More Overcomings of Witchcraft
This is going to be a continuation from the last testimony that I shared because of some more overcomings that have taken place in observing days, times and seasons. Not until a person starts coming out of bondage, do you really see the extent of how much these spirits bind you and want to keep you bound so that you cannot inherit the kingdom (power) of God. I thank God for the gospel and for the determination and desire He put in my heart to come out of bondage, and for the extent that God will go to in a person's life to bring them out by faith if they really have a desire to come out. I pray this ministers to your heart.
In the past 16 years, God, by His Spirit, has been leading me out of bondage in many areas of my life and witchcraft is just one of them. But each year has been more and more of an overcoming of observing days, times and seasons. Each year there has been more and more required to lay down, but it has all been through faith (mixed with the gospel). I will also say that just as Paul was all things to all people, so have I been concerning these things I'm going to share with you. I have obeyed whatever the Spirit of God would tell me to do - whether it be for birthdays or Christmas or whatever other occasion.
Over the years, the Spirit of God in Doyle Davidson has told me on more than one occasion how bound I was. If he told me one time, he (has) told me a thousand times. My flesh for sure didn't always like hearing that, but when things were shown to me in the bible, my heart was such that I could accept it and God would start delivering me from these bondage's.
Many years back, Doyle told me that the reason I observed birthdays, Christmas, and other holidays as well, was because I was bound by witchcraft spirits and then Galatians 4:9-10 was pointed out to me. I couldn't deny what was written and how plain it was. I set my heart to overcome because I knew if I ever was going to inherit the kingdom of God, there was no other options but to let God set me free. In this walk I have learned you either go God's way or you don't go at all, and you'll eventually be destroyed. So praise God for His mercy and grace. Amen.
I'm going to share some things and how God led me in confronting and overcoming more witchcraft spirits.
A few days before my birthday this past year (that being December 2001), I received a call from my older sister wanting to take me to lunch and I knew in the Spirit that it was for my birthday, even though that was not mentioned at the time. I simply told her I wouldn't be able to go. On occasion I may eat lunch, but normally I don't because of the fasting that God has led me to do. I would have never overcome to the point I have if I had gone to lunch and done this or that every time someone wanted me to, and even more specifically, every time I wanted to. But in each situation I have obeyed God and done what was right in the Spirit to do. And to be quite honest with you, God, on more occasions than not, has led me to fast and pray so that I could overcome the powers of darkness in my life.
My sister then suggested taking me to dinner. I told her that wouldn't work and that's when she proceeded and told me, "You WILL go." I knew then that there was for sure a spirit behind all this. My mother called and asked the same question about going to lunch, and I told her the same thing I had told my sister and she said okay and that was it with her. The closer it got to my birthday, they both told me they had a gift for me. Right then and there it was in my spirit not to accept any gifts - it just came into my spirit by the Spirit. That is something that had never happened before concerning this. (Last year, they all forgot my birthday until a day or so later, and I thought that was the end of my overcoming; but not so!) But it happened to be God that put it in my spirit not to accept any gifts and it really even surprised me, and what a stir it caused in some people.
My older sister had asked me weeks before (and I'm talking about before the conversation about my birthday) about Christmas. I simply told her we weren't doing anything and left it at that, not really thinking any more about it. God had already put it in my spirit not to buy any Christmas gifts this year for anyone or to receive any for myself even before He had done that about my birthday. Some people may be thinking I was being too 'spiritual'. But this, without a doubt, was God leading me to overcome some more witchcraft spirits. There was a slight struggle whether this was God or not, but as I kept praying, I knew it was God that had put this in my spirit.
When God is leading you to overcome spirits, you need to know that resistance will be there on every corner and those spirits will pursue and persecute you - even in people you wouldn't think it would use to do so. But I've learned this over the years. To overcome those spirits that don't like what you're doing, you will have to pray (believing) continually and do much blessing to overcome their attacks. And the resistance has been not only with my family but other people as well.
I had shared with JR and the kids that I wasn't buying any gifts this year or receiving any for myself because I believed this was what God was leading me to do, and I knew I needed to obey what He was requiring of me. My daughter, Amy, had bought me two gifts which someone broke into her car and stole early one morning. She then went out and bought me one to replace those. We were in the kitchen talking right after that and I told her that I was not accepting any gifts this year and that was that. She didn't like it one bit and up out of my spirit and mouth I told her she wasn't going to tempt me and that Jezebel spirit wasn't going to use her to control me. I knew it was God speaking and confronting that spirit in her and that I was overcoming it for sure. To a Jezebel, I know this sounds hard and cruel - standing up to your daughter concerning something that seems so innocent and such a 'nice and thoughtful' gesture. But that's how subtle that spirit can be, and it was necessary in more of my overcoming the Jezebel spirit; more specifically -- the Baptist Jezebel.
Christmas Day I spent it like any other day - fasting, praying and overcoming the powers of darkness. I did not change or do one thing different that day. After a couple of hours of hard, fervent praying, I broke through a powerful spirit and I knew exactly when I did. It was witchcraft spirits (the Jezebel) which shuts up the power of God. This was by far the most pressured Christmas I've experienced in the past 16 years since God started leading me to overcome these particular spirits.
Over the past several years, there has been pressure standing up and doing what God would want me to do, and only because of the resistance in people around me not wanting me to obey God. But for whatever reason, this one was far more pressured than any of the rest of them, but yet one of the most powerful overcomings of any of the rest of them also. And for that, I thank God.
Right after I broke through that spirit, the Lord spoke to me so clearly and told me something that was astounding. He said because of how I have fought and prayed to overcome this Jezebel spirit for the past 16 years, and how I had laid down many things and had obeyed Him, that I would see the Spirit of God in me deliver millions of people from this very spirit. I told the Lord, "If this really is you that's speaking that to me, that will have made this whole fight, and these past 16 years, worth it." And I meant it.
The world is bound by this spirit and doesn't even know it. I for sure didn't until 1985. And since that time, it has been the war of my life coming out from under the control that that spirit has had on my life. I have suffered many things at the hands of this spirit and by the mercy and grace of God, I've overcome to the point I have. But one way it has controlled me is through fear, and fear is bondage. Once you see the methods of how that spirit operates and the extreme it will go to, you need to be prepared for the fight of your life. Because when you start overcoming it and it can't rule you anymore or control you with fear and intimidation, then it will turn around and falsely accuse you. And that's when you will have to stand fast and pray (believing) and walk in love. When you walk in love, there will be no occasion for stumbling. You will also have to do much blessing of people around you.
One thing you can be assured of is Jesus judged and overcame all these powers, principalities and wicked spirits 2000 years ago, and any person that will set their heart to believe the gospel (the power that raised Jesus from the dead), can and will get the victory over that spirit as well as all other spirits. The devil doesn't want any person to come out of bondage, but thank God He made a way.
What a tremendous blessing it will be to see millions delivered from that spirit by the power of God - because only the power of God could do such a work. Amen!
God has a righteous path ordained for every person that follows Him. And as He leads you down that path, it will be to restore your soul and for you to overcome wicked spirits. Your faith and love will also be perfected in the process. So learn to give thanks in these situations and see God's salvation come forth in your life.
I truly thank God for the death, burial and resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ because it is the power, or ability, of God unto our salvation (deliverance from every hindering spirit) if we believe. Amen!
