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It was May 2004 and I was in Corfu with my partner. I was sat on my bed crying as I told her that I was leaving her when we returned from holiday. The relationship had been damaged beyond any possible repair and I was very unhappy. I left about a month after the holiday, the strain had put me on the verge of a breakdown. We had a business together running an Off Licence and Newsagents and my partner had been ill for about 4 years with cancer.

When I left the guilt set in. I still loved her but we just could not get on. It was awful for her as well as I put her under a lot of strain. I later signed over our business and the assets to her.

It was during this time that I was moving about with no job and desperately lonely. Eventually I did get a flat, but became more and more depressed. I started to dabble in the occult which was a big mistake.

I did have some friends that I turned to for help (Paul and Serita). I had met Paul some six years earlier at the place I had worked and had stayed in touch on and off over the years. I knew they could help me.

Paul and Serita were Christians and they welcomed me with “open arms”. I then started to go to church. Paul prayed with me and also came to my flat and prayed and blessed my home in the name of Our Lord Jesus Christ I threw away everything I had to do with the devil and occult.

A month or so later one night I experienced a wonderful moment the evil spirits kept (WHAT)    and I lay on my bed and I prayed like I had never prayed before. I was depressed, had insomnia and a pain in my chest. Whilst I was praying I cried out to God I said “Lord God Almighty”, with all my heart, “Please help me”. After about 15 minutes I experienced a rush of heat and a tingling from my feet to my head. I knew straight away that it was God helping me. About a month later all my ailments had gone. 

God has healed me in other ways too. I prayed to stop smoking and two months later had stopped smoking. I prayed for help with an alcohol problem, God has helped me and now I can take it (drink) or leave it and I don't want to get drunk. I used to have a very bad temper, was violent and angry but now I very rarely get angry.

I am not perfect but anyone out there who wants healing and releasing from the Devil's bondage – this is my testimony – Amen – God Bless.

Some encouraging words from God's Word – The Bible:

Psalm 1

Blessed is the man 
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked 
or stand in the way of sinners 
or sit in the seat of mockers.

But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers. 

Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.

Psalm 81

Sing for joy to God our strength;
shout aloud to the God of Jacob!

Begin the music, strike the tambourine,
play the melodious harp and lyre. 

Sound the ram's horn at the New Moon,
and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;

this is a decree for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob. 

He established it as a statute for Joseph
when he went out against Egypt, 
where we heard a language we did not understand. [b]

He says, "I removed the burden from their shoulders;
their hands were set free from the basket.

In your distress you called and I rescued you,
I answered you out of a thundercloud; 
I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

Selah

"Hear, O my people, and I will warn you— 
if you would but listen to me, O Israel!

You shall have no foreign god among you; 
you shall not bow down to an alien god.

I am the LORD your God, 
who brought you up out of Egypt. 
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. 

"But my people would not listen to me; 
Israel would not submit to me. 

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts 
to follow their own devices. 

"If my people would but listen to me, 
if Israel would follow my ways, 

how quickly would I subdue their enemies 
and turn my hand against their foes! 

Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, 
and their punishment would last forever. 

But you would be fed with the finest of wheat;
with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."

Psalm 6

O LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger 
or discipline me in your wrath. 

Be merciful to me, LORD, for I am faint; 
O LORD, heal me, for my bones are in agony. 

My soul is in anguish. 
How long, O LORD, how long? 

Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; 
save me because of your unfailing love.

No one remembers you when he is dead. 
Who praises you from the grave [b] ?

I am worn out from groaning; 
all night long I flood my bed with weeping 
and drench my couch with tears. 

My eyes grow weak with sorrow; 
they fail because of all my foes. 

Away from me, all you who do evil, 
for the LORD has heard my weeping. 

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; 
the LORD accepts my prayer. 

All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; 
they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Three weeks after my baptism whilst meditating at home I experienced the infilling of the Holy Spirit. God is Amazing, A Loving God, Forgiving.

I became a Christian in February 2005 and was baptised 20th August 2006.

Frank Taylor
A member of Newbold Baptist Church
Rochdale