What the Christian Should Know & Need to Discern

It did not take long for God to start showing me what was of HIM and of the devil. Last night, I was watching World in Focus, in the UK, which is a Christian call in talkshow. Tonight's topic had to do with witchcraft, something that the Church would like to deny, that it is out there. I never realised how prevelant it was here in the UK. God was showing me what pure witchcraft looked like.

The show featured a woman's testimony on how she became a Christian after years of being a "white" witch. Her testimony was so powerful, the emails and phone calls were clogging up the station's system.

I will not drag into details of the story but if anyone is interested can go to the website and contact the station for a copy of June 5th's World in Focus programme. Website is www.revelationtv.com. I am sure they will find a way to get a copy for you. Also, this weekend, if you log on-line or Sky cable, you can see repeats of this interview. Trust me, it is worth seeing.

I do not have room for the story however, there a few key points that Christians need to know. The person giving the testimony name was Michelle.

1. After the death of her nan, Michelle was asked if she had wanted to attend this church. Yes, you read it correctly. This is not a typo. She thought she was entering into a church, There wasn't any sign outside saying what church it was and to her surprise later it was not a church per se. The pastor got up read scriptures, He read a sermon the congregation sang Christian songs...as with any normal service. Then after the service, a woman stood up and said she was clairvoyant. She saw a woman in the room whose grandmother died and gave Michelle specific details of the her life (that only she knew). Of course, from that point, Michelle was dealing in witchcraft in her life.
2. There are two types of witch craft: white or black, as known as good or bad. Of course, we know that all witchcraft are from a bad source, but they believe that the good witchcraft is from a good source.
3. White Witchcraft is suppose to be doing for doing good to people such as tarot cards, telling people their futures, astral projections and yes, HEALINGS. Michelle was doing healings without saying Jesus's name. She said the difference between Christian Healing and Satanic Healing are different spirit that does it. Of course, in Christianity it is the Holy Spirit.
4. Black Witchcraft does harm to people; they seek to have more power and they do, have more power then the white witches. They, too, believe in the power of the blood. She said some witches actually sacrifice their first child. In Michelle's story she had met a black witch while she was working in a Pub as a waitress. This black witch, on Halloween night invited her to try astral projection together. Astral projection as she describes it is like going to another realm. You have all five senses and you feel the wind or spirit wrapping around you. Your spirit rises above you, similar to when people have out of body experiences as they die. She was able to see her self below. To keep the story short, she met satan. He tried to convince her to be his Queen Witch of the UK, but while she was listening to his lies about all the riches in the world etc...there was a voice saying in her ear saying 'don't listen; Jesus IS the way, the truth and the light." She realised that if satan was real and she was looking at him, then Jesus HAD to be real, also. She slowly backed up to run away. Then Satan, realising what she was thinking, in fierce anger told Michelle that she would not live within 24 hours if she had left him. She ran out to the nearest Christian, she knew, who helped her deal with the 24 hours because Satan tried to cast a deep sleep on her.
5. If anyone believes that Halloween is just a innocent holiday, they should get a copy of this DVD. Michelle warns Christian parents how it is not so. It is the day that Satan's power is strongest.
6. Michelle went to a person that casted out demons and accepted Jesus Christ. However, interesting to note, that she still had powers from her witchcraft days for entire year until she got fully immersed and baptised in water and then experienced the Holy Spirit. She explains why baptism and having the Holy Spirit was so important in Christian's life.
7. The difference between healings from God, is that the person had to have the Holy Spirit in them. She could not stress that last point, you need the Holy Spirit. The Christian healing from God, can heal terminal illnesses. This is very prevlant in Africa and third world countries. Healings from satanic source, can not heal terminally illnesses such as AIDS but they can heal enough to fool people that they are doing good.
8. Witches especially black ones do target Christians. Yes, you read correctly, witches target Christians. Michelle never explained why they do so...but they know the difference between the phony Christian and the real Christian immediately.
   
9. She also warns that witches come all different walks of life: from nurses, doctors, in governement...from all walks of life. This revelation was the shocking part. To think that perhaps one's GP had another life outside of work, is so unimaginable.

This was such a compelling story, I had to share the points that I had learnt from her testimony. She said the Church has turned a blind eye to it and should not ignore it. Finding this programme was so easy, I knew it was from God, who had wanted me to see and learn my first lesson. He had wanted me to learn what activities that were not from HIm and how to identify them. By seeing it from the aspect of in its pure form; it can help me identify if it is really from God when it is in its subtle deceptive form.

The question for Michelle that I did have is Jesus said that satan can not cast out satan. But realised later she had answered my question when she gave the analogy of a two 20 pound notes. Asked which one is real and which one was counterfeit? Unless you look up close, you can not tell the difference. She explains this is how satan works and is the master of deception. So the healings were only superficial enough to fool a person and they did not have power to heal AIDS, Cancer and anything that was terminal. So yes, satan can not cast out satan.

This is why the church needs to learn how to discern and look up close and examine anyone or anything that say they are from God or that appears as if they are doing good. We are living in the last of the last days...the clock is 5 mins to midnight, and we need to have on the whole armour of God and not to accept anything without discernment and DO NOT LET OTHERS PERSUADE YOU OTHERWISE. For what is at stake is your soul. Matthew 10 v 28 : "And do not fear those who can kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear HIM who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell".

Jesus warned his disciples three times in the book of Matthew that there will be MANY false prophets, in the last days, that would show signs and wonders that could even fool the believer, themselves. We need to take heed to what Jesus warns us about in the book of Matthew and test everything.

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