My encounter with the Devil
“And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness. Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did not eat anything: and they were ended, he afterward hungered. ”
(Luke 2:1- 14 KJV)
In year 2000, precisely in October, as we continued doing God`s will in the church, one day the Lord spoke to me in a dream about what the enemy had planned against our church. (Bear in mind, I was still physically tired because of seven years of infirmities during that time.)
After the Lord had spoken to me, we decided to have an all-night prayer service in the church; my friends and I actually agreed to fast on that day.
As I went to church that night, I remember it was very cold and there was no lighting inside the church. Around 1 am while I was sleeping on the church’s bench, waiting for brethren to come and join me to start our prayer meeting, suddenly something strange happened. It was like in dream, I saw as if the church doors were open, and somebody came in. I thought it was a dream, suddenly; I woke up and realized that it was not a dream, because I saw somebody standing in front of me. I can tell you that it was the prince of darkness of this world, the Devil in the natural.
In the natural, I saw him. I cannot describe what he looked like, but I can tell you that was one ugly thing. He was like a dark shadow standing in front of me. His face had no features. His hand only had two long fingers at least eighty inches. With a scary voice, he said to me: `Medyt, Medyt, my soul desires you, my soul desires again. I want to finish you off. It`s been a while that you are preventing me from doing my will. That is why I came to eliminate you`.
The moment he was still talking and I was still inside the church in dark by myself, then I opened my mouth, and said loud: `Jesus`, then, he run away.
Dear readers, more often, whenever we had a program all of us attended but that night, nobody came. For the enemy meant it to happen this is way.
The other day I went back to church to explain to my fellow brethren about what happened, unfortunately none of them understood either what I said or the danger I faced. Then I decided to speak to my pastor about it, unfortunately, he also advised me not much.
Death experience
New infirmities
Due to the experience I encountered during the night with Satan, I began to wonder what was going to happen to me. I prayed God to take away any temptation and not to allow the enemy to attack me. I could not bear any sufferings any longer because I was weak in my flesh due to the infirmity I suffered.
After the event, matter of fact the following week of the same month, I woke up one Monday morning and began to feel enormous pain in the middle of my head. Even so, I felt as if my head was separated in two parts in the middle.
When this started, I thought it was normal pain as usual. I just took some painkillers to ease the pain, unfortunately, this was getting worse. I went to see the doctor, after several examinations, he found that there was nothing wrong with me and he told me I was not sick at all, nevertheless, he prescribed me some medication at least.
I went home hoping that I was going to get better. Later in my prayers, I started reminding God that I was already in pain for long period and I did not deserve to suffer again. I started asking questions to know what wrong I did to go through that type of pain again. However, when I was praying, I had no revelation whatsoever; the Lord did not speak to me at all.
Six months later, I realized that my health condition was getting worse. My eyes were getting dim. My visual capacity diminished up to the point that I lost my sight. I was unable to see even my own hand. I could not see my house entrance. In order to go outside my room, I had to touch the walls to find the way out. I could not even recognize people’s faces anymore. I became blind. Day by day, my breathing became abnormal as I was getting out of breath quickly. I began to lose weight. I lost appetite and could not eat properly. I had constant intensive pain in my head which went through my whole body. My body was swelling up. I had things coming out of my body that made me incapable to wear any clothes. My body was getting cold inside. I felt I had heart disease. I started walking with my head laid on the side; I lost my left hand as this got paralysed. And because of the pain, I was no longer able to sleep at night.
I remember going to see my doctor Pereira one more time, but he noticed that my breathing rhythm was abnormal and felt as if I was going to die; He then told me that there was nothing else he could do to help me survive, except to pray for God`s supernatural intervention over my life. He told me to have faith in God and keep on believing in His divine healing. Praise God, I am still here!
Rejection
Because of these unusual circumstances, every time I went to church, I asked people to pray for me. However, the more they prayed, the more my health condition was getting worse.
One day, church leaders came to me to my dwelling and told me that the reason why they did not want to pray for me was that they believed that I was cursed by God. They accused me of sinning against God. After speaking bad things of me, they left me alone and rejected me.
Only one of the leaders among the seven named Andrew` showed some compassion towards me and prayed for me continuously.
I remember ,one day I went to pay a visit to a best friend of mine, as I was at his place and wanted to use their toilets, I asked him for the permission. Then he pointed out where the toilets were. Unfortunately, because I was blind I could not see them. I stood up touching the walls. I asked him again, and then he realized that I was blind.
He then started being angry at God. He told me to abandon God. On the contrary, my reply to him was: ` It is the Lord who gives sight and takes it away, therefore, I cannot deny Him`.
Then he added that since I did not want to listen to him, I was no longer his friend. Moreover, he casted me out of his house. The same day, as I went back to my parent house, my mother saw me, and then perceived that I was seriously sick. She wanted to find out what was wrong with me. Then, I told her all was well. In fact, I did not want her to know anything about me by fear of persecution.
She was very upset with me and later decided to throw me out of the house. She told me that I was no longer her son. I was casted out of the house during the night in the rain without having anywhere else to go.
At that moment, I knew in my mind that the enemy was at work. I picked up my bible and spent the night outside.
Can you imagine dear readers, I was battling with death, I was blind and paralysed, I was in intensive pain and walked with my head on the side, I was rejected by people from church, my family and best friends. Nevertheless, in all this I learnt to trust God. To give Him thanks in all things. I learnt to forgive those who reject me.
Now I understand that I had to go through those things to be prepared and ready for the work God called me to fulfil.
Spiritual attacks
“Because you have kept my word of patience, I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon the earth”( Revelation 3:10 KJV)
Because of constant pains and death experience, I became so weak in my flesh and did not afford to even pray. Whenever I bowed on my knees to pray, I just said to God with tears in my eyes: `here I am Lord`.
Often in my dreams, the Lord would reveal me the enemy was getting ready to amplify their attacks against me. There were times when I entered my room; I saw snakes and frogs on my bed. In fact, there was no way for them to access my room because the house was fully fitted. Naturally speaking those animals looked like snakes and frogs but in the supernatural, they all represented evil spirits sent by the devil just to annoy me.
The other day when I went to the toilet, I saw new coins of money around the toilet seat, and the Lord said to me: “this is venomous money, don’t touch it Medyt!” Meaning that, the kingdom of darkness wanted to exchange my life with their money. They tried to take my life away by any means.
I remember, I was in the high street the other day and was standing far from the main road, suddenly without any reason whatsoever, I found myself in the middle of the main road were cars pass by. Then when I looked back, all of sudden I saw a bus coming behind me speedily. There was not enough time for me to run off the road. People around me were scared and screamed aloud: `he is going to die`! Miraculously, I was moved off the road in a fraction of second. Hard to explain this until now. I wonder how I found myself in middle of the road and how I was moved away from it in a fraction of second. It is something unusual that I cannot explain but only God knows what actually happened. Thanks to God for sending his Angel to deliver me as it is written: “The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and each of them He delivers. “ (Psalm 34: 7 AMPV)
The other day as I was in high Street again, I heard a big thunder with lightning. It blew just over my heard. It exploded over my head up to the point I was able to see and smell the smoke. Suddenly all the people around me fell on the ground screaming with loud voices. They were all afraid of that terrible thing. Meantime, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about the origin of the thunder. He said, it was directed against me to kill me, this had failed.
The other day, when I was sleeping in my bedroom at around 2 am, the wind began to blow, trees outside our home started to fall off, the house started shaking somehow. I was so terrified. Suddenly, I saw through the window glass an evil spirit in a form of a huge Eagle coming to land on my bedroom’s roof. I got scared and started praying for God`s protection over me. Then God delivered me. That evil spirit did not even approach near me. It just took away one of our house’s roof and flew away. This Eagle was assigned by the devil to finish me off.
One day I was standing in the courtyard of the house, as people were passing by, suddenly without any contact with anything whatsoever, I fell over and got knocked off against the house’s wall. When I stood up, I wondered why and this had happened to me.
Dear friends, this is pure reality and not fiction. The kingdom of darkness is not a fairy tale but it is real deal. This is my personal experience.
Spiritual Warfare
“For no temptation has overtaken you and laid hold on you that is not common to man. But God is faithful , and He cannot let you be tempted beyond your strength of resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation, He will also provide a way out, that you may be capable strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.” (1Corinthians 10: 13 AMPV)
I thank God for allowing me to sit and pass my exam before experiencing all these attacks from the enemy. Although I was still struggling with pain and infirmities, one day I decided to go to School to collect my results.
I went to school to check my results knowing that I passed exams with distinction. However, when I was there, I found out that my name was deleted from the results list. In fact I was no longer counted among those who successfully passed their exams. I did not know why, but I trusted God to turn things around for me.
I had nothing to show proof of my results. One month later, a friend of mine named Christian told me that he had found my results papers in the high school’s corridor on the floor. Until now, I do not know how he got them, but thanks to God, he brought them to me! I blessed the Lord for using him in this manner, because at least I had a proof that I passed my exams with distinction. When I found them, I rejoiced expecting to sort my things out. Then, I left high school straight way. As I was walking down the main road, after almost 200 yards, I realized that the certificates I held in my hand had disappeared. I did not find them any longer. Until now, I do not understand how, where and when I got them lost. There were mysteriously gone, strange thing isn`t it?
Few months later, a friend of mine named “Francine” spoke to me about graduation day. I told her that I could not make it because of the pain. She decided to go and collect my other certificates. After collecting them, she put them in her handbag. After she got on the bus and opened her bag, she now realized that the certificates had disappeared too. She got scared because she knew the realities of my life, then she informed me about that.
When I did receive the news, I went straight into my room and thanked God for what happened. Then I prayed unto Him, saying: “Lord, if it is your will that I may have those certificates back, I believe you would surely make a way until I get them back, but above all, let your will be done, not mine!”
However, the Lord heard my prayer, because six months later the certificates were found in unexpected place. I still have them with me until now.
My Victory
“O death, where is your thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be unto God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”(1 Corinthians 15:55-57 KJV)
I lost hope; furthermore, that spirit of death kept coming against me, disturbing my health and making me lose strength.
One day, that evil spirit caused me to go by the seaside and I found myself by the bridge. I stood on the bridge above the waters and I felt as if my breath was stopping any time. I became hopeless as I was partially blind and paralysed. Suddenly a voice started to jump into the sea. As I was about to do that, I heard another audible voice from the Lord, saying: `Medyt, why do you want to kill yourself? Don’t you know that I have the power to deliver you from death? ` When I heard voice of God, I began to cry out saying: `Lord, I can’t take this no more`. After that I felt as if a Man`s hand had touched my own hand. Then I felt energised and had strength to leave that place. Few minutes later and just few yards away, I met a friend, whom I had seen in a long time. The guy saw me in that terrible state and decided to call a taxi and took me home.
The same night once I arrived home, the same spirit of death came against me once more causing me to commit suicide. My body was shaking and I was short of breath too. In fact, that devil caused me to inject acid into my body from the car battery that I found in the house by using a syringe. The moment I was about to do so, the Lord told me again: `Medyt, why do you want to kill yourself? Don’t you know that I can deliver you from death? `. I fell on my knees with tears and said: `lord, I just cannot take this any longer`. Few minutes later, I went into my room, knelt down and asked the Lord to take my life away.
Following that turn of events, God appeared to me in the same night. When He came, He started explaining to me why I had to suffer that way.
I remember that night having a vision. In that vision, I was inside the school of God. In that school, I found myself fighting with the shadow of death. After battling with him, I went to the school’s corridor. When I arrived there, I met with Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He then asked me: “where did I come from?” I replied `Lord you know that I come from your school and I fought with the shadow of death`.
Just after saying, the Lord told me: `Medyt, since history began, nobody has entered this school and has come out alive and nobody has taken the way that you have taken`, in addition to that, He said to me: “you have fought against the shadow of death alone and you have overcome!” Then He shook my hands three times and said to me: “you are a strong man, you are a strong man, and you are a strong man. From today, know that God is with you in everything you do!” Keep in mind that these things happened in spiritual realm.
After having spoken with the Lord in the supernatural realm, I realized that I still had a terrible health condition in the natural realm.
The same day, precisely on Thursday morning around 5 am, one of our church leaders named `Andrew` was getting ready to go to work. As he was still seated at his bedside, as in a vision, he saw a bright light coming into his room up to the point that he was almost blinded. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared in the middle of the cloud. Then He spoke to him: ` Andrew, Andrew, why don’t you want to pray for my beloved Medyt? Don`t you know today, he wanted he was about to die today? `
In addition, the Lord said to him: ` for it is because of the work of God that the rulers of the kingdom of darkness of this world have tried to kill him`. Then He added: ` Medyt has utterly dedicated himself into prayer and that is why the devil has attacked him so bad`. Then the Lord reprimanded Brother Andrew afterwards saying: “I appreciate what you do, you preach and do well but the anointing I put on Medyt is so special. Now, go and tell him that he is not going to die, he will live and declare the things that he has seen to the people of his generation”
Notice, this happened on the same night I said to the Lord to take my life away!
Moreover, on Friday of the same week, I went to church for the evening service, then elder Andrew called me and spoke to me about what the Lord showed him the other day. As he was still talking to me, I noticed that he had tears in his eyes. He then said to me: ` thou said the Lord, you will not die but live and declare what you have seen to the people of your generation`.
The same week, on Sunday precisely, I did my best to attend the church service despite the state of my health condition. And when I arrived at the entrance of the church, my spiritual eyes got opened up, and I saw in a vision an angel of the Lord having a white apparel and sword in his right hand. I looked and looked again, and then he disappeared. Suddenly I understood that something good was going to happen to me but something bad will happen to my enemies. .
The whole Sunday service went so well and before it`s ended, elder Andrew called me to come forward for prayer. When I left the place where I was standing at the back of the church, as in a vision, I perceived that the same angel I saw was standing at the right hand side of elder Andrew.
Then the man of God Andrew asked the whole church to stand up and pray for me. As they were praying, elder Andrew stretched forth his hand upon my head, commanding that spirit of death to depart from me. He asked the Lord to heal me from my infirmities.
Just after he had prayed, I felt the power of God going through my head. I felt as if the anointing was operating in me and everything in my body was going back to normal from the top of my head to the sole of my feet. Immediately, felt things fell from eyes like scales and my sight reopened. The swelling and pain had disappeared instantly. My head which I always felt was split inside reclosed itself. My paralysed hand became normal. My breath went back to normal as well.
The lord healed me and rose me up so that I can testify these things to you today.
Later on, I left the church joyfully because my deliverance that took place.
As usual, after service I always passed by a road near a certain Pentecostal church near our church. All of sudden a woman came along shouting: ` This is the hand of God! Who can perform such wonders if not God alone? `After, hearing that, I decided not look back, I pursued my way. However, she followed me behind shouting even louder: ` This is the hand of God almighty! Who else can bring a dead person back to life except the Lord of hosts? `.
This time, I decided to look back and after I having turned back to see her, the Holy Spirit spoke to me in an audible way to confirm what she was saying. He said: ` Medyt do you know that you lost your natural breath long time ago? In reality you were dead, but the breath that you had for the last six months came from me, that you may know that God has power over death`.
Dear readers, from the day I started having those experiences until now, the Holy Spirit never departed from me. He helped me go through these storms and kept me safe until now that I may testify to you the things that I have seen and that you may also know that Jesus Christ is the same today, yesterday and forever more. Amen!
