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Free of the occult !
A few years ago I was caught in the seductive net of occultism. At first this practice responded to an authentic spiritual search in our family. We wanted to understand the sense of man's existence.

DARK UNIVERSE
Our search took the form of cartomancy which is divination by playing cards (tarots, etc...). All my childhood I saw my mother read these cards. At times I could see my future. But even though my mother was well-know as a fortune-teller she never saw that her son would become a preacher of the gospel. " God's ways aren't our ways, " say Isaiah 55 : 8. Then my mother because to use a crystal ball and to read palms. She made predictions from dreams, by looking at photos, and even exercised an influence in people's lives, etc...

OFFICE FOR CONSULTATIONS
Our family had serious financial difficulties and was sliding towards a break-up. My father was out of word. My brother was becoming violent because of alcohol and drugs. As for me, I got it all out of my system in a martial arts club. I participated in high-level competition. I got rid of my violence but bitterness and hate filled my heart. Even though I was a champion in karate, I lived in permanent fear. To make ends meet my mother opened a consulting office and began to be involved in spiritism. That is the belief that it is possile for the living to contact the dead. In the beginning we thought we were speaking to beloved family members, now dead. My aunt tried to contact her husband who was killed in an automobile accident. Occultism overwhelmed us like a passion. My brother was still dissatisfied after investigating several religions and cults and finally pruchased a Bible to search for the truth. He ame home one day and discovered that we were practicing spiritism. He raised a lively opposition aind said that the Bible, God's Word denounced such things.

WORSE AND WORSE
After a good beginning things began to go badly. Strange things that we couldn't explain happened in the house. I was continually scared. I felt like I was coming apart. Loneliness made me face my psychosis. My suffering had a spiritual source. I needed a spiritual remedy. I wanted to be free and not locked up or medicated...For sometime I had become convinced that is wasn't the dead who responded to us but demons, those evil powers. We were manipulated by lies. Later, when I became a Christian, I found in the Bible that the devil is the father of lies. Jesus, himself, said that there is a great gulf between the dead ans the living : and one can't cross it... When I saw my six-year old sister following the same phat I was on, I became convinced that these occult powers were without pity and only wanted our destruction. Finally the dat came when I was literally attacked by the powers of darkness, an experience that horrified me and pushed me toward suicide. But at the crucial moment, instead of killing myself, Il fell to my knees in the middle of my bedroom, crying out to God that if He existed to save me.

GOD'S APPOINTMENT
After this first prayer to God, I left the house. As I was wandering in the streets I met the same group of young Christians three different times. I realized that God was responding to my prayer so I went to one of them and opened up to him about my problems. He read me a text from the Bible and the authority of God's Word went straight to my heart : " Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord ". I was convicted of sin and I knew I was under a curse because of sin.

A POWER ENCOUNTER
So that is how I ended up going to a service where the gospel of Jesus Christ was preached. I was overwhelmed. I understood that in addition to being a sinner because of my involvement in occultism, I was also a sinner by nature. But also learned that only Jesus Christ could forgive my sins ans allow me to participate in his divine nature. He was risen, alive ! " Sir I want you to pray for me, because He who is in you, is greater thant the who is in me ! " I said to the preacher. I asked forgiveness from God for all my sins and I accepted Jesus as my Savior and Lord. God's love filled my life like refreshing waterfalls. The fire of my torment went out. A supernatural peace filled me from head to foot. I was totally free ! I knew that I had become a Christian, that I was forgiven, and that I had eternal life. I was finally free! I went home and shared the gospel with my mother. She disn't know her son anymore. I Had left the house totally depressed just a few hours ago ! Then I ran to my brother's house to share the Good News with him. I ran across him hurrying to our house. He had prayed for us regularly. We went back home together, tears in our eyes and our hearts full of joy.

TOWARDS A TOTAL DELIVERANCE
We were converted (or saved). That means we turned our back to sin and we seized by faith the forgiveness in Jesus Christ that is offered at the cross. By our repentance we broke all the pacts, contracts, and oaths that we had consciously or unconsciously concluded with the world of darkness. My mother was delivered from her spirit of divination. We all consecrated ourselves to God, placing our faith in the authority of the Holy Scripture. We also had to make an exterior break with our past. We destroyed all our occult objects : books, amulets, objects of superstition, idols, holy water, good-luck charms, images of the saints, medallions, etc...
All my family converted to Jesus Christ. We experienced a restoration of relationships in our family and the victory of the living Christ in our lives.
BY LOVE I didn't become a Christian by the stroke of a magic wand. Confessing my sins was basic. Then I put my life in harmony with the teachings of the Bible, the Word of God. I did this with love and joy because I discovered that God loved me so much that he had given His Son Jesus Christ at the cross for me. I put my faith in his promises, and his Word brought an inner healing to me, victory over my passions.
The Holy Spirit showed me that the gospel and martial arts were incompatible. Jesus taught me that I couldn't follow two masters at the same time. I had served the god called Mars, the god of war. Jesus told me to love. I had a hard time leaving this passion. I had two accidents during bouts and the Lord was repeatedly telling me to quit. I finally made the decision to stop once and for all. The temptation was still strong but one morning I rose free, emancipated form martial arts. God had done for me what I couldn't do for myself. He answered my family's prayer and those of my church. Then I asked God to fill me with His Holy Spirit, according to His promise. This promise found in Mark chapter 16 was made to all who believe in His Name. The day that I left for Germany for military service was the day that the Holy Spirit came on me as He came on the disciples of Jesus the day of Pentecost. What joy ! What heavenly intoxication! What boldness afterwards !
When I got back to France I decided to make a public covenant with God by being baptized in water according to the teachings of the Bible. Afterwards my family and I opened a social outreach to distribute food, clothing, and furniture. This permitted us to have contact with hundreds of people and many of them met the Lord Jesus. I began to testify for Jesus in the streets, then to preach the gospel In Christian services. I started to preach and supported myself in different jobs-salesman, repairman, and educator. Now my wife and I work for the Lord full-time at Troyes, France. We conduct evangelistic campaigns in France and even other countries. We get to see this God who delivers, saves and heals at work. His most beautiful work is the new birth. " If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation : the old has gone, the new has comme ! " the Bible says (NIV).

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