Tormented by ‘evil presence’ I knew Jesus was my only hope.

i was friends with a lot of christian kids they were fun they were safe and i wanted to be able to hang out with them and trick their parents into thinking i was a nice person so i did youth group stuff with them and yeah i learned a little bit of bible that way heard the gospel but it just bounced right off so you actually went on kind of a spiritual church and you ended up with the baha'i faith so what was it about baha'i that really interested you well i think one of the things that i really loved about it was the idea of um universal world peace like that was um one of the tenets of the of the faith was that eventually everyone would become a baha'i and that it would be a world order and so the idea of having one language equality of the sexes no economic issues like one world currency and one centralized government that would enforce this piece that because i was kind of a perfectionist i just thought that this was just a beautiful wonderful thing and and i think too um i had just gone to college at the same time and so it was kind of my way of like i'm gonna do my own thing you know and and uh i also started dating a boy at that same time who was a hostile agnostic yeah he was exactly so oh what is a hostile but you're mad at him right is that pretty much it i think i think that's sort of it yeah if there is i go when i get to heaven i got some stuff to say yeah like that's gonna work out uh but yeah he was a really great guy really nice guy ended up you know getting into a long-term relationship with him and i i tried to make those two worlds meet uh he was pretty sure that everything i believed was mystic baloney and so the thing that i tried to do was well if i just take him to enough events he'll see that you know this is really great and uh you know we'll both be behind together and this is awesome and every time i took him to something he was like no that's weird that's weird so you had a friend that became a christian around that time and he invited you to alpha and you you guys neither of you had interest interest in christianity but you said yes so it was how did you do that it was a few years later it was after we were done college after we'd been working for a while and uh and we had a friend of ours who was really had it shocked us he had been you know one of these guys who liked to put on a shiny shirt and go to the club and so we were just well that's bizarre you know we thought maybe he'd join some sort of bizarre group and he uh he invited us to alpha and he had told us later that he really felt it prompting to invite who later became my husband my boyfriend at the time and my boyfriend said to me uh you want to go to this like christian discussion group thing that our friend wants us to go to i said yeah okay that sounds great and we show up at alpha and i thought this was like a one-time thing half an hour we clap and they say welcome to the 10-week alpha course and i look at him and i'm like and he's like and so we decided to stay for all 10 weeks partially because we didn't want to hurt our friends feelings and uh we learned or and i relearned sort of the uh doctrines the concept of jesus and what he's done and um the idea that he's paid for the sins of mankind and we went you know what that's really nice thank you for inviting us you know we're not really interested but thanks so much um and and now your husband the hostile now this boyfriend who became your husband hostile agnostic he uh he decides he wants to start reading the bible so that if he's going to make fun of christians he knows what he's talking about that's right that's right because the more we got to talk with our friend he i think he uh realized oh i need to know more about this so at the time we had had a bible store right down the street from our house it was a christian bookstore and so he walked down got himself a bible and as you said before i had learned um learned a little bit about the bible when i was younger so i thought okay i'll do that too and um after we had been reading for a little while some strange things started to happen okay strange things and this is the part that some people have given you a hard time about but yeah a lot of people think that i'm just either out of my mind or i'm just wrong and and that can be really hard and frustrating the uh the things that started happening were things that uh could be seen as coincidental but we really felt were uh spiritual attacks like dark presences really yeah we would wake up in in the evening and really feel like there was somebody else in the house when there wasn't and be afraid to go to the back of the house which is since there was a washroom there it was really inconvenient because we wouldn't want it waking up with scratches he would wake up with scratches on his back which i did not put there bloody scratches and he would be um fighting in his sleep all the time he'd be swinging his arms around and as if he was trying to fend somebody off um i was seeing things that weren't there there um there was a time in which i thought there was a moth attacking my face and he was telling me no there's nothing there there so we're running out of time but okay came to a head one night where literally in the middle of he wakes up what happens or you wake up i wake up and i see him half off the bed as if someone is pulling him up by his shoulder it was not a natural sleeping position it was he was partially up off the bed and i was terrified i said go away and i didn't know who i was talking to and he laid back down again and he woke up and he said what's what's wrong what's happening and uh i explained to him this is what i saw and he had felt himself fall down on the bed this is what he told me afterwards and he so we tried to get back to sleep he doesn't remember turning to me but he did and it was not his face it was it was really really scary it did not look like his face at all it um freaked me out i started crying and i had this choice at that moment um i can either end up in a psychiatric institution because i'm seeing things i'm feeling presences and you know what what is wrong with me but then there was jesus and i remembered everything i learned and where else am i going to go at that point i asked god to save me i didn't have to ask anybody what to repent of i knew that as a baha'i i'd been worshipping a false god i knew that as a perfectionist i'd been worshiping self and um immediately that all stopped now there were 12 seconds in which i had to wait for my boyfriend see what he was going to do and he also asked god to save him and yeah so when you say everything stopped i mean fear went away the evil presence that thickness in the air lifted and at that point like we could tell it was gone and uh we looked at each other and went uh so we're christians now what do we do this is unexpected yeah this is unexpected we did not so tell me what that was like because you know a lot of people you know maybe they come from a similar background to you very skeptical not necessarily wanting to buy into christianity and now you just in the middle of this terror made this decision how did you feel what what changed in you besides the dark presence going did anything else change um i would say that the sanctification process was slow and but we fortunately had been going to uh had started going to our friend's church just to kind of stick our toes in the water and so we were able to to meet with the pastor who believed us and who understood and and kind of helped us to get into a healthier position we eventually realized that we shouldn't be sleeping together that that might not be a good idea and uh and he was able to lead us through and uh and eventually we got married and um and we lived happily ever after oh yeah everything's not perfect no no no no of course not to perfectionism well you know what um becoming a mother has made that go out the window there's no such thing as a perfect mother and there's no such thing as perfect children and there's no such thing as a perfect life and i've had to get over that and um i think a lot of people do end their stories with the end we live happily ever after we still do have um struggles that we go through in life i did lose a child to miscarriage and i have in the past few years developed epilepsy and so those have been some struggles that we we've dealt with but in both of those particular instances and obviously there are other things that happen in people's lives too god was with us during the miscarriage and i know that because the baby died at week 8 but we didn't find out until week 13. and by then we'd told everybody and i had been washing the dishes and had started to feel anyone who's had a miscarriage knows that something is wrong and i prayed is this happening like why is this happening now and i really felt the impression of i'm not going to let you do this alone this is not this is not something that you're going to do by yourself yeah and um still with with um being diagnosed with epilepsy i mean i was shocked obviously because um people don't um know very much about epilepsy and i certainly never had to care about it because it wasn't part of my life um but it's taught me to be humble and in just in terms of my body is not my own it belongs to christ we think we're in control of our lives until something happens to show us that we're not and that's when god comes especially the brain right yeah and so um so life is not perfect but we have jesus yeah and that's right he is emmanuel god with us he is and he is our perfection so i don't have to be [Music]

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Published: Mon Sep 13 2021