IN THE BEGINNING…
I’ll take this back to when I was about 12 years old. I had just moved to Brampton and my cousin was sleeping over for most of the summer. My Grandmother also lived with us. She lived downstairs in the basement and she was away at my uncle’s for a while, so my cousin and I slept downstairs in her living room on a couple of couches she had. We were up at night and I was showing my cousin this weird workout my father did, which required me to put my foot on this nearby sofa chair in the living room.
The layout was an open concept and the living room was attached to the kitchen. As I was showing my cousin the workout the chair that I had my foot on slid back on its own and slammed against this cabinet full of dishes next to the living room. The cabinet began to shake and I thought nothing of it–at first. If the chair hits the cabinet, obviously it will shake. But the problem was that instead of the shaking cabinet loosing it’s momentum it actually began to shake more violently.
There was a laundry room door about two or three feet away from the cabinet along the wall and as the cabinet was still shaking intensely the door slammed shut. About another three feet away from the door was a metal shelf with two shelves, which had began shaking shortly after the door closed. At the end of that wall was another door that leads into the hallway of the entrance to the house. That door slammed shut as well. Next to that door was the kitchen sink and counter. On the counter was the cork to the sink which slid over and fell into the sink all the while everything was still shaking violently in one accord. I was petrified to say the least. When everything finally stopped shaking, I jumped under the covers with my cousin. Both of us were scared out of our minds. I tried to make sense of it in my head, forcing myself to believe that it was somehow a freak result of physics. We then heard a noise that sounded like a low-toned–almost monstrous–growl. It was a very muffled sound that we at first thought was a garbage truck. It sounded like it was coming from my grandmother’s room, which was next to the living room. We decided that we should try to get upstairs to my house. So, we finally mustered the courage and got upstairs to my living room and somehow managed to fall asleep there. My parents were sleeping down the hall and we felt safe.
DAY TWO
The next day, my cousin and I were in my father’s room playing on his computer and my parents were out grocery shopping. We heard footsteps run up the stairs, through the kitchen, through the hallway, passed my father’s room and into my room and the door slammed shut behind it. I thought it was one of my little cousins that had come over. So my cousin and I checked my room and there was no one in there. We checked the whole house and there was no one to be found. All the doors were locked and there were no cars in the driveway. It didn’t really freak us out that much because it was the middle of the day, but it was still pretty freaky.
SLEEPING PROBLEMS
Since that happened, I started having trouble sleeping at night. I got the sense that someone was there. It was the same sensation you get when you are laying down with your eyes closed and you could sense someone as if they were standing right by you. I wasn’t sure what it was but I knew something was there. Sometimes I would wake up choking as if something was strangling me. This was a problem for probably about three to four years in that house. I later came to believe that it had to do with my interest in the paranormal. I would mess around with stupid things sometimes such as Ouija boards and ghost hunting. We used to make Ouija boards out of paper in school and they would actually work.
GOD REVEALS HIMSELF
When I was 16, I came to a place in my life where I was convicted that I needed God in my life. I was laying in my room thinking about what it might feel like to die. Then I began asking myself questions. “Is this it? Do I just go back into non-existence? Is there really a heaven and hell? If there is where will I go?”
I still can’t explain it but I somehow became very sure at that moment that there is a God and that if I didn’t change my life I would most likely end up in hell. So, I begged God to do whatever it takes to save me and asked Him to make me the kind of person He wants me to be. After I said that prayer, this overwhelming peace fell upon me. It was so powerful that I began to tremble. I couldn’t lift my head and began to cry. I had never felt anything so deep and so warm. I knew without a doubt that I was in the presence of God and that He had heard my prayer. When I was finally able to lift my head, I felt like this heavy weight that I had been carrying around all my life had been lifted off my shoulders–and then a joy like I had never felt before filled my heart. I was laughing like a child.
I ACCEPT JESUS
A few months later, the Billy Graham crusade came to town. I had heard him and other preachers talk about the Bible and God before, but none of it made sense to me. This time, however, I understood the word of God with absolute clarity. I understood that Jesus died on the cross for my sins so I could have peace with God. When Billy Graham made the alter call I knew I needed Jesus in my life. So that night, I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior by personal invitation and He changed my life in a way I never thought possible. I began experiencing a very real and personal relationship with God. I was able to understand the Bible as if God was speaking to me through it and felt His presence.
CONFRONTING SATAN I was still having problems at home with these spiritual attacks. I later learned what the Bible had to say about the evil spiritual forces in this world. The last time I was faced with these scare tactics that Satan was using on me, I trusted Jesus and He dealt with it. I began to understand the nature of these attacks, which were trying to keep me from God, so I got angry and told these evil spiritual forces that I am a child of God and to leave in the name of Jesus and it left.
JESUS CAN WORK FOR YOU
I slept peacefully for the first time in years and those evil spirits haven’t been much of a bother since. There is definitely power in the name of Jesus and I realized that because he got me out of this mess. God changed my life and I am certain that I will go to heaven, not because of anything that I had done, but because of what Jesus did on the Cross. He is the Son of God and paid for our sins in full. We have only to open our hearts and ask Him to come into our lives and that is a prayer He will answer. The Bible says that all who call upon Jesus will be saved.
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