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[Amy Joy]

Re: Spiritual Discernment

INTRODUCTION

I believe that God can and does give spiritual discernment and protection to his children -- even when believers are newly born again and, also, when there is none other but Him to guide.  It is good for me to remember the Lord's kindness in this regard.  Perhaps my sharing of this story will encourage others, too.  Here is the background.

After a major disaster in a coastal area, my husband decided to sell our home near the waters and move far  inland.  Hundreds of thousands were left homeless by the disaster, and the real estate and rental markets were affected.  After much prayer, my husband was encouraged by a phone call from a friend who referred us to someone (a friend of a friend of a friend, etc.) who had a home for rent in a nice neighborhood at a pre-disaster rate.  My husband sent me to scope out the home and report.

The Homeowner met me at the appointed address, accompanied by her mother's friend who was in the Real Estate business.   The house was gorgeous, updated and super-clean.  What struck me was the nervousness of the attractive, sweet, young Homeowner - a woman who said that her husband had abandoned her for another lover and that, some months ago, she and her two young children had moved back to her parents' house which was an hour or more away.  Why, then, I wondered, were there still high chairs, furnishings, toys, clothes, and food in the kitchen fridge and cupboards as though life had continued uninterrupted at the residence?

I also noticed a strange and evil feeling about the lovely house -- even in the daylight of a perfect afternoon.  As our tour progressed, I noticed small shelves in the corners of each room near the ceilings.  Barely noticeable, the shelves supported ornately dressed and beautiful figurines that made me shiver though the day was warm.

The second bathroom had a tub that was red.  Well, I thought, primary colors are loved by many children and this was the children's bathroom, after all. 

We entered the third bedroom which was used as their office.  The closet was locked.  It had her husband's stuff in it, the Homeowner informed me, and only he had the key.  I noticed an elegant display case against the wall that was filled with amazing headdresses. 

"Beautiful pieces," I commented. 

"They were given to me by my godmother," she informed me and her Realtor.

Finally, as I turned to exit the room, I saw a slim table set with an expensive cloth, candles, and piles of burnt bones, incense and figurines. 

I did not know for certain what I was dealing with, but I went home and told my husband that there was no way I was going to live in that house!!  It was "demon-possessed" or something... I did not know how to explain it....

Imagine my surprise when, a few days later, my husband said he felt God's leading to rent the house. 

The night before we moved in, my husband had us pray together in the car in the driveway, and then we walked around the outside of the house praying quietly together.  We asked God to send away (permanently) any demonic entities or malevolent supernatural beings that had been allowed to hang out there.  We asked for God's protection over the roof, under the ground, throughout the yard and all around the house.  In Jesus' name, we asked him to dispatch a team of righteous angels to guard over same while we lived there. 

My husband had the keys, so we entered the house and went into each room, knelt and prayed.  Never to be forgotten were the feelings of despair, hopelessness, and suicide that we had while praying in the Master Bedroom.  We also still remember the sense of emotional exhaustion we had at the end of this ordeal.  But once we were done, things felt fresh, like after the rain or a good hard cry.  We moved in the next day. 

It is what happened over the next twelve months that makes me praise the Lord for his mercies and care!!

Wow, that's an amazing story... but now I'm dying to know the rest. So what happened in the next 12 months? Or did you already post that somewhere else? Tell me, tell me! I need a smiley with a shouting-cheering face!

Rebekah

1.  THE BEGINNING OF THE REST OF THE STORY

The Homeowner, who I will call "Marie," came each month in the daytime to collect her mail and rent check.  She would NOT step foot inside the house and she seemed to struggle within herself as she inquired after the children and asked whether my husband and I were doing alright.   

After assuring her that we were happy and well, I offered a beverage or the use of our restroom before her long drive back - which offers she always refused.  So, I would hand over the mail and rent. 

“Jesus loves you, Marie.  So does His Father who has control over everything.”  I told her this truth, in some form, every thirty days. 

After grabbing at the mail, she would bolt toward her car, tossing over her shoulder, “See you next month.”

This was our basic monthly ritual for the first 10 months. 

Marie once asked if my children were alright with the red bathtub.  I said, “Yes, why do you ask?” 

"Oh, it’s nothing," she said.  "My own kids hated that bathtub so I wondered if it was working out alright for you guys."

Twice, Marie asked if anything weird was happening around the house.  I said, “No, why do you ask?” 

"No reason," Marie looked at the ground.  "I just wanted to be sure that everything was alright and that you still like renting from me."

[Amy Joy]

2.  MARIE DREADED COMING TO OUR HOME

Unbeknownst to my husband and me, Marie was suffering torments from having rented us her house.  Although she charged a pre-disaster rental rate to assuage her feelings of guilt, she lived daily with fear and culpability. 

When she moved all of her stuff out prior to our family taking possession of the house, her mother, father and uncle went with her because she was afraid to be there alone.  At the end of the day, Marie sprinkled holy water liberally around the house, hoping it would keep my family safe - but doubting that it could.
 
We eventually learned that Marie dreaded the monthly drives for mail and rent because she was terrified of what she would discover happening at the house.  At the same time, she did not want anyone to know where she lived and, therefore, she would not put in a forwarding address at the post office. 

"It was like a bad horror movie," she said later.  "You see the frightened girl going upstairs when she believes there is a murderer up there.  The audience is shouting, 'No!  Don’t go up there!'  But she cannot stop herself." 

And so, Marie kept coming.  She needed the rent money and she was scared stiff for us.  And she felt responsible.   

She also sent envoys.  Marie’s parents and uncle came frequently to our backyard to "check up on how the fruit trees were doing."  I later learned that they were really checking on us, so as to be able to tell Marie whether our family was alive and well. 

In time, they asked questions about God and the Bible.  They also came to have talks with my husband and began asking us to pray for Marie -- which we had been doing since the day I met her, but we didn’t say so to either Marie or her relatives.  Her family was very private and spoke not about specific troubles.  So, we simply said, "Yes," we would be glad to pray for their Marie.  Later, my husband began praying for her while Marie's relatives were there with us.

[Amy Joy]

3.  MARIE WAS INVOLVED IN A RELIGION UNUSUAL TO MANY

Marie eventually told us that she and her husband had gotten involved with in an unusual occult witchcraft religion.  According to Marie, they became richer, more handsome and successful with each level of spirituality mastered.  It really worked!

Marie’s husband was an accomplished high priest.  His stuff was in the locked-up closet in the third bedroom and no one, not even Marie, was to have access to it. 

I learned that the beautiful figurines I saw in the corners of each room were in honor of individual entities with certain and specific occult powers.  Every room in that house was dedicated and given over to the control and influence of at least one supernatural being. 

Marie, herself, became a priestess under the tutelage of her "godmother."  The beautiful headdresses were for various ceremonies of sacrifice.  Marie felt empowered and wise even though she had previously thought herself dimwitted because she could not read well and  had struggled greatly because of this in school. 

While pregnant with their second son, the baby was dedicated from the womb to their religion.  Marie was required to wear white and cover every mirror and reflective surface in the house during all forty weeks of pregnancy.  Eventually, she was housebound because there were too many reflective surfaces in the outside world -- glass buildings and doors, car and store windows, etc.  Her reflection was not to be cast into or out of any surface until after the baby was born.   

How happy they were!  There would be nothing stopping their family now, she thought.  Their religion was good to them - very good. 

As time went on, the demands of their religion increased.  It went from using chicken bones from the grocery store to killing your own chickens.  It went from chickens to other small animals, then bigger animals.  Blood – a lot of blood was involved and you had to do it yourself.  That was when she painted the tub red, she said.  Animal sacrifices were done in that bathtub.  Marie hid the acts of sacrificing from her children who were either asleep or out of the house with grandma.  All the same, the children absolutely freaked out and went crazy with fear whenever she tried to put them into that tub for a bath.  Anywhere else was fine for a bath, though.

I learned that Marie and her husband had spent approximately $250,000 on witchcraft paraphernalia between the two of them.  But it was worth it, because they were reaping financial and spiritual rewards much greater than that.

[Amy Joy]

4.  TROUBLE CAME INTO MARIE'S LIFE

Trouble came.  First, Marie’s husband became distant, then violent.  With time, he left Marie and the children for a priestess of much higher rank in the religion.  He was a civil servant.  At any rate, he came under investigation for wrongful actions on and off the job which were actually tied to his religious practices.  This investigation caused the authorities to look at illegal activities of his estranged wife, Marie, too, some of which she had done in tandem with her husband.

In the meantime, Marie had pulled back from the religion.  First, because her husband had left her for another priestess and, second, because her godmother was demanding the performance of higher sacrifices using human bones or body parts obtained from medical sources.

Marie said that this latter demand was leading toward actual human sacrifice which she, herself, would be required to carry out - maybe on the second baby that was dedicated from the womb to the gods of her religion.  The thought of doing this scared her so badly that she refused to go on to the next levels.  Her godmother was angry about this and then demons began tormenting Marie and her two small children in the house.

[Amy Joy]

5.  THINGS HAPPENED TO MAKE MARIE VERY AFRAID

Strange things began happening.  For example, Marie would be on the floor at night tenderly watching her sons play.  Suddenly, against her will, she would be overcome with a murderous rage and fling an object, like a box of baby wipes, at her youngest son.  She would laugh and laugh insanely as he screamed in terror of his mother, with blood pouring from a head wound.  She would run in fear and distress, and lock herself into the Master Bedroom because she didn’t know what else she might do when this "thing" came over her.

Regularly, the children would awake at night, screaming, because entities were darting about the room, torturing, annoying and frightening her young sons.  Marie could see the entities and swat at them, but she could not stop them until theywanted to stop. 

On another night, Marie put a gun in her mouth as she knelt on the Master Bedroom floor (in the same spot where my husband and I had knelt and prayed the night before we moved in).  Marie did not want to die, but she knew without a doubt that she was about to kill herself.  It was very, very strong - and she knew she could not stop it from happening.  I don’t remember why it did not happen at that time.  Something unusual prevented it.

Other odd things happened in the kitchen and to various possessions and mirrors around the house.

[Amy Joy]

6.  MARIE'S LAST NIGHT AT HOME

But, at last, on what would be her final night in the house, Marie awoke to the comforting sound of her husband’s footsteps.  He had come back to her!  They would be a family again!  She ran to embrace him only to find his slippers by the open back door.  Some of his witchcraft paraphernalia was lying there, too.  He must be back at his closet getting more stuff.  She would go to him!  But he was not there.  The room was dark.  The closet was locked.  The front door was locked.  The children were asleep. 

She wondered, "Who really unlocked the back door?"  It could only be unbolted from the inside. 

Filled with dread, she turned toward the back door.  She must shut and bolt it.  It was probably those troublesome demons trying to scare her.  Creeping toward the back of the house, she arrived to see… that the door was already shut.  Had her mind played tricks?  No, there were the slippers and paraphernalia which could only be retrieved from the locked closet by her dear husband… then came a familiar knock on the back door. 

She laughed!  Her husband had been outside all along!  He probably had been under the fruit trees where they used to light candles together, chant, cast spells and bury sacrifices.  She would open the door to him and they would reunite!  Their children would be safe again.  She would take him into their bedroom and make him forget all about that other priestess.  Obviously, it was Marie he loved because he had come home to her and their sons!!  Proof of his return lay on the floor in the form of his slippers and other items that only he could retrieve, because that closet was locked up tight. 

But… her husband was NOT there and never had been there that night.  Instead, Marie opened the door to be overcome by laughing, swooping, screaming, mocking, smelly demons that were like white things swirling inside and out to torment her.  There seemed to be a million of them in and around the fruit trees in the back yard, speaking vile things that Marie would not repeat to me.

She was so frightened that she ran to her sons, threw them into her car, and they drove away forever from that house.  She said the demons tried to prevent her escape with the boys, bombarding her and the children the entire time.  Marie thought she would lose her mind; and the things the demons said were awful.

Her youngest boy had not "been right" since that time and she was very worried about him.

She drove straight to her parents’ house and never went back.  Not for anything.  Months passed.  The first time she set foot in that house was the day she met me and her Realtor regarding the rental of it.  Like me, she thought it was surreal to see the house vacated but as if people were still living in it. 

She said was scared the whole time she was there with me, even in the daylight.  She was scared to rent her house to innocent people.  She was scared to  go back and move her stuff out for us.  She was scared almost the entire time we lived there.

[Amy Joy]

7.  GOD ALMIGHTY AROUSES MARIE'S INTEREST IN HIM

On the eleventh month, Marie came inside for the first time.  She no longer seemed scared of the house and got right to the point:  She wanted to know what I had to say about Jesus.     

She did not say anything yet about her religion or the frightful experiences that had happened to her.  She did say she was convinced that my God was all-powerful and in control of everything because she had watched him keep things safe and well for my family.  But she did not understand why I kept saying that Jesus loved her.  She believed God was angry for wrong things she had done, and that he had punished Marie by giving her and the children to something evil that would never relinquish its grip. 

As she spoke, I remembered what I had seen and felt in her home the first day we met.  I remembered what had happened in the dark as my husband and I prayed over, around and in each room of her house the night before we moved in.  But I decided that I did not need to inquire or know anything about Marie’s background in order to tell her of Adam and Eve, and the many years the world had waited for a Savior.

Neither did I need to offer biblical correction of Marie’s outward, observable lifestyle choices in order to tell her about Jesus Christ and what is yet to come.  Nor did Marie need to know anything about me, how I got saved, what sins I left behind, or how different I was now that I believed Christ.

Marie just needed to meet Jesus and believe what he said; and, here, God was giving me an opportunity to participate in that.   
 
I had not yet heard of Strong’s Concordance, Bible commentaries, Christian help books or scripture memorization programs.  I did not know about the Romans Road, Navigators, Evangelism Explosion, the Way of the Master, Child Evangelism Fellowship or any other evangelistic method.  It never would have occurred to me to have Marie “pray a prayer after me,” or to invite Jesus into her heart (or any other organ  ).
The only thing I knew was to have Marie read the Bible for herself.     

We moved from inside the front door, to the kitchen counter, to the dining table, to the living room sofa as we read.  I remembered very well which parts of the Bible had made the gospel clear to me so we read those sections, and others, depending on her questions. 

We read a lot about Jesus the Eternal Son of God, his 33 years on earth as a human being, the voluntary shedding of a perfect man’s blood, his resurrection and bodily ascension into heaven, and we talked about what all of that meant for Marie.

It was amazing how God brought scriptures back into my mind and then helped me to find them.  I had read the entire Bible only twice and the New Testament only six times.  Yet God was able to equip the unequipped to participate in something great he was doing!  He was not limited by my limitations.  I will admit, however, that I was unaware of limitations because I had Jesus; who could ask for anything more?   

It was true that Marie had trouble reading.  I witnessed it that day.  Sounding out words was extremely hard.  Reading quietly to herself was also difficult and it did not help much with her reading comprehension.  Marie could understand very complex things when they were explained verbally.  She was highly intelligent but she just could not read well.

[Amy Joy]

8.  AN OLD WOMAN PRAYED LONG AGO

During our meeting, Marie told me of her old, old grandmother who left the religion of her youth and shamed the entire extended family.  (Perhaps it was her great-grandmother, I don’t remember for certain.)  Dead now, this woman long ago gave little Marie a white King James Bible and prayed over her that Marie would one day read it and understand. 

Several times in her life, Marie almost threw away that Bible.  But she always ended up keeping it, though she didn't know why.  The Bible was probably somewhere at her mother’s house in a box of old stuff.  Marie had never tried to read it, anyway, because she wasn’t a good reader.

We prayed that Marie would find her grandmother’s old white Bible; and that God Himself would make her understand it by the power of the Holy Spirit who would be her teacher now.     

Before Marie left, she asked to come back the following week.  She wanted to talk more about Jesus and did not want to let much time go by, if possible.  The amazing thing was that she agreed to come in the evening, which I later learned were the hours of her greatest fear!

We asked God’s protection over Marie and her children, and that nothing would be allowed to interfere with next week’s meeting.  She was so happy and glowing from within.

I told Marie she could speak directly into the ear of God at any time whether out loud or in her mind; and that when she draws nigh unto God, the Bible promises he will draw nigh unto her.  I showed her the verse.  So she talked to him all the way home in her car, she said.  She drew nigh unto God and he drew nigh unto her.  She believed her sins were all paid for by the ONE ACT of Jesus’ blood sacrifice two thousand years ago.  She was free from sin and fear.  She knew him!

[Amy Joy]

9.  MARIE'S MOTHER TELEPHONES

“Do you know what she did?”  It was Marie’s mother calling.

“Marie made a bonfire and burned everything.  Her father was upset because she could have made at least $80,000 by selling her stuff secondhand.  Marie said God told her to destroy it.  She didn’t want to profit from it, and she didn’t want someone else to do bad stuff with it.” 

“Marie showed us what God said in Deuteronomy and we saw that she was right!  My husband isn’t mad anymore and Marie is going to tell you the whole story when she comes to visit tomorrow night.  I just wanted to say please keep praying for Marie!”

[Amy Joy]

10.  THE NEXT NIGHT

By 10:00 p.m. the next night, my husband and I knew everything that has been recorded in these posts and more.  Marie concluded, as she wept, gesturing around the living room:  This had been the devil’s domain.  In this very room where Marie threw the box at her son, in this house where so much evil was done, where devils tortured and nearly killed Marie and the children, Jesus had saved her.  Satan must be so mad!  This was the devil’s former domain; yet God came down into it withall power and control and here she sat safely, praising Him.

Further amazing was the fact that Marie, all by herself with the Holy Spirit’s guidance, was reading with understanding and talking about what she learned in her grandmother’s King James Bible.  And who but the Lord would have directed Marie to the book of Deuteronomy and the subsequent destruction of her witchcraft paraphernalia! 

Marie, herself, was amazed that my husband had felt led of the Lord to rent the house in spite of my  initial report and declaration that there was no way I was going to live there!  She was also amazed that I had confidence in my husband’s decision.  My husband told Marie that he was not afraid before we moved in, and that after we prayed over the house and in every room, we both knew that the devils were gone for good to wherever Jesus had told them to go. 

We had no fright.  Looking back, it was the happiest, purest, most fruitful, least fearful year of our entire lives.  We had no church family when we moved into that house.  We were new believers (of only a few years).  We were totally ignorant about our supposed lack of Bible knowledge and "proper"church affiliation.  Although we were seeking to meet other believers, we did not think we were lacking anything because we knew Jesus; and He walked and talked with us every moment of every day.  He was all we needed to know, and the fount of all safety and answers.  This is what we explained to Marie.

[Amy Joy]

SUMMARY   

In my initial post, I wrote of my belief that God can and does give spiritual discernment and protection to his children – even when they are newly born and, also, when there is no one else but Him to guide.  My husband and I, and Marie, attest to His glorious abilities in this regard; may all praise be lifted to His Holy and Precious Name forever, hallelujah and AMEN! 

[mishy]

Wow, what an amazing story.  What an awesome, all powerful God we serve!!!  The way he puts us in "strange" places in order to meet that one someone He wants us to help..... phew!  It just amazes me.   
Praise the Lord!!!!!
Thank you for sharing!!!

[SC lady]

What a wonderful God we serve. His hand is never shortened. His ear can hear. How many times have his children run to the authority of a religion when He was there the entire time willing to guide, provide and protect.

Thank you for your testimony -- especially the protection you afforded yourself and your children by coming under your husband's authority. He was the unbound strong man in that house in Jesus Christ.

May your tribe increase by His mercy and grace.

[healthyinOhio]

   What more can I say.  We serve and AWESOME God!!!!  Thanks for taking all that time to type it all out.  Are you and Marie still close?  What about her husband?  You need to write a book!! 

[ForeverGirl]

Thank you for taking the time to write all that, Amy Joy. God is glorified in you this day!

When you get the time, I'd also like to know how Marie's boys are doing now, and if they or you need any specific prayers. God is good!!!

Rebekah

[diaperswyper]

    What an incredible story of the power of our God!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[all2Jesus]

 Thats God's awsome power at work! Thank you for sharing, it moves me to tears that hard hearts are restored. All Glory to God.

[SagorFamily1611]

Wow! It's really sad to say this, but I haven't heard such a wonderful message of God's power in a long time!
That was an Awesome story of God's grace, power, and love, thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[HoldingOntoHim]

Thank you,
God is so magnificent!

HoldingOntoHim

[Amy Joy]

Hello HealthyinOhio, ForeverGirl, and all others who have so kindly responded,

My husband and I never met Marie's husband.  He removed himself from the lives of his wife, sons, and in laws and was virtually inaccessible.

Both Marie and her husband were eventually sentenced and imprisoned in separate institutions for crimes they committed, which sprang up out things they did when exercising their religious practice.  Marie was not afraid of jail because she knew she belonged to Jesus now.  She was, however, concerned for her two young sons and for her parents who were forced, by circumstance, to raise them until she got out.  The prison was far away from us, and no one knew for certain how long Marie would be imprisoned.  Therefore, we got a referral to a local believer who agreed to make contact with and disciple Marie during the time of her incarceration.   

By the time we left the state, we had lost touch with Marie and her family.  In recent years, however, thoughts of Marie and her sons have come to mind with a frequency and intensity that is startling to both my husband and me.  My husband felt led to find them and has been working toward that end.

PLEASE PRAY!!!

Tonight, we found and spoke with one of Marie's relatives.  He said we could talk with Marie's mother tomorrow.  He also gave us the new location and phone number of another of Marie's relatives whom we knew.  All the same, he said, it would be best to talk to Marie's mom first about Marie and Marie's sons.

For those who are reading this before the appointed phone call, would you please pray that Marie's mother will indeed be available and that we can reconnect with Marie?  And, that God will bring to pass His perfect will with regard to Marie and her sons.

[BJ_BOBBI_JO]

All day I had the urge to read this thread but it was so long and I did not have the time. So I printed the story out  to read when I had the time.

I am not sleepy so I just now read it. It is 1.42 am now. How amazing it is! God is just so powerful. I believe what you typed because I know of 2 others who went threw similar things.  The one lady who went threw similar things became freed because of Jesus but before she knew Jesus she had to go threw the pain of having to have her baby son aborted so that the father could not take the  baby as planned and train him to be the later high priest of their area. After she got saved she was free from the occult. But they tormented her and harassed her so much so she had to move to a differant area. But Jesus stayed with her. I lost tract of her. I pray she is doing good and is safe. She is so blessed that her previous 'friends' from that occult group did not kill her like occultist  do sometimes when one leaves the religion. It is not luck that saved her life but God, I'm just sure of it. Say a prayer for her.

Lady #2 also had to have an abortion so that the occult could not get her baby. She also was tormented and harassed. She lead a life of sin, shame , sadness, heartbreak, lost a child to death and more. She is now free. She called me recently, I'm so glad to know where she is at now. I should be hopefully seeing her here soon. Pray for her mostly. During the time she was in the occult she began a life of just awful sins and unbelievable things. Pray she can still keep on keeping on and not only feel Gods forgiveness but to be able to forgive herself as well.

AMYJOY-You and Marie should work together to write a detailed book. Just think of how many people could benefit from hearing yours and stories like it. More people then we know of have been in and saw evils that we just cant comprehend and they need to know Jesus can rescue them. Thank you for your thread/Post. I will certainly be thinking of and praying for your call later that will take place today !

I have more questions for you.

-while you lived there after Marie got saved did anyone ever go into the locked room?
-did the occult Marie was in ever try to threaten or bother her because she left that
religion?

 

[Amy Joy]

AMYJOY-
I have more questions for you.
-while you lived there after Marie got saved did anyone ever go into the locked room?
-did the occult Marie was in ever try to threaten or bother her because she left that religion?

Hi, Bobbi Jo,

Prior to our moving in, the locked closet and third bedroom were vacated for our use.  All these years, I just assumed that Marie informed her estranged husband to come and get his stuff, that renters were about to move in.  While we lived there, we used that room and closet and we never had any problems.

Regarding people of her occult religion bothering her, my sense was that Marie was trying to avoid having people know she had moved, or to where.  She never mentioned humans  pursuing her per se; it was more the demons who were active in threatening and torturing her and her children.  I have wondered what happened to her in prison, if there were ever any threats or anything. 

If we reconnect with Marie, perhaps she will tell us things which I could share.  The things I have shared so far were things she spoke of publicly after she came to believe God, so I am not concerned about having "broken confidences," thus far.  I will have to see how she feels about me sharing reports of her life today, whether that is okay with her, once we reconnect. 

I am praying for your Ladies #1 and #2; and appreciate your thinking of and praying for today's phone call.   

[denim&lace]

PLEASE PRAY!!!

Tonight, we found and spoke with one of Marie's relatives.  He said we could talk with Marie's mother tomorrow.  He also gave us the new location and phone number of another of Marie's relatives whom we knew.  All the same, he said, it would be best to talk to Marie's mom first about Marie and Marie's sons.

For those who are reading this before the appointed phone call, would you please pray that Marie's mother will indeed be available and that we can reconnect with Marie?  And, that God will bring to pass His perfect will with regard to Marie and her sons.

I've just read this entire thread.  Wow!  What a story and a testimony. 
Were you able to contact Marie and her children?   

[Amy Joy]

I spoke at length with Marie's mom last June.  Marie lives today with her two sons.  She never remarried.  Her father died; they were close.  So sad.  Until I speak with Marie, I believe that is all I should mention, for now. 

I gave my contact information to Marie's mom.  I wonder, would you and others reading this post be willing to pray that Marie and I will reconnect?  I am waiting for her to call. 

There have been a greater number of hang-ups on our answering machine these past weeks.  It has been a busy, and we are not always at home or inside the house.  I wonder if Marie is hesitant to speak on the machine.  Perhaps she is waiting for us to pick up the phone one of these times. 

Thanks for asking.    

[Youthful One]

I'll pray!

Jesus, THANK YOU for sparing Marie and her boys!  Thank You for connecting them with Amy Joy and her family.  Lord, I ask that You would again connect them.  I ask that You would remove all obstacles and that Marie would indeed reach Amy Joy at just the perfect time.  I trust in the years since Marie last connected with Amy Joy that You were not far from her - that she has not escaped Your hand.  I pray that You would again be the Word from Amy Joy's mouth; that Your peace would wash over Marie during the conversation; that You would remind Marie of Your faithfulness and grace toward her.  May it be a protected time for Your light to penetrate and refresh Marie.

(Let us know how it goes!  I'll keep praying!)

[GarlicMomma]

Wow! I had a great time and learned (well remembered!) so much from what was written above. Very encouraging!

Almost even reminds me of a Frank Peretti book.

[Wing]

I am ashamed to admit this is the one thing I would NOT have obeyed my husband in!  I would have disputed and made him miserable for even considering moving us into a haunted house until he gave up the idea.   And I would have felt justified in this, as surely the Lord was using my senses to say that was not the place for us.  Just so you know I am very conservative, CTBHHM woman, who will submit to my husband in absolutely everything, but when I read your first post I thought, NO WAY!  So your story has changed me AmyJoy!  What an awesome opportunity for witnessing that I would have missed had I gone with my "instincts", and I would have never known it- just would have thought how thankful I was that we never moved into that awful house!  God really was calling you guys to rent that house for Marie's poor soul.  And it  reminds us to witness to anyone and everyone, as maybe they have been waiting for us to give them the answers they are looking for.  I will submit to my husband in everything (seriously, this time), even if he moves us into a haunted house  .

[amy3js]

I spoke at length with Marie's mom last June.  Marie lives today with her two sons.  She never remarried.  Her father died; they were close.  So sad.  Until I speak with Marie, I believe that is all I should mention, for now. 

I gave my contact information to Marie's mom.  I wonder, would you and others reading this post be willing to pray that Marie and I will reconnect?  I am waiting for her to call. 

There have been a greater number of hang-ups on our answering machine these past weeks.  It has been a busy, and we are not always at home or inside the house.  I wonder if Marie is hesitant to speak on the machine.  Perhaps she is waiting for us to pick up the phone one of these times. 

Thanks for asking.

Amyjoy,

Is there any more you can tell us? How is Marie? She hasn't gone back to her old religion has she?

And I am with Wing, I probably would have pitched a fight! But I am so glad to hear this, it has helped me to realize that to submit really means to SUBMIT! 

[Siege]

I just read this thread. I, too, am wondering if there is anything else to report. I will be praying for Marie and her boys, and for you, AmyJoy, as you try to talk with her.

As I read this, I kept thinking to myself, "And there are people out there who do not believe in demons!" This story helps show that they and witchcraft are real! When I was a young teenager I babysat for a family. This family moved about 30 miles away (never babysat for them after that as it was too far) but my family kept in contact with them. Their new house was next door to a practicing witch.

Things that happened to them opened my family's eyes that the ocult was real. I find that many Christians do not think that the occult is real, or that there is such a thing now-a-days as magic, witches, or demons.

CJ

[ridgerunner]

BUMP...

AmyJoy, is there anything further that you can share on this story?  Were you ever able to make contact with Marie?

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