Can you share anything about that experience? What did the curse entail?
In 1976 (january) they set a principality of harsh legalism against us. (they had been working on that for a while) It resulted in the senior pastor being accused of witchcraft and the board threw him out. Then the deacons started looking at the elders with an eye to kicking them out as well. But some of the deacons contacted the group of ministers that gave our congregation pastoral oversight and together they prayed and a few days later the elders called and said "We just made a terrible mistake." They repented and after several months of counseling and healing, the senior pastor was restored and one of the elders who was an assistant pastor quit.
But the tenor, the ethos, of the congregation changed. It was much more rigid and cold. In 78 a woman joined the congregation who had just moved to Michigan from New England. She attended the membership classes and had her meeting with the pastoral staff. She was a top level witch they brought in especially to curse us. She told the elders that if anyone had a "witness" or discernment of witchcraft it was because she had been involved in that in the past and at times those spirits came back to hassle her. (effective camouflage) So she was welcomed into membership and assigned living quarters in a single women's house. The elders explained to the residents of her witchcraft past and to not worry about it. SO the girls started loving on her. They welcomed her with open arms.
Her assignment was to get close to the elders, and either trip them up into committing adultery with her or luring them off into witchcraft, preferably both.
But the ladies in that house continued to love on her, and after about a year, it broke her and she truly repented and accepted Christ. A few more months went by and she felt prompted by the Holy Spirit to confess her assignment and the reasons she had been sent. So she did.
The reason she was sent was that in 1974 we had started a 24/7 prayer chain and we constantly were praying to bind witchcraft over the state capital and the US government. The group "Intercessors for America" came from a similar effort in a sister congregation. Apparently our prayers were much more effective than we had imagined. They (local witches) were unable to cast any kind of spell. After that first incident in 76, the prayer chain doubled, with 2 people taking every hour; and it was moved from people's homes into the church building. That prompted the coven to call her in. After a few death threats from her former colleagues, we moved her to a sister congregation somewhere in another part of the country.
