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 KingdomWar |
10-15-2002 @ 12:43 AM |
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I had posted this about a year back, but things that are a year old or more since the last post are removed. So I am posting this again.
Well, where should I begin? I guess I'll start before I was born. That is where God began His work in me. Promise this will not be too long LOL.
About 3 months before I was concieved, my mom tried to kill herself, while she was pregnant with me, my dad kicked her in the stomach to cause her to miscarry. Well, on June 29, 1978, I was born. When I was 6 days old, I was in church for the first time. My mom was a SS teacher and my dad was a deacon, yet there was abuse in the home, alcohol and even witchcraft. My dad would shout, jump, run though the church, then get one block from it and start a fist fight with my mom.
From my earliest memory, I recall seeing demons attacking me, seeing them throughout my house. I was deathly scared of the dark, because I knew that they lurked in the shadows. On May 4, 1982, right before my 4th BD, God got a hold of me. He rescued me from the pit of hell. I still saw the demons, but I was no longer afraid of them.
Let me jump up to when I was about 11 or 12. When I was in 6th grade, I began to feel the call of God on my life. I didn't understand what was going on, I was a woman. Women are to keep silent in the church, or so I was told at the Baptist church. My dad left the Pentecostal church and I started at a Baptist. I just knew there was a desire to serve God in any way He would let me. I began to pray, didn't know what intercession was, but God led me there. I would be in class, Christian school, and start crying. I would usually go to a side room to do my math work, but I couldn't because a great burden would be on me. After a few weeks, my teacher, a Spirit-filled believe began to dicern what was going on. She interduced me to intercession and Spirit led praying, even though I hadn't been baptized in the Spirit.
During this time, I was being attacked physically. The doctors said that I could possibly have stomach cancer. This scared me, at the same time my parents were divorcing. After a few months, a demon came into my room and told me to kill myself, that I had nothing to live for because I was going to die a painfull death due to cancer. It said also that I was the cause of my parents arguement and divorce. I felt so alone that night. I couldn't even say the name of Jesus. When I did, that evil presence left my room and it became normal again. But because of this, I had suicidal thoughts for several weeks. Even tried to follow through with it. But Glory to God, He stopped me.
As the years rolled on, the call of God only got stronger. I still struggled with my health, but the devil is and was a liar. It was not cancer. I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis. I tried to continue shool, but couldn't. I finally homeschooled in 10th grade. This is where God wanted me. I had no teacher but Him. He taught me things that I am just now hearing taught on by the popular preachers. When I was 15, God began to direct me into the prophetic and spiritual warfare. Now, I still had not been baptized in the Spirit. God began to give me very strong words, even of correction for churches, people and for my city. I didn't know what in the world I was doing. On July 28, 1996, right after my 18th BD, I finally received the Spirit in His fullness, just like God showed me in a dream.
The last 5 years of my life has been the most amazing journey of my life. Now, it hasn't been easy. In '98, I and a team were ministering to a group of Wiccans, and we all became ill. I was almost to the point of death in a matter of weeks. The diagnosis of UC was changed to Crohn's Disease. Even with that, God still had his hand upon my life. I guess that I grew more in that year than in my whole life. I learned that even when I can't see God's hand, I can still trust His heart. The next year, I received ordination in ministry through my church.
Right now, I am healed of the Crohn's and am walking in health, even of an incurable disease! Praise be unto God. He now has me in another church to serve. I work with the children's and youth ministry. God is using me to minister to people who have been abused, involved in the occult and to teens with eating disorders. I hope to soon start teaching a course on evangelism.
I feel that God has placed in me the desire to see prophecy, spiritual warfare and worship be linked together with evangelism. For so long, we in the church have separated these into categories that were never meant to touch. I will share more on that later. I have already taken too much space.
God bless,
Joy
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| Amareno |
10-17-2002 @ 11:06 AM |
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Dearest Sister I am truly amazed that you choose to paste this on this date
October 15th which happens to be my birthday!
Hm our stories are somewhat alike
I was born some 30 odd years ago [yeah yeah I am pretty young!]
I was born in my village in the NigerDelta of Nigeria without my Father being present [he was out of the country then on business]. My Mum had a difficult pregnancy as from conception
the evil powers wanted me out. God in His infinite mercies ensured my Granddad & Mum were still alive to continually stand in the position of intercession over me. I was told that my Grandad had a powerful spiritual giftings mainly the prophetic and the spirit of discernment. On the night before I was born, my grandparents home where my mum stayed for about the last 3months before I was born, was besieged by 3 witches [and these 3 came back again this year through their offspring to my home] and was they came in my granddad knew immediately and he prayed and told them boldly that they will not have my life as its Gods. And my mum told me that from then on she could not sleep until I was born. And that my grandparents did prayer vigils every night over me and my mum.
In my extended family weve had idolatory..witchcraft as well!
Anyway out of all my siblings I seem to be the one that goes and still goes through tough times to get things to happen well in my life
example I was the oldest to get married
[all my siblings got married in their twenties and me
in my 30s]. One thing that assures me daily is that the Lord reveals His heart to me and it sometimes comes in word of affirmation from vessels that I meet weather via internet or on the road
its amazing..I remember someone telling me some 13 years ago that the rejected corner stone will be the head of the corner. That time I did not take it seriously as I was going through one crisis after the other in my life
my self esteem was at its lowest ebb. These days
the Lord reminds me of that same word of affirmation!!!
I do not have children yet and all my siblings do except the one that just got married few months ago have
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I died 4 times [yes clinically] and was revived back to life here on earth! Strange but true.. 2 of these happened in my early teens and the last one happened recently this year
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So many things have happened in this small life of mine!JJ and that is why I believe the Lord gave my granddad that name to give to me.. Amareno which means well & completely created by God
nothing removed and noting added In all my years back home I have never ever seen or heard a name sake. And you know what? When I get an awakening call fr0m God He always uses this Name and another
The Call on my life is so great that I get scared especially when I pray and I get revelations about things that I would ordinarily not know about!
My passion for God and the things of God is so overwhelming that no day passes by that I do not do something that goes with His work
from praying to counseling. And when I try to stop myself its like my seat in the office becomes uncomfortable
And you know what the perception of mens mind that you can not talk to the Holy Spirit is nebulous and funny
because I hear Him so well and when I do not know, I know and I know that there is sin in my life and as soon that is confessed and repented, He comes
.my story I am sure looks disjointed but I hope that it goes like that of Joy [Kingdom Warrior] to encourage others that God takes ordinary men & women and turn them to extraordinary people through extraordinary circumstances
Yours In The Vineyard, Amareno
"As the deer panteth after the waterbrooks, so panteth my soul after thee oh Lord" (Psalm 42:1)
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