Frank Taylor – Testimony
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
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