Jesus Delivered Me from Familiar Spirits

My name is Chris Cox and I have been following David's teachings on the Word for over a year now and have learned so much from him that I am boggled sometimes! I had a chance to speak with him on the phone several months back in order to relay to him my own personal testimony of Christ. He asked me if I could send it to him via e-mail as well, so here it goes:

In 2003, I was not a Christian or anything for that matter; I was just a man living for himself. I had been a banker and lived in Seattle for one year when I began to hear faint voices in my head as I went to sleep each night. The voices grew stronger and stronger as time went by and there were many of them, they were different each night and I thought they were the voices of the dead speaking from beyond the grave.

After several months, one of these "dead spirits" became more and more vocal with me; he called himself David and said that he was the soul of one of my best friend's brother David who had died in a car wreck 3 yrs previous. This spirit's voice became so clear as to seem present in the room with me at the time. He began telling all sorts of astral and worldly "secrets" that I found fantastical at the time. He explained to me many things about the "after-life" and about how I had lived many lives myself and had been reincarnated several times. This spirit David explained to me that he was my "guide" and that he was sent by the "white lodge" to help me achieve my "final potential". He explained that he had to help guide my "last life" so I could go to heaven through these gates guarded by a group of angels called the "Brethren". He showed me many images and pictures of these gates and how souls would be permitted to pass up through them when they had learned enough compassion through their many lives; he also turned me on to many "New Age" thoughts and beliefs.

In addition to him I would speak to other spirits at night in my bed and they would ask me to do things for them. One such example came from a spirit who called herself "Misty" and who wanted me to deliver some flowers to her dying grandmother in a hospital/rest home. The spirit gave me the name and exact address of the hospital this particular elderly lady was at and I went and delivered the roses anonymously for her. I really thought I had some special gift to talk with the dead as I experienced incident after incident of communication, "confirmation" and "insight" from the things these spirits revealed to me.

The voice of the spirit "guide", David, began to become stronger and stronger as time went on to the point where it was all that I could really hear. He always seemed to be as close as my throat, speaking from behind my head (it was a very unsettling feeling at the time I must admit). This went on for some time, with me learning and trusting all that this spirit "David" revealed to me.

Time passed and there came a night when I awoke in my bed to see a specter cloaked in darkness in my room with me. He was black as pitch and even seemed to suck the darkness into himself - I was terrified and as I stared at it frozen in my bed I noticed that my breath was visible in front of me as if it were a winter night. The specter seemed to want to kill me; when I thought it would move on me to harm me, the presence of my "spirit guide", David, entered into the room and scared it away and I cold sense that it was afraid of him. He explaining to me that it was a lost soul who sought me because of my gifts. He said that I was like a "light in the darkness" that all such spirits could see and would gravitate towards. The very same thing happened the following night and each night after that for 6 nights. Each night one more spirit came until by the 6th evening there were 6 of them at the foot of my bed. I could not have been more terrified as they would all point at me with horrible, black, lifeless faces seeming to want my death.

By the morning I was exhausted from the fear, hyper-vigilance and lack of sleep for six full days, and it was upon waking that I heard the spirit David's voice louder and more rushed than I had ever heard it before. He said to me "hurry up and get dressed, you have to get downtown toward your work now, as fast as possible - hurry up! Do it now!" I asked "is someone in danger?" and he said "Yes, hurry now!". Startled, I got dressed and drove downtown to see what was happening and while I was driving he kept saying "hurry, hurry". When I got there, nothing was happening, it was just a normal day and I was surprised to see nothing wrong and asked him why he told me to rush there, and he replied "I just wanted to see if you would do what I told you to do and obey me". "I was testing you". I was very angry, and all day I ignored him while I worked. I was continually disturbed by the words "obey me".

When the day was done I went home ignoring David the whole way and wanted very much to understand why he had done what he had. I remembered once that a friend had told me about how the Bible discussed spirits and the dead so I decided to look it up on my computer. As I sat down to search the Internet I looked out over the Puget Sound from my windows and could see nothing but blackness (the clouds had covered everything in such a dark and ominous way, it was unlike anything I had ever seen, especially so early in the evening; almost like a storm was in). As I started to find some Bible passages in my search I heard the voice of the spirit David say to me accusingly from my right "What are you doing?" Agitated I replied "nothing, don't worry about it". I came upon the following passage:

(Deu.18:10-13) There shall not be found in you one who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one that uses divination, an observer of clouds, or one divining, or a whisperer of spells, or a magic charmer, or one consulting mediums (Hebrew meaning: consulter with a familiar spirit), or a spirit-knower, or one inquiring of the dead. For all doing these things are an abomination to the Lord. And because of these filthy acts the Lord your God is dispossessing these nations before you. You shall be perfect with the Lord your God.

Note from David: Chris had unknowingly become a medium, one who is possessed with a spirit guide, a familiar spirit who mimics the dead.

It was at the very moment that I finished reading the words that I heard David say with deep aggression "Don't read that!!!" Startled I turned to see that he was now visible on my right and looked just like one of the dark specters that had previously gathered around my bed (the room instantly grew cold), I was again terrified and I replied "I can read it if I want to!" and at that moment he lunged for my throat with his dark outreached hand taking a swipe at me. I fell sideways out of my chair and thought I was going to die right there in that dark room as he came upon me! I was on my knees and it was there and then that I called out "Lord please save me", in that very instant I looked up and a hole to the heavens opened up though my roof and I saw a flaming Sword coming down from heaven at me like lightning. It flew straight down and entered through the top of my head and traveled through my body and pierced into the ground through me. At that instant a blast wave that was like a spiritual nuclear bomb went off from the fiery Sword within me traveling like light through my entire place destroying the spirit "David" as it flashed out from me.

I sat there on my knees as the light went out from within me and the Sword left me. I then immediately saw a large bright light outside on my patio in front of the water, as I squinted at it I realized what I was looking at and in my mind I heard the name Michael. He was holding the sword witch was just in my body and as he stood there I was amazed and afraid as I saw that he was huge and bearing armor as bright as the sun with many colors coming through it shining brightly. He was looking at me through the large windows and I jumped up to my feet to run outside and see him, as I opened the door the light was gone and there was no one there. I went to the spot where I had seen him standing half expecting to see the ground melted away and I dropped to my knees to feel the ground as I thought it would be hot for some reason. When I looked up I saw an amazing sight; the blackness of the clouds had given way to the setting sun and as I looked upon the sun, it seemed not only pierce through the clouds but to push them entirely out of the way making the night into what seemed to me to be day! I stood there for several minutes completely and utterly emotionally exhausted. After some time I went into sleep as I was so tired I could barely stay awake from not sleeping for a week.

I awoke the next morning on the 7^th day realizing that I had slept without a single interruption or dark visit, as soundly as a baby. I felt so good that morning; I can still remember how good it was now, I felt like a million bucks! I got dressed and was thinking about everything that had happened to me and what it all meant. I no longer heard any voices and for the first time in a long time I felt like I was in my "right" mind.

I got into my truck and headed to work feeling wonderful. As I came to the apex of a large bridge I closed my eyes for a second and when I opened them I was no longer in my truck! I was to my shock and utter confusion, standing on a dirt road. My first reaction was to put my hands on myself to see if I was ok and as I looked down I saw that I had all of my clothes on and that I was still wearing my boots.

As I looked in front of myself bewildered, I saw a dirt road stretched out for as far as the eye could see. To the right and left of me were fields of golden wheat which seemed to be ready for harvest and they were moving back and forth as a warm wind blew over them. On my left the sun was setting and it was casting the most beautiful rays of light through the grains of wheat as they moved back and forth. The soft color was unlike anything I had ever seen on earth before, it was beautiful.

My thoughts then went back to myself and wondering where in the heck I was so I turned around to look behind me. When I turned around I saw darkness and could not see where the road behind me went, and as I was trying to look into it I felt a presence behind me that I can not even begin to explain in words... Not knowing what it was I quickly turned around to see a man standing in the road before me, he was dressed all in white and his clothes were of old and spotless, he had long golden brown hair and a beard and as I looked at him I realized who He was and as I stood before Him I could tell that He could see all of the things I had ever done wrong in my life - everything...

As He looked at me He put before me images of all of the wrongs I had done and seeing them I felt so heavy that I fell to the ground and even unto my face falling into the dirt. I began to cry and beg aloud "Lord please do not let me be before you, please let me go". "I am not worthy". "Please let me go from before you Lord" It was so painful that He could see all of my sins and I remember feeling crushed onto the ground, my breath and tears mixing with the dirt of the road; and as I tried to push away from Him I looked up to see His perfect sandal in front of my face, from my tears I reached out my hand and placed it upon his foot and said "Lord Please forgive me, I am so sorry for what I have done against you..." and it was at that moment that I felt His hand on my left shoulder lifting me up off the ground and setting me onto my feet in front of Him. He then took His left hand and reached before me touching my chest and seeming to reach inside of me He pulled out a black shining orb which was spinning within his hand. I looked up from the orb and into his face; He smiled at me and then looked back down at the thing spinning in His hand. He then closed his hand around it and crushed it. When he opened His hand again, the orb had become like dirt; the same dirt that was on the road, He then turned His hand and the dirt fell back onto the road. At that moment I felt SO FREE!!! I felt as if all that had crushed me and held me down in my life had been taken away forever!

I looked into His eyes and saw them clearly for the first time, they were the same color as the light that I had seen shining through the shafts of wheat, it was amazingly beautiful, and as I looked I felt what my words here could never truly portray to you; I felt the love of my friends, the love of my brothers, the love of my mother, I felt the love of God! I was so overcome with thanksgiving that I threw my arms around Him. His frame was as powerful as a rock, but yet as gentle as a lamb. I then held myself apart from Him and looking into His smiling face said the most embarrassing thing that I think I have ever said in all of my life, and not only that I said it to God! I said, looking at the long road: "Lord, do you think we could stay here and play soccer together?" He laughed and as I looked up from the road, He had turned and walked a few paces from me; I could see His perfect footprints in the dirt. I felt frozen and did not know what to do and as if sensing that I felt paralyzed, He looked back, smiled and extended His hand and motioned for me to follow Him, even though He did not say it I could clearly hear the Words "Follow me" in my mind, and so looking down I took my first foot and put it perfectly into his footprint and as I was about to take the next step, I closed my eyes for a second before trying to look back up at Him and ‘poof' just like that, I was back in my truck driving on my way to work. As I sat there I cried and was heaving deeply for the gift that He had just given me.

I was so entirely undone and overcome; there was no greater happiness that I had ever known in my entire life. While sitting there a song came on the radio that I shall never forget; it is called "Dead Man's Rope" and it is sung by Sting (it's on his Sacred Love album). Through my tears I listened to this song barely able to drive:

"Dead Man's Rope"

A million footsteps, this left foot drags behind my right
But I keep walking, from daybreak 'til the falling night
And as days turn into weeks and years
And years turn into lifetimes
I just keep walking, like I've been walking for a thousand years

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,

If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction
You'd be walking in a great circle, a circle of addiction
Did you ever wonder what you'd been carrying since the world was black?
You see yourself in a looking glass with a tombstone on your back

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space

Now I'm suspended between my darkest fears and dearest hope
Yes I've been walking, now I'm hanging from a dead man's rope
With Hell below me, and Heaven in the sky above
I've been walking, I've been walking away from Jesus' love

Walk away in emptiness, walk away in sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away in anger, walk away in pain
Walk away from life itself, walk into the rain

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
I'm just hanging here in space

The shadows fall
Around my bed
When the hand of an angel,
The hand of an angel is reaching down above my head

All this wandering has led me to this place
Inside the well of my memory, sweet rain of forgiveness
Now I'm walking in his grace
I'm walking in his footsteps
Walking in his footsteps,
Walking in his footsteps

All the days of my life I will walk with you
All the days of my life I will talk with you
All the days of my life I will share with you
All the days of my life I will bear with you

Walk away from emptiness, walk away from sorrow,
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow,
Walk away from anger, walk away from pain
Walk away from anguish, walk into the rain.

You see, after this song ended, it began to rain heavily upon my truck just like the song describes...

My life has never been the same since...

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