Mom's Blog - He is faithful!!

As a young girl I encountered what was considered to be harmless fun by some Christians. I was a pastor’s daughter and learned what I did in the home of Christians, from students in my public elementary school, and from my neighbor. The types of “harmless” witchcraft I encountered included: Quija board, calling up the dead or other, lifting people by pinkies (yes I’ve heard the “explanations”), and playing cards.

While adults played games upstairs children were trusted to play together. We did what unchaperoned children do–whatever Satan can persuade them is really no big deal (just like the garden–perfect innocence of childhood, right?) One of the things we did was play with a Quija board. Yes, it did work. I didn’t play long. It scared me. One try was too much.

With the help of a trusted baby sitter we tried to call up a dead person from history. I didn’t really do anything. I was too scared to look, but I was there. In the bathroom at school things were said with the lights off and doing certain things. I was too scared to participate and I got out of there as soon as I could, but I was there.

I attended a church halloween party where people were lifted by pinkies. I left the room.

I was at a birthday party where rock music was playing in a dark room and people tried to lift people with their pinkies. I had been born again. The Holy Spirit lived inside me and He was obviously very uncomfortable here. My heart was pounding and I had the distinct feeling that I MUST get out of there. The attempts at lifting the person were unsuccessful. I told my hostess I would go downstairs with her mother for a little while. While downstairs I learned to play blackjack with the girl’s mother. Playing cards were forbidden in our home, but I thought it was just because of gambling. We played with pennies that belonged to my hostess. After a little while my friend came running down the stairs to tell me that as soon as I left they had no more problems with anything they wanted to do. They lifted people with no trouble. When I went home that night my hostess gave me two playing cards. No matter that they broke up her deck. They were cute! They were from the “Love is….” series. I put the two cards in the corners of my mother’s dresser mirror in her bedroom.

We soon had all kinds of problems! My parents began having marital problems. My mother had some awful problems I won’t mention without her permission, we had all kinds of stress and its symptoms.

A few months later my parents heard a lady give her testimony who was born again after being a satanic priestess. She told them that their group would “bless” decks of playing cards and give them away to get them in people’s homes. The theory was that because the cards belonged to Satan this gave Satan the right to enter that home.

We burned the cards. Later my father was told by the husband of our neighbor that the wife of said neighbor was a satanist.

Things improved for my family but the experiences left scars. History never goes back and you never erase it. There are always consequences. This is the short version of my story.

In several of these situations I was either disobedient to my parents or compromising by my presence. I sinned. I had consequences. Two repercussions for me were sensing evil presences, and irrational fears. I experienced terrible shaking, usually at night, and often in the middle of the night. Things I tried for the shaking were, praying, getting up to read my Bible, having my husband hold me and pray for me. I battled hopelessly for years.

Thankfully someone shared with me a principle from scripture that brought me freedom. It was the principle that the sins of the fathers are passed down to the children to the third and fourth generations. I had confessed my sins many times, even naming them one by one as I could remember them. While that was extremely beneficial to me personally, it did not bring me freedom from what I had unknowingly opened myself up to. What did bring me freedom was this: In the old testament one of the prophets confessed his own sin and the sins of his fathers. On this night I agreed with God and confessed that I had a problem with anger, lust and fear. I told the Lord that my father had a problem with anger, lust and fear and what I knew that his father had as well. I asked God to forgive me. From that moment I was free! I went outside that dark night and sang and praised God! We had a wonderful time together! That was perhaps ten years ago now and I have never had another problem with irrational fears! My husband is so thankful to be able to sleep through the nights without me waking him to try for hours to help me!

Because of my experiences I am very careful about anything concerning magic, wizardry, witchcraft, fairies, weird toys (more stories here), etc. I try not to be offensive but if you give me anything having to do with any of these it will not stay (trash can, burn pile, etc.) Once you have lived it, it is not cute, funny or entertaining. It is evil and will be treated as such.

You might be wondering how seriously God takes this issue. In Exodus 22:18 God told the Israelites, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

In Deuteronomy 18:10-12 God again tells the Israelites, “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son of his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”

In 1 Samuel 15:23 we read, “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”

In 2 Chronicles 33:6 we find, “And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom also he observed times and used enchantments, and used witchcraft and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.”

In Galatians 5:19-21 we read, “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

with much love,
Mrs. Corbett