Greetings to all, I want to share my testimony with you of how God delivered me. I believe testimonies increase one’s faith in God. Not only that, but also gives glory to God. Before I begin let me brief you a little of my background.
I was born into a family of Christians, every Sunday we went to church. But all that stopped when my maternal grandma passed on. Well, I stopped! But I didn’t stop believing in God. I can say that I backslid because I did what I wanted. So, as I have mentioned that I stopped going to church, this was for a period of seven years. And in the last year of the seven I started watching a Christian television every Sunday for a live Sunday service. Then, boom!
One day as I was watching this Sunday service, a girl was prayed for and the demon inside of her started manifesting saying,
“I make this girl listen and dance to my music. I make her to be in her own world”.
Hearing that my world was shattered because I saw myself in that girl. I did everything that the demon said. I listened to worldly music and danced to it. I created my own world in my mind, isolating myself from people and always in my room. It was like an escape from reality.
At that moment I knew that I was possessed by an evil spirit because the symptoms were visible in my life. I remember praying to God in my room asking Him to deliver me from this spirit as He did to that girl. I prayed to God believing that He will deliver me, I kept this to myself I didn’t want anyone to know including my mother. I was still dancing to the tunes of the devil as I sought for deliverance. I had a record of about more than 300 songs in my mobile phone of secular music and only 1 gospel.
It continued, I listened to that music for hours, I was a slave. I tried to stop on my own, deleting all the songs in my mobile phone. Who was I fooling? I was addicted. The music was everywhere. I got it again, yet I did not lose hope. I continued praying to God. My schoolwork was affected a lot that I started failing. Mind you I was in my 12th grade. I did not study, It was bad. Stress on top of another one. It was not easy getting up knowing that spiritually you are in a prison and physically you are a free man.
One night I prayed to God, cried out to Abba Father told Him everything that was going on at school and in my life. I was tired of this I wanted out I was not happy at all. Didn’t know if I should tell my mother or not, I felt like He was not hearing me (I was wrong He heard me). As I sat there desperately for God to answer me, in that instance I had a thought, and I knew it was not me “Fast for 3 days”. I did not resist the thought. I knew nothing about fasting, but I was willing. I guess desperation was my motivation.
The next day, I searched about fasting and also scriptures. I did it! I did not eat anything just drank water for 3 days. Prayed to God reminding Him of what He said in the scriptures. Remember I was fasting for the first time in my life I was weak, but I did what Jesus Christ taught regarding fasting (Matthew 6:17). So, on the 4th day I did not know how to end it. I said my prayer and asked Him to allow me to eat and immediately I said, “Amen” I felt something coming out of me.
Glory be to God, I was delivered! I did not have the urge to listen to secular music again nor dance to it. When I heard it after my deliverance it sounded funny. The Holy Spirit led me to read (Matthew 12:44-45 and John 8:11). After some time, I realized that God did not only free me from this addiction but also other bad habits I had that I thought were just harmless fun. I used to masturbate and watch pornography. It all stopped. My happiness was restored. Thank you, Lord!
My beloved brother and sister in the Lord, nothing is impossible with God. Whatever the situation, whatever the circumstances. Cast your cares to Him and you shall be happy. Only God can help you. Remember He created you; He knows you by name and loves you a lot. Don’t believe otherwise!
Your Father is crazy about you!
Hallelujiah!
Thank you so much sister. This really spoke to me cause I deal with the exact problem, infact, even more than it. Thanks for giving me the courage and confidence to say no to worldly addiction. Thanks for strengthening my faith and also making me to realize that indeed, there’s nothing impossible for God. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. God bless you. Amen?
GLORY TO GOD !
My sister thank you for this testimony. I have been under the oppression of music for 44 years! Because I come from a family with musical abilities and studied piano and voice as a child, I assumed that music was supposed to be a major part of my life. But like you I used music as an escape and would get totally enraptured by a song or certain chords in a song. Sometimes a new song would be like a drug to me. I would listen over and over and over until I knew every note! Two weeks ago I began a period of seeking the Lord through prayer and fasting for deliverance from things keeping me stagnant. After the first week God began to show me how music is an idol and source of wickedness in my life. Since then I’ve began going through my things and throwing out music. It has been really challenging to do this. I did not know how to really pray deliverance prayers about music other than asking God to remove the rhythm, lyrics, and beats from my mind. Thank God he showed me your testimony! It is confirmation that I am on the right road and that I need to do a three-day water fast. God bless you for your faithfulness to our LORD and helping others get free!!!
Please pray for me. I’m still finding it very much hard to resist worldly music. I stop for a while and go back to it time and time again. Lord, have mercy.
I had to start throwing music that I owned away and fasted for a period. Through prayer and research I came to know that alot of these songs are spells and enchantments. If a song is attacking my mind (and I now see it as an attack) I will pray for the the enchantment, loop or spell on that song to be loosed from my mind in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of the songwriters of secular music either blindly or knowingly channel spirits that influence their musical ability. Look closely at the personal life and beliefs of these artist what you find may shock you and further encourage you to rid your life of their music.
Romans 10:17 says faith comes through the hearing of the word of God. What one is hearing or listening to will affect one’s reasoning and thinking. Someone that hears word of failure, if care is not taking he/she will become a failure.
Our mind, which is the seat of our reasoning, is very important. Whatever we allow to dwell in our minds (hearts) will affect how we talk and behave. The devil’s major target is one’s mind. If the devil cant capture one’s mind, then one will be in control but if he can capture one’s mind, then the person is in bondage or addiction because he/she will be controlled by the devil.
We must never engage the devil in a discussion. We must always shut him up in any of his discussion with the word of God or with our past testimonies. In the Wilderness when the devil came to tempt Jesus, our Lord didn’t engage the devil in discussion but resisted him through the word of God. Also when Jesus wanted to cast the devil out from someone and evil spirits were declaring Jesus as the Son of God, He shut them up. Eve engaged the devil in a discussion and before she will know it, the devil has taking over her reasoning and that led to their disobedient of God.
You should ask God to renew your mind and I believe He will surely renew your mind from any of the contamination. Then you watch what you allow to get into your mind. I believe God shall give you a testimony.
Shalom