Vignettes
Short scenes from my walk with the Lord
The Precious Gift Of Discernment
The enemy is always there, seeking to entrap us and making us totally vulnerable because he’s so clever at it. But God…
One day I was shopping along with one of my children. We went into the Liquidation Center and began loading up our cart. I had put several items in the cart when all of a sudden I got a very intense impulse that we should leave. I dismissed it and continued shopping. Just a few minutes later that impulse returned, more intense than before. So I told my daughter that we needed to get out of there and I started putting the items in my cart back on the shelves, and then headed to the door. As we rounded a corner, there was a table there – covered with books on witchcraft.
When you walk with the Lord, he watches over you very carefully. I shudder to think of the spiritual danger we were in, unawares, had the Lord not moved upon me to leave.
Another day, I was relaxing in my chair as the kids began coming in from school. A few minutes later a heaviness descended upon me. I called the kids to come to me and I told them that one of them has brought something occult or “new age” into the house. I told them to go look through their things to find what the object was. A few minutes later one of them brought something in her hand and asked, “is this it?” Yes it was. She told me that someone at school had given it to her. It was a piece of jewelry with a Zodiac emblem, a horoscope sign, on it. She got rid of it and peace returned.
Much later, the kids were all grown up and out on their own and I moved into an apartment. There was a storage area off the kitchen where I put all the things I wasn’t using. One day I was looking for something in that shed. It was dark in there and all the boards were a very dark color. As I turned to leave, I spotted the most awful, demonic thing hanging on the wall. It looked like maybe it was meant to be a trivet. I jumped back and almost fell, so shocked was I. Someone who had lived there before must have put it there, but why would anyone hang something on the rafters in a storage shed??? Anyway I grabbed it and disposed of it. To this day I marvel that I was able to see that thing, the color of it just melded into the wall. Unless the Lord had prompted me, I would never have seen it.
I learned the hard way the results of dabbling in the occult or the new age. Consequently I try to bring the warning to as many as will receive it.
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