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I am 24 years old, married with one son who is7. I grew up in a house with loving parents but without a Father( as he left when i was 1) my parents are not believers truly although they say they are and i grew up not knowing the Lord. My grandma and aunt were into witchcraft and taught me things from a young age aobut meditation, crystals, aliens, spirit guides, pyramids etc.. At the age of about 7 my grandma lead me through my first spirit guided meditation where i was taken to see my dead ancestors ( and saw them i did) i was taught how to use crystals etc... From about 10 i bought every satanic, occult, witchcraft, paranormal book i could get my hands on. at the age of about 12 i became really angry with " God" because my other aunt who was my mothers twin was schitophrenic and killed herself and people would tell me that she went to hell because she had demons and killed herself and that was unforgiveable.( to this day i cannot remmeber who told me this i just know some people did). so at his age i desided there wasnt a god. i still read about the occult but for awhile it was less and i got more into boys and fornication. i became heavily into even to the point of addiction later) pornography and got pregant at 16.The Father of my son is now my husband and when i met Him i loved him instantly. when i met Him He wasnt obeying the Lord and reading the word but He had beleived in Him and recieved the Spirit at a younger age and He did beleive in him. When i told him i didnt beleive in God, He told me how he did and why and for the first time ever i saw the Lord in someone. and i didnt accept Jesus and i didnt get all religious but what i saw in him showed me God was real and i never again said God wasnt. Later on a few years later my now husbands sister was into witchcraft and that was right up my ally since i had so loved it before so i began to go to circles with her and we got very close. we practiced and studied together all the time. and Pot became part of our spiritual walk in darkness.my other sister in law also was into it with us but not as heavily, as we were more the studiers and practicers on an all the time basis. I was involved in many things in one form or another from divination, astral projection, spirit guides, chanting, automatic writting, seaounces ( sp?),meditation, visualization, tantra,aliens,kabbalah, ascending the tree of life and on and on. During this time i never used the title witch but a witch i was and i loved it. i made it a habit to go and teach christians how the bible was wrong and how this truth i was giving would set them free. and as a pagan who loved paganism i saw the corruption in christianity. Of course i didnt see it fully and i didnt understand in truth what it meant but i knew that christians were telling me i was damned for being pagan and at the same time they were mindlessly doing MY pagan practices! it was inferiorating to see they hypocracy in there explinations of why it was ok for them to do easter and christmas and such things when i knew they werent at all about Jesus but were about ishtar and nimrod. Little did i know this was one part of knowledge that would be of great blessing to me in the Lord. I want to make it clear i was a Happy to be pagan pagan. i didnt wanna be christian i didnt wanna conform of the world that is not what made me change in the least bit! and i do beleive that nothing short of what changed me could have ever changed me. by this time i was 22 and now was ascending the tree of life ( in the name of YHWH :| thank the Lord for forgiveness for that!) I was living with my sons Father still unmarried but very happy and i was working for my current boss who is quadrepledgic and i do private home care. One night at work before going to bed( i get to sleep at work)i was praying as i usually did and i prayed for more truth. obviously this time i honestly meant it and although i didnt know what i was gonna get i wanted more truth whatever that was going to mean. i even prayed that if there was something more to Jesus then i thought i wanted to know.( up till now i was convined he was a master the likes of budda krishna and many others) then i went to sleep. In the middle of the night i woke up, something was happening and i knew it was spiritual, it was the likes of things i had never even imagined before where i had been. my whole body was as if without wetness water was being poured all over me and bursting from within me. i say my body but it was much more than flesh.there is truly no words to really describe all the ways it was but it was amazing and i woke up thinking what is going on, and i didnt wanna move because i was afraid it would deminish or stop if i moved or got up. it was so beyond anything i had ever known physically or spiritually that i could not say how long it went on for. it seemed in ways only mintutes and in others it seemed hours but sometime around when it stopped i slipped right back into sleep. the next morning when i woke up everything was differnt! Look i was a witch who loved the occult who loved fornication and drugs who was so liberal so pro abortion pro homosexual pro one world government and i woke up knowing Jesus was Lord!and i didnt know what happened i didnt wake up thinking i am christian i am gonna go to church i just woke up knowing Jesus is Lord! and i didnt know what was up with me.i studied the bible alot in my occult life and i went to the bible to look for " Jesus is Lord" and see what it said and i found where our brother in the faith says that none but by the Holy Spirit can say that Jesus is Lord. and i thought what? did i get the Holy Spirit ?that must be what that was? so after that our next circle was comming up and in the middle of the night the Lord got me out of bed to write an email to my sister witches about some interesiting things. For the first time i was so moved, led, inspired by the Spirit of YAH that i wrote a long email to them about how what we were doing was wrong because we werent doing them for Jesus. and how calling the corners was wrong because we werent praying and calling on Jesus and how no longer would i call corners etc,, when i come to circles. now i was sure this wasnt gonna get a welcome response but sent it anyways. during this time i avoided my sister who i studied with all the time but after 2 weeks i went to her house and we got high and she was reading my cards and i said to her- we were wrong, the bible is true, the chrisitans were right. and she said whaaa? what are you talking about and i told her it is all true and i left.it was another 2 weeks before i saw her again and she was worried she thought i was brainwashed and nuts and she came to me and asked me about fearing the Lord and why we should. i explained and she left and when she prayed the Lord spoke to her and told her why to fear Him. HalleluYAH to make this long story a little shorter soon she gave herself to the Lord also and our other sister stopped witchcraft too for HIM.Glory and honor be to YHWH Most High! soon after that i was reading the bible and read that unmarried sex is a sin. needless to say i was torn apart i knew i had to obey and either get married or leave and i went home in brokenness being held up by the strength of the Lord and through tears told my boyfriend, this is a sin i have to either get married or leave. when i said this the Spirit of the Lord moved on Him and He thought what would i be if i left this woman who i love and my son all because she is trying to obey God. and He said to me the most releaving words of my life." so whens the wedding".HalleluYAH! we talked about it and desided to abstain from all sex until we could get married which ended up being 6 weeks later. in that time the Lord moved us both to be baptised together and he made us pure as snow for our husband Jesus and for each other. Soon after that the Lord delivered me from pot, smoking, and drinking. HalleluYAH. At this time we were going to a small non denominational church where we were baptised and married. I was continuing to study and by the blessing of the Lord He wiped my memory of almost all of the occult knowledge i knew( but at times brings things up to reveal further truths or to testify to other witches)..there is alot of other things i could continue to go on about in here but i will not. it has been a short 2 years since that day on the couch at work but the whirlwind of the Lord has not ceased to move and May it never! As for now a days the Lord is working in my house and beginning to move my husband and i do not attend regularly any church but on shabbat and feasts and any other time we like a group of us( my two sister in laws and mother in law sometimes brother in law) meet and fellowship. Truly the Lord YHWH is faithful in all things and all magisty honor praise joy tears love and devotion belong to Him in all heaven and earth!
 
I grew up Catholic in a very difficult environment. We moved a lot due to postings as my dad was in the army. At 19 I left home and moved west. I believed in God but that was about it. I became like the prodigal son; I was playing in bands and carousing a lot. I had a live-in girl friend who left for the summer to visit her family. So I was alone in a foreign city. The Lord put the burden for my sins on me. I was so depressed. I would cross the street and not look to see if a car was coming.

I went to confession and was crying my eyes out for my sins. The priest didn't know what to do for me....he gave me a box of kleenex and told me to say some hail Mary's and our Fathers. My girl-friend had left a bible behind in the apartment. Someone had given it to her...she was not a believer. I read every book in the place until only that one was left. I asked God why I had been created if it was just to be so depressed. I began to read the bible for the first time. It was a "Reach Out" NT. I was fasting simply because I had no money.

After a few days of reading nonstop except to sleep...I asked God what the Holy Spirit was. It seemed to change people's lives. Soon afterward as I read about the Holy Spirit...the words got bigger and a light was shining behind them...and the brightness of them came at me and entered me. I was full of light! Everywhere I looked there was light. It eminated from the side of my eyes. It shimmered constantly, even day after day. What joy! In those days I saw many things...angels, the condition of men....even a celestial city. The glory faded however. That was in 1980.

I outgrew the Catholic church and the evangelical church after that. I married 7 years after being reborn. God called us out of the institutions of men in order to break bread from house to house. The first we broke bread with was our ex-pastor. He later left his paid ministry to work with his hands. We have now been outside the camp for 20 years experiencing God's grace as well as His training in home fellowships and in community.

There are no shortcuts to maturity in the faith. I press on to fullness in Christ. I was promised at the first that I would one day be walking as I first did. Jesus said to me..."you know where I am, follow Me". I have experienced many things since then, including a few revivals of my first condition....but I look with hope to a fuller life in His light and power. How can I neglect so great a salvation as this?

Maranatha!

John
 
Those were wonderful testimonies. I really enjoyed reading.

God is so good to us :amen

Thank you two so much.
 
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