and peace, as these things are graces from God - things that cannot be created on our own.
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Jesus miraculously delivered me from Kundalini Psychosis (demonic possession). After having a so called spontaneous ‘Kundalini Awakening’, I almost ended up losing my mind. For three months, I was completely tormented and thought that I was going to die. The spirit would move up and down my body, throwing me into psychosis whenever it entered my crown chakra. It would stay there for hours burning my brain and shaking my body violently. I felt like my head was going to explode. I also had insomnia, I couldn’t eat or drink water without throwing up and I had green diarrhoea. I was terrified. It felt like 10,000 volts of electricity was running through my body. I felt like I would spontaneously combust! The spirit would start shaking my body and burning my brain whenever it did not want me to do something. I felt like I was becoming a slave to this entity and I could barely function anymore. I could barely see anything and had to wear sunglasses for three months. It felt like I was staring into the sun and I felt 10 feet tall.
Eventually, God revealed to me that I was demon possessed and miraculously delivered me. After listening to a deliverance prayer on YouTube by pastor Robert Clancy, I felt the spirit untangle from my lower spine, move down legs and exit from my feet. I immediately gave my life to Jesus Christ and flew back to my home country, where I ended up homeless. Then, God miraculously blessed me with a beautiful flat surrounded by nature and bluebell woods. It was everything that I ever wanted.
I became an evangelist, going out onto the streets and sharing the Gospel with anyone who would listen.
I am currently looking at enrolling at bible school to study Theology and Biblical Counselling and am a part of
a ministry group and a soup kitchen, where I go out onto the streets of Sheffield, feeding the homeless.
I am forever grateful to my Lord & saviour Jesus Christ, who redeemed me from a life of sin, purchased me with his blood and gave me a new purpose.
Jenny Horner
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@khristiec68632 years ago
I have OCD. Terrible thoughts which make me feel that I want them... but I know I don't and never have. The first time the thoughts came I suffered panic attacks, nausea. I prayed for the first time...and it went away but I got triggered again and thoughts change into other horrible things. I suffer guilt and shame and feel I can't live life with these thoughts. I just wish to be normal and happy. I do believe the thoughts came back because my faith was weak. I've never been very devout even though I'm Christian. I don't really pray. And I wonder if this contributed to evil getting hold of me. But since these thoughts I've started to turn to God and I'm learning everyday. I understand that I need a better relationship with God. It's difficult but I have faith. My fervent prayer is to always do god's will and for the Lord to always keep me on his path and never abandon me. Forgive me and mercy in me. And I surrender my mind in God's hands
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@Bluesupremacyy3 years ago
I went through almost the same thing in 2016, Jesus healed me of mental demons and those torments. I realized Jesus love and dwelling in our hearts renews our minds and thoughts. At almost 27, my goal is to reach many like you are because people need this word in these last times. Satan is truly coming to try and control the minds of many. God bless you in all that you do
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Puravida-nh4bw3 years ago
I suffered from depression, anxiety, and paralyzing fear following the death of my son. As a Christian, I felt extra layers of guilt and embarrassment. I felt judged and also judged myself harshly for my "weakness," my "lack of faith" and my failure in trusting God "enough." My journey through darkness was very different from yours, but that dark, consuming abyss is all too familiar to me. It has been many years since I crawled from that darkness and back into the light. No, that's not right. It has been many years since I was brought out of that darkness and back into the light! I look forward to hearing more of your story!
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@sirine771 year ago (edited)
this means so much to me knowing that there are many people out there who suffer and go through the same things i do OCD is exhausting and the intrusive thoughts are even more exhausting i was saved from anxiety depression and suicidal thoughts and for a while i was extremely happy free from OCD and all those intrusive thoughts just memorizing Bible Verses i stopped cussing i repented for all my sins but now recently i started having intrusive thoughts all over again and I would always get relieved and would experience the power of The Holy Spirit and God’s love but then i would get bombarded with these dark and confusing thoughts that nothing i do is enough and i even starting getting thoughts to just go back to my old life i pray to God i have faith in the Lord and i always will that one day when He sees the time is right He will heal me and i will be saved Jesus is King and i just wanna say to every single one of you going through the same thing that God is with us have faith in the Lord “ Be on Guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong” (1 Corinthians 16:13) never forget you are loved and Jesus loves you so much God bless you all️
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@JanTijmes1 year ago
Brother I thank you for your testimony. Through the power of the testimony and his blood, wow. I too have struggled with mental illness, demonic oppression, alternative beliefs, alcoholism, codependence, divorce, etc. But the Lord he is god. He saved me in my first year of sobriety and forever changed my destiny and my family history. I too have continued to struggle with doubt as if spirits think they can come back to me and shake me up. But then I have an encounter with the Lord either with my church family or alone or in a recovery meeting and then bam, that spirit is removed and my mind clears up my eyes clear up my ears pop and clear up and again I am brought back to his sanity. God bless you, keep the faith, keep sharing his truth with others and what he has done for you. This is a daily commitment for me and there's many days I fall short when I see someone struggling who I could minister to. Bless you and your wife in Jesus name.
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@hemapatel26941 year ago (edited)
Thank you for sharing your message. I had a mental breakdown, a few months ago and it was painful. I would be crying, anxious about everything, fear of dying and at same time I was crying out to LORD. I slowly got better and went back to work mid April and am counselling with my Pastor. All this started when I got pain in my right arm late January. I've got long history of depression and anxiety, on medication but I have not once experienced what everyone is saying, having a revelation from the LORD. I am also in a cycle of doubt with my healing from lower back and right knee pain which has been getting worse. I recently tried to overdose myself on painkillers because I was so much in pain but didn't take that many plus my neighbor called then I spoke to my sister in Christ and she helped me calm down and prayed. Please pray for me
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@nildameers37721 year ago (edited)
Being healed from trauma abuse is possible in Christ! He set this captive free, healed my wounds and redeemed me to the Father! As she said it's all about the process!!! Remain in the process!! Following the leading of the Holy Spirit! Speaking thoughts of life/scripture over ourselves!! Agreed!!! And like her im doing my Master's of mental health counseling!! I am a people helper!
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@stellaprasetya573710 months ago
Exactly how I felt before. I did all new age things, astrology, moon meditation, silent meditation, yoga, crystal, card, qigong, etc. I always felt even backwards until it hits my physical health. I was laying on floor and asking the Lord to help. I got delivered on next day through a pastor. She said she can't help me, but Jesus can. And she asked me to open my heart and ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord and Saviour in my life. When I received Jesus, immediately the heat on my left arm was lift up. And within 3 months I regain my concious thought. Jesus saved me. And if you are someone who's looking for real Salvation. Stop searching. Only Jesus can. It's real.
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I was into New age when i got demons and for years i tried to get help through the new age practices but everyone was always like oh is your awakening its part of the process. I just continued to get worse and worse and new age people just showed me more meditation videos telling me it's just the way it is until i awaken. Well demons claim to be awakening us too, but what the want is to wake you into their nightmare so they can control your body. Praise the lord that i came back to Christianity and I'm on the path to relationship with God and the holy spirit through the son Jesus Christ of Nazareth the messiah of Israel. Now at church we warfare against the intrusive thoughts and infringements in our body and atmosphere and expose deceptions of these false beings of light instead of placating them through new age meditations and "energy work". God we command every succubus marine and strongman spirit. Any spirit that came in through lust/ covetousness masturbation or new age power that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, we cast this down by the father son and holy spirit one way to the abyss in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth name above every other name.
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@WhoisWorthy1 year ago
I was an atheist. I took some LSD and started to perceive that death was all around me. I felt like everything was dead and I started to freak out. I was in my living room. There was a patio sliding door that had drapery on it. My head was bowed and I was crying out to God to help me. When I raised my head, even though that patio door was closed, the drapery was blowing in like there was a wind outside and I felt like I was in a dollhouse and there was the huge presence of God outside. I came down from that drug right away and from that experience found a belief that there really is a God. I was no longer an atheist. I was not born again at that point though but my search for my creator began. After years of hard searching, He led me to true information that made me realize I was a sinner in need of saving. I got down on my knees and asked God to forgive me for all of my sins past present and future and to save me. I was 23. I’m now 75 and I’ve not looked back. He rebuilt my life and has been with me in the good times and in the hard times. He is a faithful loving merciful God. Call on Him in sincerity and need. He will save you and be your best friend, Lord and Savior. There are only two kingdoms: God, His Son, the Holy Spirt and Satan’s. Choose life in Christ.
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NXIETY@whocares49924 weeks ago
I am ex athiest. I used to mock christians and say it was all just a fairy tale to help people die in peace. Until i overdosed and stood before Jesus. His face is as bright as the sun. I couldnt see any details of his face but i could see his arms were held out like to hug me and they were a dark tan color, not white or black. When he held out his arms the light got brighter and i felt so much love and peace and raw power that i cant even find the right words to describe them. Jesus is God in the flesh. God is a trinity. All power the father has Jesus also has. He has existed with the father since before the earths creation.
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@stellaprasetya573710 months ago
Exactly how I felt before. I did all new age things, astrology, moon meditation, silent meditation, yoga, crystal, card, qigong, etc. I always felt even backwards until it hits my physical health. I was laying on floor and asking the Lord to help. I got delivered on next day through a pastor. She said she can't help me, but Jesus can. And she asked me to open my heart and ask Jesus to come into my heart to be the Lord and Saviour in my life. When I received Jesus, immediately the heat on my left arm was lift up. And within 3 months I regain my concious thought. Jesus saved me. And if you are someone who's looking for real Salvation. Stop searching. Only Jesus can. It's real.
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No Name -From facenbook post????
Five years ago I lived a lifestyle of total perversion….according to the bible. I was strung out. I was promiscuous. I was everything that you see on television today. There wasn’t anything that I wouldn’t try.
I was called a reprobate by the church. (And rightfully so) I was told that God would NEVER save me. I was told that I had gone too far and stayed too long. They told me Jesus didn’t love me and that he hated me.
I believed them.
One day Jesus just showed up and changed my life.
While I was YET a sinner…Christ died for ME. 🙌🏻 Jesus Christ has done absolutely everything that everyone said that he wouldn’t do…for me!!!
Last weekend I spoke to a crowd of 500 about the delivering power of Jesus Christ!!!! That church called me yesterday and filled me in on what God is doing in their church since I left. Baptisms. Repentance. Convictions. I am SO encouraged by their testimonies!!!
Today I am washed clean! You won’t catch me wearing a possum around my neck anymore. You won’t catch me dressing like a woman anymore. I am a MAN of God today. Jesus Christ cleaned me up. I am pure! I am saved and I am delivered!!! I am a new creature. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new to me.
What a difference 5 years will make in your life!
Trust God today. Start today. Today is a good day for repentance. If Christ changed me there is absolutely nothing that he won’t do for you!! I was a wicked sinner but I have been washed in the blood of the Lamb!!
I traded in the rainbow flag for the blood stained banner. 🙌🏻
There is no greater life than being filled with the Holy Ghost!!
I give God praise for TOTAL deliverance from homosexuality. I wasn’t born that way.
Thank you JESUS that I am no longer trapped in sin.
The hold the devil had on me he ain’t got no more!
Satan is a liar.
Come and be a Christian with me!
This is the greatest life!
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No Name -From facenbook post????
Five years ago I lived a lifestyle of total perversion….according to the bible. I was strung out. I was promiscuous. I was everything that you see on television today. There wasn’t anything that I wouldn’t try.
I was called a reprobate by the church. (And rightfully so) I was told that God would NEVER save me. I was told that I had gone too far and stayed too long. They told me Jesus didn’t love me and that he hated me.
I believed them.
One day Jesus just showed up and changed my life.
While I was YET a sinner…Christ died for ME. 🙌🏻 Jesus Christ has done absolutely everything that everyone said that he wouldn’t do…for me!!!
Last weekend I spoke to a crowd of 500 about the delivering power of Jesus Christ!!!! That church called me yesterday and filled me in on what God is doing in their church since I left. Baptisms. Repentance. Convictions. I am SO encouraged by their testimonies!!!
Today I am washed clean! You won’t catch me wearing a possum around my neck anymore. You won’t catch me dressing like a woman anymore. I am a MAN of God today. Jesus Christ cleaned me up. I am pure! I am saved and I am delivered!!! I am a new creature. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new to me.
What a difference 5 years will make in your life!
Trust God today. Start today. Today is a good day for repentance. If Christ changed me there is absolutely nothing that he won’t do for you!! I was a wicked sinner but I have been washed in the blood of the Lamb!!
I traded in the rainbow flag for the blood stained banner. 🙌🏻
There is no greater life than being filled with the Holy Ghost!!
I give God praise for TOTAL deliverance from homosexuality. I wasn’t born that way.
Thank you JESUS that I am no longer trapped in sin.
The hold the devil had on me he ain’t got no more!
Satan is a liar.
Come and be a Christian with me!
This is the greatest life!
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Roll Over - God surrounded me during a roll over accident a few years ago – doctors said I was a miracle.
Then, one day, a knot appeared in my back while walking across a parking lot – I realized I was having grumbling thoughts ...
But it was a gorgeous, beautiful day!
I was outside in the fresh air, getting exercise and there was no reason to be negative.
And, God intervened, causing me to look up and take in the beauty of His creation. I heard myself just said no. (It was totally God working in me.)
"I will not entertain these negative grumblings," I said. "Wow, God, look at this gorgeous day, Your glorious creation and 73° degrees!"
And, THE KNOT AND PAIN
LEFT IMMEDIATELY!
Was I ever surprised -
what a God lesson!!!
It was God at work in me to help me say no and what a blessing resulted! Healing! Joy! Freedom!
Available to all of us is God Almighty, watching, caring, helping us through life.
No more being distraught!
Apply Bible essentials.
Ask about being Unhinged from traps and snares coming at you.
Have an awesome Jesus filled day!
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l heard this story and you may have already heard it but this story is rather "astonishing". Some details may be slightly different due to story telling chain however the heart of the story is the same.
There was a man who worked in a service station (Gas station)
This was to be his last shift at work.
He was an Unbeliever and didnt know the Lord .
He was in a desparate state and in this hopeless state he pleaded and asked God a radical question .
Something so out of character that if it was done ,it would prove to him that God exists and there would be no mistake or gray areas in believing God were true. So he asked God
"God , if your real and you hear me ,to convinve me , l want to see someone do a HANDSTAND right here in the store."
That afternoon a girl was traveling in her car . She was a true beliwver in Christ and had a very close relationship with the Lord .During prayer she heard the voice of God and he tell her to sotp at that particular gas station and go inside. When she was inside she heard God tell her to do a handstand. She thought it was a strange request and hesitated for a moment but as usual she would always obey the voice of God and she did a HANDSTAND up against the drinks refridgerator.
When she got up she saw the fellow behind the counter at the gas station holding a gun.
She was shocked to see this but then he said....
I was going to take me own life today but i asked God if He was true and real to prove it to me by showing me someone doing a handstand right hear in the store. Now you come in and did a Handstand that no one else knew what l asked.
This was Gods perfect proof that he not only heard His desperate plea ,but He is real and does exist.
Romans 10:13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Anonymous
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Subject: Billy Curtis short stories
In Memphis Tennessee 1975-77
I was 6 my sister Michelle 4
My mother aunt and grandma decided to go to the neighborhood corner store. But made me stay and watch my sister. They leave. I knew where they went and I shortly decided I would leave my sister and go anyways. I was too young to watch my sister and wanted candy. It was only a few blocks so I walked it. I got to the street across from the store. I looked both ways and started crossing. I look back to my left and see a 57 Chevy coming at me 80 mph in a 25 zone. It had me dead to rights there was no escape. An angel said just 2 words to me. Lay down. I never saw it. I did so and the car ran right over top of me. Not so much as a scratch. 15-20 witnesses. My aunt still lives and will attest to it. The ambulance couldn't find so much as a scratch on me.
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Have to share this -I saw on a Facebook post !!its not from me but good all the same
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I'm very stressed. I found out last night that they are kicking most of the people out of my apartment complex to upgrade and raise rent by more than 100$. Where am I going to go? Rent is outrageous everywhere. What about my neighbor that is on disability, or the little girl upstairs that just got out of the hospital with a heart condition? It's all I've been able to think about at work today. Then I get to lunch, and go for my baby carrots and I see this. That is my hand writing. I don't remember writing it, don't know why I would write it on a clothes pin, don't remember seeing it when I used the clothes pin to close up the bag of carrots this morning. But there it was, a prefect word from God at the perfect time. I still don't have the answers, don't know what is going to happen but Praise God I have peace! I hope this helps someone else today. I'm praying for you all. ❤
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The little boy put on his clothes for the cold and then told his father:
"Ok dad I'm ready"
His Dad, the pastor, said: "Ready for what?"
"Dad, it's time to go outside and distribute our flyers."
Dad replied: "Son, it's very cold outside and it's drizzling."
The child looked surprised at his father and said: "But dad, people need to know about God even on rainy days."
Dad replied, "Son, I'm not going outside in this weather."
With despair, the child said: "Dad, can I go alone? Please!"
His father waited for a moment and then said: "Son, you can go. Here's the flyers, be careful."
"Thank you dad!"
And with this, the son went out into the rain. The 11-Year-old walked all the streets of the village, handing out the flyers to the people he saw.
After 2 hours walking in the rain and cold and with his last flyer in his hand, he stopped at a corner to see if he saw someone to give the flyer to, but the streets were totally deserted. Then he turned to the first house he saw, walked to the front door, rang the bell several times and waited, but no one came out.
Finally the boy turned to leave... but something stopped him. The child turned back to the door and began to ring the bell and pound the door strongly with his knuckles. He kept waiting. Finally the door was opened gently.
A lady came out with a very sad look and gently asked:
"What can I do for you, son?
With radiant eyes and a bright smile the child said:
"Lady, I'm sorry if I upset you, but I just want to tell you that God really loves you and that I came to give you my last flyer, which talks about God and His great love.
The boy then gave her the flyer.
She just said, "Thank you, son, God bless you!"
Well, next Sunday morning, the pastor was in the pulpit and when the service began he asked:
"Does someone have a testimony or something they want to share?"
Gently, in the back row of the church, an older lady stood up. When she started talking, a radiant and glorious look sprouted from her eyes:
"Nobody in this church knows me. I have never been here, even last Sunday I was not Christian.
My husband died a while ago leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday was a particularly cold and rainy day, and it was also in my heart; that on that day I came to the end of the road, since I had no hope and didn't want to live anymore.
Then I took a chair and a rope and went up to the attic of my house. I tied a noose and the other end of the rope to the rafters of the roof; then I climbed onto the chair and put the rope around my neck.
I then stood on the chair, so alone and heartbroken, I was about to throw myself off the chair, when suddenly I heard the loud sound of the door being knocked.
So I thought: "I'll wait for a minute and whoever it is will go"
I waited and waited, but the door knocking was getting louder and louder every time. It got so loud that I couldn't ignore it anymore.
So I wondered, who could it be?
No one ever comes close to my door or comes to visit me!
I released the rope from my neck and went to the door, while the bell was still ringing and the door was still being knocked on.
When I opened the door, I couldn't believe what my eyes saw, in front of my door was the most radiant and angelic child I've ever seen.
He's smile, ohhh, I can never describe it! The words that came out of his mouth made my heart, dead so long ago, come back to life, when he said with the VOICE OF CHERUB: "Lady, I just want to tell you that God really loves you"
"When the little angel disappeared between the cold and the rain, I closed my door and read every word of the flyer.
Then I went to the attic to remove the chair and rope.
I didn't need them anymore. As you see. Now I am a happy daughter of the King.
Since the direction of the boy, when he left, was to this church, I came personally say thank you to that little angel of God who came just in time and, in fact, to rescue my life from an eternity in hell. And replaced it with an eternity in God's presence. "
Everyone cried in the church.
The Pastor came down from the pulpit to the first bench of the front, where the little angel was sitting; he took his son in his arms and cried uncontrollably.
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Don't let this message die of cold; after reading it, pass it on to others.
Remember, God's message can make a big difference in someone's life, never be afraid to spread it.
Can I get an AMEN?
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I was excited to be baptized .( years ago) I had the Catholic ritual of a sprinkling of water on the head, when l was a baby as l grew up in a Catholic faith although our family wasn't really church goers. Not my choice!
They had no understanding of the bible or anything but did believe in God .
I heard Jesus speak o me ,when l was in a Catholic church one day .This voice said "come out of her".
That's where it all started I suppose .That's why l know God was looking out for me all those years ago.
When I became Born Again and renounced the Catholic faith it was because l really got to know Jesus .
Jesus was the one who lead me out of New Age completely. I was in New Age for around 5 years -that was long enough .Ended up in full spiritual warfare battle - Theres a whole other story in between here--
On the day of my baptism ,I was already previously delivered and was living as a born again Christian for probably about one year . Jesus told me the word "full submersion" and I knew he meant baptism -I was ready to declare my faith to Jesus and everyone who would listen.
I felt washed clean , I felt alive and renewed-Thank God !
I had a woman prophecy over me on that day of my baptism and she said"Jesus is showing me a big dark cloud that was above you and its all gone now and he is saying "its time"!
These were the words Jesus also spoke to me when he was calling me out of New Age i kept hearing "its time'"its time"over and over.
The woman who gave me this phophetic messgae was right.
Incidently Jesus told me this baptism was to be in NOVEMBER . When l told the Pastor he said ,"no we dont have baptism in november". However on that day in the Pastors office he grabbed his diary to show me, he flipped open the diary to November and there was a day that had 6 people booked in for baptism he never knew about.
I said "that is they day because you cant argue if Jesus says"..
I will never look back !'
- Lee Arne
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this story is just taken from the internet
On July 7, 2016 at 12:13 AM my wife was dying. She just had an emergency C-section and went into shock. I stood by her head while she was bleeding out and remembered every fight we ever had and the things I never did for her. I couldn’t let her know how scared I was. I stood in front of my wife saying my final good bye!
What do you say to someone knowing it’s going to be the last time you talk to them.
I tried so hard to comfort her and tell her everything is okay. I tried to smile and pretend that it’s all part of the operation. They called a "Code blue" and people started rushing into the room. She was shaking so much!!! I kissed her, and asked God “please don’t take her home.”
I thought about all the times I missed church at XXXX church . I thought about how to tell my new family the bad news. So much was going through my mind that I had no time to enjoy my son.
I had to be strong for my family. I had to put the weight upon my shoulders and walk with this load of having my wife pass in the operating room.
I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to pray because I thought God would shun me for not being a good Christian.
I was so sorry and asked God if somehow he could just hear this last request.
I was rushed to a different room and waited for about 10 mins. Jackie finally showed up and my heart was so so so so heavy with grief.
I wanted to pick her up and carry her out of the hospital as if everything would be fine. I wanted to leave and have this nightmare be over! I stood with Jackie for about 3 minutes and the worst happened. She lost about 1 litter of blood in a couple seconds.
I didn’t say anything, I was so scared.
I just looked at my wife and couldn’t utter a word. I wanted to say I love you and tell her it’s okay.
I wanted to help her as much as I could.
I wanted to stop everything and start all over again. I knew she was dying in front of me.
They called another " Code Blue"! This time my heart stopped. I thought why didn’t I pray every night! Why didn’t I love her like God has loved me! I died in that room! I truly died! I didn’t know what to do again. I watched helplessly as they tried to save my wife. People were running and pushing me farther away from her. She finally uttered a word and it was like the room went silent. She asked for some water and I knew she was leaving earth.
They took me and my newborn son to another room. As we were walking I saw my mom and family. I wanted so hard for someone to hold me. I wanted someone to carry me like a kid and tell me it’s gonna be okay. I didn’t want to be a man anymore. I wanted to cry! I wanted to cry out to God and ask him why! I stood by my family for about 2 minutes looking at everyone and holding back all of my emotions. My mother asked me “how is Jackie?” I almost lost it and cried like a baby. I just shrugged my shoulders and said I don’t know yet. I was lying, I knew she was in really bad shape. I wanted to run back in the room and hold her but I had to take care of my son now. He had to be given antibiotics to prevent an infection from starting. After about 5 minutes I asked the nurses if I can go see my wife and they reluctantly said yes. The hallway to where my wife was is about 40 yards. I walked about 5 yards and started crying alone. I couldn’t keep up this persona for much longer. I was scared to walk back and hear the news. I wanted my dad to comfort me! I’m still his little boy!
I had around 30 something yards to walk and God spoke to me. Gabriel my son I love you more than you can imagine. I heard you and I was there! I saw the c section. I helped the doctors find the problem. I saw when she hemorrhaged and made sure they caught it really quick. I was waiting for you in this hallway when you wanted your father. It’s okay to call on me. I will always love you. Just as you asked to save your wife. I’ve been asking my father to save yours. I walked with more love in my heart for everything in that moment.
My wife and son are doing great and will be discharged Sunday. If you see me at church don’t ask me where I have been. Just say I’m glad to see you’re home!
Credit: Dawson Wilford
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Caren Remmy Use forst name only -She has more remid her to give them( about a car accident)
OK, nothing huge, but God takes care of everything. Even the little things and it does say He wants us to seek Him in all aspects of our lives. Just yesterday I was slammed with our business and so was my husband. He was on a conference call when I got back from getting our son from track practice and UPS had not come to get our packages. We had 2 super full pick up truck loads. My husband's truck was already loaded so I got Eli to load mine with the rest. I prayed on the way there that we would have a spot to unload in front of the UPS store and we would be able to get it all done. We had a spot and started to unload. A super nice young man asked if he could help us unload. Since most of the packages were too big for the cart and I have a really bad knee, I accepted. He was so kind I thanked him several times. He told us you are welcome and God bless you when he was walking away. We also said the same to him. That right there was God providing more than I asked for in my prayers. I made sure Eli saw and knew that as well. He loves us so much and takes care of so much that we do not even realize and when asked will also provide more than what we even thought to ask of Him. He never ceases to amaze me. I also had to drive my husband's truck to the big hub in the city since he was till on the conference call and we made it in plenty of time despite not having much and the guy at the hub was super nice and let us unload right into the warehouse instead of dragging it all into the office area. I have so many stories of Him intervening for me and hearing and answering my prayers, maybe I should write a book LOL
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Ana Maria-gERMANY
God helped me with my depression, i still have sometimes depressed moments but no panic attacks more in the day or night, i can handle stress much better since i found God and the Lord Jesus. My mom disease, dont know the name of it now, but itvhas something to do with her veins and the arms always hurt her a lot, after praying for her it was gone, always also when we are sick. A cousin of mine was lying in the hospital in coma, the doctors gave him no change to live anymore because his organs were not working anymore, he got up after praying for him, many of us prayed for him, the doctors were really scared surprised because of his conditions, he is still alive now after 3 or 4 years. Another family member a old women i think she is 70 or so, they brought her to hospital because they thought she will die , but after the some days she got up and said she wanna serve God and the Lord Jesus, everyone thought she will surely die because of her illness, nut no she ist still alive today, many years from then. Since i got saved i saw many miracles after praying or asking for something like information or guidance, healing and deliverance, God and the Lord Yeshua always answered my prayers, im very thankful for thatbecause life is still hard to live for me, but God is always there and also the Lord Yeshua. Im sorry for my English, im from România but I live in Germany. May God and the Lord Yeshua bless you all and save you all
If you have questions always ask God,
and He will answer!!!!
ana maria
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ANA MARIA AGAin HERE
I was a normal orthodox believer, but when i was 27 i think something was changed inside of me. I wnated to know if there is a God and when it is true then i wanted to serve Him. I was lost in believing in vampire, witch stuff and aliens, and after i saw many documentary about the unknown things that is happening i started to believe that the aliens are real and maybe they created the world and people, becauwe of the Anunnaki documentary i saw. And then after thinking of this, in one night a saw a vision , i a light but I couldn't look at it because i knew it was God, and i was sitting down holding my head between my legs and was so scared, because i knew it was God and i said immediately im sorry for believing in aliens, i knew somehow He was angry because of it, and then He called me by my name and the dream stopped. I didn't knew then that this was significant, because i didn't read the Bible then. So after that it started. I was believing now that God existed but i was somehow against the Lord Jesus, i dont know something was like holding me back, to fix my heart and mind on him. So i stared praying every day, i alwys asked God for every question i had, i asked him once like a if the bible was true, and He showed me in a dream at that night how people where walking oh two books, old and young children everyone stepped on it, and I took them and put them in my jacket. I talked with a pastor Phlillip of Baptist then because he always was visiting a neighbor of mine , because the family were Baptist and i asked them about God and the believe they had, because i really had insese of me the will to serve God, it was so strong that feeling, really. And the Pastor Philip told me to ask God if He hears my prayer, when in the night i stared to pray I asked God" do you really hear my prayer" and then it was the first time, because it happened many many times after it, the first time a saw after asking God, that a star felt. I got so scared, really scared , it was to much for me. But it i was also happy, because i understood God was with me. God gave me many many dreams, He was sending me once in a dream a beautiful sword with so may jewelry on it, with pearls and so beautiful decorations. When i got up in the night after dreaming it, i asked God " is it because i need to fight?" and immediately a star felt, and I understood. And you need to know that satan always attacked me, there are demons, fallen angels , creature that look like in the horror movies, like in Harry Potter movie , this litte ugly creature in the movie is real, the shadow like in the Harry Potter movie are real. The clothing of Ku klux clan are the same like a femaledemon, i saw. There is a demon the is influencing the horrormovies and its the same like in the churches where they say they speak in tongues, but the do only bubbles, spaeking in tongues is speaking in other languages, God showed me that , you speak about Him in other languages to peopel to magnify Him , for His glory speaking in tongues is done, so the people see His power. After some dreams and days i found to Jesus, I dont know anymore how, i think the first time the Lord came to me in my dreams was when i was attacked many times in my dreams, i had many sleep paralysis, really bad . Once i saw the Lord Jesus, He came to me and told " Look here you will come" and He embraced me , and looked behind me I knew there was the devil because o could feel his presence, the Lord Jesus wa angry, and He told him something, but i couldn't hear it, and then He took me with Him, up in the sky, i saw the clouds under my feets this is the only thing i remember. The Lord Yeshua has a sun-kissed skin, brown curly hair and a beard , and His eyes are like brown green, and He is so beautiful really, He teached me how to commend in His Name to the unclean spirits that were in my body to leave, i dint knew about it because I didn't read the biblie back then, but He teached me that, i asked Him to tech me and He did so, when my dog was sick i put my hand on him , and he was getting better, i dint know that you need to put the hands on someone to pray for healing but God always lead to. The unclean spirits that left my body looked like darkgreen smoke, and it always hurted me when they left, this happened always in my dreams, after i was delivered the fight began every night in sleep, sometimes even in the day when I tried ro sleep, where sin is there is a open door for them , and they can attack, i know now it was because of the books i was reading, the movies i saw and because of the music i heard. I dont watch Hollywood movies, and dont listen to Beyoncé, Rihanna or stuff like that, because than they can emter into your life and attack you, the will reap you , or torture you and stuff like that, yes its the true its sad but ist true. The fallen angels the male one, the always wanna sleep with women's, they desire for women's, this is what i experienced.
Part 2 is coming
I asked God once after i saw a testimony, if it is true that they put spells on music and He showed me in a dream how in a song of lady gaga, there was behind the song ,there were many voices of demons how they were speaking in a language i didn't understand. Once i was so sad because after I have found God and the Lord there were always in my mind bad stuff against God and His Son, really disgusting thoughts,( now I know it was because of the influence of movies and ect.) so i was so shocked because o f my thoughts and didnt understood why this is happening now , and before i was a believe there were not thoughts like that, so i stared really bad crying i had a really bad breakdown because of it, and I told God that i wanted to die, because I dont want to sin like this against Him, and after praying i lay down in my bed. I saw in my dream how i was walking in heaven on clouds, there were clouds everywhere and someone was behind me but i couldn't see who, and I a walked i saw down a golden gate and some peopel stood there and I said,: ahh there are not many" after I walked straight and came before a really really huge Throne and there was someone sitting with white hair and a white beard and he had a silver rod in his hand, and he talked to someone sitting left next to him, I couldn't hear what He said and as i turned my head to see who is there i saw only fog clouds, like someone was in the fog I knew it , then something automatically so tender turned my head back to left again to the person i saw, you need to know that o didn't read the Bible back then, where it says that the Lord Yeshua is sitting to the right of God the Father, please believe me i dont lie, i saw the Lord sitting on His Throne beside God, but I couldn't see God because of the fog, now I know nobody can. And after God moved my head back to the Lord Yeshua i walked to Them and I was sitting down , but their Thrones are raelly like 10 meters big, and it was silver colored and it has a special relief on it. After i sat down a saw in front that there was a Asien man on his knees in front of God and the Lord Yeshua and this man, was naked but you couldn't see nothing only I know he was naked and he was crying a lot desperately, and fire was going through his skin and face but it didn't burn him, but he was so sorry and so sad. After that gou up from the dream
After I saw some preaching online about the baptism i also wanted to get baptized, i started also to read the new testament, so I talked to the pastor Philip who was a Baptist pastor if he can bless me , i believed then that i need a pastor to get blessed by God. So I meet him and his wife and the neighbors, and we talked about God and i asked him about the sabath and he told , they dont keep it, I saw once Dough Batchelor preaching about it, and it was interesting for me, but the pastor told no ist not important and... then they told me to get on my knees because the will pray over me, and I did. And as they prayed i felt like really im not lying i felt how my heart turned 2 times in my breast, and it scared me, this happened at the moment i stared to believe before I saw the Lord Yeshua. So I didn't said nothing and got home and started crying, a lot and told God that I really wanted to serve Him but i need His help, because something felt wrong for me. I had spoken to the pastor because of my baptism, i told him i want to repent and be baptized by him. In the night after I cried a lot, i saw in a vision my self how i kneed and the people i was with and the Pastor prayed over me, i saw exactly what happened, and then a hand was laid on my righ shoulder from behind and i knew it was death, the death is like a person a dead greenviollettyellow body , and I understood that i shouldn't go there anymore because if i did i will die. After many years i understood why God didn't let me there ,these people are deceived they dont keep the sabath, and God Festivals, they speks in "languages" and are lost. God showed me once in a dream, that there was a church and it was dark inside and cild , it looked like a catholic church and they had only 9 from the 10 Commands of God, they only keep the 9, so I understood why there were still in dark. Everytime i saw this world in my dreams and visons the wordl alwys is dark, cloudy dark grey. After I stopped going to the neighbors because of the dream i had, what scared me a lot, i got baptized at home in my own bathroom in my own bathtub, and I told God i wnated to go to church but i couldn't find no one that was holding and preaching His will, and I said i wan You to baptized me God, and I said i baptized me in the name of the father and the lord and the holy spirit, and I dit it alone. After that i baptized my parents and sisters, i now some will judge me for that but i wanted to get saved and i wnated it also for my family, i talked a lot with them about what God told me and showed me, the Lord Yeshua once told me as i laid on my bed i didn't slpee i was awake, He spoke really clear 3 times, repent, repent , repent. There are so many dreams and visions, i try with the help of God to tell some of them. I asked God once what is the sign of the satan, and in a dream that night a saw a girl and she was talking to me, she said :ohh we have the same sign" and i answer : no we dont, i have Gods sign" on my hand there was something like a Quadrat and in the 4 corner of it there were like 4 litters in each of it, I think its hebrew but i dont know for sure, after I saw the hebrew alphabet look similar, but im not sure. But on the girls hand , i mean the palm of the hand was one eyes painted. After this vision i stared to research and I found this sign in churches, ortodox and catholics and ohters, in Religon like islam and budism, music , movies ....everything i ever leanerd it is because of God and the Lord Yeshua i asked God about his name, many times when I had sleep paralysis i screamed YAHWEH, and the demons got really really scared and angry. But i stii wanted to know what what His Name for real because there are many who says Jehova , so i asked God about it. The next day i was not dreaming, i went out with my sister and dog for a walk, and we walked, as we passed one house we both saw on the ground with chalk written by kids I think, YAHWEH. My sister and me were shocked because of what we saw but I knew it was the answer, so we took paper and cleaned it of so people will not walk on it, because Gods Name is Holy , YAHWEH is his name
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I laid hands on my mother's arm and prayed for her after it was badly disabled with muscle waste for over a year.
That night as she lay in bed it healed miraculously.
I prayed for many of my relatives and other friends and family. Thier autism symptoms went away.
I prayed for an ex army friend who had been experiencing severe lower back pain that he couldn't gym properly. It went immediately.
Lots of wonderful prayers that worked when resting in faith. Even when the enemy was trying to attack my mind to cause me to lose faith.
They still panned out by the grace and power of God to show His glory. It's been wonderful.
One of the greatest prayers I have ever prayed as led by the Holy Spirit was for suffering that no matter what I go through the Lord make me the sword of His truth(to cut through the lies was the concept).
And within two weeks I was attacked by the highest echelons of spiritual wickedness.
Through it all He protected and protects me.
So under His watchful gaze I learn. It's perfect.
He loves you
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This tells a Story of how GOD supplies us with our Needs ...and shows us His love .
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.
Our Church started a Soup Kitchen many years ago.
It feeds anywhere between 70-100 people every Wednesday.
It is free and open to anyone to come ,and you get a wonderful homemade lunch ,usually 3 courses, made by Anton and Jenny ,and supported by a lot of volunteer staff that support in many ways .
There is always an abundance of fresh fruit and vegies and breads ,gathered in lots for anyone to take.
This is a story that Jenny shared with me one day as we were talking about the Miracles God gives throughout our Christian lives, and how he supplies us with everything we need. I hope you enjoy reading .
One day , as Jenny and Anton prepared meals ,the Blender stick broke. It was a very well used tool in the kitchen that could wisk up anything from a chunky soup to a puree ,gravy and thicken cream. It was the one appliance that they always relied upon in meal preparation.
Understanding that from week to week we make the most of what we have and money is scarce, obviously they needed to provide a new one for the kitchen. Anton knew a good strong one was needed and of course a better one is more expense.
Discussions were made about what to do.
The soup Kitchen is run from a small public hall that the Local Council hire out to people who require a hall or a kitchen. The next week Anton went back into the kitchen to prepare for the Wednesday meal as usual.
As they walked into the clean kitchen they began to prepare the meals. Jenny opened up a cupboard and to her delight she saw a Stick blender. Not like her old one that broke , but an expensive stainless steel one, a much stronger one . It was just like the one that had hoped to buy to replace the broken one.
enny and Anton became confused. How did this get here ? Who did it belong to ?
They had asked the hall management team if anyone else had used the kitchen from the last time they had used it. They were told no one had used the kitchen. They were the last people to use it.
So they pondered...... if no one had used the kitchen, and we have never seen this stick blender before, then how did it get here and why is it here...??
They became filled with JOY ,and they knew that only God could have known and answered their prayers. It might be a simple kitchen tool but for the soup Kitchen it was much needed appliance and used weekly in meal preparation.
Jenny and Anton have no doubt in their mind that it was given to them from God so they can keep going with their much need work at the Soup Kitchen. A little miracle !
They shared with me another story about the soup Kitchen on another occasion....
It was a time they prepared meals of chicken for about 70 people ,but on this occasion many more people had came.
Over time the soup Kitchen has become bigger and supplying a demand for more meals for people.
I think Jenny said about 90 people had come on this occasion, from my memory.
Jenny was concerned about not being able to feed all the unexpected people and what were they going to do.
(They had counted the chicken pieces and only had enough for 70 people.)
Anton's faith was strong and he said "Do not to worry about it, it will work out..".
So they keep dishing out the meals ...to all the 90 people on that day -even for the extra people and
to their surprise and delight , after all the meals were done ,they had 10 pieces of chicken leftover afterward.
Praise God he is faithful !
God is loving the work being done by all at this Soup Kitchen and blessing in so many ways.
This brings to mind the verse in the Bible about Jesus feeding 5000.
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God will always show up for us when we are in trouble or facing our darkest fears, we just need to have faith and believe in Him.
Willie Myrick, a 10-year-old boy, was born to parents who are atheists. However, his godmother, Codetta Bateman, taught him about the bible, took him to church and helped him grow his faith in the Lord. Little did he know that his faith in God was going to be the thing that saved his life in the future.
The young boy faced one of life’s worst nightmares when he was kidnapped from his front yard while playing with his dog.
The kidnapper put Willie in his car and drove around Atlanta. At first, Willie was very scared as he thought the kidnapper would hurt him.
However, his fear soon turned into faith, and he burst out singing Hezekiah Walker’s “Every Praise,” a well-known gospel song.The young boy kept signing the song without stopping for three hours, even though the kidnapper kept threatening him.
After a while, Willie’s singing got to the kidnapper, who left him in a random neighborhood, before driving off.Willie’s favorite song not only comforted him in a potentially deadly situation, it also saved him! “I knew it by heart, I could sing the whole thing by heart. If you praise the Lord, He will help you in a mysterious way.” He said.Willie ran to a nearby home and where he was able to call his godmother.
Willie believes God is his best friend. He said, “I always believe God is with me wherever I go. Like when am in bed, He is at the chair just watching.”
Willie’s story made headlines across the world. He was invited to numerous talk shows and even got a chance to perform his song of deliverance with Hezekiah Walker, thanks to the media attention he received from his testimony.While he is enjoying being in the spotlight, he says he is just an ordinary kid who serves an extraordinary God.He said, “It really doesn’t matter to me. As long as I still have Jesus and he’s still working, doing his little magic, well it’s not magic, it’s just power.”
What an amazing Kid. I can definitely see GOD working through Him.
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We would like to try and let every one hear what Michael our 10 year old son experienced in church a couple of Sunday's ago. Be blessed at this amazing experience.
Just to fill you in .. on Sunday night 10th April the children had come up from children's church as our adult service was just finishing .... The Holy Spirit began to fall upon our eldest daughter Lisa who is 13 year old ... and then the Holy Spirit came powerfully on our son Michael. A number of church folks were around as began to see ... some of the first ones were Barbara Burridge and Clare Williams & Pip Earl .. Andrew Meyrick who transcribed most of this encounter and myself, my wife Jane & Alex Herd.
It was amazing to watch as the Lord touched Michael and then took him into Heaven and showed him so many things for about 45 minutes then he came out of it .. it was awesome to be there and see this encounter.
At the same time this was happening the Holy Spirit fell upon our youngest daughter Sarah who is 9 years of age and then Lilly Earl her 6 year old friend.
Jane & I have spend the past hour this morning with Michael going over what Andrew transcribed that night as we feel that there was so much more that you didn't hear of last night at church.
Here is abit more detail of what the Lord showed Michael .... We pray it blesses you all and helps you to see by Revelation what the Lord has just shown him.
Sunday night : 10th April, 2011.
As I came into church I felt to sit down and pray to Jesus. As I did a Light shone on me and with that light came an Overflowing Love. I was then lifted up into the heavens in this white light.I saw Angels coming around me, surrounding me as I went up. They were clothed in white robes and had shining faces with wings. They were floating around me .. like they were hovering .. their wings were fully open and moving quite slowly and they had no shoes on.
Then Jesus was suddenly next to me in white shining clothing ... and I saw the shape of His face which was light. I couldn’t see the color of His eyes or hair …. His face was in this golden Light. He was twice the size of me. Jesus smiled at me … and I felt loved.
He showed me Heavens Gate .. it was Golden ... with a massive Palace & town. The Palace and the town was surrounded by a wall ... it was golden in color.
I then saw these massive Golden Gates open towards me. And I saw a bright shining light, coming out as the doors opened. God's voice spoke to me from inside. He said " Come my son " . It was a voice not an impression … I felt excited about what it was going to be like inside … and if I was actually going to go inside at all.
Jesus took me around lovely meadows surrounded by animal’s .. rabbits .. deer ... foxes .. I also saw a pheasant & a dog that was lying down and resting.
Jesus took me to a Throne Room ... it had golden pillars and paintings like you see in old churches and jewels every where. The windows in the Throne room were in the shape of diamonds and they formed pictures .. some had angels in them . The Throne room was massive and there were jewels in the pillars & jewels in the walls but not on the floor. I was blown out when I saw it …. .
I saw two rows of angels with banners on the end of golden trumpets … they were standing in rows in front of the throne … As we walked towards the throne the angels were on either side of Jesus & myself. Their Golden trumpets were raised … we walked right up to the throne and they were playing … And there were people with harps in the back ground and there was music as we entered the throne room. .
The banners on the trumpets where purple and golden with no picture on them. The trumpets were long like they have in Narnia when they crowned Edmund, Peter, Susan & Lucy at Cair Paravel.
The angels were a bit bigger than Jesus and they had different faces. They were wearing white robes and had wings coming out of their back but their wings were all folded down.
There were creatures around the throne. They were not like real animals but a combination of different animals ... like an Eagle & a Lion .... they had Eagles wings coming out of the Lions backs. And they were singing " Hosanna "
They were playing with Harps and some thing that looked like a tambourine { e.g. small drum with small cymbals }
Jesus held out a staff in His hand, it was wooden like a shepherd's staff.
I saw three thrones . The one in the middle was for the Father … Jesus was to sit on the right hand side of the Father and the Holy Spirit in the left hand side.
As I looked at each Throne they almost looked liked they were joined together, as if they were one throne. The Throne's were Golden & I saw jewels covering the thrones ... the jewels were all the color's ... emerald, ruby, sapphire blue, yellow , purple .. etc plus ones I had never seen before. The thrones were empty. No one was on the thrones and there was no one else around except me & Jesus, the angels and the lion with the wings.
I looked up and saw no roof above the Throne's ... I saw clouds above the throne like the Northern Lights but much greater ... with angels dancing in the clouds in a line. I was taken up into these clouds and began to dance with the Angels. I felt lots of energy … hyper … and the angels had instruments and there was music but the angels I was dancing with were not singing, it was coming from somewhere else.
Then the Lord took me outside to the town .. It changed instantly … one minute I was in one place and the next I was in another place .. in an instant. And the town was lined with Golden roads.
I came to a River of Life ... it was crystal clear ... fast flowing and it was coming out from the tree ( Tree of Life) like a big strong oak tree and it had a thick trunk. The water was flowing from the Tree of Life into the houses and it was powering them, giving them light. Jesus dipped His hands into the River of Life and began to pour water over my head. It was nicer than real water .. it felt so good … it felt refreshing and it gave me a good feeling .. like after you have done something really good.
The Tree of Life had loads of fruit on it and each day the youngest child came and took a piece of fruit to share it with their families. They lived on that fruit for the day. There was different fruit on the tree and they looked like pomegranates/apples and there were grapes, oranges, banana's ... every single type of fruit on the same tree.
I saw some adults with children walking down the street with their children and their faces were full of light and they seemed to be always smiling … They were people who had died and gone to heaven … some were like toddlers … and some were like my age 10 – 12 year olds … all different ages. And the parents helped the toddlers by lifting them up to pick the fruit off the tree of life. They lived in families. The houses they lived in were plain and simple but the bricks were golden.
Then Jesus took me to a door. It was a normal door and it was made from an oak tree ... there was a jewel on the end of the handle. It was a Ruby. I could tell that it was a ruby as I have read a book about Gems and someone had brought some jewelry to school. And I had watched a jewelry program with dad on TV when he was trying to buy mum a present.
The oak door opened and I went through this door and came into a beautiful garden which was the New Earth. As I went in though this door it was covered with wildlife ... lakes ... waterfall's ... rainbow's ... animals drinking from the lake and they were mostly deer.
Then Jesus said to me "This is the New Earth which we will Treasure"
Jesus voice sounded like my thoughts .. His mouth moved but I heard it in my mind/thoughts … it was a familiar voice. I think I have been hearing His voice all my life .. I just thought they were my own thoughts but now I realize that He has been speaking to me for ages.
Then Jesus took me out into space … I didn’t see myself floating in space but I felt I was looking to earth from this space like satellite vision and Jesus showed me the Old Earth and it was covered and surrounded by a black mist of sin. I just knew it was sin … It was obvious to me as I have read my children’s bible many times … What else could it be I thought!
The Lord then took me down to visit it and All the buildings were crumbled and destroyed. There was No life in it at all ... all the plants had died. I saw no people on it ... it was all deserted. Jesus said to me " This is the earth that man has Destroyed"
" What I have shown you I want more people to see ”.
I have shown you this because I want you to tell the people that you have seen this and that they should Turn Back to God.
This is what is going to happen and you can't stop this but " You can help Save more People ”
Jesus left and I woke up again back in my seat in church.
This is every parents dream that the Lord would take their children and show them His Heavenly Kingdom. We know our son and this is a totally genuine experience.
It was incredible to see this happen to him ... but at times during the encounter it was some what fearful as I could see the Fear & Awe of the Lord upon Michael's little face.
We feel that the Lord has commissioned Michael that very night before our eyes.
And last night at church before he spoke Michael shared with me that he was hoping that at least 50 % of the people in church would not be Christians so they could hear his message and be saved.
Richest Blessings
Ian & Jane McCormack
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Roll Over - God surrounded me during a roll over accident a few years ago – doctors said I was a miracle.
Then, one day, a knot appeared in my back while walking across a parking lot – I realized I was having grumbling thoughts ...
But it was a gorgeous, beautiful day!
I was outside in the fresh air, getting exercise and there was no reason to be negative.
And, God intervened, causing me to look up and take in the beauty of His creation. I heard myself just said no. (It was totally God working in me.)
"I will not entertain these negative grumblings," I said. "Wow, God, look at this gorgeous day, Your glorious creation and 73° degrees!"
And, THE KNOT AND PAIN
LEFT IMMEDIATELY!
Was I ever surprised -
what a God lesson!!!
It was God at work in me to help me say no and what a blessing resulted! Healing! Joy! Freedom!
Available to all of us is God Almighty, watching, caring, helping us through life.
No more being distraught!
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Ask about being Unhinged from traps and snares coming at you.
Have an awesome Jesus filled day!
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l heard this story and you may have already heard it but this story is rather "astonishing". Some details may be slightly different due to story telling chain however the heart of the story is the same.
There was a man who worked in a service station (Gas station)
This was to be his last shift at work.
He was an Unbeliever and didnt know the Lord .
He was in a desparate state and in this hopeless state he pleaded and asked God a radical question .
Something so out of character that if it was done ,it would prove to him that God exists and there would be no mistake or gray areas in believing God were true. So he asked God
"God , if your real and you hear me ,to convinve me , l want to see someone do a HANDSTAND right here in the store."
That afternoon a girl was traveling in her car . She was a true beliwver in Christ and had a very close relationship with the Lord .During prayer she heard the voice of God and he tell her to sotp at that particular gas station and go inside. When she was inside she heard God tell her to do a handstand. She thought it was a strange request and hesitated for a moment but as usual she would always obey the voice of God and she did a HANDSTAND up against the drinks refridgerator.
When she got up she saw the fellow behind the counter at the gas station holding a gun.
She was shocked to see this but then he said....
I was going to take me own life today but i asked God if He was true and real to prove it to me by showing me someone doing a handstand right hear in the store. Now you come in and did a Handstand that no one else knew what l asked.
This was Gods perfect proof that he not only heard His desperate plea ,but He is real and does exist.
Romans 10:13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Anonymous
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Subject: Billy Curtis short stories
In Memphis Tennessee 1975-77
I was 6 my sister Michelle 4
My mother aunt and grandma decided to go to the neighborhood corner store. But made me stay and watch my sister. They leave. I knew where they went and I shortly decided I would leave my sister and go anyways. I was too young to watch my sister and wanted candy. It was only a few blocks so I walked it. I got to the street across from the store. I looked both ways and started crossing. I look back to my left and see a 57 Chevy coming at me 80 mph in a 25 zone. It had me dead to rights there was no escape. An angel said just 2 words to me. Lay down. I never saw it. I did so and the car ran right over top of me. Not so much as a scratch. 15-20 witnesses. My aunt still lives and will attest to it. The ambulance couldn't find so much as a scratch on me.
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Have to share this -I saw on a Facebook post !!its not from me but good all the same
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I'm very stressed. I found out last night that they are kicking most of the people out of my apartment complex to upgrade and raise rent by more than 100$. Where am I going to go? Rent is outrageous everywhere. What about my neighbor that is on disability, or the little girl upstairs that just got out of the hospital with a heart condition? It's all I've been able to think about at work today. Then I get to lunch, and go for my baby carrots and I see this. That is my hand writing. I don't remember writing it, don't know why I would write it on a clothes pin, don't remember seeing it when I used the clothes pin to close up the bag of carrots this morning. But there it was, a prefect word from God at the perfect time. I still don't have the answers, don't know what is going to happen but Praise God I have peace! I hope this helps someone else today. I'm praying for you all. ❤
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The little boy put on his clothes for the cold and then told his father:
"Ok dad I'm ready"
His Dad, the pastor, said: "Ready for what?"
"Dad, it's time to go outside and distribute our flyers."
Dad replied: "Son, it's very cold outside and it's drizzling."
The child looked surprised at his father and said: "But dad, people need to know about God even on rainy days."
Dad replied, "Son, I'm not going outside in this weather."
With despair, the child said: "Dad, can I go alone? Please!"
His father waited for a moment and then said: "Son, you can go. Here's the flyers, be careful."
"Thank you dad!"
And with this, the son went out into the rain. The 11-Year-old walked all the streets of the village, handing out the flyers to the people he saw.
After 2 hours walking in the rain and cold and with his last flyer in his hand, he stopped at a corner to see if he saw someone to give the flyer to, but the streets were totally deserted. Then he turned to the first house he saw, walked to the front door, rang the bell several times and waited, but no one came out.
Finally the boy turned to leave... but something stopped him. The child turned back to the door and began to ring the bell and pound the door strongly with his knuckles. He kept waiting. Finally the door was opened gently.
A lady came out with a very sad look and gently asked:
"What can I do for you, son?
With radiant eyes and a bright smile the child said:
"Lady, I'm sorry if I upset you, but I just want to tell you that God really loves you and that I came to give you my last flyer, which talks about God and His great love.
The boy then gave her the flyer.
She just said, "Thank you, son, God bless you!"
Well, next Sunday morning, the pastor was in the pulpit and when the service began he asked:
"Does someone have a testimony or something they want to share?"
Gently, in the back row of the church, an older lady stood up. When she started talking, a radiant and glorious look sprouted from her eyes:
"Nobody in this church knows me. I have never been here, even last Sunday I was not Christian.
My husband died a while ago leaving me totally alone in this world. Last Sunday was a particularly cold and rainy day, and it was also in my heart; that on that day I came to the end of the road, since I had no hope and didn't want to live anymore.
Then I took a chair and a rope and went up to the attic of my house. I tied a noose and the other end of the rope to the rafters of the roof; then I climbed onto the chair and put the rope around my neck.
I then stood on the chair, so alone and heartbroken, I was about to throw myself off the chair, when suddenly I heard the loud sound of the door being knocked.
So I thought: "I'll wait for a minute and whoever it is will go"
I waited and waited, but the door knocking was getting louder and louder every time. It got so loud that I couldn't ignore it anymore.
So I wondered, who could it be?
No one ever comes close to my door or comes to visit me!
I released the rope from my neck and went to the door, while the bell was still ringing and the door was still being knocked on.
When I opened the door, I couldn't believe what my eyes saw, in front of my door was the most radiant and angelic child I've ever seen.
He's smile, ohhh, I can never describe it! The words that came out of his mouth made my heart, dead so long ago, come back to life, when he said with the VOICE OF CHERUB: "Lady, I just want to tell you that God really loves you"
"When the little angel disappeared between the cold and the rain, I closed my door and read every word of the flyer.
Then I went to the attic to remove the chair and rope.
I didn't need them anymore. As you see. Now I am a happy daughter of the King.
Since the direction of the boy, when he left, was to this church, I came personally say thank you to that little angel of God who came just in time and, in fact, to rescue my life from an eternity in hell. And replaced it with an eternity in God's presence. "
Everyone cried in the church.
The Pastor came down from the pulpit to the first bench of the front, where the little angel was sitting; he took his son in his arms and cried uncontrollably.
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Don't let this message die of cold; after reading it, pass it on to others.
Remember, God's message can make a big difference in someone's life, never be afraid to spread it.
Can I get an AMEN?
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I was excited to be baptized .( years ago) I had the Catholic ritual of a sprinkling of water on the head, when l was a baby as l grew up in a Catholic faith although our family wasn't really church goers. Not my choice!
They had no understanding of the bible or anything but did believe in God .
I heard Jesus speak o me ,when l was in a Catholic church one day .This voice said "come out of her".
That's where it all started I suppose .That's why l know God was looking out for me all those years ago.
When I became Born Again and renounced the Catholic faith it was because l really got to know Jesus .
Jesus was the one who lead me out of New Age completely. I was in New Age for around 5 years -that was long enough .Ended up in full spiritual warfare battle - Theres a whole other story in between here--
On the day of my baptism ,I was already previously delivered and was living as a born again Christian for probably about one year . Jesus told me the word "full submersion" and I knew he meant baptism -I was ready to declare my faith to Jesus and everyone who would listen.
I felt washed clean , I felt alive and renewed-Thank God !
I had a woman prophecy over me on that day of my baptism and she said"Jesus is showing me a big dark cloud that was above you and its all gone now and he is saying "its time"!
These were the words Jesus also spoke to me when he was calling me out of New Age i kept hearing "its time'"its time"over and over.
The woman who gave me this phophetic messgae was right.
Incidently Jesus told me this baptism was to be in NOVEMBER . When l told the Pastor he said ,"no we dont have baptism in november". However on that day in the Pastors office he grabbed his diary to show me, he flipped open the diary to November and there was a day that had 6 people booked in for baptism he never knew about.
I said "that is they day because you cant argue if Jesus says"..
I will never look back !'
- Lee Arne
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this story is just taken from the internet
On July 7, 2016 at 12:13 AM my wife was dying. She just had an emergency C-section and went into shock. I stood by her head while she was bleeding out and remembered every fight we ever had and the things I never did for her. I couldn’t let her know how scared I was. I stood in front of my wife saying my final good bye!
What do you say to someone knowing it’s going to be the last time you talk to them.
I tried so hard to comfort her and tell her everything is okay. I tried to smile and pretend that it’s all part of the operation. They called a "Code blue" and people started rushing into the room. She was shaking so much!!! I kissed her, and asked God “please don’t take her home.”
I thought about all the times I missed church at XXXX church . I thought about how to tell my new family the bad news. So much was going through my mind that I had no time to enjoy my son.
I had to be strong for my family. I had to put the weight upon my shoulders and walk with this load of having my wife pass in the operating room.
I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to pray because I thought God would shun me for not being a good Christian.
I was so sorry and asked God if somehow he could just hear this last request.
I was rushed to a different room and waited for about 10 mins. Jackie finally showed up and my heart was so so so so heavy with grief.
I wanted to pick her up and carry her out of the hospital as if everything would be fine. I wanted to leave and have this nightmare be over! I stood with Jackie for about 3 minutes and the worst happened. She lost about 1 litter of blood in a couple seconds.
I didn’t say anything, I was so scared.
I just looked at my wife and couldn’t utter a word. I wanted to say I love you and tell her it’s okay.
I wanted to help her as much as I could.
I wanted to stop everything and start all over again. I knew she was dying in front of me.
They called another " Code Blue"! This time my heart stopped. I thought why didn’t I pray every night! Why didn’t I love her like God has loved me! I died in that room! I truly died! I didn’t know what to do again. I watched helplessly as they tried to save my wife. People were running and pushing me farther away from her. She finally uttered a word and it was like the room went silent. She asked for some water and I knew she was leaving earth.
They took me and my newborn son to another room. As we were walking I saw my mom and family. I wanted so hard for someone to hold me. I wanted someone to carry me like a kid and tell me it’s gonna be okay. I didn’t want to be a man anymore. I wanted to cry! I wanted to cry out to God and ask him why! I stood by my family for about 2 minutes looking at everyone and holding back all of my emotions. My mother asked me “how is Jackie?” I almost lost it and cried like a baby. I just shrugged my shoulders and said I don’t know yet. I was lying, I knew she was in really bad shape. I wanted to run back in the room and hold her but I had to take care of my son now. He had to be given antibiotics to prevent an infection from starting. After about 5 minutes I asked the nurses if I can go see my wife and they reluctantly said yes. The hallway to where my wife was is about 40 yards. I walked about 5 yards and started crying alone. I couldn’t keep up this persona for much longer. I was scared to walk back and hear the news. I wanted my dad to comfort me! I’m still his little boy!
I had around 30 something yards to walk and God spoke to me. Gabriel my son I love you more than you can imagine. I heard you and I was there! I saw the c section. I helped the doctors find the problem. I saw when she hemorrhaged and made sure they caught it really quick. I was waiting for you in this hallway when you wanted your father. It’s okay to call on me. I will always love you. Just as you asked to save your wife. I’ve been asking my father to save yours. I walked with more love in my heart for everything in that moment.
My wife and son are doing great and will be discharged Sunday. If you see me at church don’t ask me where I have been. Just say I’m glad to see you’re home!
Credit: Dawson Wilford
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Caren Remmy Use forst name only -She has more remid her to give them( about a car accident)
OK, nothing huge, but God takes care of everything. Even the little things and it does say He wants us to seek Him in all aspects of our lives. Just yesterday I was slammed with our business and so was my husband. He was on a conference call when I got back from getting our son from track practice and UPS had not come to get our packages. We had 2 super full pick up truck loads. My husband's truck was already loaded so I got Eli to load mine with the rest. I prayed on the way there that we would have a spot to unload in front of the UPS store and we would be able to get it all done. We had a spot and started to unload. A super nice young man asked if he could help us unload. Since most of the packages were too big for the cart and I have a really bad knee, I accepted. He was so kind I thanked him several times. He told us you are welcome and God bless you when he was walking away. We also said the same to him. That right there was God providing more than I asked for in my prayers. I made sure Eli saw and knew that as well. He loves us so much and takes care of so much that we do not even realize and when asked will also provide more than what we even thought to ask of Him. He never ceases to amaze me. I also had to drive my husband's truck to the big hub in the city since he was till on the conference call and we made it in plenty of time despite not having much and the guy at the hub was super nice and let us unload right into the warehouse instead of dragging it all into the office area. I have so many stories of Him intervening for me and hearing and answering my prayers, maybe I should write a book LOL
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Ana Maria-gERMANY
God helped me with my depression, i still have sometimes depressed moments but no panic attacks more in the day or night, i can handle stress much better since i found God and the Lord Jesus. My mom disease, dont know the name of it now, but itvhas something to do with her veins and the arms always hurt her a lot, after praying for her it was gone, always also when we are sick. A cousin of mine was lying in the hospital in coma, the doctors gave him no change to live anymore because his organs were not working anymore, he got up after praying for him, many of us prayed for him, the doctors were really scared surprised because of his conditions, he is still alive now after 3 or 4 years. Another family member a old women i think she is 70 or so, they brought her to hospital because they thought she will die , but after the some days she got up and said she wanna serve God and the Lord Jesus, everyone thought she will surely die because of her illness, nut no she ist still alive today, many years from then. Since i got saved i saw many miracles after praying or asking for something like information or guidance, healing and deliverance, God and the Lord Yeshua always answered my prayers, im very thankful for thatbecause life is still hard to live for me, but God is always there and also the Lord Yeshua. Im sorry for my English, im from România but I live in Germany. May God and the Lord Yeshua bless you all and save you all
If you have questions always ask God,
and He will answer!!!!
ana maria
permission to publish and use name
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ANA MARIA AGAin HERE
I was a normal orthodox believer, but when i was 27 i think something was changed inside of me. I wnated to know if there is a God and when it is true then i wanted to serve Him. I was lost in believing in vampire, witch stuff and aliens, and after i saw many documentary about the unknown things that is happening i started to believe that the aliens are real and maybe they created the world and people, becauwe of the Anunnaki documentary i saw. And then after thinking of this, in one night a saw a vision , i a light but I couldn't look at it because i knew it was God, and i was sitting down holding my head between my legs and was so scared, because i knew it was God and i said immediately im sorry for believing in aliens, i knew somehow He was angry because of it, and then He called me by my name and the dream stopped. I didn't knew then that this was significant, because i didn't read the Bible then. So after that it started. I was believing now that God existed but i was somehow against the Lord Jesus, i dont know something was like holding me back, to fix my heart and mind on him. So i stared praying every day, i alwys asked God for every question i had, i asked him once like a if the bible was true, and He showed me in a dream at that night how people where walking oh two books, old and young children everyone stepped on it, and I took them and put them in my jacket. I talked with a pastor Phlillip of Baptist then because he always was visiting a neighbor of mine , because the family were Baptist and i asked them about God and the believe they had, because i really had insese of me the will to serve God, it was so strong that feeling, really. And the Pastor Philip told me to ask God if He hears my prayer, when in the night i stared to pray I asked God" do you really hear my prayer" and then it was the first time, because it happened many many times after it, the first time a saw after asking God, that a star felt. I got so scared, really scared , it was to much for me. But it i was also happy, because i understood God was with me. God gave me many many dreams, He was sending me once in a dream a beautiful sword with so may jewelry on it, with pearls and so beautiful decorations. When i got up in the night after dreaming it, i asked God " is it because i need to fight?" and immediately a star felt, and I understood. And you need to know that satan always attacked me, there are demons, fallen angels , creature that look like in the horror movies, like in Harry Potter movie , this litte ugly creature in the movie is real, the shadow like in the Harry Potter movie are real. The clothing of Ku klux clan are the same like a femaledemon, i saw. There is a demon the is influencing the horrormovies and its the same like in the churches where they say they speak in tongues, but the do only bubbles, spaeking in tongues is speaking in other languages, God showed me that , you speak about Him in other languages to peopel to magnify Him , for His glory speaking in tongues is done, so the people see His power. After some dreams and days i found to Jesus, I dont know anymore how, i think the first time the Lord came to me in my dreams was when i was attacked many times in my dreams, i had many sleep paralysis, really bad . Once i saw the Lord Jesus, He came to me and told " Look here you will come" and He embraced me , and looked behind me I knew there was the devil because o could feel his presence, the Lord Jesus wa angry, and He told him something, but i couldn't hear it, and then He took me with Him, up in the sky, i saw the clouds under my feets this is the only thing i remember. The Lord Yeshua has a sun-kissed skin, brown curly hair and a beard , and His eyes are like brown green, and He is so beautiful really, He teached me how to commend in His Name to the unclean spirits that were in my body to leave, i dint knew about it because I didn't read the biblie back then, but He teached me that, i asked Him to tech me and He did so, when my dog was sick i put my hand on him , and he was getting better, i dint know that you need to put the hands on someone to pray for healing but God always lead to. The unclean spirits that left my body looked like darkgreen smoke, and it always hurted me when they left, this happened always in my dreams, after i was delivered the fight began every night in sleep, sometimes even in the day when I tried ro sleep, where sin is there is a open door for them , and they can attack, i know now it was because of the books i was reading, the movies i saw and because of the music i heard. I dont watch Hollywood movies, and dont listen to Beyoncé, Rihanna or stuff like that, because than they can emter into your life and attack you, the will reap you , or torture you and stuff like that, yes its the true its sad but ist true. The fallen angels the male one, the always wanna sleep with women's, they desire for women's, this is what i experienced.
Part 2 is coming
I asked God once after i saw a testimony, if it is true that they put spells on music and He showed me in a dream how in a song of lady gaga, there was behind the song ,there were many voices of demons how they were speaking in a language i didn't understand. Once i was so sad because after I have found God and the Lord there were always in my mind bad stuff against God and His Son, really disgusting thoughts,( now I know it was because of the influence of movies and ect.) so i was so shocked because o f my thoughts and didnt understood why this is happening now , and before i was a believe there were not thoughts like that, so i stared really bad crying i had a really bad breakdown because of it, and I told God that i wanted to die, because I dont want to sin like this against Him, and after praying i lay down in my bed. I saw in my dream how i was walking in heaven on clouds, there were clouds everywhere and someone was behind me but i couldn't see who, and I a walked i saw down a golden gate and some peopel stood there and I said,: ahh there are not many" after I walked straight and came before a really really huge Throne and there was someone sitting with white hair and a white beard and he had a silver rod in his hand, and he talked to someone sitting left next to him, I couldn't hear what He said and as i turned my head to see who is there i saw only fog clouds, like someone was in the fog I knew it , then something automatically so tender turned my head back to left again to the person i saw, you need to know that o didn't read the Bible back then, where it says that the Lord Yeshua is sitting to the right of God the Father, please believe me i dont lie, i saw the Lord sitting on His Throne beside God, but I couldn't see God because of the fog, now I know nobody can. And after God moved my head back to the Lord Yeshua i walked to Them and I was sitting down , but their Thrones are raelly like 10 meters big, and it was silver colored and it has a special relief on it. After i sat down a saw in front that there was a Asien man on his knees in front of God and the Lord Yeshua and this man, was naked but you couldn't see nothing only I know he was naked and he was crying a lot desperately, and fire was going through his skin and face but it didn't burn him, but he was so sorry and so sad. After that gou up from the dream
After I saw some preaching online about the baptism i also wanted to get baptized, i started also to read the new testament, so I talked to the pastor Philip who was a Baptist pastor if he can bless me , i believed then that i need a pastor to get blessed by God. So I meet him and his wife and the neighbors, and we talked about God and i asked him about the sabath and he told , they dont keep it, I saw once Dough Batchelor preaching about it, and it was interesting for me, but the pastor told no ist not important and... then they told me to get on my knees because the will pray over me, and I did. And as they prayed i felt like really im not lying i felt how my heart turned 2 times in my breast, and it scared me, this happened at the moment i stared to believe before I saw the Lord Yeshua. So I didn't said nothing and got home and started crying, a lot and told God that I really wanted to serve Him but i need His help, because something felt wrong for me. I had spoken to the pastor because of my baptism, i told him i want to repent and be baptized by him. In the night after I cried a lot, i saw in a vision my self how i kneed and the people i was with and the Pastor prayed over me, i saw exactly what happened, and then a hand was laid on my righ shoulder from behind and i knew it was death, the death is like a person a dead greenviollettyellow body , and I understood that i shouldn't go there anymore because if i did i will die. After many years i understood why God didn't let me there ,these people are deceived they dont keep the sabath, and God Festivals, they speks in "languages" and are lost. God showed me once in a dream, that there was a church and it was dark inside and cild , it looked like a catholic church and they had only 9 from the 10 Commands of God, they only keep the 9, so I understood why there were still in dark. Everytime i saw this world in my dreams and visons the wordl alwys is dark, cloudy dark grey. After I stopped going to the neighbors because of the dream i had, what scared me a lot, i got baptized at home in my own bathroom in my own bathtub, and I told God i wnated to go to church but i couldn't find no one that was holding and preaching His will, and I said i wan You to baptized me God, and I said i baptized me in the name of the father and the lord and the holy spirit, and I dit it alone. After that i baptized my parents and sisters, i now some will judge me for that but i wanted to get saved and i wnated it also for my family, i talked a lot with them about what God told me and showed me, the Lord Yeshua once told me as i laid on my bed i didn't slpee i was awake, He spoke really clear 3 times, repent, repent , repent. There are so many dreams and visions, i try with the help of God to tell some of them. I asked God once what is the sign of the satan, and in a dream that night a saw a girl and she was talking to me, she said :ohh we have the same sign" and i answer : no we dont, i have Gods sign" on my hand there was something like a Quadrat and in the 4 corner of it there were like 4 litters in each of it, I think its hebrew but i dont know for sure, after I saw the hebrew alphabet look similar, but im not sure. But on the girls hand , i mean the palm of the hand was one eyes painted. After this vision i stared to research and I found this sign in churches, ortodox and catholics and ohters, in Religon like islam and budism, music , movies ....everything i ever leanerd it is because of God and the Lord Yeshua i asked God about his name, many times when I had sleep paralysis i screamed YAHWEH, and the demons got really really scared and angry. But i stii wanted to know what what His Name for real because there are many who says Jehova , so i asked God about it. The next day i was not dreaming, i went out with my sister and dog for a walk, and we walked, as we passed one house we both saw on the ground with chalk written by kids I think, YAHWEH. My sister and me were shocked because of what we saw but I knew it was the answer, so we took paper and cleaned it of so people will not walk on it, because Gods Name is Holy , YAHWEH is his name
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Jack -( use first name only as requested by jack)
I laid hands on my mother's arm and prayed for her after it was badly disabled with muscle waste for over a year.
That night as she lay in bed it healed miraculously.
I prayed for many of my relatives and other friends and family. Thier autism symptoms went away.
I prayed for an ex army friend who had been experiencing severe lower back pain that he couldn't gym properly. It went immediately.
Lots of wonderful prayers that worked when resting in faith. Even when the enemy was trying to attack my mind to cause me to lose faith.
They still panned out by the grace and power of God to show His glory. It's been wonderful.
One of the greatest prayers I have ever prayed as led by the Holy Spirit was for suffering that no matter what I go through the Lord make me the sword of His truth(to cut through the lies was the concept).
And within two weeks I was attacked by the highest echelons of spiritual wickedness.
Through it all He protected and protects me.
So under His watchful gaze I learn. It's perfect.
He loves you
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This tells a Story of how GOD supplies us with our Needs ...and shows us His love .
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace [every favor and earthly blessing] come in abundance to you, so that you may always [under all circumstances, regardless of the need] have complete sufficiency in everything [being completely self-sufficient in Him], and have an abundance for every good work and act of charity.
Our Church started a Soup Kitchen many years ago.
It feeds anywhere between 70-100 people every Wednesday.
It is free and open to anyone to come ,and you get a wonderful homemade lunch ,usually 3 courses, made by Anton and Jenny ,and supported by a lot of volunteer staff that support in many ways .
There is always an abundance of fresh fruit and vegies and breads ,gathered in lots for anyone to take.
This is a story that Jenny shared with me one day as we were talking about the Miracles God gives throughout our Christian lives, and how he supplies us with everything we need. I hope you enjoy reading .
One day , as Jenny and Anton prepared meals ,the Blender stick broke. It was a very well used tool in the kitchen that could wisk up anything from a chunky soup to a puree ,gravy and thicken cream. It was the one appliance that they always relied upon in meal preparation.
Understanding that from week to week we make the most of what we have and money is scarce, obviously they needed to provide a new one for the kitchen. Anton knew a good strong one was needed and of course a better one is more expense.
Discussions were made about what to do.
The soup Kitchen is run from a small public hall that the Local Council hire out to people who require a hall or a kitchen. The next week Anton went back into the kitchen to prepare for the Wednesday meal as usual.
As they walked into the clean kitchen they began to prepare the meals. Jenny opened up a cupboard and to her delight she saw a Stick blender. Not like her old one that broke , but an expensive stainless steel one, a much stronger one . It was just like the one that had hoped to buy to replace the broken one.
enny and Anton became confused. How did this get here ? Who did it belong to ?
They had asked the hall management team if anyone else had used the kitchen from the last time they had used it. They were told no one had used the kitchen. They were the last people to use it.
So they pondered...... if no one had used the kitchen, and we have never seen this stick blender before, then how did it get here and why is it here...??
They became filled with JOY ,and they knew that only God could have known and answered their prayers. It might be a simple kitchen tool but for the soup Kitchen it was much needed appliance and used weekly in meal preparation.
Jenny and Anton have no doubt in their mind that it was given to them from God so they can keep going with their much need work at the Soup Kitchen. A little miracle !
They shared with me another story about the soup Kitchen on another occasion....
It was a time they prepared meals of chicken for about 70 people ,but on this occasion many more people had came.
Over time the soup Kitchen has become bigger and supplying a demand for more meals for people.
I think Jenny said about 90 people had come on this occasion, from my memory.
Jenny was concerned about not being able to feed all the unexpected people and what were they going to do.
(They had counted the chicken pieces and only had enough for 70 people.)
Anton's faith was strong and he said "Do not to worry about it, it will work out..".
So they keep dishing out the meals ...to all the 90 people on that day -even for the extra people and
to their surprise and delight , after all the meals were done ,they had 10 pieces of chicken leftover afterward.
Praise God he is faithful !
God is loving the work being done by all at this Soup Kitchen and blessing in so many ways.
This brings to mind the verse in the Bible about Jesus feeding 5000.
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God will always show up for us when we are in trouble or facing our darkest fears, we just need to have faith and believe in Him.
Willie Myrick, a 10-year-old boy, was born to parents who are atheists. However, his godmother, Codetta Bateman, taught him about the bible, took him to church and helped him grow his faith in the Lord. Little did he know that his faith in God was going to be the thing that saved his life in the future.
The young boy faced one of life’s worst nightmares when he was kidnapped from his front yard while playing with his dog.
The kidnapper put Willie in his car and drove around Atlanta. At first, Willie was very scared as he thought the kidnapper would hurt him.
However, his fear soon turned into faith, and he burst out singing Hezekiah Walker’s “Every Praise,” a well-known gospel song.The young boy kept signing the song without stopping for three hours, even though the kidnapper kept threatening him.
After a while, Willie’s singing got to the kidnapper, who left him in a random neighborhood, before driving off.Willie’s favorite song not only comforted him in a potentially deadly situation, it also saved him! “I knew it by heart, I could sing the whole thing by heart. If you praise the Lord, He will help you in a mysterious way.” He said.Willie ran to a nearby home and where he was able to call his godmother.
Willie believes God is his best friend. He said, “I always believe God is with me wherever I go. Like when am in bed, He is at the chair just watching.”
Willie’s story made headlines across the world. He was invited to numerous talk shows and even got a chance to perform his song of deliverance with Hezekiah Walker, thanks to the media attention he received from his testimony.While he is enjoying being in the spotlight, he says he is just an ordinary kid who serves an extraordinary God.He said, “It really doesn’t matter to me. As long as I still have Jesus and he’s still working, doing his little magic, well it’s not magic, it’s just power.”
What an amazing Kid. I can definitely see GOD working through Him.
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We would like to try and let every one hear what Michael our 10 year old son experienced in church a couple of Sunday's ago. Be blessed at this amazing experience.
Just to fill you in .. on Sunday night 10th April the children had come up from children's church as our adult service was just finishing .... The Holy Spirit began to fall upon our eldest daughter Lisa who is 13 year old ... and then the Holy Spirit came powerfully on our son Michael. A number of church folks were around as began to see ... some of the first ones were Barbara Burridge and Clare Williams & Pip Earl .. Andrew Meyrick who transcribed most of this encounter and myself, my wife Jane & Alex Herd.
It was amazing to watch as the Lord touched Michael and then took him into Heaven and showed him so many things for about 45 minutes then he came out of it .. it was awesome to be there and see this encounter.
At the same time this was happening the Holy Spirit fell upon our youngest daughter Sarah who is 9 years of age and then Lilly Earl her 6 year old friend.
Jane & I have spend the past hour this morning with Michael going over what Andrew transcribed that night as we feel that there was so much more that you didn't hear of last night at church.
Here is abit more detail of what the Lord showed Michael .... We pray it blesses you all and helps you to see by Revelation what the Lord has just shown him.
Sunday night : 10th April, 2011.
As I came into church I felt to sit down and pray to Jesus. As I did a Light shone on me and with that light came an Overflowing Love. I was then lifted up into the heavens in this white light.I saw Angels coming around me, surrounding me as I went up. They were clothed in white robes and had shining faces with wings. They were floating around me .. like they were hovering .. their wings were fully open and moving quite slowly and they had no shoes on.
Then Jesus was suddenly next to me in white shining clothing ... and I saw the shape of His face which was light. I couldn’t see the color of His eyes or hair …. His face was in this golden Light. He was twice the size of me. Jesus smiled at me … and I felt loved.
He showed me Heavens Gate .. it was Golden ... with a massive Palace & town. The Palace and the town was surrounded by a wall ... it was golden in color.
I then saw these massive Golden Gates open towards me. And I saw a bright shining light, coming out as the doors opened. God's voice spoke to me from inside. He said " Come my son " . It was a voice not an impression … I felt excited about what it was going to be like inside … and if I was actually going to go inside at all.
Jesus took me around lovely meadows surrounded by animal’s .. rabbits .. deer ... foxes .. I also saw a pheasant & a dog that was lying down and resting.
Jesus took me to a Throne Room ... it had golden pillars and paintings like you see in old churches and jewels every where. The windows in the Throne room were in the shape of diamonds and they formed pictures .. some had angels in them . The Throne room was massive and there were jewels in the pillars & jewels in the walls but not on the floor. I was blown out when I saw it …. .
I saw two rows of angels with banners on the end of golden trumpets … they were standing in rows in front of the throne … As we walked towards the throne the angels were on either side of Jesus & myself. Their Golden trumpets were raised … we walked right up to the throne and they were playing … And there were people with harps in the back ground and there was music as we entered the throne room. .
The banners on the trumpets where purple and golden with no picture on them. The trumpets were long like they have in Narnia when they crowned Edmund, Peter, Susan & Lucy at Cair Paravel.
The angels were a bit bigger than Jesus and they had different faces. They were wearing white robes and had wings coming out of their back but their wings were all folded down.
There were creatures around the throne. They were not like real animals but a combination of different animals ... like an Eagle & a Lion .... they had Eagles wings coming out of the Lions backs. And they were singing " Hosanna "
They were playing with Harps and some thing that looked like a tambourine { e.g. small drum with small cymbals }
Jesus held out a staff in His hand, it was wooden like a shepherd's staff.
I saw three thrones . The one in the middle was for the Father … Jesus was to sit on the right hand side of the Father and the Holy Spirit in the left hand side.
As I looked at each Throne they almost looked liked they were joined together, as if they were one throne. The Throne's were Golden & I saw jewels covering the thrones ... the jewels were all the color's ... emerald, ruby, sapphire blue, yellow , purple .. etc plus ones I had never seen before. The thrones were empty. No one was on the thrones and there was no one else around except me & Jesus, the angels and the lion with the wings.
I looked up and saw no roof above the Throne's ... I saw clouds above the throne like the Northern Lights but much greater ... with angels dancing in the clouds in a line. I was taken up into these clouds and began to dance with the Angels. I felt lots of energy … hyper … and the angels had instruments and there was music but the angels I was dancing with were not singing, it was coming from somewhere else.
Then the Lord took me outside to the town .. It changed instantly … one minute I was in one place and the next I was in another place .. in an instant. And the town was lined with Golden roads.
I came to a River of Life ... it was crystal clear ... fast flowing and it was coming out from the tree ( Tree of Life) like a big strong oak tree and it had a thick trunk. The water was flowing from the Tree of Life into the houses and it was powering them, giving them light. Jesus dipped His hands into the River of Life and began to pour water over my head. It was nicer than real water .. it felt so good … it felt refreshing and it gave me a good feeling .. like after you have done something really good.
The Tree of Life had loads of fruit on it and each day the youngest child came and took a piece of fruit to share it with their families. They lived on that fruit for the day. There was different fruit on the tree and they looked like pomegranates/apples and there were grapes, oranges, banana's ... every single type of fruit on the same tree.
I saw some adults with children walking down the street with their children and their faces were full of light and they seemed to be always smiling … They were people who had died and gone to heaven … some were like toddlers … and some were like my age 10 – 12 year olds … all different ages. And the parents helped the toddlers by lifting them up to pick the fruit off the tree of life. They lived in families. The houses they lived in were plain and simple but the bricks were golden.
Then Jesus took me to a door. It was a normal door and it was made from an oak tree ... there was a jewel on the end of the handle. It was a Ruby. I could tell that it was a ruby as I have read a book about Gems and someone had brought some jewelry to school. And I had watched a jewelry program with dad on TV when he was trying to buy mum a present.
The oak door opened and I went through this door and came into a beautiful garden which was the New Earth. As I went in though this door it was covered with wildlife ... lakes ... waterfall's ... rainbow's ... animals drinking from the lake and they were mostly deer.
Then Jesus said to me "This is the New Earth which we will Treasure"
Jesus voice sounded like my thoughts .. His mouth moved but I heard it in my mind/thoughts … it was a familiar voice. I think I have been hearing His voice all my life .. I just thought they were my own thoughts but now I realize that He has been speaking to me for ages.
Then Jesus took me out into space … I didn’t see myself floating in space but I felt I was looking to earth from this space like satellite vision and Jesus showed me the Old Earth and it was covered and surrounded by a black mist of sin. I just knew it was sin … It was obvious to me as I have read my children’s bible many times … What else could it be I thought!
The Lord then took me down to visit it and All the buildings were crumbled and destroyed. There was No life in it at all ... all the plants had died. I saw no people on it ... it was all deserted. Jesus said to me " This is the earth that man has Destroyed"
" What I have shown you I want more people to see ”.
I have shown you this because I want you to tell the people that you have seen this and that they should Turn Back to God.
This is what is going to happen and you can't stop this but " You can help Save more People ”
Jesus left and I woke up again back in my seat in church.
This is every parents dream that the Lord would take their children and show them His Heavenly Kingdom. We know our son and this is a totally genuine experience.
It was incredible to see this happen to him ... but at times during the encounter it was some what fearful as I could see the Fear & Awe of the Lord upon Michael's little face.
We feel that the Lord has commissioned Michael that very night before our eyes.
And last night at church before he spoke Michael shared with me that he was hoping that at least 50 % of the people in church would not be Christians so they could hear his message and be saved.
Richest Blessings
Ian & Jane McCormack
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Healed of demons and schizophrenia
As a child I viewed myself as normal, while everyone around was not of the norm. I can
rememberAs a child I viewed myself as normal, while everyone around was not of the norm. I can
remember hearing voices as a child. As time progressed the voices would become
overwhelming, my environment becoming stressful. Soon at the age if eight or nine depression
fell upon me. I thought everyone had these problems from hearing voices to feeling depressed.
So I did not say anything to anyone. When I was 11 yrs old, my father walked by my bedroom, I
was not sure what to say, so I said that I wanted to be a christian. My mind was the very thing
that received Christ.
I can remember at the age of three years old, I had an imagination, I imagined a beautiful
image. I went into my bedroom and grabbed the Little People garage, I turned it over, with a
crayon I scribbled. I was very disappointed that the image did not turn out the way I pictured it
in my head. From that point on I wanted to do artwork for as long as I was able to pickup
anything that I could use to draw with. When I entered grade school, I enjoyed my art classes, I
also enjoyed sports. In my second grade year, I was drawing all over my homework
I constantly doodled up till the middle of the year. My second grade teacher had become very
upset, so my father bought me art supplies and signed me up for art classes. A little bit later as
I was drawing, I started to draw demons. At this point I felt an evil presence, a presence that
was there from when I was three years old.
By the time I reached the age of eight, I felt different (at this point its a bit hard to pin point age
eight or nine years old). The depression fell upon me, the way the sun would set, or the way the
sunlight would shine through the windows of the places we lived in. Sometimes it would be the
way the sun would shine on buildings in the evening. Then overcasts days would play a huge
part. I started to feel dark, I ignored this as I thought that it was not a big deal.
Then I entered my adolescence the voices had become more prominent, I had become
suicidal. My first attempt was at the age of sixteen, I tried to overdose while I was at my high
school in Europe. At this point I had been diagnosed with other disabilities, this time the
doctors changed my disability to depression. Later it became bipolar disorder, every time I was
mis-diagnosed. In high school, this darkness, this evil presence was trying to consume my
mind.
We moved stateside back in 1997. This is when a new mall was being built (mall has been
demolished), at this mall there was a store for goths to buy clothes and music. I was not deep
into the goth scene yet. Before I graduated from high school I was diagnosed one more time.
I graduated in 1999 from Olathe South, that summer as I applied for my classes in college, I
was already into the goth scene. Full fledged, many people talked about me saying “how dark
can you get.” This was said mockingly, for me I did not acknowledge these statements. This
evilness within my mind was overflowing in my clothes and other areas of my life. I was still
hearing voices and they were strong. I went onto college that fall, my major was Graphic Arts
(not graphic design). I was on track with my classes and things seemed to go well. Then
something happened, something pushed me over the edge. That semester turned upside
down. This was the year of this dark evil presence that had taken over my life. In 2006 it was
my last semester, reason for this was because I was in and out of the psych wards and
psychiatric centers (can’t count how many times). During this last semester, I had immersed
myself in Macabre, Art Horror, Natural Art Horror with a touch of DaDa art movements. My
dream was to go to SCAD (Savanah College of Art and Design), I was trying to prepare myself,
but was not able to, due to the circumstances. By the time I had graduated from college in
2006 my designs and artwork had already taken hold of the dark scene.
Take Note: I had many success in college with my designs and art.
As time went on, I could not remember how many times I had attempted suicide. It did not
stop there. I also was self harming while I was going through suicide. My parents had a private
meeting with my doctor talking about these issues. Two - three years later my parents told me
that they had a private meeting with the doctor and my doctor told them “you needed to start
preparing for your sons funeral, because he is not going to make it to the end of the month.”
My family suffered alongside me, knowing that I might not survive according to the doctors.
They strived to keep me alive.
The voices were commanding and demanding me to do these things. I was admitted to the
hospital many times. Doctors were starting to diagnose me again with bipolar disorder. One
doctor saw something the others did not. This doctor asked peculiar questions, I found them
odd. No other doctor had asked the question “do you hear voices?” Without me knowing, I
was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I remember my mother telling me this as I was on the ward.
Later I began to see people who were not there. This problem eventually went away, many
other problems started to arise through this diagnosis. I was not only hearing voices, I was also
believing I was being persecuted (believing in things that were not happening, example,
shadow people coming after me). For each hospital admittance, I had the same outcome.
Some hospital stays were one to three months and sometimes not even a month. I eventually
ended up with electric shock therapy. I also remember other details as to what happened to me
while I stayed there, sometimes things were a fog and other times I thought it was all a dream.
By this time I was on 17 or more medications. These medications made my weight sky rocket, I
went from 129 lb. to 220 lb. Before the medication, I was losing weight, I could not keep any
weight on myself. I was not sure if this was a concern to anyone as my weight issue was never
addressed. While being in the hospitals, the voices were so demanding that I needed to obey. I
would find anything I could to self harm. At times I would try to strangle myself with whatever
was in my room on the hospital ward. I can remember being put on the intensive ward and
from time to time I would be put in solitude. I also remember being stuck with a needle and
strapped down on a bed. These are some of the experiences that I have had. At times I would
be desperate and I would bring razor blades with me so I would not have to find something to
harm myself with. Soon there would be body checks because of this issue. There were many
situations that occurred during my stays in the hospitals or in the psych centers.
My last suicide attempt was an eye opener, I had overdosed on sleeping pills. As I laid on the
floor of my bedroom I tried to left up my body. When this was happening, my eyes would shut,
I would try to open them, but they kept on shutting. Then for the last time my eyes shut closed
as I was trying to left of myself up. My body felt like a dead weight, I could not move any part
of my limbs. I thought I was lifting up my body with my arms, In reality my body was not
moving. I was lifting myself out of my body and I saw the back of my head, I saw that I was
alone. Seeing the back of my head and seeing my room, it felt desolate, empty. This scared
me, I told God, I DO NOT WANT TO DIE! BAM!!! I was back in my body and God shut the door
on death. My eyes opened wide, but I was not able to move as the pills still had an effect on
me. That was the last time I listened to the voices when they told me to kill myself even though
I was still self harming.
Then in 2011 God brought my wife Celia into my life, Petra introduced us while I was doing
design work for them and John W. Schlitt while doing work for other bands. Celia was the
interpreter for when bands would go to Brazil. We started out as friends and later started to
date with visits to each other’s country. Then we married back in 2017. The summer of 2017
was the last time I ended up in the hospital and the last of self harm. I started to see a light, a
glimpse of hope! I started to feel good, happy for a change. My life was turning around!
To skip to last year, God has been preparing me my entire life for this moment, I received Jesus
Christ into my life and heart. At that instant (What an understatement) God healed me from
schizophrenia. I no longer hear voices or even seeing things that are not there or believing in
persecution that can come along with schizophrenia, my mind is clear. I did not realize that
minds could be clear like a crystal river. I went from a schizophrenic world into this world. This
experience was new to me, I did not know this world, I did not know what it was like not to
hear voices. Imagine standing in an elevator and you are squished in there with a bunch of
people and there is no room to move and it gets stuffy that’s how my head felt, but with a
demonic presence. This peace was totally absent, I did not even have a glimpse of peace, I
saw it in allot of Christians and people who had a glimpse of being normal who were not
christian. The transformation was spontaneous! I feel like I was let out of a tiny prison cell, God
had released my mind and opened the doors of reality. In order for there to be peace, God had
to heal me from schizophrenia. God is a God of love and when I accepted Jesus He brought
this peace. This happened on a Saturday night. Sunday morning I was so over powered by the
Holy Spirit that when I came to church for the second service I could not contain myself, I ran
to the front when the church service was coming to an end, I was not sure why exactly God
had me do this.
As soon as I received Christ, I started to see opportunities to serve God, I was able to serve
God on mission trips. Two mission trips were going to Costa Rica, last year and this year.
Before I went to Costa Rica, I had to be baptized, Pastor Chad invited people at the end of the
service to have this done. I went ahead and got baptized. I am now starting to enjoy doing my
graphic design. I rid my portfolio of dark designs and cleaned my house-my computer. I have
read the Bible 5 times through already and I cannot stop, I continue to pray everyday with my
wife. I want to keep telling people about what God has done for me. My wife and I serve in this
community. We help people who are in trouble when they are being taken advantage of. While
we do this we talk to them about God. Some are believers and some are not and we share the
gospel with them.
Salvation and the healing of my mind and body is one of the best gifts God has given me, I
would not trade this for the world. I am a testimony of Gods miracle. Many blessings are
happening and they are overwhelming!
This time I received Christ into my life and heart, not just my mind. I had to admit that I was not
saved, I was fooling myself through deception. When I came to this realization, I was able to
accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior! Do not doubt the power of God!!!
If you know someone who is struggling with suicide or self harming, let them know you care.
Get them help, no one should ever go through this. If you are struggling seek help, you do not
need to go through this. God, Lenexa Baptist Church and I care about you! You are worth it!
You are worth everything to God!
JEHOVAH-RAPHA, THE GOD WHO HEALS!
THE GOD OF ISRAEL HAS HEALED ME
From -jonathan Leslie [email protected]
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Yellow Roses
One day l was sitting down at my favorite place in the morning praying and talking to God as I usually do. I had been feeling quite down as we had moved town and I didnt know anyone. My husband was working long hours, and I felt quite lonely and I was seeing the affects it had one me. In the lonliest times there were tears.
I was telling God how Isnt it nice when we get a gift and it lifts our spirit. It makes us feel worthy loved and appreciated. I was thinking about how I didnt get flowers often and I said to God , "God,... if it is at all possible ,please,Id like YOU to bring me flowers."
I pictured them in my mind of what they would look like.
A beautiful bunch of roses, and then I specified "YELLOW ones please ,I like yellow roses if its at all possible"
I was taken away in my imagination for a moment what they would look like and how it would make me feel joyfulto receive them. Yellow feels cheery to me, becuase its bright and fresh looking.
As a child Yellow was my happy color.
Incidently ,my husband doesnt even know I like yellow as my choice of flowers.He loves me very much ,but he doesnt pay much attention to those kind of details. l can wear a dress thats been in my wardrobe for 5 years and worn it a few times and he might say "oh nice dress ,is it new?" I have a feeling other women would tell me the same about their husband too.
Well that was the conversation for that day between God and I .
One week later I was actually sitting in the same spot that I was then, when I pray and talking to God.
My husband walked into the house and he handed me the most beautiful bunch of flowers.
Not just any flowers, but ROSES.
Not just any roses But YELLOW roses !!!
Instantly I got tears in my eyes. I asked him what made you do this? It wasnt my birthday !It wasnt any occasion !
He replied to me, I dont know ! I was passing by the florist and I was compelled to walk in..... he continued and said, he thought he would buy me some roses. He had his eye on the RED roses ...but he then said , something told him ," no get the yellow ones". So He did.
He was unaware of the enormity of what just took place.
I know this was from God to me , using my husband as the tool .And it was from my husband as well.
Although I cried and wiped away tears last week , now l was wiping away tears of gratitude and felt cherished by my father in heaven.
It gave me such a LIFT , I couldnt contain myself and I went to my room and cried hard. It was like a big warm hug.
I had Joy in my heart ,that God hears my every pain , my every thought ,my every prayer , my every need ,my every praise .
I LOVE this RELATIONSHIP I have with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is always with us and hears our every word. Praise God !
I prasied Him greatly that day ,and felt the loneliness lift ,because He showed me ,although we can feel all alone, He is really there with us in every way .You must remember this always , in particluar for the future. Please , never forget it .
Lee Arne. Melbourne Australia
Happy Family
On Thursday morning I was praying about my kids needing some different socializing opportunities to boost their spirits and make some new friendship connections.
That afternoon, my son randomly got invited to go swimming with one of his an old friends.I was happy about that and my son was also.
My husband and I were invited to go to a Bible study type group that runs at the same time and location as a teen youth group was being offered.
It was the first time I was going to bring my daughter, and she was starting to get really anxious about being in a new environment and was experiencing social anxiety about the teen youth group as it was new to her.
I walked her into the church (not our home church) and there was a girl in hallway that she recognized her from school camp and she took my daughter under her wing immediatley. I sensed my daughters relief and I was pleased how everything was working out beautifully.
My husband and I, now quite relaxed , then had great conversations at our meeting .I was amazed to see my husband's spiritual growth which was something I had been praying about regularly.
We finished up at our meeting at the same time as the youth group finished,and my daughter had an amazing time!
As we arrived home, our son was dropped off immediately after!
It may not sound as interesting or exciting to those that don’t know our lives, but I sat in awe that day and the morning after and thanked God for my prayers answered, and such a smooth day and the whole family was blessed.
Sandra Lasich -Canada
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By Donelle Atkins---Donelle Atkins
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During the beginning of the world changing with the pandemic, I (as so many others) was battling severe depression. I live in Michigan, USA where lockdowns were harsh. Day to day life was such a struggle. I knew that it was the beginning of the end.
I have been a believer in Jesus Christ since I was a young child. Even as a young child, I knew I was blessed to be born in the USA. I remember often praying to God and thanking Him for the blessing of having the ability to worship freely and that I lived in the greatest nation that ever was or will be.
When COVID hit, I knew things would speed up and that I would see things I thought and hoped would happen long after I left this world. I grieved for my Country, the loss of so many, and for the souls of those who were still hopelessly lost and bound for Hell...especially my family and loved ones.
One day, about a couple months after it all started, I was very depressed. The weight of everything brought me to a very dark place. Just going to the grocery store was such a monumental task. At this point, I was still disinfecting all of my groceries before I brought them into the house.
This day, as I was bagging my groceries after going through the checkout line, something amazing happened that I believe was a "but God" moment.
As I was busy putting the groceries into my bags, this person comes out of nowhere and hands me a bouquet of flowers. She walked right up to me, extended her arm, and said,"these are for you“. I took the flowers, and told her thank you.
This "woman“ stood about 6 1/2 feet tall, had fine dirty blonde hair, and wore no makeup.
After she handed me the flowers, she walked toward the exit door. Within 20 seconds I had finished bagging my groceries and walked out the door as well. I looked for this woman everywhere in the parking lot, she was nowhere to be found. The store was not very busy, so there were not very many cars in the parking lot. I was shocked that I did not see her, or even a car driving out of the parking lot. I remember thinking to myself that this person literally came out of nowhere. She was so tall I should have noticed her in the store. But I did not. She simply appeared in front of me as I was begging my groceries.
As I was standing in the parking lot overwhelmed by this mysterious person who handed me a bouquet of flowers, I knew in my soul that she was a messenger from God. A messenger to let me know that God hears and sees me in the sorrow.
I saved a single rose that was in that bouquet of flowers as a reminder to myself that God is with us, He hears us, and He loves us.
I will never forget that woman. Whether she was a real woman or an angel, I will never know until I get to the other side. However, I have a funny feeling that was no woman at all.
I was so burdened and so full of sorrow that day. I am thankful to whomever that was that they were obedient and made me smile with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Here is the rose that I saved. ALL GLORY, PRAISE and HONOR to our God. Look up...He is coming soon...very soon.
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from-Lee Arne
( cesearian beeding)
the healing- It was a long drawn out labour. 24 hours of pain and pushing and then my baby was in trouble. It was time for an emergency cesarian section. The surgery went well but in the recovery room I was experiencing an incredible amount of exhaustion. I had not eaten for at least 6o hours so my body was so weak. I had no had any water becuase they dont allow it in case you need surgery,so I was dehydrated badly. While i was in recovery the nurses kept checking me, and doing my vitals( blood pressure etc) They noticed blood seeping through the sheets accross my abdomen. After checking the would of the cesarian , they had noticed I was bleeding out. They waited and kept an eye on it but after such a time they bleeding did not dissapate. They were trying to inject meds that would stop the bleeding but dure to dehydration they couldnt get a vein. They were even about to go between my toes to find a vein...ahhhhh ! Then it was all panick stations as my vitals were failing rapidly. At this time I was shaking all over as my body was in shock.My core body temperature was icy cold and they were panicking to get the doctor who was paged and not coming fast enough. In that moment I felt I was fading rapidly........I was not able to respond and yet I could still here the commotion going on in the room around me. Everything in the room felt like it desending into the backgound.All the voices seemed so far away and it was just me talking in my mind. It was at this moment I felt close to Jesus. I felt like I wasnt going to make it and i was talking to Jesus in my mind. "" Jesus I know my baby boy will be ok.He is healthy". I could actually feel like everything would be ok . "If I am not meant to make it and I should pass away , I am ok with this if you are here with me Jesus - I was praparing myself to die and slip away". I could feel His presence decend upon me ,and the icy cold body I was in trembling began to feel instantly warm like I was soaking in the warm golden warmth of the sun. on a sunny day. I felt a tremendous peace that i have never felt before . I felt lie I was floating in His presence. It was a nice feeling ! His presence came over me body and my mind ,I knew he was there with me. I was told , not in words but in my spirit that it was not my time and that everything would be ok. I then remember everything coming back into the presence of my mind and i could hear the nurses and the doctors talking about me .The Doctor standing over me ,saying the bleeding had just stopped. They were relieved and I could sence the panick stopped between the nurses. Jesus had healed me and made me well in that moment. My baby boy is now 21 years old, and God is good and Praise God for this Miracle.
My son and daughter were baptised last year and repented, but they are still early days ....please keep praying for them
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By Rosaire
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My name is Rosaire.I was leaving to go over seas with my friend Louise.This was back in the seventies. It was a very big deal then and it was my first trip over seas . I was very excited.
As I was leaving the airport to board the plane , my whole family was there to wave goodbye. My mother , my father and all of my 8 siblings. I was second from the eldest Brother and I was the bigger sister to the other girls and boys in the family.
As i looked at each one of my family individually saying goodbye, I had an over whelming feeling of forboding heaviness in my heart. It was unusual and there was nothing normal about it. I knew on some level ,that one of them would not be here when i get back.
As l boarded the plane I could not shake this feeling and I became quite upset and was crying.
Lousie tried to comfort me , and told me it was just nerves about flying. As I couldnt shake this strange feeling ,and wasnt sure myself why l was feeling this way , i succumbed to accepting what Louise had said ,and I settled down ,and the plane set off.
Louse lived in a different dormatory than myself and my boyfriend John.
One night in the wee hours of the morning the phone rang and Louise picked up the call on her end.
Lousie came over to tell me the bad news. It is vividy impringted in my mind... what she was wearing and the expression on her face. Sheer panick raced through my body and I sat bolt upright in bed, as if I alsready knew someone had died.
"Its Stephen isnt it", i said .
"No ",louise said. "Its Anne"!
Anne was my little sister , the youngest of the 9 kids. Only 9 years old.
I instinctively knew that it was going to be terrible news.
Anne had been killed !
When I heard that , my mind became twisted and tormented by the sheer grief knowing my beautiful sister Anne was now dead. The shocking reality of the foreboding feelings l had before leaving the airport,had now come to fruition and l struggled internally to accept this horrible news.
I put on my tracksuit, went outside,and I ran......and I ran....... and I ran.......feeling the intensity of this pain like a nightmare.
Thoughts of recalling my last converstion with Anne, the last time i saw her.....what she was wearing.... hearing her voice in my head....trying to accept the news that she was gone. The pain was unbearable.
I called home,back in Australia, and for some reason the call went straight through to the funeral home. Apparently they have ways of doing this that l wasnt aware.
I spoke with all of the family and unbeknown to me at the time , they all decided and agreed to portray "everything is under control" attitude,so I would not panick or rush home and continue with my holiday.
I found out upon returning this wasnt the case. Every one was greif-stricken and barely holding it together.
The family had been at the funeral home and they told me ,she looked "beautiful".
Annes last moments
Some of the older sisters went to the shop to buy treats during the evening, and asked to take Anne with them.
Mum said it was ok but to look after Anne carefully as she was only 9.
They agreed and off they went.
Upon returning home , Virginia had to stop buy the paddock which the horses were in ,so she could put the rugs on the horses.
While Virginia did this , Anne was nearby .
Virginia could see Anne talking to herself , gigling and laughing while she was making herself a daisy chain out of the daisies growing near the paddocks. Anne looked happy, smiling and gigling away.
Virginia asked, "Anne , who are you talking too "
Anne replied, "oh no one! " she said smiling.
Anne then looked down at her daisy chain, which was around her neck .
Anne said..."see this"poining to this beautiful daisy chain she had just made. "I am going to wearing this when I see God".
As the Girls continued to walk home,on a dirt raod that almost never had cars come down it, 2 cars came racing down that road so fast . As their father could see from a distance from the house , he saw the 2 cars screaming down the dirt raod ...and he yelled out "WATCH THE CARS....WATCH THE CARS....!"
Anne was running from one sister accross the road to the other sister on the other side, and the car struck Anne.
Anne was catapoulted high into the air and came crashing down to the ground.
Being witness to the accident the father raced accross to be with his daughter and Anne passed away in her fathers arms.
Only 10 minutes before Anne was saying to Virginia about the daisy chain.... "I am going to wearing this when I see God".
A the same time ,another one of the brothers Michael was miles away ,in Melbourne city with his girlfreind and his friend driving and had an overwhelming sense of ugency and an unusal foreboding feeling come over him.He was plagued by an axious feeling so strong and had to get home in a hurry.
He said ,"" turn the car around....I have to go home quickly something is wrong... Ive got to get home".
As he arrived some time later approaching the scene close to his home there were ambulances and police everywhere. He knew something dreadful had happened.
One of the sisters enraged with anger at killing little Anne , heard the news and raced out of the house toward the man that was driving the car. The driver stood at the scene leaning against the power pole lloking distant ,dazed and confused to what just happened.
She raced up toward him ready to strike him with her anger and something came over her.A feeling of utter peace and empathy for this young man that had just killed this beautiful young 9 year old girl, her sister. She instantly forgave him in that moment.
The court had found the driver guilty and charged with culpable driving and sentences to jail .
The father of Anne after the court hearing said to the 2 men :"it is not for me to Judge you ,only God be your judge .Your conscience you will have to live with what you have done. "
The mother and father had forgiven the men.
Rest assured the family know and believe it was Anne's time to die and that God was with her to the last moment.
They believe God had talked to Anne ,and that she will be seeing God soon, and prepared her for death only 10 minutes before hand.
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
! Thessalonians 5:18
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As a child I viewed myself as normal, while everyone around was not of the norm. I can
rememberAs a child I viewed myself as normal, while everyone around was not of the norm. I can
remember hearing voices as a child. As time progressed the voices would become
overwhelming, my environment becoming stressful. Soon at the age if eight or nine depression
fell upon me. I thought everyone had these problems from hearing voices to feeling depressed.
So I did not say anything to anyone. When I was 11 yrs old, my father walked by my bedroom, I
was not sure what to say, so I said that I wanted to be a christian. My mind was the very thing
that received Christ.
I can remember at the age of three years old, I had an imagination, I imagined a beautiful
image. I went into my bedroom and grabbed the Little People garage, I turned it over, with a
crayon I scribbled. I was very disappointed that the image did not turn out the way I pictured it
in my head. From that point on I wanted to do artwork for as long as I was able to pickup
anything that I could use to draw with. When I entered grade school, I enjoyed my art classes, I
also enjoyed sports. In my second grade year, I was drawing all over my homework
I constantly doodled up till the middle of the year. My second grade teacher had become very
upset, so my father bought me art supplies and signed me up for art classes. A little bit later as
I was drawing, I started to draw demons. At this point I felt an evil presence, a presence that
was there from when I was three years old.
By the time I reached the age of eight, I felt different (at this point its a bit hard to pin point age
eight or nine years old). The depression fell upon me, the way the sun would set, or the way the
sunlight would shine through the windows of the places we lived in. Sometimes it would be the
way the sun would shine on buildings in the evening. Then overcasts days would play a huge
part. I started to feel dark, I ignored this as I thought that it was not a big deal.
Then I entered my adolescence the voices had become more prominent, I had become
suicidal. My first attempt was at the age of sixteen, I tried to overdose while I was at my high
school in Europe. At this point I had been diagnosed with other disabilities, this time the
doctors changed my disability to depression. Later it became bipolar disorder, every time I was
mis-diagnosed. In high school, this darkness, this evil presence was trying to consume my
mind.
We moved stateside back in 1997. This is when a new mall was being built (mall has been
demolished), at this mall there was a store for goths to buy clothes and music. I was not deep
into the goth scene yet. Before I graduated from high school I was diagnosed one more time.
I graduated in 1999 from Olathe South, that summer as I applied for my classes in college, I
was already into the goth scene. Full fledged, many people talked about me saying “how dark
can you get.” This was said mockingly, for me I did not acknowledge these statements. This
evilness within my mind was overflowing in my clothes and other areas of my life. I was still
hearing voices and they were strong. I went onto college that fall, my major was Graphic Arts
(not graphic design). I was on track with my classes and things seemed to go well. Then
something happened, something pushed me over the edge. That semester turned upside
down. This was the year of this dark evil presence that had taken over my life. In 2006 it was
my last semester, reason for this was because I was in and out of the psych wards and
psychiatric centers (can’t count how many times). During this last semester, I had immersed
myself in Macabre, Art Horror, Natural Art Horror with a touch of DaDa art movements. My
dream was to go to SCAD (Savanah College of Art and Design), I was trying to prepare myself,
but was not able to, due to the circumstances. By the time I had graduated from college in
2006 my designs and artwork had already taken hold of the dark scene.
Take Note: I had many success in college with my designs and art.
As time went on, I could not remember how many times I had attempted suicide. It did not
stop there. I also was self harming while I was going through suicide. My parents had a private
meeting with my doctor talking about these issues. Two - three years later my parents told me
that they had a private meeting with the doctor and my doctor told them “you needed to start
preparing for your sons funeral, because he is not going to make it to the end of the month.”
My family suffered alongside me, knowing that I might not survive according to the doctors.
They strived to keep me alive.
The voices were commanding and demanding me to do these things. I was admitted to the
hospital many times. Doctors were starting to diagnose me again with bipolar disorder. One
doctor saw something the others did not. This doctor asked peculiar questions, I found them
odd. No other doctor had asked the question “do you hear voices?” Without me knowing, I
was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. I remember my mother telling me this as I was on the ward.
Later I began to see people who were not there. This problem eventually went away, many
other problems started to arise through this diagnosis. I was not only hearing voices, I was also
believing I was being persecuted (believing in things that were not happening, example,
shadow people coming after me). For each hospital admittance, I had the same outcome.
Some hospital stays were one to three months and sometimes not even a month. I eventually
ended up with electric shock therapy. I also remember other details as to what happened to me
while I stayed there, sometimes things were a fog and other times I thought it was all a dream.
By this time I was on 17 or more medications. These medications made my weight sky rocket, I
went from 129 lb. to 220 lb. Before the medication, I was losing weight, I could not keep any
weight on myself. I was not sure if this was a concern to anyone as my weight issue was never
addressed. While being in the hospitals, the voices were so demanding that I needed to obey. I
would find anything I could to self harm. At times I would try to strangle myself with whatever
was in my room on the hospital ward. I can remember being put on the intensive ward and
from time to time I would be put in solitude. I also remember being stuck with a needle and
strapped down on a bed. These are some of the experiences that I have had. At times I would
be desperate and I would bring razor blades with me so I would not have to find something to
harm myself with. Soon there would be body checks because of this issue. There were many
situations that occurred during my stays in the hospitals or in the psych centers.
My last suicide attempt was an eye opener, I had overdosed on sleeping pills. As I laid on the
floor of my bedroom I tried to left up my body. When this was happening, my eyes would shut,
I would try to open them, but they kept on shutting. Then for the last time my eyes shut closed
as I was trying to left of myself up. My body felt like a dead weight, I could not move any part
of my limbs. I thought I was lifting up my body with my arms, In reality my body was not
moving. I was lifting myself out of my body and I saw the back of my head, I saw that I was
alone. Seeing the back of my head and seeing my room, it felt desolate, empty. This scared
me, I told God, I DO NOT WANT TO DIE! BAM!!! I was back in my body and God shut the door
on death. My eyes opened wide, but I was not able to move as the pills still had an effect on
me. That was the last time I listened to the voices when they told me to kill myself even though
I was still self harming.
Then in 2011 God brought my wife Celia into my life, Petra introduced us while I was doing
design work for them and John W. Schlitt while doing work for other bands. Celia was the
interpreter for when bands would go to Brazil. We started out as friends and later started to
date with visits to each other’s country. Then we married back in 2017. The summer of 2017
was the last time I ended up in the hospital and the last of self harm. I started to see a light, a
glimpse of hope! I started to feel good, happy for a change. My life was turning around!
To skip to last year, God has been preparing me my entire life for this moment, I received Jesus
Christ into my life and heart. At that instant (What an understatement) God healed me from
schizophrenia. I no longer hear voices or even seeing things that are not there or believing in
persecution that can come along with schizophrenia, my mind is clear. I did not realize that
minds could be clear like a crystal river. I went from a schizophrenic world into this world. This
experience was new to me, I did not know this world, I did not know what it was like not to
hear voices. Imagine standing in an elevator and you are squished in there with a bunch of
people and there is no room to move and it gets stuffy that’s how my head felt, but with a
demonic presence. This peace was totally absent, I did not even have a glimpse of peace, I
saw it in allot of Christians and people who had a glimpse of being normal who were not
christian. The transformation was spontaneous! I feel like I was let out of a tiny prison cell, God
had released my mind and opened the doors of reality. In order for there to be peace, God had
to heal me from schizophrenia. God is a God of love and when I accepted Jesus He brought
this peace. This happened on a Saturday night. Sunday morning I was so over powered by the
Holy Spirit that when I came to church for the second service I could not contain myself, I ran
to the front when the church service was coming to an end, I was not sure why exactly God
had me do this.
As soon as I received Christ, I started to see opportunities to serve God, I was able to serve
God on mission trips. Two mission trips were going to Costa Rica, last year and this year.
Before I went to Costa Rica, I had to be baptized, Pastor Chad invited people at the end of the
service to have this done. I went ahead and got baptized. I am now starting to enjoy doing my
graphic design. I rid my portfolio of dark designs and cleaned my house-my computer. I have
read the Bible 5 times through already and I cannot stop, I continue to pray everyday with my
wife. I want to keep telling people about what God has done for me. My wife and I serve in this
community. We help people who are in trouble when they are being taken advantage of. While
we do this we talk to them about God. Some are believers and some are not and we share the
gospel with them.
Salvation and the healing of my mind and body is one of the best gifts God has given me, I
would not trade this for the world. I am a testimony of Gods miracle. Many blessings are
happening and they are overwhelming!
This time I received Christ into my life and heart, not just my mind. I had to admit that I was not
saved, I was fooling myself through deception. When I came to this realization, I was able to
accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior! Do not doubt the power of God!!!
If you know someone who is struggling with suicide or self harming, let them know you care.
Get them help, no one should ever go through this. If you are struggling seek help, you do not
need to go through this. God, Lenexa Baptist Church and I care about you! You are worth it!
You are worth everything to God!
JEHOVAH-RAPHA, THE GOD WHO HEALS!
THE GOD OF ISRAEL HAS HEALED ME
From -jonathan Leslie [email protected]
Email-
Permission to use-friend of Yvonne NAchtigal
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Yellow Roses
One day l was sitting down at my favorite place in the morning praying and talking to God as I usually do. I had been feeling quite down as we had moved town and I didnt know anyone. My husband was working long hours, and I felt quite lonely and I was seeing the affects it had one me. In the lonliest times there were tears.
I was telling God how Isnt it nice when we get a gift and it lifts our spirit. It makes us feel worthy loved and appreciated. I was thinking about how I didnt get flowers often and I said to God , "God,... if it is at all possible ,please,Id like YOU to bring me flowers."
I pictured them in my mind of what they would look like.
A beautiful bunch of roses, and then I specified "YELLOW ones please ,I like yellow roses if its at all possible"
I was taken away in my imagination for a moment what they would look like and how it would make me feel joyfulto receive them. Yellow feels cheery to me, becuase its bright and fresh looking.
As a child Yellow was my happy color.
Incidently ,my husband doesnt even know I like yellow as my choice of flowers.He loves me very much ,but he doesnt pay much attention to those kind of details. l can wear a dress thats been in my wardrobe for 5 years and worn it a few times and he might say "oh nice dress ,is it new?" I have a feeling other women would tell me the same about their husband too.
Well that was the conversation for that day between God and I .
One week later I was actually sitting in the same spot that I was then, when I pray and talking to God.
My husband walked into the house and he handed me the most beautiful bunch of flowers.
Not just any flowers, but ROSES.
Not just any roses But YELLOW roses !!!
Instantly I got tears in my eyes. I asked him what made you do this? It wasnt my birthday !It wasnt any occasion !
He replied to me, I dont know ! I was passing by the florist and I was compelled to walk in..... he continued and said, he thought he would buy me some roses. He had his eye on the RED roses ...but he then said , something told him ," no get the yellow ones". So He did.
He was unaware of the enormity of what just took place.
I know this was from God to me , using my husband as the tool .And it was from my husband as well.
Although I cried and wiped away tears last week , now l was wiping away tears of gratitude and felt cherished by my father in heaven.
It gave me such a LIFT , I couldnt contain myself and I went to my room and cried hard. It was like a big warm hug.
I had Joy in my heart ,that God hears my every pain , my every thought ,my every prayer , my every need ,my every praise .
I LOVE this RELATIONSHIP I have with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Jesus is always with us and hears our every word. Praise God !
I prasied Him greatly that day ,and felt the loneliness lift ,because He showed me ,although we can feel all alone, He is really there with us in every way .You must remember this always , in particluar for the future. Please , never forget it .
Lee Arne. Melbourne Australia
Happy Family
On Thursday morning I was praying about my kids needing some different socializing opportunities to boost their spirits and make some new friendship connections.
That afternoon, my son randomly got invited to go swimming with one of his an old friends.I was happy about that and my son was also.
My husband and I were invited to go to a Bible study type group that runs at the same time and location as a teen youth group was being offered.
It was the first time I was going to bring my daughter, and she was starting to get really anxious about being in a new environment and was experiencing social anxiety about the teen youth group as it was new to her.
I walked her into the church (not our home church) and there was a girl in hallway that she recognized her from school camp and she took my daughter under her wing immediatley. I sensed my daughters relief and I was pleased how everything was working out beautifully.
My husband and I, now quite relaxed , then had great conversations at our meeting .I was amazed to see my husband's spiritual growth which was something I had been praying about regularly.
We finished up at our meeting at the same time as the youth group finished,and my daughter had an amazing time!
As we arrived home, our son was dropped off immediately after!
It may not sound as interesting or exciting to those that don’t know our lives, but I sat in awe that day and the morning after and thanked God for my prayers answered, and such a smooth day and the whole family was blessed.
Sandra Lasich -Canada
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By Donelle Atkins---Donelle Atkins
permission to use-yes
During the beginning of the world changing with the pandemic, I (as so many others) was battling severe depression. I live in Michigan, USA where lockdowns were harsh. Day to day life was such a struggle. I knew that it was the beginning of the end.
I have been a believer in Jesus Christ since I was a young child. Even as a young child, I knew I was blessed to be born in the USA. I remember often praying to God and thanking Him for the blessing of having the ability to worship freely and that I lived in the greatest nation that ever was or will be.
When COVID hit, I knew things would speed up and that I would see things I thought and hoped would happen long after I left this world. I grieved for my Country, the loss of so many, and for the souls of those who were still hopelessly lost and bound for Hell...especially my family and loved ones.
One day, about a couple months after it all started, I was very depressed. The weight of everything brought me to a very dark place. Just going to the grocery store was such a monumental task. At this point, I was still disinfecting all of my groceries before I brought them into the house.
This day, as I was bagging my groceries after going through the checkout line, something amazing happened that I believe was a "but God" moment.
As I was busy putting the groceries into my bags, this person comes out of nowhere and hands me a bouquet of flowers. She walked right up to me, extended her arm, and said,"these are for you“. I took the flowers, and told her thank you.
This "woman“ stood about 6 1/2 feet tall, had fine dirty blonde hair, and wore no makeup.
After she handed me the flowers, she walked toward the exit door. Within 20 seconds I had finished bagging my groceries and walked out the door as well. I looked for this woman everywhere in the parking lot, she was nowhere to be found. The store was not very busy, so there were not very many cars in the parking lot. I was shocked that I did not see her, or even a car driving out of the parking lot. I remember thinking to myself that this person literally came out of nowhere. She was so tall I should have noticed her in the store. But I did not. She simply appeared in front of me as I was begging my groceries.
As I was standing in the parking lot overwhelmed by this mysterious person who handed me a bouquet of flowers, I knew in my soul that she was a messenger from God. A messenger to let me know that God hears and sees me in the sorrow.
I saved a single rose that was in that bouquet of flowers as a reminder to myself that God is with us, He hears us, and He loves us.
I will never forget that woman. Whether she was a real woman or an angel, I will never know until I get to the other side. However, I have a funny feeling that was no woman at all.
I was so burdened and so full of sorrow that day. I am thankful to whomever that was that they were obedient and made me smile with a beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Here is the rose that I saved. ALL GLORY, PRAISE and HONOR to our God. Look up...He is coming soon...very soon.
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from-Lee Arne
( cesearian beeding)
the healing- It was a long drawn out labour. 24 hours of pain and pushing and then my baby was in trouble. It was time for an emergency cesarian section. The surgery went well but in the recovery room I was experiencing an incredible amount of exhaustion. I had not eaten for at least 6o hours so my body was so weak. I had no had any water becuase they dont allow it in case you need surgery,so I was dehydrated badly. While i was in recovery the nurses kept checking me, and doing my vitals( blood pressure etc) They noticed blood seeping through the sheets accross my abdomen. After checking the would of the cesarian , they had noticed I was bleeding out. They waited and kept an eye on it but after such a time they bleeding did not dissapate. They were trying to inject meds that would stop the bleeding but dure to dehydration they couldnt get a vein. They were even about to go between my toes to find a vein...ahhhhh ! Then it was all panick stations as my vitals were failing rapidly. At this time I was shaking all over as my body was in shock.My core body temperature was icy cold and they were panicking to get the doctor who was paged and not coming fast enough. In that moment I felt I was fading rapidly........I was not able to respond and yet I could still here the commotion going on in the room around me. Everything in the room felt like it desending into the backgound.All the voices seemed so far away and it was just me talking in my mind. It was at this moment I felt close to Jesus. I felt like I wasnt going to make it and i was talking to Jesus in my mind. "" Jesus I know my baby boy will be ok.He is healthy". I could actually feel like everything would be ok . "If I am not meant to make it and I should pass away , I am ok with this if you are here with me Jesus - I was praparing myself to die and slip away". I could feel His presence decend upon me ,and the icy cold body I was in trembling began to feel instantly warm like I was soaking in the warm golden warmth of the sun. on a sunny day. I felt a tremendous peace that i have never felt before . I felt lie I was floating in His presence. It was a nice feeling ! His presence came over me body and my mind ,I knew he was there with me. I was told , not in words but in my spirit that it was not my time and that everything would be ok. I then remember everything coming back into the presence of my mind and i could hear the nurses and the doctors talking about me .The Doctor standing over me ,saying the bleeding had just stopped. They were relieved and I could sence the panick stopped between the nurses. Jesus had healed me and made me well in that moment. My baby boy is now 21 years old, and God is good and Praise God for this Miracle.
My son and daughter were baptised last year and repented, but they are still early days ....please keep praying for them
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By Rosaire
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My name is Rosaire.I was leaving to go over seas with my friend Louise.This was back in the seventies. It was a very big deal then and it was my first trip over seas . I was very excited.
As I was leaving the airport to board the plane , my whole family was there to wave goodbye. My mother , my father and all of my 8 siblings. I was second from the eldest Brother and I was the bigger sister to the other girls and boys in the family.
As i looked at each one of my family individually saying goodbye, I had an over whelming feeling of forboding heaviness in my heart. It was unusual and there was nothing normal about it. I knew on some level ,that one of them would not be here when i get back.
As l boarded the plane I could not shake this feeling and I became quite upset and was crying.
Lousie tried to comfort me , and told me it was just nerves about flying. As I couldnt shake this strange feeling ,and wasnt sure myself why l was feeling this way , i succumbed to accepting what Louise had said ,and I settled down ,and the plane set off.
Louse lived in a different dormatory than myself and my boyfriend John.
One night in the wee hours of the morning the phone rang and Louise picked up the call on her end.
Lousie came over to tell me the bad news. It is vividy impringted in my mind... what she was wearing and the expression on her face. Sheer panick raced through my body and I sat bolt upright in bed, as if I alsready knew someone had died.
"Its Stephen isnt it", i said .
"No ",louise said. "Its Anne"!
Anne was my little sister , the youngest of the 9 kids. Only 9 years old.
I instinctively knew that it was going to be terrible news.
Anne had been killed !
When I heard that , my mind became twisted and tormented by the sheer grief knowing my beautiful sister Anne was now dead. The shocking reality of the foreboding feelings l had before leaving the airport,had now come to fruition and l struggled internally to accept this horrible news.
I put on my tracksuit, went outside,and I ran......and I ran....... and I ran.......feeling the intensity of this pain like a nightmare.
Thoughts of recalling my last converstion with Anne, the last time i saw her.....what she was wearing.... hearing her voice in my head....trying to accept the news that she was gone. The pain was unbearable.
I called home,back in Australia, and for some reason the call went straight through to the funeral home. Apparently they have ways of doing this that l wasnt aware.
I spoke with all of the family and unbeknown to me at the time , they all decided and agreed to portray "everything is under control" attitude,so I would not panick or rush home and continue with my holiday.
I found out upon returning this wasnt the case. Every one was greif-stricken and barely holding it together.
The family had been at the funeral home and they told me ,she looked "beautiful".
Annes last moments
Some of the older sisters went to the shop to buy treats during the evening, and asked to take Anne with them.
Mum said it was ok but to look after Anne carefully as she was only 9.
They agreed and off they went.
Upon returning home , Virginia had to stop buy the paddock which the horses were in ,so she could put the rugs on the horses.
While Virginia did this , Anne was nearby .
Virginia could see Anne talking to herself , gigling and laughing while she was making herself a daisy chain out of the daisies growing near the paddocks. Anne looked happy, smiling and gigling away.
Virginia asked, "Anne , who are you talking too "
Anne replied, "oh no one! " she said smiling.
Anne then looked down at her daisy chain, which was around her neck .
Anne said..."see this"poining to this beautiful daisy chain she had just made. "I am going to wearing this when I see God".
As the Girls continued to walk home,on a dirt raod that almost never had cars come down it, 2 cars came racing down that road so fast . As their father could see from a distance from the house , he saw the 2 cars screaming down the dirt raod ...and he yelled out "WATCH THE CARS....WATCH THE CARS....!"
Anne was running from one sister accross the road to the other sister on the other side, and the car struck Anne.
Anne was catapoulted high into the air and came crashing down to the ground.
Being witness to the accident the father raced accross to be with his daughter and Anne passed away in her fathers arms.
Only 10 minutes before Anne was saying to Virginia about the daisy chain.... "I am going to wearing this when I see God".
A the same time ,another one of the brothers Michael was miles away ,in Melbourne city with his girlfreind and his friend driving and had an overwhelming sense of ugency and an unusal foreboding feeling come over him.He was plagued by an axious feeling so strong and had to get home in a hurry.
He said ,"" turn the car around....I have to go home quickly something is wrong... Ive got to get home".
As he arrived some time later approaching the scene close to his home there were ambulances and police everywhere. He knew something dreadful had happened.
One of the sisters enraged with anger at killing little Anne , heard the news and raced out of the house toward the man that was driving the car. The driver stood at the scene leaning against the power pole lloking distant ,dazed and confused to what just happened.
She raced up toward him ready to strike him with her anger and something came over her.A feeling of utter peace and empathy for this young man that had just killed this beautiful young 9 year old girl, her sister. She instantly forgave him in that moment.
The court had found the driver guilty and charged with culpable driving and sentences to jail .
The father of Anne after the court hearing said to the 2 men :"it is not for me to Judge you ,only God be your judge .Your conscience you will have to live with what you have done. "
The mother and father had forgiven the men.
Rest assured the family know and believe it was Anne's time to die and that God was with her to the last moment.
They believe God had talked to Anne ,and that she will be seeing God soon, and prepared her for death only 10 minutes before hand.
In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
! Thessalonians 5:18
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from eric ericson
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Despite feeling ill that morning, I went to work anyway. As I went about my duties, I grew increasingly feverish and weak; attracting the attention of my supervisor, who determined that I needed to see one of the nurses. Arriving at the nurses station, my temperature was well over 100° and rising. I was treated by the nursing staff and sent to rest in an empty bed. Lying in bed, I began to pray; drifting in and out of sleep. At one point, I was awakened to the distinct awareness of the presence of Jesus beside me…I began to rejoice that the God of Angel Armies would come to the bedside of a wounded warrior.
Eric E. – Iowa, United States
I do hereby give permission for my story to be included in a not-for-profit inspirational book.
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This story of prayers going up to heaven
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Despite feeling ill that morning, I went to work anyway. As I went about my duties, I grew increasingly feverish and weak; attracting the attention of my supervisor, who determined that I needed to see one of the nurses. Arriving at the nurses station, my temperature was well over 100° and rising. I was treated by the nursing staff and sent to rest in an empty bed. Lying in bed, I began to pray; drifting in and out of sleep. At one point, I was awakened to the distinct awareness of the presence of Jesus beside me…I began to rejoice that the God of Angel Armies would come to the bedside of a wounded warrior.
Eric E. – Iowa, United States
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This story of prayers going up to heaven
From A lady about her Journey with Her husband ,who was an alcoholic.
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My husband has been sober through AA for 5 years. I saw wonderful transformation occur for him and was super supportive. I saw him form a relationship with "God". I cant know what that means fully for him, but I can tell you my husband showed more fruit of God's attributes than I had as a "highly evolved spiritual person". Seeing and hearing him pray and watching him grow into a really good man was amazing and also put a sand in my shoes that began to rub in my spiritual life...he had a "relationship" with God and a peace I didn't.
Fast forward to my salvation 16 months ago.( 2019)... God spoke to me about AA.
He impressed on me how it keeps his beloved children in bondage and in wrong identity and how it becomes an idol.( Idolatry)
It keeps many people away from the cross, focused on their works (service is main path), and self, and just being/becoming a good person.
The doctrine is so intermingled with truth and godly principles.
Speaking "I am an alcoholic" for the rest of your life puts these people in identity bondage.
It does not speak life into them and creates a dependence...an idol...on the 12 steps.
It completely does not acknowledge that Jesus and his work on the cross has the power to completely transform their lives and relieve them of their bondage for good!! ....in fact they pray constantly a literal prayer, "god relieve me of the bondage" .....well how the heck can He when you profess and identify as an alcoholic forever?!!
God spoke to me about this.....Our identity is A CHILD OF GOD and once you know that and receive it, you could never speak such a demonic contract over yourself like I am an alcoholic!
It is such a heavy weight on my life. I shared it all with my husband who no longer drinks and has worked the steps successfully that he should consider not speaking those words of death over himself. Of course he disagreed and defended the practice. I said in response, "you have healed from this! Don't you think it would actually help more people if that message was shared in meetings? That you Don't Have to identify as this broken thing forever?" ...he didn't have a response, but something like...the system works, we follow it.
Its depressing. And about 8 months into my salvation, I believe is a big part of what is in the way of his salvation and receiving the gospel into his heart.
He flat out told me a few months ago that he is a good person and works to be a good person and sees himself behaving better than me and a lot of christians...and that Jesus is not the only way. ...and why would He be if you just have to be a good person and you have it all figured out through AA? ...I mean I get his logic!!
AA started out good in our lives, now he makes is his top priority, over our marriage. He doesn't see it. But it is always AA over us and anything else. IDOLATRY. And I pray he is delivered from it and becomes a shepherd sharing the good news and pulls many out as soon as today Lord!!
Then I saw his "chip" in a new light...I almost tossed it to the ground when I picked it up because it held such a demonic energy!!!
I hold close that God can and will use everything for His glory 🙌 I pray my husband have an even more dramatic transformation than I had! I pray he is so overwhelmed by his sin and rejection of God's truth and God's amazing love and promise for him that he never goto another meeting and he spread the truth through those rooms! I pray God give him a fire a thousand times stronger than what he gave me and that He win so many souls!
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I’m 35+ years clean & sober, and was born again around the same time. I never wanted to be reliant upon the program, or be a life long member. It is a very good starting point for sobriety, and it provides a very good support for the alcoholic. The support & the steps can be crucial for the alcoholic. It can be however stifling & enticing (lots of occultism there) for the christian, especially a weal or baby christian. That said, there are very strong christians there.
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Awesome testimony. I found that out about wearing a title that bonds you twenty four years ago when I came clean. And only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can you come clean.
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A four year old telling her Mommy about her Dream
A four year old child had lost her Papa ( Daddy) one year before.
One night in a dream her daddy was her "teacher".
She had a dream that she was at school ( presuming she isnt at school as she is only four years old)
The Papa said to her how much he missed her and said "I miss you soooo much"!!
He then proceeded to tell her ,that she needed to go home and pack her things.
This is because he said they were leaving !
She then went home and began to pack her bag when she looked out of the window and the Earth was on fire.
Suddenly she was in her NEW HOME. This NEW HOME was with Jesus and All her friends and family. !
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from Merlana ( colters wife)
Personal testimony time:
I feel like this is worth sharing because it isn't just for me, though It touched my heart very personally....
Last week we celebrated Aaralyn's 4th birthday....and as birthdays tend to do it stirred up some music playing and singing. Faith got out her keyboard and we sang happy birthday. I also couldn't help but find myself delighting in Aaralyn by singing some sweet and silly songs about what I love about her, while Faith played the keyboard.
Later that morning I found myself in need of some tape and so while I was climbing up on a stool in my closet, I had the holy spirit strongly and tenderly touch my heart with the understanding..."just like you were singing over Aaralyn this morning, that's the way I sing over you."
Wow. What a beautiful and deep revelation of the Father's heart for His children. (And for me personally. Wow, Lord. Do you really mean ME?)
As the day went on different aspects and the gravity of this truth kept hitting me. I still don't know if I can possibly comprehend the depths of His love but a few things I have reflected on are....
That as we rejoice over our newborns and little children...(we can't help it....they are so precious to us) ....This is how even now, despite our shame, the way we have messed up our situations....even as adults we have a Father in Heaven delighting in us and rooting for us.
Despite the imperfections of our earthly parents and the effect this has had on our ability to know our value, our place and our identity in this world...(the world will one day pass away but what the Lord says will remain.) What He says is true.
So, we all wear to some degree a perception of ourselves tainted by the lies that have been spoken over us, our own messed up judgements about how we measure up based on our performance. Shame creeps in and skews our knowledge of who we are and what we were made for.
But...when we choose a relationship with Jesus we choose a relationship with a perfect Father who delights in us and rejoices over us with singing.
It hit me hard that in the same way this little squishy cheeked girl in this photo was delighted in prior to all the shame and guilt that was to follow in her story in the years to come....that this is how the Father can still look at me and delight in me...
Giving me full value because I am His child and I belong to Him.
The same is true for every one of His children.
This is what His word says...
"The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will exult over you with loud singing."
-Zephaniah 3:17
I don't know who else needs to hear that but it sure meant a lot for me. The depth of a perfect Father's love cannot be fully grasped on earth but the measures that we can experience here are wonderful. Just wait for the fullness of this truth to be experienced in perfection. 💗
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Jordan Taylor USA ( permission given )new hampshire
I used to practice witchcraft. I did spells, read oracle cards, did energy work, and used crystals as a means of healing, protecting, and manifesting. I was a reiki master and a yoga teacher. I believed in astrology, manifested under a new moon, and did shadow work under the full moon. I worshipped nature and worked with goddesses. I believed I was a starseed. I found my spirit guides and let them lead the course of my life. I would talk to “Spirit/Source/Universe” and believe that I was speaking to my “higher self.” I believed that I created my own reality and that I was my own god, in control of my own life.
I was also trapped in a continuous cycle of healing and “upleveling.” Constantly needing the next healing session in various forms. Feeling good after each healing session and chasing that “feel good” high when it would wear off. I believed that my next crisis was just leveling me up and raising my vibration and cracking some secret code to the harmony of the collective planet. While I believed all of this, I was suffering and in a deep pit of depression. I longed to feel loved, heard, and understood. My soul lacked a sense of belonging. My body was in a constant state of fight or flight. There were lots of days I had wished I weren’t alive. I was being tormented, experiencing regular sleep paralysis. I thought I could burn a little sage, say a little chant, and put crystals in every corner of my room to stop it.
I was wrong about all of it.
What I was actually doing was laying down a welcome mat for darkness, deception and all that comes with it.
I felt so allergic to the G-word (God). I almost unfriended a New Age colleague who had recently come to Christ because she couldn’t stop talking about Jesus. I was irritated by it. Angry. Repelled. I thought, “What HAPPENED to her?! Has she gone mad?”
But in God’s grace, He met me in my stubbornness. In my sin. In my depression. There was a moment in my resistance where I reluctantly watched a movie about Jesus to appease my boyfriend at the time. I watched and sobbed hysterically. I was overcome by an intense feeling of love. Something I had never ever felt before. The kind of love that I was desperately chasing in all the wrong ways. That’s when I knew God was after my heart.
I tried to deny it and ignore it. But I wanted to feel that feeling again. So I chased after Jesus. I started reading the Bible. I had never really done that before. And God’s character was revealed to me. I prayed. A lot. I had resistance to attending church but eventually I bounced around to a few churches until I found a biblically sound church that I loved. And this is how I started a relationship with God.
I never knew what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus. And now that I know, I’d never let that go. The chains of my depression have been broken. After praying in the name of Jesus, I have never experienced another sleep paralysis episode again. I find joy in the Lord. I’ve been made free by His Word, felt the power of His Spirit, felt the love of the Father, and I’m changed forever.
New Agers often think there are multiple ways to God. That you just have to find “your truth.” Or that you can access “Christ consciousness.” None of that is true. The truth is that there are not multiple ways to God. There’s One. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one gets to the Father except through Him. John 14:6
I know lots of you will think the same thing about me that I thought about my New Age colleague. “She has gone totally mad.” I’m okay with that. There’s nothing that compares to the peace, hope, and love that comes from knowing Jesus.
My prayer is that maybe this plants a seed in your heart. And that if you feel convicted by my words, you be open to the idea that God is chasing after you too.
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jesus encounter of lee
rings dropping in ocean.
the story of how this book came about ....picture of text--- you should write it down------lee arne
REIKI
Riya Mitra no permission
Hi Olga. I was involved with a similar energy healing practice called Pranic healing. In a nutshell, it messed me up. On the surface it felt great some meditations, healings all feel good stuff, until I realized that I was deceived greatly. With God's grace I denounced it completely and threw away all books,etc. The torments started happening after I left the practice. Please ask Holy Spirit to guide you with this. As per my opinion, reiki or any alternative energy healing practices are dangerous and should not be practiced. May God bless you
also ......Riya Mitra
That's how the enemy deceives us. When I was deceived, I felt lost. Test everything people in today's era. If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. That's why Reiki and other energy healing practice like pranic healing come sugar coated with ecstatic high feelings and transcendental spiritual experiences. Many get deceived being curious to experience a spiritual high. Praise God for rescuing you and saving your life. God bless you
Laura Hughes no permission
I used to get Shamanic healing and Reiki. It made things better and then it got much worse and then I nearly committed suicide because of it all. I found Jesus during a suicide attempt, and 4 months later he put it on my heart to throw out all of my meds. I prayed about it for one month and the thought wouldn't leave me. It was Him telling me to have absolute surrender.
One day I got up and I couldn't put them in my mouth. I threw 8 types of medication in the bin. BP meds, bipolar, ADHD, RA immune suppresents etc.
I had no side effects from quitting and I have never felt better in my life. I know that this is not for everyone, but Reiki is not massage. Its not a physical thing. The only spiritual energy I want to deal with now and the only one that truly worked is the name if Jesus and prayer. He heals
Judi Risser no permission facebook
I once had a reiki session where the reiki master told me that a female Japanese Goddess took over from her to heal my back... that wasn’t injured... until some time after that session..... I find that odd. It was like a prediction, that my back was going to become injured. And it did; afterwards, i began to have problems... an MRI showed a disc bulge and tear and lumbar disc disease. Coincidence? Have you ever had entities or spirits come and take over the healing or guide you to heal an area? Many are guided in that way. And who are these spirits, truly? If they aren’t Jesus Christ they aren’t to be trusted.
Katie Freese no permission
I have seen families neglected, marriages destroyed, friendships ended, suicide, depression, illness and many people become self-made gurus further distancing themselves from their families and God to be bowed-down to by their new followers. All from too many "healing" circles involving reiki and other energy work. How I wish I had never been involved.
Yvonne Welz no permission
For all those who are new here, hearing the harsh words about Reiki etc for the first time - read, watch the testimonies, and let it all sink in. I was new here in January this year, and I had just become certified in Reiki 1 & 2 in January of last year. I was seriously planning to become a Reiki practitioner. It was VERY hard hearing about the truth, the danger, and the demonic entities behind something as beautiful as Reiki. But I listened to Holy Spirit, and I realized I had sensed the truth all along. It is a very dangerous game, to have direct interactions with demonic spirits. It is not God's will for us, and it is all an elaborate lie. We just have to focus on God and Jesus and the Truth.
Christina Morales
Yes and I was the same way-kundalini yoga, energy work, shamanic healing and tarot cards. I went in wanting to help people and realized I was playing God. I was trying to do want only Jesus can do. It's all deceptive and I didn't even realize what I was doing even though I thought what I was doing was good. One big lie.
Mary Harris
I've struggled with this too. I was not a practitioner but I had many friends who were. I mainly facilitated meditations and past life regression and clients would experience amazing results.
What was revealed to me by the Holy Spirit is that the "healing" they received was not from God. It was from demons pretending to be angels. The devil often disguises himself as an angel of light.
Although these people would feel great and see symptoms diminish, they we're inviting entities into their life that would affect them in other ways, and often times, symptoms would come back. It was all deception. The devil will give us healings (or the appearance of healings) in an attempted to thwart our going to God for everything.
Then I asked the same question you did... Well what about massages or even medication for that matter?? What was revealed to me is that those things were for PHYSICAL healing. God gives us doctors and massage therapists to heal our bodies and that is perfectly in accordance with His will. The problem with reiki is that you are going to a source other than God for SPIRITUAL healing. Reiki is a spiritual practice that sometimes produces physical "results".
I dealt with guilt for misleading so many people but through Christ I am forgiven and am free of guilt. I pray often than those who I led astray will be led to Christ.
I hope this helps Mary Harris
reiki is much more than being prayed over. There is a ritual that takes place and it does not involve God or Jesus Christ. Even if you call on God or Jesus, it is something that deals with chakras and "energy healing". It is not something that is described in the Bible.
As Christians, we have faith that God is all we need for spiritual healing and deliverance.
I just read the passage in Leviticus which explains how Moses anointed his brother Aaron and Aaron's 4 son's as priests as God commanded he do. Two of the sons decided to perform a ritual to honor God, but it was against what God had ordered them to do and they were consumed by fire in the presence of the Lord and died. Leviticus 10 : 1-20
Make no mistake, this is not to strike fear in you, through Jesus Christ we are forgiven if we repent and believe in Christ. It was not a punishment, this is just an example that God is pure and without flaw and nothing can stand in his presence without being pure. The Israelites had to make attonement for their sins prior to God coming into their presence because at that time they did not have the blood of Christ to cover them. Since the two sons disobeyed what God commanded, they we're destroyed because they had done something against what God had deemed appropriate for worship and nothing impure can stand in God's presence.
I completely sympathize with you. When I was convicted by the Holy Spirit to change professions, I was scared and felt defeated because I "wasted" all of that time and money obtaining certifications and opening a studio. (I even flew to California to study Past Life Regression with Denise Linn). It was a scary, monumental change. I worried if I would have enough money to feed myself and my son. I wondered what other NA friends would think. I knew my reputation would take a hit. But despite all of my worries, I handed them to God and he led me through. It is so liberating to be walking in accordance with His will. It is freeing and I feel light and clean in all ways (it's a bit difficult to explain but it is wonderful).
I reveived a lot of push back and I even had former "friends" mock my faith and tell me I'm brainwashed. It just shows the fruits of the NA.
I hope this helps
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Mary Harris
Lynne Ann NA is short for New Age. Reiki, meditation, hypnosis, past life regression, yoga, The Secret (Law of Attraction), etc. all fall into the category of New Age practices (even though many of which have been practiced for thousands of years, it is considered new age because it is becoming more and more popular in our culture).
Past Life Regression is so very similar to hypnosis. Its focus was on getting a person into a deep relaxed state in an attempt to reprogram limiting beliefs of which they were not consciously aware.
There are a few problems with that. This article is very helpful in explaining these issues: https://www.gotquestions.org/hypnosis-Christian.html
Also, I have not read the book but have heard many on this site recommend "The Light That Was Dark". That may provide you with some more insight.
And of course, you can use the search feature in the group to search for topics that you have questions about.
Know that you have much support in this group, but most importantly in the Lord.
Pray throughout your day and make time to read the Bible, even if it's for only 10 minutes before you go to bed. (Be sure to pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that He send the Holy Spirit to you to give you wisdom and understanding of His word.) Doing these things will help you to develop a close, intimate relationship with God. As you grow in faith, your discernment will develop even more strongly and you will begin to recognize deception when you see it.
May God bless you
Liz Grauman Nolan
When I did reiki I could feel the “spirits” pouring energy into me and into the person. Satan can manipulate energy.
I dont experience any of this anymore though bc all doors are closed in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Dawn Elizabeth
I was a reiki master. From very early in my practise I noticed spirit beings were present in the room with me. My teacher explained that these beings are always present and are “guides”. Many people see them or sense them when doing or receiving reiki.
Another thing is that by accepting reiki the person being “healed” is actually *giving permission* to the spirit world for spiritual “energy” to enter into them. Very dangerous to allow such things, as we know there is a permission aspect to spiritism.
Consider also that the practitioner is a channel- the energy flows through their body too. They too are asking for and allowing Spirit energy to enter them. BUT we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit by the action of God and through Jesus. Reiki is not the Holy Spirit. So what spirit is it?
Liz Grauman Nolan
Reiki is based on eastern gurus and guides and new age basis.
I did reiki for years (master practitioner).
It is not based on faith and Jesus. Remember- just bc people feel better does not mean they are better. Demons can heal and especially they can heal what they create in people which is many diseases and aches and pains. So it may appear miraculous but is often a trick.
Plus- when you do reiki and channel the symbols and guides and receive attunements you are opening to demons and you are assisting demons to enter your clients also. Hope Lach maybe you can chime in here too?
Reiki and yoga are practices that look fine but are truly dangerous.
There is much written on Christian Answers to the New Age page, consider joining.
some good points in this here to mention
Kristi Kang
Hi Lynne Ann! Good question. Not everyone will agree with me on this, but I personally do not see anything wrong with a purely physical massage, or with getting a chiropractic adjustment.
Both address physical muscles and bones, and can be beneficial without resorting to "energy" healings like reiki.
I see it the same way in terms of exercising, or eating a healthy diet. Taking care of our bodies is important as Christians, as we are housing the very Spirit of God.
If energy work is involved, that's a whole different story. Accessing the spiritual realm through channeling this energy can be very dangerous. Some massage practitioners are also Reiki masters, and can perform Reiki on a client without them even knowing it. I would make sure to ask anyone who’s going to touch my body whether they might be involved with that type of spiritual work before I let them massage me.
You asked great questions on the thread below, so I’ll simply share an article you might enjoy on when massage might not be appropriate for a Christian:
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My husband has been sober through AA for 5 years. I saw wonderful transformation occur for him and was super supportive. I saw him form a relationship with "God". I cant know what that means fully for him, but I can tell you my husband showed more fruit of God's attributes than I had as a "highly evolved spiritual person". Seeing and hearing him pray and watching him grow into a really good man was amazing and also put a sand in my shoes that began to rub in my spiritual life...he had a "relationship" with God and a peace I didn't.
Fast forward to my salvation 16 months ago.( 2019)... God spoke to me about AA.
He impressed on me how it keeps his beloved children in bondage and in wrong identity and how it becomes an idol.( Idolatry)
It keeps many people away from the cross, focused on their works (service is main path), and self, and just being/becoming a good person.
The doctrine is so intermingled with truth and godly principles.
Speaking "I am an alcoholic" for the rest of your life puts these people in identity bondage.
It does not speak life into them and creates a dependence...an idol...on the 12 steps.
It completely does not acknowledge that Jesus and his work on the cross has the power to completely transform their lives and relieve them of their bondage for good!! ....in fact they pray constantly a literal prayer, "god relieve me of the bondage" .....well how the heck can He when you profess and identify as an alcoholic forever?!!
God spoke to me about this.....Our identity is A CHILD OF GOD and once you know that and receive it, you could never speak such a demonic contract over yourself like I am an alcoholic!
It is such a heavy weight on my life. I shared it all with my husband who no longer drinks and has worked the steps successfully that he should consider not speaking those words of death over himself. Of course he disagreed and defended the practice. I said in response, "you have healed from this! Don't you think it would actually help more people if that message was shared in meetings? That you Don't Have to identify as this broken thing forever?" ...he didn't have a response, but something like...the system works, we follow it.
Its depressing. And about 8 months into my salvation, I believe is a big part of what is in the way of his salvation and receiving the gospel into his heart.
He flat out told me a few months ago that he is a good person and works to be a good person and sees himself behaving better than me and a lot of christians...and that Jesus is not the only way. ...and why would He be if you just have to be a good person and you have it all figured out through AA? ...I mean I get his logic!!
AA started out good in our lives, now he makes is his top priority, over our marriage. He doesn't see it. But it is always AA over us and anything else. IDOLATRY. And I pray he is delivered from it and becomes a shepherd sharing the good news and pulls many out as soon as today Lord!!
Then I saw his "chip" in a new light...I almost tossed it to the ground when I picked it up because it held such a demonic energy!!!
I hold close that God can and will use everything for His glory 🙌 I pray my husband have an even more dramatic transformation than I had! I pray he is so overwhelmed by his sin and rejection of God's truth and God's amazing love and promise for him that he never goto another meeting and he spread the truth through those rooms! I pray God give him a fire a thousand times stronger than what he gave me and that He win so many souls!
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Katy
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I’m 35+ years clean & sober, and was born again around the same time. I never wanted to be reliant upon the program, or be a life long member. It is a very good starting point for sobriety, and it provides a very good support for the alcoholic. The support & the steps can be crucial for the alcoholic. It can be however stifling & enticing (lots of occultism there) for the christian, especially a weal or baby christian. That said, there are very strong christians there.
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Joseph
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Awesome testimony. I found that out about wearing a title that bonds you twenty four years ago when I came clean. And only through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ can you come clean.
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A four year old telling her Mommy about her Dream
A four year old child had lost her Papa ( Daddy) one year before.
One night in a dream her daddy was her "teacher".
She had a dream that she was at school ( presuming she isnt at school as she is only four years old)
The Papa said to her how much he missed her and said "I miss you soooo much"!!
He then proceeded to tell her ,that she needed to go home and pack her things.
This is because he said they were leaving !
She then went home and began to pack her bag when she looked out of the window and the Earth was on fire.
Suddenly she was in her NEW HOME. This NEW HOME was with Jesus and All her friends and family. !
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from Merlana ( colters wife)
Personal testimony time:
I feel like this is worth sharing because it isn't just for me, though It touched my heart very personally....
Last week we celebrated Aaralyn's 4th birthday....and as birthdays tend to do it stirred up some music playing and singing. Faith got out her keyboard and we sang happy birthday. I also couldn't help but find myself delighting in Aaralyn by singing some sweet and silly songs about what I love about her, while Faith played the keyboard.
Later that morning I found myself in need of some tape and so while I was climbing up on a stool in my closet, I had the holy spirit strongly and tenderly touch my heart with the understanding..."just like you were singing over Aaralyn this morning, that's the way I sing over you."
Wow. What a beautiful and deep revelation of the Father's heart for His children. (And for me personally. Wow, Lord. Do you really mean ME?)
As the day went on different aspects and the gravity of this truth kept hitting me. I still don't know if I can possibly comprehend the depths of His love but a few things I have reflected on are....
That as we rejoice over our newborns and little children...(we can't help it....they are so precious to us) ....This is how even now, despite our shame, the way we have messed up our situations....even as adults we have a Father in Heaven delighting in us and rooting for us.
Despite the imperfections of our earthly parents and the effect this has had on our ability to know our value, our place and our identity in this world...(the world will one day pass away but what the Lord says will remain.) What He says is true.
So, we all wear to some degree a perception of ourselves tainted by the lies that have been spoken over us, our own messed up judgements about how we measure up based on our performance. Shame creeps in and skews our knowledge of who we are and what we were made for.
But...when we choose a relationship with Jesus we choose a relationship with a perfect Father who delights in us and rejoices over us with singing.
It hit me hard that in the same way this little squishy cheeked girl in this photo was delighted in prior to all the shame and guilt that was to follow in her story in the years to come....that this is how the Father can still look at me and delight in me...
Giving me full value because I am His child and I belong to Him.
The same is true for every one of His children.
This is what His word says...
"The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will exult over you with loud singing."
-Zephaniah 3:17
I don't know who else needs to hear that but it sure meant a lot for me. The depth of a perfect Father's love cannot be fully grasped on earth but the measures that we can experience here are wonderful. Just wait for the fullness of this truth to be experienced in perfection. 💗
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Jordan Taylor USA ( permission given )new hampshire
I used to practice witchcraft. I did spells, read oracle cards, did energy work, and used crystals as a means of healing, protecting, and manifesting. I was a reiki master and a yoga teacher. I believed in astrology, manifested under a new moon, and did shadow work under the full moon. I worshipped nature and worked with goddesses. I believed I was a starseed. I found my spirit guides and let them lead the course of my life. I would talk to “Spirit/Source/Universe” and believe that I was speaking to my “higher self.” I believed that I created my own reality and that I was my own god, in control of my own life.
I was also trapped in a continuous cycle of healing and “upleveling.” Constantly needing the next healing session in various forms. Feeling good after each healing session and chasing that “feel good” high when it would wear off. I believed that my next crisis was just leveling me up and raising my vibration and cracking some secret code to the harmony of the collective planet. While I believed all of this, I was suffering and in a deep pit of depression. I longed to feel loved, heard, and understood. My soul lacked a sense of belonging. My body was in a constant state of fight or flight. There were lots of days I had wished I weren’t alive. I was being tormented, experiencing regular sleep paralysis. I thought I could burn a little sage, say a little chant, and put crystals in every corner of my room to stop it.
I was wrong about all of it.
What I was actually doing was laying down a welcome mat for darkness, deception and all that comes with it.
I felt so allergic to the G-word (God). I almost unfriended a New Age colleague who had recently come to Christ because she couldn’t stop talking about Jesus. I was irritated by it. Angry. Repelled. I thought, “What HAPPENED to her?! Has she gone mad?”
But in God’s grace, He met me in my stubbornness. In my sin. In my depression. There was a moment in my resistance where I reluctantly watched a movie about Jesus to appease my boyfriend at the time. I watched and sobbed hysterically. I was overcome by an intense feeling of love. Something I had never ever felt before. The kind of love that I was desperately chasing in all the wrong ways. That’s when I knew God was after my heart.
I tried to deny it and ignore it. But I wanted to feel that feeling again. So I chased after Jesus. I started reading the Bible. I had never really done that before. And God’s character was revealed to me. I prayed. A lot. I had resistance to attending church but eventually I bounced around to a few churches until I found a biblically sound church that I loved. And this is how I started a relationship with God.
I never knew what it meant to have a relationship with Jesus. And now that I know, I’d never let that go. The chains of my depression have been broken. After praying in the name of Jesus, I have never experienced another sleep paralysis episode again. I find joy in the Lord. I’ve been made free by His Word, felt the power of His Spirit, felt the love of the Father, and I’m changed forever.
New Agers often think there are multiple ways to God. That you just have to find “your truth.” Or that you can access “Christ consciousness.” None of that is true. The truth is that there are not multiple ways to God. There’s One. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one gets to the Father except through Him. John 14:6
I know lots of you will think the same thing about me that I thought about my New Age colleague. “She has gone totally mad.” I’m okay with that. There’s nothing that compares to the peace, hope, and love that comes from knowing Jesus.
My prayer is that maybe this plants a seed in your heart. And that if you feel convicted by my words, you be open to the idea that God is chasing after you too.
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the story of how this book came about ....picture of text--- you should write it down------lee arne
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Riya Mitra no permission
Hi Olga. I was involved with a similar energy healing practice called Pranic healing. In a nutshell, it messed me up. On the surface it felt great some meditations, healings all feel good stuff, until I realized that I was deceived greatly. With God's grace I denounced it completely and threw away all books,etc. The torments started happening after I left the practice. Please ask Holy Spirit to guide you with this. As per my opinion, reiki or any alternative energy healing practices are dangerous and should not be practiced. May God bless you
also ......Riya Mitra
That's how the enemy deceives us. When I was deceived, I felt lost. Test everything people in today's era. If it's too good to be true, it probably isn't. That's why Reiki and other energy healing practice like pranic healing come sugar coated with ecstatic high feelings and transcendental spiritual experiences. Many get deceived being curious to experience a spiritual high. Praise God for rescuing you and saving your life. God bless you
Laura Hughes no permission
I used to get Shamanic healing and Reiki. It made things better and then it got much worse and then I nearly committed suicide because of it all. I found Jesus during a suicide attempt, and 4 months later he put it on my heart to throw out all of my meds. I prayed about it for one month and the thought wouldn't leave me. It was Him telling me to have absolute surrender.
One day I got up and I couldn't put them in my mouth. I threw 8 types of medication in the bin. BP meds, bipolar, ADHD, RA immune suppresents etc.
I had no side effects from quitting and I have never felt better in my life. I know that this is not for everyone, but Reiki is not massage. Its not a physical thing. The only spiritual energy I want to deal with now and the only one that truly worked is the name if Jesus and prayer. He heals
Judi Risser no permission facebook
I once had a reiki session where the reiki master told me that a female Japanese Goddess took over from her to heal my back... that wasn’t injured... until some time after that session..... I find that odd. It was like a prediction, that my back was going to become injured. And it did; afterwards, i began to have problems... an MRI showed a disc bulge and tear and lumbar disc disease. Coincidence? Have you ever had entities or spirits come and take over the healing or guide you to heal an area? Many are guided in that way. And who are these spirits, truly? If they aren’t Jesus Christ they aren’t to be trusted.
Katie Freese no permission
I have seen families neglected, marriages destroyed, friendships ended, suicide, depression, illness and many people become self-made gurus further distancing themselves from their families and God to be bowed-down to by their new followers. All from too many "healing" circles involving reiki and other energy work. How I wish I had never been involved.
Yvonne Welz no permission
For all those who are new here, hearing the harsh words about Reiki etc for the first time - read, watch the testimonies, and let it all sink in. I was new here in January this year, and I had just become certified in Reiki 1 & 2 in January of last year. I was seriously planning to become a Reiki practitioner. It was VERY hard hearing about the truth, the danger, and the demonic entities behind something as beautiful as Reiki. But I listened to Holy Spirit, and I realized I had sensed the truth all along. It is a very dangerous game, to have direct interactions with demonic spirits. It is not God's will for us, and it is all an elaborate lie. We just have to focus on God and Jesus and the Truth.
Christina Morales
Yes and I was the same way-kundalini yoga, energy work, shamanic healing and tarot cards. I went in wanting to help people and realized I was playing God. I was trying to do want only Jesus can do. It's all deceptive and I didn't even realize what I was doing even though I thought what I was doing was good. One big lie.
Mary Harris
I've struggled with this too. I was not a practitioner but I had many friends who were. I mainly facilitated meditations and past life regression and clients would experience amazing results.
What was revealed to me by the Holy Spirit is that the "healing" they received was not from God. It was from demons pretending to be angels. The devil often disguises himself as an angel of light.
Although these people would feel great and see symptoms diminish, they we're inviting entities into their life that would affect them in other ways, and often times, symptoms would come back. It was all deception. The devil will give us healings (or the appearance of healings) in an attempted to thwart our going to God for everything.
Then I asked the same question you did... Well what about massages or even medication for that matter?? What was revealed to me is that those things were for PHYSICAL healing. God gives us doctors and massage therapists to heal our bodies and that is perfectly in accordance with His will. The problem with reiki is that you are going to a source other than God for SPIRITUAL healing. Reiki is a spiritual practice that sometimes produces physical "results".
I dealt with guilt for misleading so many people but through Christ I am forgiven and am free of guilt. I pray often than those who I led astray will be led to Christ.
I hope this helps Mary Harris
reiki is much more than being prayed over. There is a ritual that takes place and it does not involve God or Jesus Christ. Even if you call on God or Jesus, it is something that deals with chakras and "energy healing". It is not something that is described in the Bible.
As Christians, we have faith that God is all we need for spiritual healing and deliverance.
I just read the passage in Leviticus which explains how Moses anointed his brother Aaron and Aaron's 4 son's as priests as God commanded he do. Two of the sons decided to perform a ritual to honor God, but it was against what God had ordered them to do and they were consumed by fire in the presence of the Lord and died. Leviticus 10 : 1-20
Make no mistake, this is not to strike fear in you, through Jesus Christ we are forgiven if we repent and believe in Christ. It was not a punishment, this is just an example that God is pure and without flaw and nothing can stand in his presence without being pure. The Israelites had to make attonement for their sins prior to God coming into their presence because at that time they did not have the blood of Christ to cover them. Since the two sons disobeyed what God commanded, they we're destroyed because they had done something against what God had deemed appropriate for worship and nothing impure can stand in God's presence.
I completely sympathize with you. When I was convicted by the Holy Spirit to change professions, I was scared and felt defeated because I "wasted" all of that time and money obtaining certifications and opening a studio. (I even flew to California to study Past Life Regression with Denise Linn). It was a scary, monumental change. I worried if I would have enough money to feed myself and my son. I wondered what other NA friends would think. I knew my reputation would take a hit. But despite all of my worries, I handed them to God and he led me through. It is so liberating to be walking in accordance with His will. It is freeing and I feel light and clean in all ways (it's a bit difficult to explain but it is wonderful).
I reveived a lot of push back and I even had former "friends" mock my faith and tell me I'm brainwashed. It just shows the fruits of the NA.
I hope this helps
and .....................
Mary Harris
Lynne Ann NA is short for New Age. Reiki, meditation, hypnosis, past life regression, yoga, The Secret (Law of Attraction), etc. all fall into the category of New Age practices (even though many of which have been practiced for thousands of years, it is considered new age because it is becoming more and more popular in our culture).
Past Life Regression is so very similar to hypnosis. Its focus was on getting a person into a deep relaxed state in an attempt to reprogram limiting beliefs of which they were not consciously aware.
There are a few problems with that. This article is very helpful in explaining these issues: https://www.gotquestions.org/hypnosis-Christian.html
Also, I have not read the book but have heard many on this site recommend "The Light That Was Dark". That may provide you with some more insight.
And of course, you can use the search feature in the group to search for topics that you have questions about.
Know that you have much support in this group, but most importantly in the Lord.
Pray throughout your day and make time to read the Bible, even if it's for only 10 minutes before you go to bed. (Be sure to pray to God in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that He send the Holy Spirit to you to give you wisdom and understanding of His word.) Doing these things will help you to develop a close, intimate relationship with God. As you grow in faith, your discernment will develop even more strongly and you will begin to recognize deception when you see it.
May God bless you
Liz Grauman Nolan
When I did reiki I could feel the “spirits” pouring energy into me and into the person. Satan can manipulate energy.
I dont experience any of this anymore though bc all doors are closed in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Dawn Elizabeth
I was a reiki master. From very early in my practise I noticed spirit beings were present in the room with me. My teacher explained that these beings are always present and are “guides”. Many people see them or sense them when doing or receiving reiki.
Another thing is that by accepting reiki the person being “healed” is actually *giving permission* to the spirit world for spiritual “energy” to enter into them. Very dangerous to allow such things, as we know there is a permission aspect to spiritism.
Consider also that the practitioner is a channel- the energy flows through their body too. They too are asking for and allowing Spirit energy to enter them. BUT we are indwelled by the Holy Spirit by the action of God and through Jesus. Reiki is not the Holy Spirit. So what spirit is it?
Liz Grauman Nolan
Reiki is based on eastern gurus and guides and new age basis.
I did reiki for years (master practitioner).
It is not based on faith and Jesus. Remember- just bc people feel better does not mean they are better. Demons can heal and especially they can heal what they create in people which is many diseases and aches and pains. So it may appear miraculous but is often a trick.
Plus- when you do reiki and channel the symbols and guides and receive attunements you are opening to demons and you are assisting demons to enter your clients also. Hope Lach maybe you can chime in here too?
Reiki and yoga are practices that look fine but are truly dangerous.
There is much written on Christian Answers to the New Age page, consider joining.
some good points in this here to mention
Kristi Kang
Hi Lynne Ann! Good question. Not everyone will agree with me on this, but I personally do not see anything wrong with a purely physical massage, or with getting a chiropractic adjustment.
Both address physical muscles and bones, and can be beneficial without resorting to "energy" healings like reiki.
I see it the same way in terms of exercising, or eating a healthy diet. Taking care of our bodies is important as Christians, as we are housing the very Spirit of God.
If energy work is involved, that's a whole different story. Accessing the spiritual realm through channeling this energy can be very dangerous. Some massage practitioners are also Reiki masters, and can perform Reiki on a client without them even knowing it. I would make sure to ask anyone who’s going to touch my body whether they might be involved with that type of spiritual work before I let them massage me.
You asked great questions on the thread below, so I’ll simply share an article you might enjoy on when massage might not be appropriate for a Christian: