Hey guys and welcome back to the salt Not sweetener
podcast. I am your host Danielle Townsend and
I believe this is episode 23 and this episode
has been a long time coming and I have really
felt Called recently to talk about my history
in witchcraft new age tarot card reading, oracle
card reading, psychic mediumship. I've shared
with y 'all time and time again how it affected
me, but I have not like just done an episode
an episode dedicated to that and how I got into
that and how it impacted me and what my views
are on it now and what the Lord has showed me
and revealed to me about New Age and about divination
and about witchcraft and all of these things
and I'm gonna share it here with y 'all today
and I figured I would start by telling y 'all
how I even got into New Age. How did I even start
putting my faith in that? How did I even get
involved in that as someone who was raised going
to church? As someone who was raised knowing
the Lord or supposedly knowing the Lord? Because
y 'all know that I have a background. When I
grew up, I grew up in the church. I went and
I attended Catholic Church every weekend. I had
my first communion. I did my catechism classes,
my CCD classes, up through... I stopped going
regularly once I was in sixth grade, I believe,
after my sixth grade year. And then I was just
attending on Sundays. And when I was in high
school, because I attended Catholic Church with
my grandmother who I loved dearly and when I
was in high school she passed away it was my
junior year because I was still you know learning
how to drive I'd freshly like gotten my license
and everything like that and she passed away
and when she passed away I stopped going to churches
frequently and I did go and get confirmed and
the church finished getting confirmed And after
that, I stopped going to church completely. And
although I believed in God, honestly, I was angry
at God, and I was upset, and I was hurt, and
I didn't know, I didn't truly know God, I didn't
truly love God, I didn't truly fear God, and
I most definitely did not truly accept Jesus
Christ as my Lord and Savior. I wasn't trying
to live a life pleasing to the Lord. I wasn't
trying to pursue a relationship with Christ.
I was doing what I wanted to do. I was chasing
fleshly desires and doing what made me feel better
and I would say it was when I was I remember
Since I could remember I was always really interested
in like psychics and ghost shows and like would
love watching TV shows of like when people would
get readings from psychic mediums and all those
kinds of things and I did not have a specific
set of beliefs because I know now if I read scripture
if I had read scripture then Like I do now a
lot of the questions that I had would have been
answered But in all honesty, I would say that
was a big gap that the devil ended up using later
was I, and I'm gonna give y 'all warnings and
kind of red flags to look out for. that I believe
were open doors that allowed me to fall into
the lies of new age spirituality and believe
the lies of new age and I would say the first
problem I had was I was not biblically literate
meaning I did not actually read my bible and
know scripture a lot of the lies I believed from
the enemy a lot of the lies I believed in new
age a lot of the lies I believe would have been
answered if I had read scripture I would have
known not to commune with the dead. I would have
known that divination was a sin. I would have
known reading in scripture that it produces separation
between you and the Heavenly Father. Because
there were a lot of things that sounded sweet
to my ears when I was learning about psychics
and the dead and things like that that if I would
have just read my Bible prayed for an understanding
it may have saved me falling into a lot of pits
and believing a lot of deception and all honesty
so I had already had a curiosity when it comes
to psychic and when it comes to the dead and
when it comes to ghosts and everything like that
ghost shows and everything like that and it was
in I believe 20 22 the spring of 2022 when I
started meditating I started doing it to calm
my anxiety because at that time I had really
bad panic attacks and I remember when I was meditating
I had felt like I started seeing things and The
more research I did into it led me into the whole
spirit guides and new age spirituality and all
of that and fast forward to Fall of 2022 I'm
watching this new Halloween movie that came out
Halloween themed movie that was all about witches
and It was a very popular movie and It was it
wasn't you know, all the movies you'd seen before
were so far detached which like witchcraft where
they were just flying on brooms and everything
like that but this movie had people using herbs
that you could find nowadays and crystals and
different things like that and talking about
like new age terms that you hear and I would
see people and I was like wait this actually
seems a very doable very legit and there was
someone that I was friends with um that as a
joke and as just kind of a peaked interest, we
decided to try lighting candles around Hollow.
Again, we thought we were just joking around.
We were just in and tried doing a spell. And
for some reason, I don't know how to explain
it, but my curiosity was peaked and I started
reading into things more. And the next day or
a couple days later, I was by myself. and it
was at night and it was a night when I wasn't
at work and I decided okay, let me give this
thing a try again and I lit a candle. I was looking
up actual spell tutorials on TikTok. I remember
doing it and when someone had said to call on
Hecate, which later on would be a deity that
I would have a lot of piqued interest in and
I can talk about that sometime on here too. um
and basically petitioned her to help you with
the spell and i had did a spell for more money
and petitioned her and i wasn't thinking much
of it until a few minutes later i get a call
from the job i work offering me to come in for
that shift for like triple pay Now I end up saying
no because it was the middle of the night. It
was like midnight I was a night shift worker
and I did not feel it going into work at midnight
But to me that was an oh my gosh, this is real.
Oh my gosh, this works Oh my gosh, I did a thing
for money and this happened and I'll tell you
all that that Opened up a door for me where after
that that was all I don't know how to explain
that or then there was a fixation where that's
all I wanted to read about and that's all I wanted
to learn about And for weeks on I would start
to fixate on that and start fixating on learning
about deities and learning about all these different
And I quickly that was my entrance into and I
dove into New Age spirituality and I remember
saying to a friend at the time who had made a
comment of like I think you should get in the
tarot cards because I now recognize this as a
prophetic gift that the Lord has given me. But
throughout my life, there would be so many circumstances
where I would say I have a feeling about something,
and then that thing would happen. That thing
would come to pass. And around that time, there
had been a lot of things like that happening
that were very eerie. And I remember telling
that friend, I don't think I'm ever gonna get
in the tarot cards. I don't wanna know the future.
I feel like that's too much anxiety for me. I
feel like... you know, that would just open up
too many doors of control and saying that at
the time. And then, wouldn't you know it, like
a week later, I'm at a store. I was at Five Below
at the time, and they sold tarot cards that were
like these star -themed ones. And I end up buying
a pack. And honestly, the rest is history, because
I immediately got fixated into it. And at first,
it was just a fun, like kind of puzzle to me.
And what's interesting, I had the other day share
just a little bit of testimony about tarot card
reading on TikTok, just sharing with people,
hey, you know, it leads to separation, repent.
And there was someone who commented, I didn't
read the full comment. I ignored the comment.
I honestly deleted the comment. I'm not one to
usually delete a lot of comments. But when I
saw it, I just understood that this person wasn't
coming to have a discussion. They were just coming
to... sow seeds of doubt and deconstruct. And
I wasn't about to have that. I used to be one
of those people pleasers that let me keep everybody's
opinion up. Maybe my page, if this person's on
here spreading lies of the enemy, if I feel like
deleting it, I'm going to delete it. I don't
care. But this girl had said, you know, tarot
cards are only spiritual for people who are spiritual
or people who are religious. For some people
like me, they're just puzzles. And I didn't go
on to read the rest, but I kind of laughed because
I was like, yeah, that's why I used to tell myself
too. When I very first got into it, I just thought
it was really fun of, oh, you pull cards and
you can make stories with them. And it's kind
of interesting just seeing the stories you can
make out of them. And then when I started doing
card pulls and writing things down and putting
them together and some things and life started
happening that played out similarly. I started
putting my faith in the cards where it's like,
wait, is this real? Wait, like, is this telling
me? Because I'm telling y 'all right now that,
like, I didn't put my faith in those things or
believe in those things for so long because they
were clearly harmful or because I thought they
were fake. I want to make this very clear right
now that there is some information that people
are getting from readings and from cards that
are very real, but there is also a lot of information
that they're being as very deceptive. Okay, because
you have to remember that the source that you
are getting all of these things from is not God
And if it's not God It is from the enemy and
we know that the enemy he is called in the Bible
the father of lies And he comes only to lie to
steal to kill to destroy To create separation
between you and Christ and he dragged you down
to hell with him Okay It's a lot easier for Satan
to get you to believe lies if he sprinkles in
a little bit of truth Trust me, I have been through
it again and again and again That's what he does
he'll sprinkle a little bit truth because if
everything was clearly lies he wouldn't put your
faith or your trust in it for very long Gives
you just enough truth to get you to dive in And
that was where I started getting kicked off with
the tarot. And what kind of got me in really
deep was I had something happen where I wasn't
able to work my job anymore. So all of a sudden
I lost the normal stream of income I had. And
I was like, well, what do I do? And I realized
I had a following on TikTok. I could go live
consistently and I decided, well, for right now
until something else comes in. Sell terror readings
and I'll make that my job and I'll do that online
and I started doing that and I wasn't making
all the money I needed but I was making enough
to provide the basic necessities to myself and
I That was the path I end up going down y 'all
I ended up making that my full -time thing I
Ended up making that because I managed to, at
this time, remember y 'all, I wasn't reading
scripture, I wasn't trying to live a life pleasing
to the Lord, but I felt like I had a prophetic
gift. And I have shared this on here before.
I've had a desire my entire life and a knowing
that I am meant to help people with my life experiences.
And every career path I sought, every job I sought,
I was trying to help people in some way. And
in my mind, I was starting to say, well, maybe
this is My career path maybe this is my job opportunity
to be able to help people and also use my spiritual
gifts and I truly believe that I was doing amazing
wonderful things and I believe that there was
nothing wrong with what I was doing because I
didn't feel like I had any bad intent when people
came to me I Truly wanted to help them and was
trying to find the best solutions Was trying
to be a comfort. I was trying to be a light in
their life. I was trying to be goodness I was
trying to do that without Jesus Christ and I
was trying to do that and on Christ like methods
How can I be a light if I'm not taking from the
actual light source We know in scripture that
Jesus is the light that has come into the world.
We know that Jesus is the only true redemption
jesus is the only true salvation and i was trying
to offer light to people and so i was trying
to offer them healing and all of these things
apart from the heavenly father apart from jesus
it doesn't matter how loving i was or anything
like that i wasn't pointing them back to the
source i wasn't pointing them back to the truth
i wasn't pointing them back at jesus so no matter
what my intent was i wasn't being Was being a
tool for the enemy whether or not I want to admit
it and every tarot card reader out there Every
Oracle card reader out there right now whether
or not they call themselves a Christian are Doing
that same exact thing no matter their intent
They are leading people in separation from Christ
and there is a great deception going on right
now where people believe that they can be Christian
and a tarot card reader Like they can be surrendered
to Christ and be creating disciples while also
being a tarot card reader, while also being an
oracle card reader. And scripture makes it very
clear that you cannot be double -minded, that
you cannot serve both masters, that you cannot
be Luke 1, that you cannot have one foot in the
world and one foot out the world. God says no
divination, point blank period. God says no witchcraft,
no sorcery, point blank period. He doesn't say
you can do witchcraft and sorcery and divination
for these reasons. No. Because I'm telling y
'all right now you're not talking to Jesus in
those tarot cards. You're not talking to God
in those tarot cards You're not talking to him
in those oracle cards And that's what we're moving
on to next who are you talking to? Who are you
talking to who are you communing with? And the
best way I can word this answer is monitoring
spirits When Satan when lucifer fell from heaven
he took a third of the angels down with him and
until jesus christ returns again we know this
from reading scripture and the new heaven is
established satan he is the lowercase g god of
this world and all of those demons those fallen
angels are running rampant on this earth trying
to get you to separate from christ They are running
amok creating habit creating destruction sowing
seeds of doubt of anger of insecurity lust for
all of these things all of the evil and Hopes
that you will fall into that and not repent and
hopes that you will not see salvation That is
their mission Satan knows he's lost out on heaven
so he's trying to take it away from us. Hell
wasn't created for us. It was created to be a
place for Satan and the demons to be banished
to. And he's trying to drag us along with him.
And who are you talking to? People believe when
I was a tarot card reader I truly believed I
was talking to spirit guides. I believed I was
able to commune with the dead. I believed I was
able to commune with people's ancestors. I believed
I was able to talk to angels. I believed I was
able to talk to demons. I believed I was able
to talk to different deities and different religions.
And I want to make that very clear that we know
also from reading scripture that these other
deities are false gods. We know that these are
also demonic influences. Okay, I want to make
that very clear. So at the root of it, it doesn't
matter what they call themselves. You are talking
to demons. You're talking to demonic influences.
When you're doing this tarot card readings and
those Oracle card readings So to make that very
clear you are not talking to the dead grandma
You're not talking to Poseidon you're not talking
to Whatever the spirit guides name is you are
talking To a demon I'll also make it clear that
the Heavenly Father Jesus Christ the angels aren't
saying around and communicating with you through
divination Divination is an abomination God's
eyes divination is the sin so they are not going
to sit there and talk to you through that and
feed into that Now I want to be very clear I
do believe that the Holy Spirit was still stirring
within me that God was still Talking to me from
time to time in my private time and my time when
I was just quietly trying to be alone when I
was In prayer when I was in those times, I do
believe that the Lord had spoken to me I do believe
that there are times where he was guiding me.
I do not believe that he was talking to me while
I was pulling comments I Don't believe that he
was Communicating with me through that and I
don't believe that he communicates with anyone
else through that because that would go against
his word I Want to be very clear that that is
who you're talking to So of course a lot of people
have the question of well, then how do they know
this information? How do they know this information?
monitoring spirits do What the word says which
is monitor? There are demons Demonic influences
that have watched you your entire life and have
watched your parents Have watched their grandparents.
They have been around For a very very very very
long time these demons aren't just killed These
demons have been around four years Generations
on generations on generations They watch you
in those private moments they watch you in those
quiet moments. Yeah, they can tell you what your
last relationship was like They can describe
your hometown. They can describe what you wrote
down in your journal They can describe what you
cry about at night Yeah, they can tell you that
thing that you wrote down 20 minutes ago as they
were watching you write it You know when you
see people talking to mediums and you see people
talking to terror readers and Oracle card readers
Oftentimes they're looking for information that
they can verify You know, they're looking for
okay this sounds right and the sounds right and
there's no way this person could know this So
it must be spiritual Which is true, which is
true. There there is spiritual aspect to it But
people start to confuse who? What the spirit
is behind it, right? Because once you get the
information that you're like, okay There's no
way any human could know that that's when your
brain goes to okay. So this is definitely something
spiritual and that's when people quickly buy
into Yats the dead grandma or Yats the deity
or Yats the this they're like well because grandma
was there for that or this person was there for
that but i'm telling y 'all right now that's
not who it is because there is another option
because there is someone prowling around looking
for someone to devour and that is the devil and
he has henchmen which are demons which are monitoring
spirits and that is who you're getting fed information
by and what they do is they will give you some
truths like that and then they start sprinkling
in the lies and the deception because the devil
doesn't know your future The demons don't know
your future Do they sometimes see See how things
are aligning more than you can see because they're
going around monitoring. They're whispering in
different ears Sure, they can see things that
you know are kind of being lined up But I want
to make this very clear that the devil is not
all knowing he doesn't actually know your future
He doesn't know your mind. He doesn't know your
mind like God knows your mind Okay, so what he's
doing is he's taking guesses He's making educated
guesses. And he's also trying to get you to agree
to things so that way he can move in that direction.
That's why people, you might hear people in the
Christian community say, be careful what you
come into agreement with. You know, don't be
saying, well, I'm just an addict. Stop saying,
well, I'm just a fornicator. Well, I'm just to
this. Well, I'm just to that. Stop making coming
into agreement saying it's never going to get
better. It's never going to change. It's never
going to anything like that, because that is
giving the devil more of a stronghold in your
life. And what the devil loves to do in these
readings is he likes to get you to come into
agreement with things when he starts saying,
oh, your spouse is going to cheat on you. You're
gonna lose your job You're gonna be addicted
to this and you're gonna crash out and you're
gonna have to deal with this and do all this
The devil is trying to get you to just come into
agreement and make it easier for him to have
access to your life So I'm telling y 'all right
now that communicating with these spirits in
general you don't want to be doing And tarot
card oracle card mediumship that is just widely
opening up the door For them to come in and commune
and for you to start believing and buying into
it and coming into agreement with it We already
know That the devil's mission is to lie steal
kill and destroy So, why do you even want to
commune with that? Why do you even want to commune
with that? And that's why I'm going back to y
'all, like I said in the beginning of this podcast,
if I had been biblically literate, if I had understood
scripture and read scripture, if I would have
prayed to the Lord for understanding, there's
a very good chance I wouldn't have... I know
God allowed it to happen for a reason, but there's
a very good chance I wouldn't have fallen into
New Age like I did. Because the enemy really
took advantage of my blind spots Of my blind
spots Because I fell into those things of oh
well they know this information How else would
they know this information it must be this it
must be that not ever stopping to think maybe
it's the devil I Honestly didn't realize that
Satan was as capable as he was. Now I don't want
to give him more credit than he deserves, but
I think oftentimes we also dumb him down. And
we aren't like he's not so capable of doing things.
Satan can offer things too. We see that he was
trying to offer a lot of things to Jesus when
he was out tempting him in the desert. We see
nowadays, and I have seen it from my own personal
experience. That the devil is willing to give
you things in exchange for doing his work We
see multiple people in Hollywood nowadays that
have celebrity status that have maybe a lot of
money or appear to have a lot of influence but
they think if they're doing Christ -like things
and there are some that will straight -up admit
that they did demonic rituals But they don't
answer to Jesus The devil can give you things
too Now the thing is is if you have to send to
get it You're gonna have to continue to send
to keep it and the devil is always up in the
price. He's always upping the ante He's not all
loving. He's not all understanding. He doesn't
want to see you have rest and all these things
He wants to see you suffer and be in separation
and have spiritual death The devil doesn't love
you. He's not a heavenly father He's not all
loving Like God is he will turn his back on you
and point two seconds when you're not useful
to him And even when you are useful to him, he's
still gonna make you suffer because he doesn't
love you He hates all of God's creations But
in the tarot card community like in the tarot
oracle new age witchcraft there's this messy
idea of like Love and light or some people truly
believe that they're just all good and all healing
because they they're not trying to create suffering
for people they just want to help and on the
surface level sure and I used to identify as
one of those people but again, I'm taking it
back to the beginning y 'all if you are not connected
to the source of light and All goodness what
you're spreading is not light and all goodness
because where are you leading people back to?
That was what the Lord had to really lock in
with me where he's like, where are you leading
people to? And when I looked at I was like, wow,
I'm leading people back to myself I'm leading
people to new age. I'm leading people to divination
I'm leading people to all of these different
types of healing and shadow work things, but
I am NOT leading them to Jesus and None of those
other things are gonna get them eternal life
with the Heavenly Father. None of those other
things are gonna get them forgiven for their
sins. None of those other things are going to
give them the rest that God promises. None of
these other things are going to give them the
restoration or the redemption. They're temporary
band -aids that actually create bigger holes
because they push you further and further away
from Christ. The more you learn to put your faith
in these things outside of Christ. Y 'all know
there are some people who don't, when they get
tarot card and oracle card readings, that don't
believe that people are talking to spirits, but
instead they believe that people are just tapping
into their intuition. And I'll say right there,
okay, you're not convincing people to put their
faith in a spirit guide or something like that,
but instead you're giving yourself the credit,
and you're giving yourself the glory, and that
is a sin. That is pride, that is ego, and you're
still not pointing people back to the Lord. no
matter how humble you think you're doing it.
Who gave you those gifts? Because every single
one of us, y 'all, is born with spiritual gifts.
But what the devil loves to do is he loves to
pervert them and use them in ways that God didn't
intend for us to use them. I have seen so many
people who are trying to leave the tarot reading
community, trying to leave. Oracle and trying
to leave being psychic mediums and they're like
but God gave me this gift like how do I use it
now? And I'm telling you that Seek first the
kingdom of heaven and God will show you how to
use your gift But you are not meant to use it
in a perverted manner tarot card reading is a
perversion of discernment is a perversion of
Prophetic gifts. So is Oracle card reading? And
I believe But the devil happily perverted my
spiritual gifts Because I also have a gift when
it comes to communicating with people and when
it comes to educating and just talking to people
And although I felt like I was doing good and
helping people this was the way that the devil
subtly perverted my gift was I started educating
people and how to heal themselves I Started educate
through shadow work and through all this constant
self -reflection I was teaching people and educating
people about ways to solve their problems outside
of the Lord and although I didn't feel like any
of those things I was teaching people weren't
unhealthy because I was like well I'm teaching
them to reflect and I'm teaching them to be patient
and I'm teaching them to do these things and
it's like yeah but I wasn't leading them back
to the main source which was the Heavenly Father
I said this before y 'all that we don't go into
sins and into temptations and into things like
that because it's clearly a sin or because it's
clearly demonic or because it clearly is going
to create separation. We go into it because it
looks like the answer. The devil, we know this
from reading scripture too. Satan masquerades
as an angel of light, meaning he makes himself
and his ideas and his ways look good and look
light. and look harmless. And it's not until
we're in deep that we start to realize how harmful
they are. Because I'll tell y 'all what tarot
card reading did for me, too, is I didn't realize
how many demonic agreements I was coming into
until the Lord took me through deliverance sessions
when I was fasting. And when I tell y 'all the
emotional trauma and the pain, I remember when
I finally was moved back to my hometown and I
started Going to church and y 'all know that
now I attend my non -denominational church, which
I love it with all my heart But when I came back
I originally started going back to my Catholic
church that grew up in and I remember going to
one of the priests and it was like for a confession
anytime I stepped in that church I had so much
anxiety and overwhelm and I was like shaking
and I thought like I was gonna pass out and I
Remember just doing that confession after I had
that confession The priest had told me, he's
like, look, I'm going to be honest with you.
Like you need to prepare for some serious spiritual
warfare. And I had already been facing some serious
spiritual warfare, but I could tell it was ramping
up. And he said, because whether or not you meant
to be used by the devil, you have been very useful
for him. You have been doing his work. You have
been very useful for him. And he's not going
to let you go easy. He is going to grab on to
you with everything he has So like stay rooted
in the Lord and be prepared and I cried that
entire mass like just silently cried and Man,
I saw the warfare. The warfare was very crazy
and I had I had not thought about it in that
way because I knew y 'all when I left tarot and
when I left Oracle card reading I had oracle
cards too and I was actually trying to get into
channeling and things like that. Just the mental
and emotional battles, it was like all of a sudden
I had random bouts of hopelessness and random
bouts of depression and random like anxious thoughts
and all of these things that were coming out
of nowhere and it was just like a fight for my
mind and a fight for my peace. When I threw away
those tarot cards in the trash can, whoa, man,
the spiritual warfare was crazy. When I stopped
reading in general, it was crazy. When I started
talking about it and sharing with other people
that it is wrong, like don't participate in that,
it was crazy. And you know, for the longest time
I thought, well, the devil's mad, of course,
that like, because I had always just thought
like, Spiritual attack because now I'm on the
other side like now like I'm being a foot soldier
for the Lord and spraying goodness So the devil
wants to stop that I had never thought Wow, I
was very useful for the devil and he wants me
back And of course if he can't have me he'd rather
not have me whatsoever and it's not because he
loves me or cares about me It was because I the
devil was even able to trick me I didn't even
know I was working for him Which meant that all
these other people I was talking to, a lot of
them, if they weren't biblically educated, if
they weren't having a relationship with the Lord
and listening to their discernment, would have
bought into the same lies I was buying into.
I was the perfect salesman. And there are so
many, that person who commented on my post the
other day was a perfect salesman. Because she
seemed very kind. and saying, well, this is just
a puzzle for me and like all these different
kinds of things. And I'm sure that explanation
that she is peddled to other people has gotten
other people curious and involved and wanting
to buy tarot cards and wanting to buy readings.
And there were multiple readers that I knew in
the community that seemed very kind and loving
and like, oh, I just want to help and I want
all this. They are masquerading as angels of
light. And they believe it just as I was masquerading
as one and I believe it Intent doesn't actually
equal goodness you can intend to be good But
not be doing good If you don't actually know
what goodness is That's why I am always gonna
tell y 'all to read your Bible read the scriptures
for yourself Don't just be listening to sermons
Don't just be paying attention to the little
devotionals that you get every day and reading
those Don't just be watching the I love the chosen
but don't make that your only source of biblical
knowledge Read the scriptures for yourself pray
to the Lord for a deeper understanding Because
I'm telling y 'all that the deconstruction mentally
that even comes with leaving New Age and leaving
tarot cards and leaving all of that is crazy
because there were some readings that I had gotten
now it's been years ago that like after I gave
my life to Christ I had realized I was still
coming into agreement like there were some things
I had received in tarot card readings I was still
expecting to happen and the Lord really had to
work on my heart of saying like that wasn't me
that promised that wasn't God that promised that
to me that wasn't Jesus that promised that to
me that was demonic forces planting seeds I came
into agreement with and I felt like and even
those those things didn't feel negative or seem
negative the word had to check me with why are
you still expecting those things why are you
still coming into agreement with those things
y 'all I have found myself still at times having
to break down mindsets and when we our walk with
the Lord is for the rest of our lives and there
is always something that we're able to heal there
is always something that we're able to learn
Lord has been taking me through sanctification
and we're always going through a sanctification
process we are never going to reach and like
here on this earth perfection there's always
something to learn to heal to grow and you know
the mindsets the subtle mindsets like in new
age spirituality where you're taught like um
that you are the creator of your own reality
that you can manifest good things to happen you
can manifest bad things to happen and i've talked
about before that new age spirituality is a lot
of relative truths Because I found it was hard
for me to explain your age spirituality when
some of it sounds Christian But it's not Christian
and they take from different religions There's
someone who had never had any experience with
that but loved the Lord that you know I've been
friends with and I was telling them about new
age and they did a little and how It's really
deceptive and it's deceiving a lot of people
There are a lot of people who even call themselves
Christian but believe in new age ideas and new
age practices that aren't Christ like that aren't
from the Lord And she did a little bit of research,
and when she got back to me, she was like, you
know, I think the best way that I've found someone
to describe it is that they're relative truths,
meaning they take a bit of truth, but then there's
a twist on it, or they leave things out. Like
with manifestation, they talk about what you
speak or what you say is what your reality is,
which can be kind of translated a bit over to
the power of life and death lies in the tongue,
right? But we leave out the part where... We
leave out God's will. We leave that out completely.
That's the thing with manifestation is it totally
removes God. It totally removes asking you shall
receive, knocking the door shall be opened. It
totally removes that God is the decider and it
places all of the authority and the power in
your hands. So it takes that little bit of truth
that there is power in the tongue, but it places
an unrealistic amount of power and authority
in your hands and that's again why you need to
be able to read scripture and be so biblically
literate is you will believe that if you don't
know the word of God and if you don't pray to
the Lord for an understanding too because there
are people who read the Bible but do not have
eyes to see or ears to hear that don't have an
open heart pray to the Lord for understanding
and what you're reading y 'all But I find still
that I have mindset shifts at times I have to
make where something like bad will be happening.
And I'll be like, what sin did I do to deserve
this? What bad thought did I think? What bad
thing did I say? And I was actually reminded
of this today reading John chapter 9, where they
say when they're asking Jesus, why did this man
sin? What sin caused him to be blind? And Jesus
was like, it wasn't a sin. that caused him to
be blind, but it was God's will so that this
may glorify the Lord. I am paraphrasing, but
Jesus was saying this man isn't blind or suffering
because of his sin or because he's a bad person
or his parents are a bad person. He is suffering
right now so that with God's glory may be shown
through this man because Jesus then went on to
heal this man. Where in the Bible up to that
point it had never been recorded of a man being
born blind being healed So he was able to do
this wild miracle because of the situation Jesus
was saying this was actually a setup to glorify
the Heavenly Father and I had I've had to remind
myself of that time to time where it's like,
okay Yes, what I'm dealing with in that moment
might be a hardship or might be a suffering But
why am I immediately attributing it to what did
I do wrong? What negative thing did I say? What
negative thing did I think? Why does my mind
go there? And I have to remember that was because
that was something that new age subtly ingrains
in you. What's funny is new age appears to pedal
the solution the answer of you are the answer
You create your reality and you do this and you
manifest this and you can tap into this and you
can tap into that But that also means that anytime
anything's bad. You are also the answer So it's
like this is bad because of you. This is bad
because of you. This is all your fault This is
all your fault. You didn't do this, right? You
need to get better at this. You need to get better
at that It's a hamster wheel Glory be to God
he saved me from that And I think back about
like What was the temptation that got me into
tarot card reading and I realized that y 'all
I fell for the same temptation that Eve fell
for and millions of people are falling into that
same temptation and I cannot tell you how many
times I have read You know the story of the beginning
and thought how could he fall for that? How stupid
and I know there's so many people think oh, she's
so stupid Why would she believe that like she
could bite in all these other apples? Or she
can bite in all these other fruits, and she's
tricked to eating that fruit There's so many
people who are like I would never do it like
Eve. I would never be like that. That's so stupid
Y 'all I wasn't Eve and every tarot card reader
every oracle card reader Every psychic, every
person who's putting their faith in horoscopes,
every person who's putting their faith in birth
charts, every person who is seeking knowledge
outside of the Lord is falling into that same
temptation. Because at the root of what the devil
presented Eve with is he said, if you bite into
this fruit, your eyes will be like God. Your
eyes will be open and you will be like God. You
will have the knowledge of good and evil that
God does. You will be able to decide. You will
be able to plan. Because Eve had said, to the
serpent, she was like, well, God said, if I bite
into this, I'll die. And he's like, God's a liar.
You won't die. Your eyes will be open. You'll
be able to see everything like God. And what
God meant was spiritual death. And that is what
sin buys us. The wage of sin is death. So when
I tell you all that, like separation between
you and Christ, spiritual death is brought on
by divination and by participating in sins. I'm
not saying you're going to drop dead, but what
I'm saying is If you are unrepentant, if you
don't turn from this, if you are willfully living
in this, you're not putting your faith in the
Lord, then your wage for that sin is death. That
is what the devil is trying to do. That's why
he tempts you into divination. That's why he
tempts you into these sins is because he knows
that the wage of it with an unrepentant heart
is death. And that's all he wants at the end
of the day. He wants to bring as many people
to spiritual death as he can. but when I got
into tarot card reading y 'all what I ended up
see like when I first started getting into it
and started thinking oh there's something really
to this I started seeing this as oh my gosh I
don't have to wait anymore because I had been
so angry for years where I felt like if only
I could like be a little fly on the wall and
know what someone is thinking know what someone
is really thinking, knowing what someone is planning,
you know, knowing how I should handle this or
knowing how I should handle that. I was like,
if only I had some supernatural kind of source
of information to get ahead, I wouldn't be screwed
over as much. I'd be able to plan for this. Maybe
I would get ahead in life. Maybe I'd be able
to financially do this because I had felt like
every time I took steps, like it seemed had to
go wrong or like there was a misstep. And that's
just I felt like if I had more information. Wouldn't
have been in hurtful relationships hurtful friendships.
I would have handled things better. I felt like
that was what I needed in life And I've shared
this in episodes before the devil loves To be
the cause of your trauma to be the cause of your
pain and present himself as a solution I've said
this earlier in this episode that when we go
in the sin, it's not because it looks big and
bad it's because it looks defensible because
it looks like our solution and voila I had a
pain, trauma, hurt, past upset. I had a problem
that needed a solution and I felt the solution
was information. And the devil presented tarot
cards. Knock yourself out. And that was me biting
into the fruit when I started putting my, when
I started entertaining that and putting my faith
in that. And that was also me turning my back
on the Lord, the first steps of me turning my
back on the Lord, because instead of waiting
on His information, instead of praying to Him,
just as Eve had all these other trees to eat
from in the garden, we have all these other ways
that we can talk to God. We can read scripture,
we're praying to Him, we can meditate on His
Word, right? We can listen to worship music.
Instead of all the different ways I could have
been pursuing a relationship with the Lord, I
could have tried to close doors. open doors on
sin, I could've done all these other things.
Instead of doing any of those Christ -like, holy
things, I decided to take the tarot card way.
I decided to bite into that tree, into the fruit
from that tree. And where that led me was sin.
And that's where it's leading every single other
tarot card reader and oracle card reader. Whether
or not they want to admit it, whether or not
they see it themselves. because that's another
thing now i'm thinking about i remember from
that girl's comment the other night she said
well that's your story and i'm sorry to break
it to you i'm not sorry to break it to you guys
that is everybody's story who is participating
in horoscopes and tarot cards and divination
and witchcraft and any of it is you are being
separated from christ that is everybody's story
now it may look different it might manifest different
you might not see it i didn't see it until i
gave my life to christ It wasn't until I gave
my life to Christ and started pursuing Christ
-like relationships and Christ -like behaviors
that I realized how un -Christ -like I was in
the past. I was still defending my actions and
my thought processes when I gave up the tarot
cards. I gave them up because I knew God called
me not to do it and I realized that it was a
sin, but I was still defending the sin. I still
had like a struggle of how is this bad? over
time when God started shifting my mind when he
started revealing things to me and I started
getting in his word and I started just living
a life more pleasing towards the Lord I started
seeing these things for myself and honestly all
that was another reason why there are times when
I will have open discussions I could just tell
in reading that comment that was like there wasn't
anywhere to get with this person you know because
in their mind this isn't spiritual their mind
they are not sinning and their mind there is
no separation between them and Christ and their
mind everything I said is like non -existent
Mute to them. So anything I have to say in response
is not going to make a difference do not cast
my pearls before swine in the situation and Do
not leave this for it to plant more lies and
doubt for other people There are many times when
I leave hateful comments up. And that was one
of those times where it was like, I'm not going
to leave it for anyone else to trip over, but
I'm also not going to entertain it myself. Because
there are so many people who believe that's not
my story. Separation between me and Christ isn't
my story. Separation between me and this. There
are a lot of people in the new age who believe
that you can pick. That was where my mind started
going. I started thinking, well, maybe heaven
and hell is only for people who believe in God
and Jesus. maybe if i believe in these other
deities or i believe in this other thing then
i'll go to where the people who believe in this
deity go or if i believe in the cosmic where
aliens all go back to whatever alien source there
are a lot of people in new age spirituality who
believe that were other worldly beings sent here
to awaken the world consciousness or something
like that there's so many different sets of beliefs
and um I don't care if I sound close -minded
or not in saying this I know now through reading
scripture and through the things I experienced
that there is only heaven and hell And that Jesus
is the way to heaven He is the salvation. He
is the blood that pays our debt to get us in
Putting our faith in him. He pays the debt that
is currently blocking us out from heaven So without
him good works, whatever, none of that alone
is going to get you in. And I have an overwhelming
gratitude that the Lord pulled me out of where
I was at and opened my eyes so that way I could
repent. Because I truly believe that if I would
have died in my sin, like if I would have died
when I was the one new age to your card reading,
I don't believe I would have been in eternity
with the Heavenly Father. I believe I would have
been in hell. Yeah, you know there are so many
people who right now believe that they are God's
gift to earth While they're doing tarot cards
and believe that they're not hurting anybody
But if they're not like trying to like physically
cause all these harm to these people that they're
not hurting anybody Can I tell y 'all how much
paranoia? Tarot cards create an oracle card readings
and all of that create I Felt the need to drop
that on here. It creates that is what sends you
into a spiritual psychosis Like, we want to talk
spiritual psychosis. It's that. When I look back
at my time in tarot card and oracle card reading,
although I was being kind to people, I was the
most cynical and skeptical and untrusting that
I had ever been in my life. I would want to check
the cards on everything. Or if I would get a
reading, readings were constantly coming across
all my social media pages. That was constantly
entertaining. where they're saying yeah there's
someone plotting against you there's someone
working evil you know there's going to be someone
asking you this question don't answer don't do
this don't do that where it's like a fear -mongering
and it's like planting god didn't give us a spirit
of fear and like i realized that that was the
most fearful and anxious and looking over my
shoulder and constantly skeptical of other people
i ever was in my life tarot card reading oracle
card reading is a breeding ground especially
when you are taking everything as truth when
it's not for anxiety and paranoia and doubt and
deception and all of these things and i shared
in the video i talked about the other day on
tiktok that it took a while to repair my life
and You know, people saying, well, that's your
story. Now every person who has given their life
to Christ, who came from new age, has to do some
kind of repairing. Because new age rewires your
brain just like a cult. A cultism rewires your
brain. And you have to go through and deconstruct
thought processes and things that you once believed
to be as truth. And when you're putting your
faith in divination and horoscopes and anything
like that, there are people who only date partners
based on what their sign is. I used to be one
of those people. There are people who will read
their horoscope and decide whether or not they
go to that party, whether or not they go out
to that event, whether or not they apply to that
job. They'll take their zodiac sign traits and
decide that these are the career paths for them
These are the type of marriages. They should
their friendships. They should get into a type
of connections. They should get into They will
there are people who are getting Psychic readings
who are accepting psychic rings coming across
their page or accepting tarot card readings and
Oracle card readings and things like that and
are literally making life decisions small big
They're making mindset shifts, perspective shifts
based off of these things that one day are going
to have to be unpacked. There were certain ways
that I handled fallouts. There are certain ways
I handled situations. There are certain opportunities
I turned down and certain opportunities I accepted
just based off of what the cards said or what
the horoscope said or anything like that, but
later on. There were some of those decisions
of the Lord. In following Him and seeking for
the Kingdom of Heaven, He led me to have to go
back and repair some of the damage from those
and the ways I handled them. And that required
a humble heart and acknowledging that I handled
it incorrectly and that I was listening to the
wrong voice. And that's what I mean when I said
like there was so much repairing I had to do
there really were Relationships that were negatively
impacted. There were people that I was looking
at in the bad light I should have never been
looking at in the cynical negative life I was
looking at the men but I was because the readings
created a paranoia for me While also creating
self -righteousness. There are a lot of people
in new age dealing with the self -righteousness
The light laugh love that think they're God's
gift earth And I'm, you know, I could go on and
on about how each person in new age, each person
in witchcraft, each person, all those things
is in it for a different reason. And I have met
some people who just think that they are the
most helpful people in the world. And I have
met some people who are doing it to cause pain,
hurt, suffering, damage, and have no moral code.
I'm not saying that everybody in it is in it
for some kindness. There are some people who
are very, very famous on TikTok. Now we're part
of the community I would see their videos and
things on the daily basis that were very open
and the harmful and hurtful things that they
did actually had a big client base of people
wanting them to do vengeful acts and vengeful
services and Monitor and do all of these things
And they gladly do it for money There's one that
shared their testimony of how they were traumatized
and hurt as a child and now they This is their
form of empowerment and they use it to take it
out on other people There's some people who are
in it to cause harm and to cause damage. There's
some people who do not Care about the morals
Okay, so I'm not saying that it's all one group
there I've met some people who are very opposite
side of the spectrum I've met some people who
don't actually believe in what they're doing,
but are taking advantage of other people who
do. There are all different kinds of people in
there. Just like there are all different kinds
of hurt people in church, there are hurt people
in New Age spirituality. There are a lot of people
who turn to New Age spirituality, who turn to
witchcraft, who turn to tarot card reading, who
turn to oracle card reading, because they see
it as a source of empowerment and they see it
as a source of healing. Now, some people go with
it in a way of trying to help others and all
that, and other people use it as a way to try
to only help themselves. And some people use
it as a way to try to destroy others. When you
give power to people, everyone's going to go
in a different direction of it. Now, I want to
be very clear that whatever power you believe
you're wielding or holding in New Age spirituality,
in witchcraft, in any of that, is a false power.
It's a false sense of security. People are gonna
go in all different directions with it and I'll
be the first to admit that when I thought I wielded
that kind of power I I did things selfishly.
I tried to do selfish things I tried to do things
for myself and I thank God so many times that
he didn't let me go in deeper than it was that
there were some things that like When I was like
that my gut was just telling me don't participate
in this Don't follow down this road don't go
in these footsteps don't do these things and
glory be to God I listened to the discernment
that I listened to those times when I felt like
God was leading me and guiding me and as I've
said in the beginning of this video like I wish
I never went into tarot I wish I never went into
new age but at the same time I don't think I
would understand the other side I don't think
I would understand the devil like I do now I
don't think I would understand wickedness. I
don't think I would understand deception. I don't
think I would understand lies. I don't think
I would understand the enemy like I do now if
I hadn't experienced that. Reading and experiencing
are very different. Hearing and experiencing
are very different. And there is another level
of empathizing I can do with the people who are
not empathizing with the sin itself, but empathizing
with the person that's participating in it. Because
I understand firsthand what can cause you to
put your faith in these things. I can empathize
with there are so many people who are just looking
for a voice and are looking for control, like
a sense of control in their life and looking
for all these things. And I know that the answer
is Jesus Christ. And actually submitting and
surrendering your control to him gives you a
peace that surpasses all understanding. But if
I hadn't experienced and gone through that I
wouldn't be able to empathize with people like
I do now I Wouldn't be able to understand the
other side new age spirituality and all of that
Gave me an understanding on spiritual warfare
that I don't know if I would be able to have
that perception or that perspective because I
try to be very thoughtful with You know what
I talk about I was going through during that
time because sometimes y 'all I am still Unraveling
there were so many deceptive voices at that time
as I said that there there's so much lies and
Deceit being planted when you're listening to
Oracle card readings and tarot card readings
and mediums and everything that there there was
some serious warfare I was dealing with throughout
that time period and attacks of the enemy and
there are some that I know is like this was legit
and then there are other things where I'm like
Was that legit or was that a lie from the enemy?
And I'll be the first to admit that there are
some things that like will come to mind and God
is still unraveling or picking some of those
things apart where it was like, you know, this
was a deception situation. This was a false belief
and this was something legit. This was something
real. Because as I said, New Age had me constantly
paranoid. But I have also experienced You know
one thing in the new age community is they all
attack each other man Like I Tried to be very
thoughtful of like not Being too social in it
and not having like too many close friends in
that But you would see very clearly it was called
which talk would be overall that whole side and
you would constantly see like practitioners and
spiritualists talking about cursing each other
and like exposing each other and doing all these
things. Someone was constantly attacking someone
else. trying to prove themselves by how much
they could hurt someone else or make someone
else suffer or make someone else feel bad. It
seems like that was always the way that you could
prove yourself in that community. It wasn't ever
about fruits of the spirit of kindness, love,
patience, peace, like self -control, all these
things, but instead it was how quickly can you
tear them down? How powerful are you? How can
you execute your power over these other people?
And I never gravitated towards that, I never
wanted to be part of any of that. So I always
really kept my distance, glory be to God. Bad
company corrupts good morals. And although I
didn't have the most amazing morals, obviously
there were those things where I had felt a gossip
conviction. I had felt a conviction about doing
evil to do evil. So I knew to at least stay away
from people who were proudly and openly doing
that. But there were people who did not like
my seeming to just be happy and positive all
the time in that community That I do know went
out of their way to make me suffer and I was
dealing with spiritual warfare on that part You
know because some people are being very willing
vessels for the devil and that's the most I'll
really say about that Where I experienced some
truly demonic things from some people who did
not care to side with wickedness and side openly
with the devil. I don't know if I would have
even believed that that was what I was experiencing
or recognized that that was part of what I was
experiencing if I had not gone through new age
and gone through all of that. And I think it's
very important to remind y 'all today to separate
the spirit behind the person. This is a spiritual
battle, not a battle of flesh and blood. So when
I look at being attacked, These people are simply
vessels. Satan is the main culprit. The devil
is the main man. You know, this battle is not
flesh and blood when I give a battle to the Lord.
I'm letting the Lord fight the devil for me.
So I just want to remind you all of that today.
And that was something that the Lord heavily
took me through was stop looking at the readers
and the practitioners and all these people as
the enemy and start looking at the spirit operating
through them. And pray for these people and that
was a tip that My priest at that time I give
me because I remember like a week later I came
to him crying and just saying the warfare is
so bad and like I know that there are people
spiritually attacking me and At risk of sounding
crazy because to a lot of people I sound crazy
I'm like, what do I do? Like I know that there
are a lot of people who are willingly being vessels
for the enemy I'm trying to send stuff my way.
Like what do I do and the priest told me pray
for them pray for them pray for them and the
Lord after that took me on a really serious lesson
of just really ingraining in me that you do not
fight evil with evil and the way that you conquer
the devil isn't matching him with more evil it's
actually matching him with love and grace and
mercy And the way that I did that was I was constantly
praying for these people's salvation. In New
Age spirituality and witchcraft and all that,
you learn to do return to senders. Send them
back the same negative thing that they're sending
you. Send them back the same wickedness or evilness.
And God showed me no. No, you pray for them.
When you find out that they're wishing your downfall,
they're wishing your death, they're wishing your
destruction, pray that they see salvation. pray
that they see healing pray that they stop doing
this and give their lives to the lord pray that
they are blessed and know jesus christ pray for
them forgive them forgive them forgive them because
the devil wants you to be an unforgiveness the
devil wants you to be hateful if the devil can
get you to be unforgiving and resentful he can
get you to slowly start wishing death on other
people he can get you to slowly start Trying
to take vengeance into your own hands you give
him a foothold and he will eventually turn that
into a stronghold unforgiveness is an open door
and the Lord really revealed to me when they
are doing that pray and Forgive them and bless
them. If you don't know them by name pray for
anyone who wishes wickedness upon you Pray for
them Pray that God works in their lives Now notice,
I'm not saying that God instructed me to open
doors for them and allow them into my life. He
didn't say, be besties with them, give them all
your information, fill them in on your day -to
-day life, invite them out to dinner all the
time, do all these things. No. I was very heavily
instructed to keep my distance, but to pray for
them and to forgive them. Because see, if someone
is still a willing vessel at that time, You're
not needing to give them close personal access
But you do need to be loving You know the word
guided me don't try to go out of your way and
expose what's going on. Don't try to prove your
point Don't try to do any of that. Let me handle
it and pray for these people And sometimes when
when God tells you to do that the turnaround
is within days, but sometimes it's months Sometimes
it's years. Sometimes it's a long time coming
and that's why you have to put your faith in
the Lord And that's another thing y 'all when
I'm telling you I don't know if I would have
experienced this amount of warfare if I hadn't
opened up that door Because I was gonna face
warfare point blank period Especially if I was
giving my life to the Lord and trying to live
a life pleasing to the Lord But when you start
everyday communing with people who are doing
new age witchcraft divination all of these things
Summoning trying to summon spirits and doing
all this stuff And that's a whole other level
of doors that you're opening up that shouldn't
have been open And as I said y 'all glory be
to God he broke me free of all these things now
to make my stance on it very clear I do not condone
tarot card reading. I do not condone angel numbers.
I do not condone Horoscopes psychic mediums oracle
any kind of divination Pendulums Ouija boards
trying to meditate and communicate with spirit
guides in that way and I'm doing spirit guides
and air quotes because those are demons I Do
not condone any of this and all of these things
are going to lead to separation between you and
Christ and they are all sins I am saying though
I Understand the pain that got you there and
there is an answer and there is a way out in
his name is Jesus Christ I'm telling you today
to read your Bible to read scripture and to pray
for an understanding and to allow the Lord To
humble your heart and to soften your heart It
takes humility to back down from that you all
realize that at the point when I gave my life
to Christ That was all my like I had tarot reading
things everywhere. I had linked trees. I had
Different social media pages. I had all of these
different things I had thousands of videos up
i had literal um lesson like where you could
purchase lesson plan like and i had to delete
every single one of those delete emails delete
payment app like everything there are some people
who would see that as too embarrassing Too shameful
because that's admitting that you're wrong It
took me days to clear out everything once I decided
to do it It takes humility to turn around and
go in the other direction and that wasn't humility
that I just found myself gods off in my heart
and I only fully deconstruct like started deconstructing
in that way after real periods of just praying
to the lord and seeking him with my whole heart
and understanding that like my life wasn't the
answer and i've shared this with y 'all many
times over i had god turned me over to my reprobate
mind my reprobate decisions meaning and what
we can get in this would be a whole episode on
its own meaning God gave me chance after chance
after chance for years to turn to him and away
from tarot cards and oracle cards and new age
spirituality and God has a plan for my life and
that plan was not going to be able to commence
without like while I was still in that and glory
be to God I I've learned Over the past couple
months how covered in prayer actually was that
there were people that were praying for me And
I know that my grandma prayed for me so fervently
before she died, but I truly believe that The
prayer she prayed for me even though she was
long dead. God was still holding true to those
prayers So glory be to God I had people praying
for me glory be to God I had Jesus was really
after my heart. God was really after my heart
and He gave me years to see the truth and to
turn around. And because I didn't, he allowed
the things that brought me comfort, new age,
tarot, I've talked about substances, all these
different things that I idolized and put above
him. He allowed these things to kind of flip
on me, where they no longer brought me comfort,
they brought me destruction, they brought me
pain, they brought me suffering, they brought
me sadness. To where I looked around and said,
I am so unhappy with my life. and i have tried
it my way for 25 years and gotten to this point
i need another way and when jesus presented himself
to me as the way the truth of life i said okay
let's try your way you know there's a really
popular sound on tiktok from philip anthony mitchell
who's a pastor in atlanta where he says if someone
is unrepentant pray pray them into the hands
of the devil we love you so much that we'd rather
you see the consequence for your sin than to
spend eternity separated from the heavenly father
and there's so many people who are like i don't
see where scripture says you pray them into the
hands of the devil there may be people who give
them scripture that says like pray that they
see um just summarizing it um that they see the
consequences for their sin that they may turn
to the lord we see the entire book of jeremiah
are people being turned over to the consequences
of their sin their enemy being allowed to conquer
over them who is our enemy the devil and he operates
your people in the book of Jeremiah their enemy
was the Babylonians being allowed to overtake
them conquer them so that way they may humble
themselves and see that God's way is better than
their way in turn to him so it is very biblical
there's a whole story in the book of Jeremiah
and then we see the books after the rebuilding
and that is what the Lord did in my life He allowed
me to be turned over when I finally saw and Humbled
myself. I accepted him as the way I submitted
myself before them and then he started rebuilding
me slowly That's why yeah when I pray for people
I pray You know Lord get to them However, you
need to get to them and we need to start praying
that way more if you love someone and you want
to see them repent You want to see them healed
you want to see them give their lives to Christ
start praying that they See the consequences
start praying that God gets to them in whatever
way possible if someone has an issue with being
hateful and seeing everything negatively and
Just they're full of hate and unforgiveness Start
praying that they are have a forgiving heart
and that God does that in whatever way mean be
and surrender them to the Lord Oftentimes when
he brings revelation and ideas and clarity to
us it isn't through some walk in the park We
have to go through trials and tribulations We
go through periods of suffering to have revelation
to have clarity to see that Jesus's way is better
than our way So when you give someone to the
Lord quit running in and rescuing them every
five seconds someone needs to hear that too I
know I needed to hear that I would pray that
God Reveals something to someone and does a work
in their life and he would allow a situation
to be set up Where they would have to rely on
him and turn them him and I would feel tempted
to come in and try to Save the day and try to
help them because I didn't want to see them suffer
I didn't want to see them in pain and God would
have to like it felt like a sticking hand out
and say Are you gonna let me do my job or not?
You might not want to see them suffer for a season
But this suffering for the season is gonna pull
them closer to me closer to the Heavenly Father
Don't come in and intervene in the suffering
and put their entire salvation at risk. Now,
God will make a way no matter what I do. If God
intends for this person to have salvation, they
will have salvation. I'm just saying God really
had to drill that enemy of stop getting in his
way. When you pray for these people and turn
them over, quit jumping in at the last minute.
Quit bragging about it. Quit bragging about,
well I prayed for this, I prayed for that. And
that's a whole other topic we can have. But I
wanted to share with y 'all today. And I know
we're kind of branching out in different other
areas. I've shared with y 'all how I got into
new age and the lies I believe. And again, how
not being biblically accurate, not having clear
understandings, clear boundaries. Someone needs
to hear that today. Thank you, Heavenly Father,
for bringing me back to this because I talked
about how I did not have clearly established
and rooted views, so they were easily shifted
and swayed. you know, since I wasn't biblically
literate, meaning I didn't, I wasn't reading
my Bible, and then I also wasn't really trying
to understand at all what I was reading, the
devil could easily twist things and bring up
questions where I'm like, oh, the devil seems
to, not knowing it was the devil, but New Age
spirituality, these different things seem to
have the answers that I felt like Christianity
didn't give me, or the Bible didn't give me,
or I couldn't explain well enough. So biblical
literacy was a really big thing But this was
one that the Lord has really been establishing
me and me the past year is having set boundaries
What are you gonna say yes to and what are you
gonna say no to and stand on that? Because that
was my real problem was I would have a boundary
and say I don't like this. I'm not comfortable
with this I don't want to do this, but I wouldn't
be rooted and that boundary would somehow be
able to be moved back especially I noticed when
I was in tarot card reading I would say I don't
want to do readings for this person and I don't
want to do it on this thing I don't want to do
it on this topic and then there would come a
time where like I didn't have a lot of money
and I was like really hoping that someone would
request a reading soon so that way I could have
some money and then a request would come in and
it would be something that would be from a person
I really didn't want to read for. It would be
from a question that I normally really wouldn't
want to get into or wouldn't want to do. but
the temptation to have that money would be so
strong that okay fine I'll compromise and I'll
read on that fine I'll compromise and do this
I did not have and that was just an example of
in new age I that that was riddled all throughout
my life a lack of boundaries and a lack of like
being able to stand in my boundaries because
I had such a people pleasing tendency and also
I was lacking in areas And when I was lacking
in those areas, when opportunity would come up,
that would require me to overstep my boundaries,
or moral things I established for myself, I would
overstep them. And I've noticed, since I've given
my life to Christ, and he's really instilled
things in me, boundaries, and I put my faith
in him, that, you know, when incidents like that
have come up now, where temptation to say yes,
and it appears to have a solution, I say no anyway.
Because I know what God's Word says and I know
what he has called me to do and lo and behold
God ends up coming through So that was another
thing was just a lack of like actual boundaries
and lack of having like a root in those boundaries
and lack of like a serious conviction And I think
that can even stem to lack of fear of the Lord.
I didn't have a true fear of the Lord Because
if I really feared the Lord, I would obey his
word All right, I was kind of playing on God's
grace and his mercy for a very very long time
So yeah, I I know that this is gonna be helpful
for somebody to hear today of just this is how
I personally Fell into new age. These were the
temptations. These were the things that brought
me in these are just some of the things that
I learned and I experienced and I am here to
tell you today that it is spiritual whether or
not you are spiritual, whether or not you are
religious, whether or not you believe in God,
whether or not you think that the pendulum you're
playing with, the cards you're laying out, the
board you're messing with, the psychics you're
going to, the birth charts you're looking at,
the horoscopes you're reading, whether or not
you believe that those are spiritual or that
those are real or that you're opening up doors
for the devil, you are. Newsflash, your ignorance
doesn't equal protection. I have to say that.
You not believing in it or acting like it doesn't
exist doesn't make it not exist. But it does
make it easier for you to be attacked. It does
make it easier for you to be used. It does make
it easier for you to get to because you're also
now not taking the active steps for protection
which is being covered in the blood of Jesus
and in sin. Your decision to believe in hell
or not, to believe in the devil or not, to believe
in God or not, to believe it's spiritual or not
does not determine whether or not the devil uses
it to get to you anyway. Whether or not you believe
in the truth does not negate the truth. And I
want to pray for those of you listening today
that if there are people here who are listening
and that you do not believe I pray that the Lord
reveals the truth to you. Dear God Heavenly Father,
I pray for those listening to this podcast episode
today I pray that they receive conviction and
I pray that they encounter you Lord Jesus and
I pray that they do see the spiritual impact
I pray that they do see the impact not just New
Age not just divination not just witchcraft Whatever
sin you are trying to uncover and trying to reveal
in their life right now Whatever open doors to
the devil that they have in their life right
now Heavenly Father I pray that you reveal those
things to them, Lord Jesus. I pray that you shed
a light and that that light cannot be ignored.
I pray that the scabs fall off their eyes. I
pray that they have eyes to see and they have
ears to hear. And I pray that they have a true
understanding of what you are revealing to them.
And I pray, heavenly Father, that they feel the
conviction, that they listen to the conviction.
I pray that they do not feel condemnation, but
instead that they turn to you. They see you as
the way the truth the life and that they experience
redemption and salvation That they flee the temptation
that they flee the sin that they repent they
close the open doors in Jesus name I pray Heavenly
Father that they cannot deny what you are revealing
to them I pray that they see the truth that they
acknowledge it and that they see the call to
action the call to action is to turn to you and
to repent Heavenly Father and I pray That they
have humble hearts. I pray that their hearts
are soft and I pray that they have healing and
I pray that they have a Restoration of their
faith in Jesus Christ in Jesus name. I pray amen.
I Plead the blood of Jesus over every person
listening to this episode. I plead the blood
of Jesus over you I plead the blood of Jesus
over the family. I plead the blood Jesus with
your mind I plead the blood of Jesus over your
spirit over your soul in Jesus name I step into
the authority that Jesus Christ has given me
and I rebuke these demonic forces that are attacking
your mind and are attacking the way that you
live your life and I pray that you put your faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ and that you put on
the armor of God in Jesus name and I thank you
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Sweetener. Have a blessed day.