God Delivered Me From Sorcery
I, like most people, was raised in a home where our trust was in everything but the Lord. Whenever we got sick, we would either go to the doctor or take something out of the medicine cabinet to relieve whatever it was we were experiencing. So when I was in the third grade I had surgery for an ingrown toenail . Shortly after that, it got infected and over the next year there was a disease that spread all over my feet. There were times I had to miss school because I could not even walk. My parents had taken me to numerous physicians and had spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on me trying to find a cure for my feet.
My mother's cousin, Francis Lee Galey, who was born again (and we were not), asked us if she could pray for me and we said, "yes." She laid hands on me and prayed and Jesus healed my feet. This was our first encounter with the power of God. But even after this experience, we still did not know to believe and trust in the power of God for healing, or anything else for that matter. We were so blind and our hearts were so hard it amazes me even to this day! Over the past several years, God has shown me this was sorcery that entered me through that doctor. And when your trust is in a doctor, and not the power of God, it is trusting in the flesh and it brings a curse on your life (Jeremiah l7).
When I was l5 years old my mother married a physician, (he was a surgeon), and I came under even more influence of this spirit. Twice a year, usually in the fall and winter, I would get extremely sick with a severe case of the flu. On more than one occasion when this occurred, I would have to go to my stepfather's office and he would give me IV's for several hours because I was so dehydrated, or either he would do it at our home. Then he would give me shots to relieve the nausea. One time he gave me such a large dosage that my tongue literally swelled up and I could barely swallow. I was in a state of panic because I was so frightened when this happened. I had had a reaction to the drug and they ended up having to give me another shot to reverse the effect of the previous one.
In the late 80's, after we had come to Water of Life, this same sickness occurred. I was in Doyle's office sick as a dog, and he was praying for me but there were no changes. He told me he was going to go to the other side of the church for a few minutes and then he would be back. He went over there to pray to overcome this spirit that had me bound so he could set me free. When he came back he started delivering me from sorcery. There was a time or two when the devil would try to put this back on me, but it would not take too long to pray and overcome the attack. I learned over the years that there were times when I had been delivered from spirits that the devil would come back with the same symptoms and try to convince me I had not been delivered--and it was a lie. Because when Jesus sets you free, you are free from that particular spirit that had you bound (John 8:36).
The day came when I had enough of the foundation of the apostle and prophet ministry laid in my heart that I was able to overcome on my own by mixing faith with the gospel (Hebrews 4:2) in prayer, and reading the Psalms and New Testament out loud, and by worshipping God. That foundation (of the apostle and prophet) enabled me to move on toward perfection, and I am still having my faith and love perfected daily. Ephesians 4:11-15 states this. These spirits are tough to overcome because most of us are raised in trusting in the arm of the flesh (Jeremiah 17:5) and not in the power of God. But when Jesus was raised from the dead He put these spirits off, and if we believe the power that raised Him from the dead, we will always see the salvation of God manifested in our life.
