Freed from evil

I would like to share my story and tell you about the Lords’ unfailing love for us. This is a true, although slightly unbelievable story. All names have been changed.

I am 45 now, but when I was about nine I moved to a new area and made friends with the lad who lived nearby, whose name was Paul. As school years passed we remained close friends and on into adulthood. A group of us -three guys and two girls called Jill and Jane hung out together most evenings. Looking for things to do we began to experiment with such things as the Ouija board; though I have to admit it frightened me and I would only watch.

I believe that God was looking after me in those days because out of the blue I joined the merchant navy and went away to sea. Several months later when I came home on my first leave, things were about to get a lot more serious. On the first night of the leave after meeting with all my old friends, my best friend, Paul came round for a coffee after the bar had shut. We were sitting talking when all of a sudden he arched his back, his eyes rolled and suddenly I was talking to someone else who wasn’t Paul, but shared Paul’s body. This manifestation using Paul’s body claimed to be the apostle John. He claimed that I was a part of a syndicate chosen by God to prepare the way for the coming of the next Messiah. This was amazing, since I had known Paul for over 12 years by then and this definitely wasn’t him I was talking to. However the revelation was still awesome to me, as someone who didn’t come from a church background, and had never read the bible (more is the pity).

The next day I went to speak to David (one of the other members of the group) and told him what had happened. He confirmed that whilst using the Ouija board they had asked to speak to Jesus when all of a sudden weird manifestations had begun to happen through and around Paul. That was only the beginning as over the next 2-3 years all sorts of things happened - we were told that we were being prepared for apostleship for the new Messiah. We saw at least eight different manifestations through Paul, claiming to be biblical characters including Jesus and God. Much more frightening, the claim was that Satan could hijack this route of communication with the spirit world and the Devil himself would appear - this was terrifying beyond measure. As well as this we saw materialisation of objects, had random strangers walk up to us in public and abuse us, as well as prophetic dreams and spirit and/or smell materialisations. This even happened to me when I was on a ship in the middle of the Atlantic.

As I have said this went on for several years but I missed a lot as I was at sea. However my month leaves tended to be mayhem. I left the navy in 1988 just as things died down and our apostle guide told us that we would be prepared and contacted when the time came. Jill married David and Paul married Jane, and settled down to life. I myself got a job and moved away, beginning 18 years in the wilderness. Over that time I became more reclusive. I had very few relationships, none of which worked out. I managed to keep a job and make ends meet. However where I had moved to I had very few friends and I started to wonder what was wrong with me. Occasionally I would have a very short term fling, which I began to realise was designed to lead to more pain and rejection.

There was an antidote to the futility of my life - alcohol and Cannabis. Sometimes I would simply shut my front door yelling out in anguish wondering where it had all gone wrong. However in general I kept telling myself I was doing OK as I had my own house, I could put on the act at work and the odd social occasion that everything was fine in my life. Most of the time I would really believe that I was ok and life was quite good. Of the old spiritual times that I had left behind, these were very firmly at the back of my mind. Even though I had tried to write them as a novel, I had almost forgotten about them. Though I had moved away I still kept in touch with David & Jill, Paul and Jane. I was quite close to David who in 2002 told me that Jill had joined a church and gone all religious; we both thought that she was in a cult.

Paul and Jane used to travel down to visit me at times and we all used to deride Jill’s Christianity, However on the same day her dad died, the Holy Spirit moved in and comforted Jane. She was won for the Lord despite her husband being Paul. David began to read the bible in 2004 and was born of the spirit in 2005. The next year David came to visit me, his old friend, during a walking break. He explained that what had happened to us was demonic and that we had been duped by Satan. However I told him that it was alright for him but I wasn’t interested and to leave me alone! I can only say that within 3 days the Lord put it on my heart that I had never read the bible, and I needed to. During our original experience we were told that the bible was written by man and not relevant today.

That day was the beginning of my salvation. My life for eighteen years had been very quiet. However once I picked up God’s word I entered spiritual hell. Many a night I would lay awake in terror at every little noise, but I knew that I needed to read the bible every day. After a year, during a night of great terror, I simply began to say over and over again “I belong to the Lord, I belong to God” That was it, Gods spirit came and wrapped me in an unbelievable blanket of love. Life began again with the first realisation of my salvation and where I had come from (which made me burst into tears). I immediately knew I had to be in a church and began to go to Bridport Christian Fellowship. When I realised I was coming to Christ I had asked the Lord to put me in the right church and he led me to Bridport. The love in the Church is great and I now realised the Lord knew which church would be right for me, as I absolutely hated most social situations. The Lord has been able to put the right person beside me at the right time in any situation to allow me to be healed. I had to go away for a period of full ministry and deliverance but through house groups and fellowship I now feel a completely new person. I am only beginning to know myself now at 45 years of age.