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Dramatic Deliverance

We can have all the right words, but our ministries need God's power

One of my experiences with spiritual warfare came early in my ministry. It happened right after we did a crusade in a nearby village. The crusade was very successful. People gave their lives to Jesus, there were healings, and people were filled with the Spirit. After the event, the village's witchdoctors performed a ritual during which they killed a goat. While the ritual was taking place, no one in the village was allowed to use electricity. But, being a visitor, I didn't know, so I had the electricity on where I was staying.

Suddenly the witchdoctors surrounded the place where I was staying and began cursing me. I won't lie, I was scared. As a child I had heard all kinds of stories about what the witchdoctors can do to you. I'd heard they can turn you into an animal, or take on the form of an animal themselves and attack you. It felt like the atmosphere was charged with evil. My legs were weak and trembling, but the passage from Isaiah 54:17 came to me. "No weapon forged against you will ...

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