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| Jaime's Testimony |
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Wow where do I start.
Well I was raised with no religion whatsoever.With the exception that if you say "honest to God" you had better not be lying! When I was a child my one fascination was becoming a witch, I would make pretend potions with my friends and my favorite holiday was Halloween, I was a witch every year that I can remember.When I was a teen I was into the party scene up until I met my husband. I was married quite young at 18 years old, however we are still together. When I was in those teenage years I hadn't thought about religion at all until I seen the movie "The Craft" then that childhood fascination came back .One day I just happened to notice this new store in my city and wanted to check it out.As it turns out it was a witch/new age shop. I was in heaven, I went there often and bought all the books on the subject that I could along with gemstones,herbs,tarot cards and other witchy nessesities. Not long after I performed a self dedication ritual to the old ones as they were called and was given my wiccan name....which is still my email address by the way (haven't changed it as of yet).I celebrated the Sabbats and offered libations to the god and goddess as the celebrations called for, also performed a few spells...some of which did actually work! I was well into my witchwalk as I called it when one day I was in a bookstore and stumbled across a book called The Necrinomicon" the back of the book stated it was an ancient and dangerous text which if followed correctly would give you the ability to summon entities.I thought wow I have never done that before and was enticed to the point where I actually bought the book. I brought it home and quickly began to study it over several days, this book was scary,I never did attempt to perform the rituals described therin but was overtaken by a sense of fear. It was so bad that it would bring me to tears,I was affraid to sleep or even look in a mirror because I was afraid that what I would see in it wouldn't be me. After a few weeks of living with this all encompassing fear I decided to do something that I had previosly only seen in movies,I burnt the book in the name of Jesus,however unlike the movies I did it in my kitchen sink for lack of a better place(my house stunk for days).After burning the book I felt a tremendous weight lift off of me and was finally free of the oppression that had made my life a living hell. A few days after this episode a Jehovahs Witness whom I had met a few years back had come to my door,I decided to study with her and went through the whole "knowledge" book with her when I decided that I did not agree with their doctrines and quit. It was then that I almost turned to the real christianity however after studying with the witnesses I believed with all the different denominations in christianity what is the likelyhood that I will pick the right one and not be damned anyhow so I had given up hope. I also read books that claimed Jesus had never even existed and the like and I liked what they had to say, I could do whatever I wanted and not be eternally condemned,sounded like a good concept to me. So with that in mind I turned back to witchcraft after all why not get what I wanted right? However I stuck solely with witchraft and didn't delve into the other forms of occultism as I had previosly done. I stuck with wicca for a while and one day I wandered into a christian bookshop that was actually two doors down from the witchraft shop....rather odd I thought.However I didn't go in with good intentions, I had planned on going in and seeing a bunch of books that lied about wiccans saying that they were satan worshippers that killed babies and made pacts with devil,In hopes to give me another reason to claim that those crazy bible thumpers don't know what they're talking about. Well while they did have many books there were only two that were about wicca or the new age. The first that caught my eye was Wicca: Satans little white lie by bill schnoebelen and Occult Invasion by Dave Hunt, so I made my purchases and went home prepering to be irate with those crazy christians, however the book on wicca was very accurate and challenged me that if wicca is not satanism then why do so many affiliate themselves with Alester Crowley who was such a vile man and also challenged me on many other levels. So I figured I would investigate the matter and sure enough he was right! In the biblography section of almost all my wicca books was Alester Crowley! So I then figured I would leave wicca alone for now I had a child and things were starting to change perspective a bit. I decided maybe I would be simple a new ager without religous affiliations until I read Occult Invasion. That book really struck me...his approach was so different from what I had expected and then I realized I was never out of Satans clutches at all, it was an illusion since I went from the false doctrines of wicca to jehovahs witnessess and back again it didn't matter which false doctrine I followed I was still in Satans grasp! I repented and prayed to have Jesus as my savior and for him to come into my heart. I am not through the woods yet however, the Jehovahs witnesses still come to door and whenever I seem to be having a rough time in my life I will come across something on tv about witchcraft, Satan doesn't give up easy however I just keep on keeping on and pray for Jesus to steer me away from such things. Well as you can see there was no miraculous conversion with bright light and the words of God however just being saved is miracle enough for me and with that I end my testimony.
 
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Jaime's Testimony Info
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Which categories of people did you belonged to before you were saved?
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The Intellect, Other
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| List books, music or ministires that have helped your walk |
The books :
Wicca:Satans Little Whilte Lie by Bill Schnoebelen
Occult Invasion by Dave Hunt
they were both extremely helpful to me.
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No ministries at the present time.
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