During a conference, I noticed a lady who wouldn't sing with the rest of the
group and seemed quite agitated. She slipped me a note after a morning session:
"Please don't leave town without helping me. I have been diagnosed as having
multiple personalities and a dissociative disorder."
During our time together the Lord revealed that when she was seven years old a
terrifying dark presence appeared in her room. It told her it would kill her
unless she granted its request to share her body. The presence didn't leave
until the day we met together. Later she wrote:
I started hearing voices and having imaginary friends when I was seven years
old. Bulimia began at age 10, promiscuity at age 12. I spent 10 years in a cult.
When I came out of the cult, I sought deliverance at the suggestion of a
Catholic priest. But I beat up the priest and left bruised myself. It frightened
me so badly I never did anything about it again.
I am now of a sound mind; the voices are gone. I feel clean and fresh inside for
the first time I can remember. I don't live in a tiny corner of my mind or
outside my body. I live inside now with my Lord.
I wish that this woman's experience of childhood seduction was an exception. But
I have counseled hundreds of adults who can trace their problems back to
childhood. That's why it's critical that you teach your children the reality of
the spiritual world and equip them to defeat Satan's attempts to seduce them
with his lies.
Dr. Anderson, Freedom in Christ and Harvest House Publishers
www.ficm.org
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