Hearing God has always come as a struggle to me. I am never sure if it’s Him or if it’s just in my head. That was something that I had been praying about for a really long time. During training camp they talked a lot about hearing Gods voice, and a lot of people could hear it. After hearing how everyone else could hear Him and I couldn’t as clearly, I put a lot of pressure on myself. Eventually, after multiple weeks of this pressure, I finally let go, and just asked God to meet me where I was at. At this moment God reveled things to me I had never seen before. He revealed a hand of an evil presence on another person. Later that day after seeing that, one of my squad members told me how she had felt the hand after I had seen it. Since I had never had that experience before, it did freak me out, but I also saw how cool it was that God has revealed the same thing to both of us but in different ways. Two days pass and she is still feeling the evil on her shoulder. That night the team leaders were coming around anointing people. Immediately I had a feeling we needed to pray over her. As we are praying over her I had my hands on where I had seen the evil spirit 2 days prior. All of a sudden, during our prayer, I see the same hand. With all my trust in God, I keep my focus on this hand. As we continue to pray I started to see the fingers lift off of her back every time I’d take a deep breath in, and then her shoulder would move. After several minutes of praying and holding authority over this evil spirit, the entire hand came off of her back, and was replaced by a good spirit. She had left the spot, and went to pray alone, but we had continued to intercede, and pray over where she was sitting. With all of our hands on the dirt, worshiping, and praying, the feeling of this evil spirit came back to me. Everything intensified, and all of a sudden, starting from my hands, my whole body was shaking uncontrollably. I couldn’t breathe. It felt like I was wrapped in this heavy weight of darkness. The evil spirit had tried to overtake me. I don’t really remember what was going on around me at this time, all I remember is that I opened my eyes and everything was dark. Not black, not nothing, but really really dark. Almost as if you had your eyes open but your hands in front of them. Everything physical was gone. I was staring directly into the face of a demon. It sounds scary, and I think that my physical body was scared, but in spirit I am protected and shielded with the Holy Sprit, so it wasn’t scary. I remember telling it that is “had no power” over and over. No one remembers me sayin that, but they remember hearing me talk in a different language that I have no recollection of. After what only felt like a couple seconds (I later found out it was like 45 minutes) they had sat me up to anoint me. When I sat up, I could see again, but I wasn’t in control of my physical body. It felt like I was in the passenger seat. I had anointing oil put on my palms and forehead and could immediately feel warmth throughout my hands and up my arms. The next thing I know, my eyes roll into the back of my head, and I’m face to face with the demon again. I knew it couldn’t touch me, I was protected, then once I thought that, I collapsed forward, and could finally breathe. A peace had fallen over my body, and I could see again. I continued to kneel there with my face in the dirt, not hearing anything except for one voice. God was speaking directly through one of the girls on my squad. After hearing her words, I was better. God had used her to fully deliver me from the evil I was face to face with. I was exhausted, but God was SO faithful through it! I faced the scariest thing ever, and I wasn’t scared because our God is scarier. Our God is greater and more powerful than anything trying to tear us away from Him. We are shielded with the Holy Spirit, and with Him we are so strong and hold all authority over anything evil. Praise God for delivering me from that, and allowing me to experience that. I truly believe He showed that to me so that I would know that nothing is scary with God on our side. God is almighty, and stronger than anything earthly. Praise God! All glory to Him!
I am so excited to see how God continues to move faithfully through me and my team. He is SO good, and His plan is SO big! If you’d like to continue to support my journey you can do so by prayers for faith, strength, wisdom, or direct donations (link below). Thank you all!
