Post by faith2 on Apr 24, 2009 9:10:49 GMT -6
I've only told this story a handful of times because I do not want to give attention or honor to things that are waiting for an open door.
I was walking with my dad through a campground where my sister was staying for a Bible retreat. It was pitch black outside and you could barely see where you were going. Suddenly I heard a strange howling and couldn't recognize what it could be. The sound most closely resembled a pack of wild, rabid dogs but that wasn't quite right either. Just to my left I saw the minister's van--it was very brightly lit up as if it had several lamps inside. The vehicle was rocking from side to side wildly and I heard the noises better. I was holding my dad's hand and I looked up at him and asked what was going on--he rushed me past the van without explanation. I kept asking what it was--were there dozens of wild dogs in that van? I never got an answer--we just walked fast and left.
I was only about 5 or 6 years old and used to play with my kitchen set in the basement, alone. I had tea parties with my stuffed animals and would often bring my cat with me to play. I had an odd feeling in that basement and one day the rocking chair started rocking by itself--my cat watched and quickly ran upstairs (and I followed it!). There were other strange things that happened, but for me--it seemed to be mostly in that basement where I eventually stopped trying to play by myself.
My dad was very religious and he kept his study books in the corner of the basement with sermons and things on cassette tape. When I was about 10 I ran across an unmarked tape and, being curious, I popped it into the recorder and played it. I immediately recognized the sounds but now I could make out words. I only played a few minutes of it and quickly ran upstairs. I told my mother who became very angry. When my dad came home they had an argument and my mom was yelling that my dad had a tape recording of this in the house. She went downstairs and ripped the tape out of its plastic casing, destroying it.
When I was older, I asked my dad what the tape was. He told me that our former minister had recorded an exorcism of a girl from our old church. The girl was having suicidal thoughts and heard voices in her head telling her to kill herself and attack people. In fact, she had even attacked my sister when she was sleeping at a camping retreat. I then recalled that night when I was walking with my father and heard the strange howling at the campground and he looked shocked that I remembered it. He confirmed, that was the night that the minister had exorcised that girl in his van. He had popped in the cassette tape and recorded the entire session, ordering the demons to talk to him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ before he commanded them out of the girl. He said my mom was angry that he had this tape in the house and that the minister had questioned the demons before making them leave. Some of what the demons were saying were in languages that no one knew.
One night I went to bed and felt as if I was being watched. I looked over the cafe curtains in my bedroom and saw a pair of other-worldly eyes staring down on me. By this time I was a Christian and pulled out my Bible. I read it all night until the sun came up and prayed that the Lord would protect me.
My brother and sister used to see a shadow/ghost that always went through a wall in our house. I was the only one who never saw anything again.
I learned a little more about the exorcism from my dad. He told me that the minister questioned the demons before he commanded them to leave. The demons told him that the girl was the grand-daughter of a couple who were involved in the occult. The grandparents had asked that one of their descendents, "in the end times", would be possessed with the devil. The girl had tried to commit suicide multiple times. I remember her well--she seemed to be a very nice girl, though quiet and there was nothing about her that led anyone to know she had been possessed. She was rid of the demons that day at the campground but I will never forget that hidden possession that came out unexpectedly in a fit of rage and her subsequent exorcism.
I won't forget the sound of what I heard. There have been few things that come close but I've heard similarities in a movie or two since that time. It convinced me that a few of those movie-makers knew exactly the sound they were looking for and they were using incantations and recitations in their movies that may very well be summoning those entities.
I've done a lot of research on this subject since that time and read multiple books about it. I wanted to know what caused these doors to open or what gave the demons permission to possess people. I've also found several serial murderers who claim to have been possessed and were doing things that the voices told them to do. Some of them have themselves gotten involved in the occult--whether they did seances, ouija boards, consulted mediums and spirits or other things. I've also studied what the Bible says about those spiritual beings.
In the Bible, Saul consulted a medium to raise the spirit of Samuel. The medium was surprised and Samuel was angry that he had been summoned. The Lord allowed this to take place.
There is also a story about the rich man and Lazarus that Jesus told the disciples. Lazarus was a begger who was outside the gates of a rich mans house. He begged for the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table but the rich man was unmoved. They both died and Lazarus went to heaven, the rich man went to Hell. The rich man begged to have Lazarus cool his tongue with water but, it was explained, Lazarus could not cross the great gulf that separated them. The rich man also begged to have been returned to earth to warn his brothers of his fate but, again, he was told that it would make no difference.
The Lord Jesus Christ is in control and calling upon him is the only way to truly rid yourself of these entities. If you've opened doors knowingly, apologize for doing it too and promise not to do it again.
Eph 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
I was walking with my dad through a campground where my sister was staying for a Bible retreat. It was pitch black outside and you could barely see where you were going. Suddenly I heard a strange howling and couldn't recognize what it could be. The sound most closely resembled a pack of wild, rabid dogs but that wasn't quite right either. Just to my left I saw the minister's van--it was very brightly lit up as if it had several lamps inside. The vehicle was rocking from side to side wildly and I heard the noises better. I was holding my dad's hand and I looked up at him and asked what was going on--he rushed me past the van without explanation. I kept asking what it was--were there dozens of wild dogs in that van? I never got an answer--we just walked fast and left.
I was only about 5 or 6 years old and used to play with my kitchen set in the basement, alone. I had tea parties with my stuffed animals and would often bring my cat with me to play. I had an odd feeling in that basement and one day the rocking chair started rocking by itself--my cat watched and quickly ran upstairs (and I followed it!). There were other strange things that happened, but for me--it seemed to be mostly in that basement where I eventually stopped trying to play by myself.
My dad was very religious and he kept his study books in the corner of the basement with sermons and things on cassette tape. When I was about 10 I ran across an unmarked tape and, being curious, I popped it into the recorder and played it. I immediately recognized the sounds but now I could make out words. I only played a few minutes of it and quickly ran upstairs. I told my mother who became very angry. When my dad came home they had an argument and my mom was yelling that my dad had a tape recording of this in the house. She went downstairs and ripped the tape out of its plastic casing, destroying it.
When I was older, I asked my dad what the tape was. He told me that our former minister had recorded an exorcism of a girl from our old church. The girl was having suicidal thoughts and heard voices in her head telling her to kill herself and attack people. In fact, she had even attacked my sister when she was sleeping at a camping retreat. I then recalled that night when I was walking with my father and heard the strange howling at the campground and he looked shocked that I remembered it. He confirmed, that was the night that the minister had exorcised that girl in his van. He had popped in the cassette tape and recorded the entire session, ordering the demons to talk to him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ before he commanded them out of the girl. He said my mom was angry that he had this tape in the house and that the minister had questioned the demons before making them leave. Some of what the demons were saying were in languages that no one knew.
One night I went to bed and felt as if I was being watched. I looked over the cafe curtains in my bedroom and saw a pair of other-worldly eyes staring down on me. By this time I was a Christian and pulled out my Bible. I read it all night until the sun came up and prayed that the Lord would protect me.
My brother and sister used to see a shadow/ghost that always went through a wall in our house. I was the only one who never saw anything again.
I learned a little more about the exorcism from my dad. He told me that the minister questioned the demons before he commanded them to leave. The demons told him that the girl was the grand-daughter of a couple who were involved in the occult. The grandparents had asked that one of their descendents, "in the end times", would be possessed with the devil. The girl had tried to commit suicide multiple times. I remember her well--she seemed to be a very nice girl, though quiet and there was nothing about her that led anyone to know she had been possessed. She was rid of the demons that day at the campground but I will never forget that hidden possession that came out unexpectedly in a fit of rage and her subsequent exorcism.
I won't forget the sound of what I heard. There have been few things that come close but I've heard similarities in a movie or two since that time. It convinced me that a few of those movie-makers knew exactly the sound they were looking for and they were using incantations and recitations in their movies that may very well be summoning those entities.
I've done a lot of research on this subject since that time and read multiple books about it. I wanted to know what caused these doors to open or what gave the demons permission to possess people. I've also found several serial murderers who claim to have been possessed and were doing things that the voices told them to do. Some of them have themselves gotten involved in the occult--whether they did seances, ouija boards, consulted mediums and spirits or other things. I've also studied what the Bible says about those spiritual beings.
In the Bible, Saul consulted a medium to raise the spirit of Samuel. The medium was surprised and Samuel was angry that he had been summoned. The Lord allowed this to take place.
There is also a story about the rich man and Lazarus that Jesus told the disciples. Lazarus was a begger who was outside the gates of a rich mans house. He begged for the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table but the rich man was unmoved. They both died and Lazarus went to heaven, the rich man went to Hell. The rich man begged to have Lazarus cool his tongue with water but, it was explained, Lazarus could not cross the great gulf that separated them. The rich man also begged to have been returned to earth to warn his brothers of his fate but, again, he was told that it would make no difference.
The Lord Jesus Christ is in control and calling upon him is the only way to truly rid yourself of these entities. If you've opened doors knowingly, apologize for doing it too and promise not to do it again.
Eph 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
