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BROTHER, NOW LET ME BLESS YOU! I WAS IN MY SHOWER JUST GETTING READY FOR BED AND GODS SPIRIT SPOKE TO ME AND SAID,"THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH HAS CHANGED SINCE LAST WEDNESDAY". SO MUCH RICK,SO MUCH. HEARTS ARE TURNING IN MY FAMILY. TURNING TO HIM. THIS MONUMENTAL CHANGE IS SO INSPIRING TO ME ITS LIKE A SWITCH WAS TURNED ON (OR OFF).MY WIFE IS COMING BACK TO HIM! MY DAUGHTER IS COMING BACK ALSO! HE IS WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HE IS DOING IT!!!!!!!!!! I FEEL A RELEASE  I SEE IT IN THE WAY HE IS MOVING IN HEARTS. IT IS UNEXPLAINABLE TO THE LOST BUT I KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON! SOMETHING HAS BROKEN KINDA LIKE A DAM. RICK MY HEART IS RENEWED WHEN I SURVEY THE WORK HE IS DOING. IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! HE  MAKES ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR MY GOOD. THANK YOU FATHER GOD!!!!!!!!!! THE AMOUNT OF BLESSING IS SO MUCH, ITS LIKE UNDENIABLY HIS GREAT MERCY! HE IS NOT ONLY WORKING IN HEARTS HE IS WORKING IN SITUATIONS. BROTHER LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU , THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW , LIKE I AM A NEW MAN! THINGS ARE NOT PERFECT BUT LIFE IS WAY BETTER THAN IT USED TO BE. I'M DETERMINED TO HONOR HIM IN ALL ASPECTS OF MY LIFE. FEAR IS LEAVING AND HIS SPIRIT IS FILLING THAT VOID.THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING YOUR LIFE TO SERVE HIM. GOD HAS USED YOU IN A GREAT WAY(AND HE ISN'T DONE!!!!!!WOW!) I HAVE A FEELING LIKE THIS TRANSFORMATION IN ME IS CONTINUAL AND YOU REALLY PLAYED A BIG PART IN IT! GOD USED YOU TO HELP TO BREAK THE DAM THAT WAS HOLDING HIS BLESSINGS BACK. I WAS BLESSED RICK DON'T GET ME WRONG BUT NOT LIKE NOW!!!! SO AMAZING FATHER GOD.........THANK YOU! I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THAT WHAT HE HAS IN STORE FOR MY FAMILY AND I IS GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD

THANKS AGAIN
MIKE

 

 

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hi Julie this is Jim i wanted to give you my testimony. When I met rick it was through my dad. He helped my dad and after that my dad was on fire. He wanted me to meet this man and I thought this is weird. I don’t believe in this demon stuff. Dad said lets just have lunch with him. he is my friend and I want you to meet him. so we met for lunch and I should say my life was messed up then.  I had went to treatment 2 times before this and I was still miserable even though I wasn’t drinking for over 2 years. My marriage was all but over. I didn’t like her and she didn’t like me. too many years of hurts.  It looked impossible. So anyway  my dad and me met rick for lunch one day and ya he seemed like a nice guy who had some experience in counseling or something.  I could see how my dad would like him. but when my dad got up to go to the bathroom this guy told me something about myself that no one in the world knew except me and god. I was freaked out and started crying. He told me things about my wife and marriage and said there is hope. Was there hope for me and my marriage. I asked if he would counsel us and he said yes but my wife didn’t go for it.  But in a few weeks things got so bad that my wife called my dad to basically say she was giving up. She couldn’t take it anymore. My dad asked her if she would meet rick and she said yes so they called him and he went there and listened to them. they then called me to come home and talk and rick asked if we would follow his program for 40 days and see what would happen.  we agreed and he said he wanted to pray for us. So we sat there as he prayed but it was a different prayer then what I was used to.  Anyway while he prayed he came by me and just said you voices in his head shut up now and then he went to my wife who had at that time some terrible pain in her ribs, she actually thought maybe she had a broken rib and he prayed for healing in her rib and that was it.  Then after that he told us the assignment he had for us and when my wife got up to give him our phone number she said this is freaking me out my ribs don’t hurt anymore. What was so weird was for the first time in my life I didn’t hear this voice in my head that told me I was a failure and a bad person. It literally changed my life. Now we are doing much work with him but we are doing really good. then later one day rick said we have covered a lot of ground and I think it is time for you to go to the next level spiritually so we got together at my brothers office and prayed and these things in me started going crazy and causing my face to act weird and it was speaking terrible stuff out of my mouth and rick just made it leave. It was a hard thing to deal with at first because I never heard of such a thing but after a couple days I knew that my life was really different. I am now believing that I will go the next level and do that speaking in tongues.  I have learned how to turn my business over to god and my family and everything else.  I am struggling with it but it is getting easier everyday. Rick said I have to form new habits to go with my new life. Anyway thank you for your ministry and your  help cause I know you put a lot into this too.

 

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Testimony for Daily Life Ministry

 

My Name is ‘Laurel” and I live in Connecticut. My life has been truly blessed through Daily Life Ministry.  Rick Walth has a powerful anointing for deliverance ministry.  His amazing ability to hear from God gives him the insight to lead captives from darkness to The Light of life.

The Holy Spirit works through Rick to bring to light things long hidden in the remote dark places of our being.  I have been a Christian all my life and proclaimed Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior since my teen years.  I learned about the Holy Spirit and Spiritual warfare post college when God placed me in a nurturing, loving, Spirit filled church of believers. My life was blessed with sound scriptural teaching, a great education, a loving supportive family, strong work ethic and an uninterrupted career.  On the outside I looked great, but inside I was plagued with fears, insecurities and bouts of negativity.  I held anger and unforgiveness towards my mother and was unable to reconcile our relationship.  If the Prince of peace dwelled in my heart then I should know peace! If the Lord of love, compassion and forgiveness ruled my heart then I should be loving, compassionate and forgiving to ALL!  If I knew all these spiritual truths then why couldn’t I just pray these negative things away by myself??

“The TRUTH shall set you free.”  I needed help to get to the truth, the deepest root of why I was still carrying baggage from the past. I needed my eyes opened to see how the enemy still had a grip over certain areas of my life. Through journaling and lots of prayer for the Holy Spirit to bring to light the things I needed to be delivered from, God was able to reach down deep and bring to my memory the deepest root of fear that came into me when I was a very young girl abused by my Uncle.  God also helped me to see my mom with new eyes and understand how her heart had been plagued by fears and insecurities. She loved me the best she could and I have a new God given compassion to love her and to no longer think that her unhappiness was my fault.  I am so thankful for how I have been set free to walk in confidence. I am no longer fearfully self-conscience; I have the God of the universe walking with me. I am His blessed creation and now He is calling me to be a blessing to others. I must boldly step out in Faith with the gifts He has given me and with a thankful heart, help to lead others to a loving and compassionate Savior whose heart’s desire is to set the captives free!!

Thanks be to God. He has done wonderful things.

Thank you to Daily Life Ministry for their commitment to serving the Lord above self.

 

Blessed to be a blessing,

“Laurel” a crown of Victory

CT 2009

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I had an issue with anxiety. Not something that was very apparent to others but something I kept to myself. Like a duck swimming on a pond I appeared calm but below the surface my mind was racing with thoughts of worry. The biggest concern was losing my job. This is something I have worried about my adult life and with the recent economic situation and with many friends losing their jobs, the fear and worry became overwhelming. Fore years vacations were filled with guilt and worry rather than relaxation. Sunday evenings brought anxiety that I should have been working more over the weekend. Sleepless nights filled with worry were common place.  Prayer and counseling helped to some degree but I could not ever shake the fear out of my thoughts.

 

Through my work with Rick and prayer I have been able to conquer this anxiety and it is no longer is a part of my life.   The thoughts come back sometimes but more out of years habit than anything else. When they do I can easy toss them aside and the work of the enemy.  Ironically two weeks after winning my battle over my anxiety about my job, my employer offered me a large retention bonus if I stay at the company for 1 more year.  It’s seems they fear I may leave. 

 

This may not compare to other testimonies you may see on this site. After all who is not worried in these difficult times?  But this was different.  The fear, anxiety and worry I had was dark and encompassed my every thought. I had prayed long and hard for help and it was answered.  Praise God

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During my first mission trip to Bay Saint Louis as a relief volunteer for Hurricane Katrina, I met a man named Rodney who lived across the street from the mission house where I stayed.  When we first drove up to the mission base camp, we were “greeted” by a very angry man (Rodney) who cursed us severely that first day as he continued to do every time we were outside while he sat in a chair in his front yard across the street from our mission house.  I was deeply concerned about Rodney and we began praying for him at least 2-3 times a day.  This went on until the fourth day when I was severely injured while working on gutting my 3rd house.  I was helping another volunteer lift a toilet onto a wheelbarrow when it broke apart and the sharp porcelain cut a 6” long gash about 2.5” deep, cutting a lot of muscle and two tendons on my right forearm.  I was fortunate that the town’s hospital had just re-opened its ER two days earlier and a surgeon was available to be called in to sew my arm back together (110 stitches).  I could have looked at the ordeal as bad luck, but I was determined to make something positive out of my remaining 4-days.  When I returned back to our base camp, Rodney was outside like he was every day, but this time he didn’t curse me when he saw me.  Perhaps it was because I was obviously injured, or maybe something else.  I didn’t go outside the next day (Saturday) because I was a little unsteady on my feet due to the pain medication.  On Sunday I went outside and walked over to Rodney, asking him how he was doing and if we could talk awhile.  He said he didn’t feel good, but he might feel like talking later on that day.  I went back over to see Rodney on Sunday afternoon and we talked for about 1-hour.  He told me about his nephew and his family leaving the 65-year old alone to face Hurricane Katrina alone for about 9 hours.  He was so scared and depressed that he began drinking heavily, and he soon began cursing and threatening relief workers at Christian Relief.   Since I was no longer able to work on “gutting & cutting”, I was able to meet with Rodney a few times a day and we began to bond.  Rodney had stopped drinking the night that I came back from the hospital, making it possible for him to begin to deal with the events which had transpired.  A few other people from Christian Relief (started & headed up by Pastor Rick Walth) were also able to talk with Rodney over the next few days.  I learned later that Rodney’s nephew came back for him and Rodney is now living with his nephew and his family in a town further inland.  Rodney has accepted Jesus Christ as his savior and he is soon to be baptized.  I truly believe Rodney’s life turned around because of our prayers and because of how God was using us to minister to him during this time of darkness in his life.  One of the reasons I returned to Mississippi, just 10 days following removal of  the outer stitches in my arm, was because you never know when there might be another “Rodney” who needs prayer and someone to listen to his story.  The lesson learned by this story is that we never know how or when God may call upon us to serve in a special way that could help bring someone to Christ.  God often uses ordinary people filled with the Spirit to do His work.

 

 

 

James 2:14 – “What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?” 

 

 

 

 

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During a message in church our pastor talked about forgiveness and surrendering ourselves to the Lord’s way of doing things.  I sat in church broken that day knowing the weight I had been carrying for 45 years.  I was sick to death of the heaviness.  As I grew in the Lord the conviction in my heart grew too.  I begged the Lord to take away the heaviness and I heard him say go to each one in your family and apologize for the things you have done, said and thought that were against them and Me.  I did go to all of them and I felt lighter for a while but I wanted all the weight gone permanently.  The sin cycle in my life continued whenever I was with my father.  He would say something that hurt me deeply and I would attack him either in thought or word out of my anger, rejection and bitterness.   The weight would be back.  I would spend a week repenting for my reaction.  The next time I saw him the sin cycle would start all over again.  Six months after the forgiveness message at church that highlighted my need to get right with the Lord, Pastor Rick came to CT to visit us.  I asked him whether it was a sin that I never wanted to see my father again.  He said you have not forgiven him.  I told him I was willing but the unforgiveness wouldn’t leave.  He said, “The bitter root has not been found.   Are you willing to count the cost?”  I said, “I will do anything to get rid of the weight once and for all.”  I started the process, which simply meant allowing God to search my soul to find anything that may have established a bitter root, anything that I needed to repent for that was buried under shame, pride and guilt.  God searched me for any area where I had agreed with the lies of the enemy that were keeping me from being everything that God wanted me to be.  It seemed like it would never end.  I wrote pages to Rick.  After praying and writing for 2.5 months Rick scheduled a trip to CT for my deliverance.  The Lord told him I had to go back to my parents.  With much reluctance, because of all the rejection I20had received over the years from my parents, I went.  The results (because God sent me this time) were amazing.  I had to honor my parents with the good things they did that caused positive identity in me.  I had to teach them about generational curses and was able so show specific examples of these in their lives, my life and my children’s lives.  Lastly I had to tell them what they did that hurt me deeply and caused me to have negative identity about myself. Here is the fruit of the effectiveness of what has happened to me. My life has never been the same.  I am not hearing negative voices in my head any longer.  I don’t battle in my mind with my father.  I don’t have the heaviness any longer.  Jesus took that heavy yolk from me.  My relationship with my father is, for the for the first time in my life, restored to the way God would want it.  < /span>He hasn’t changed but the poison darts he shoots at me don’t penetrate my heart and affect me.  My greatest desire is to get other’s the help they need.  The church is filled with hurting people and no one knows what to do about it.  Churches are afraid of deliverance and they have every right to be if they don't know the power of the Holy Spirit and they don’t understand what the Word says about this topic. Last time Rick was here, our 1000 square foot living room was FULL of church people wanting to know move about deliverance.  Rick teased my husband and said “You either need to ask God for bigger house or a wife with a smaller mouth.”  I looked at Pastor Rick, laughed and said, “I m meeting these people for the first time too.” Since deliverance I hear God’s voice more clearly and He continues to give me opportunities to share my testimony.  I have a peace and jo y that is uncomprehendable  in my heart. For all you woman who are reading this……… I couldn’t understand the love of our heavenly father because I didn’t think I was worthy of the love of my earthly father. Now I have both! God can do anything …………..You  just need to believe!

About this time last year, my husband-to-be went to Iowa to meet with Rick to receive deliverance ministry.  When we talked about it and he said, “you should get cleaned out too”.

I was initially offended. Why would I need deliverance? God had dealt with me so much in healing my heart in the past year, by using pastors and church leaders to counsel me, and dig up past roots that I didn’t know were there.

            About six months later, Rick said he was “getting stuff on me” meaning, he was hearing from the Father about my life and about what He wanted to do in me. I was open to see what God had for me, so I began the process of prayer and confession.

            Rick came out and prayed for me a few months after that. That session was good. God was very gentle with me and we went after a root of rejection; a big one in my life. My reactions towards Bryce, my fiancée, were totally different after that. God completely renewed my mind and cleaned out past judgments towards men that were unknowingly affecting me and my relationships!

But God wasn’t done with me yet. About 3 months after my initial deliverance, I was watching a movie which contained a random and unexpected sex scene. It startled me, and caused me to react in a way was surprising, to both myself and to Bryce who sat beside me. Immediately I turned away, covered my ears and started crying hysterically. Bryce tried to comfort me by putting his arm around me but I pushed him away. I was terrified and my body was responding physically to what I had seen. I was sweating, freezing and aroused all at the same time. Suddenly I sat up and stated, “Somebody touched me, and I didn’t want them to”.  In that moment God allowed me to see that as a young girl I had been sexually abused.

For the next week, it was as though hell had been released on me directly.  Countless times I woke up at night feeling as though someone was touching me; I was seeing dark images, and overall being tormented. That week my fiancée prayed over me several times with Rick on the line, but these demons in me were strong. When the blood of Jesus and name of Jesus were being spoken over me the demons would respond. That is the power of my God! My back would arc and my body would twitch as though they were fighting back. The Lord revealed to me that I had been in agreement with the enemy through secret sin and through my thought life. I was shocked to find out how my double mindedness in struggling with repeated sexual sin had given place to demons to stay in my life! I would always feel convicted after sinning and repent before God.  He would forgive me, but I couldn’t figure out why this habitual sin was so impossible to overcome. That week, God revealed the exact demon I was dealing with, but I was unable to speak it out because the demon had control of my tongue.

Rick couldn’t get to us soon enough, so that Friday night we were blessed to go to a church who had been dealing with spiritual warfare all week. I walked in the door, expressed I needed deliverance, and fell on the floor with violent manifestations in the form of kicking, screaming and writhing. This had never happened to me!  I was a Christian!!!!! I was confused. A lot came out that night and people prayed over me for several hours. I felt better in the end, but not normal or even good. I walked out of that situation with a lot of fear.

I had many questions. Why would I have no authority over this stuff when Jesus said that I do? Why was it taking so long for these things to leave? Why did I not know this stuff was there? Over the next few months God answered all of those questions. He showed me that I do have the authority, and He wanted to teach me just that. It was His grace that I didn’t know about this my whole life. He had allowed me to come to a place of greater spiritual maturity so that I could deal with these demons.

On Labor Day weekend we went out to see Rick. It had to be over; I couldn’t take it anymore! I was so done with feeling like crap, and my walk with God was suffering. Rick prayed over me and more came out, mostly through coughing this time.  The deliverance was more peaceful then that horrific night at the church. By this time I had repented of my sin and was in agreement with the truth of God’s word. That made a difference.

On my way home I finally felt joy, which was straight from God. But still, I felt a weight on me. Rick’s wife Julie discerned that I needed to get rid of some old journals.  Every day until I got rid of them I would walk in the house and cry not knowing why, until I remembered the journals. That weekend I burned them and felt even more free! She was so right! I had been disobedient because God had told me to let go of the past long ago, and holding onto these journals was a physical example of how I hadn’t!

Then the depression returned! “God what is going on” I cried! I had been recently married and my emotions were out of control. I would be happy one minute and crying hysterically the next. I didn’t even know what was making me sad! I just lacked motivation and joy, and fear was still there!!! I called Rick. He referred me to his friend Mike. He said He wasn’t hearing anything else from God. So I called Mike and he prayed with me. Mike had me pray over myself for deliverance, because he said the demons thought I was a coward. That made me mad! So I decided to take the authority that Jesus has given me once and for all, and command those demons by name to get out of me! They manifested at the sound of my voice in Jesus name and then the most amazing thing happened! The Holy Spirit filled me up with so much joy that I couldn’t stop laughing! Over the next couple of days God also led me to take authority over sickness, such as allergies and menstrual cramps that have plagued me for years, and the symptoms have left my body! It has been 3 weeks since the Father set me free, and I have been filled with so much joy and peace! Contentment has returned to my life and even the mundane tasks feel like worship when I keep my eyes on the Father. When satan tries to come back through the gateways of my mind or eyes I have learned to take the authority that I have been given through Jesus Christ to rebuke the enemy, making every thought captive to Jesus Christ. Jesus wants to set so many free, and if we would just allow Him to search our hearts and realize that His plans for us are good, we would see that He loves us and has our best interest in mind!

I was unaware throughout my childhood and most of my life until just a few months ago that I lived under a spirit of rejection. As a child and young adult I was unaware that this spirit of rejection was passed onto to me through my father.  It had been passed to him by his mother and more than likely was passed to her by her parents. 

I grew up in a large family and a loving home.  I really wanted for nothing and I knew I was loved.  Despite this positive situation I always had a low self-esteem and a negative self-image.  My whole life I felt the need to please people in order to be liked or acknowledged.  I didn’t believe I was worthy of other peoples’ attention unless I did something for them or demonstrated my worth in some way.  When I was rebuffed by others, or experienced any type of rejection it was devastating to me.  I was shy, withdrawn and feared relationships because I feared rejection.

 

I came to a saving faith and began a relationship with Jesus Christ in my early twenties.  After beginning my walk with the Lord the Holy Spirit began to show me things about myself that I needed to change and work on.  I went through counseling in my late twenties and I even went through a faith-based weight loss program in my early thirties to overcome an addiction to eating/food.  Both of these experiences were positive and the Lord taught me a lot through them.  I was able to lose 65 pounds during the weight loss program, but even when I finished the program, I knew I was not completely free from the food issue.

 

As I began this process of inner healing with Rick Walth in May 09 the Lord began to show me that I didn’t know Him, really KNOW HIM.  I didn’t know His Love.  Yes, I knew it in my head, but I didn’t know it, OR BELIEVE IT, in my heart.  He showed me that all these other issues I had struggled with were really just the tips of the iceberg I had never dealt with, this spirit of rejection.  I began to pray scriptures about God’s unfailing love and His promise to me about that love.

 

Two days before my deliverance I was praying Ephesians 3:16-19 for myself and God gave me an image in my mind of these verses.  God was on His throne, He was a brilliant white light and He was reaching down into a large pot of “riches” and thrusting what looked like gold dust into my chest.  It was an image of God giving me the power to grasp His love for me.  It was an awesome image and when I went through deliverance that same image came to mind along with an image of Jesus and I sitting on a beach with my head resting in Jesus’ lap. 

 

During my deliverance I just kept asking God to “fill me up”.  I couldn’t stop repeating these words.  Rick asked if I had ever received the anointing of the Spirit.  I said no and so someone prayed for the anointing of the Spirit.  Once I received the Spirit’s anointing I felt light-headed and eventually I had to lie down on the couch.  I continued to ask God to fill me up and I felt such a sense of peace.  Rick shared an image of a soaring eagle with small birds dive-bombing it and the larger eagle tucking and rolling away.  Such an interesting image because I had heard a song about it being “time to fly to freedom” in the car on my way to my appointment with Rick.

 

In the days that followed I remember being so aware of God’s love for me.  This idea of being loved would come to mind in the middle of daily routine and it would bring with it such a sweet feeling and warmth.  I continued to ask God to fill me up, but I couldn’t understand why I would ask for this so much.  God gave me an image of dry, brittle, broken clay with water being dripped onto it one drop at a time.  He told me that it would take a lot of water to fill my dry, brittle, broken self.  I needed to just keep coming to Him to be restored.

It hasn’t been easy since my deliverance.  Rick’s image of the eagle being taunted by smaller birds has certainly been my experience, but I am so much more aware of God’s voice.  I am closer to Him now than I have been in a long time and I am hearing from Him clearly about what to do about different issues in my life, yet I don’t feel condemn, I know I am loved.  And there is a peacefulness within my self that I can only explain as by the fact that this spirit of rejection is gone.  I know I have things to work on but I know that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.  Amen.

I found out about Rick’s ministry through a friend of mine who was also going through “the process”.  At first I was quite unsure & a bit skeptical when my friend was going through it.  I was surprised when God told me that I was to intercede for her.  I ended up sitting in on & being a part of one of her deliverance meetings with Rick.  Immediately upon walking into the meeting, I felt the presence of the Lord.  All nervousness, all doubt, all skepticism, completely went away.  It was amazing to witness my friend go through this process & it was then that I knew that I had to go through this ministry as well.  The fruit of this ministry is amazing; not for one minute have I regretted going through this process!

          I started the process as a little girl full of fear.  I was afraid of almost anything & everything; especially the dark & always felt like I was being kept in the dark.  At the time I was struggling with much discouragement, hopelessness, restlessness, sleeplessness, & anxiety, to say the least!  I was being tormented in so many ways & I was crying out to God for help & relief!  My chest was always filled with the pain of a broken heart & the anxiety that sometimes felt like it was eating me away from the inside, out.  I just couldn’t understand why I was still in bondage to fear & anxiety, even though God promises in His Word, that He sets the captives free & He gives us peace.  I was so desperate!  In addition to all this, I was about to make what I think was one of the most important & difficult decisions of my life at the time; the weight of this decision was too much to bear & I was about to break under the pressure!  It was trial by fire!!!  God’s timing for this deliverance & bringing me to Rick’s ministry couldn’t have been any more perfect!  I couldn’t have done it alone! 

Going through this process with Rick & the Holy Spirit, was just what I needed to get to the root of why I wasn’t yet free as a Christian.  I am still so amazed & in awe of how the Holy Spirit moves in this ministry.  I praise God because He brought things to my attention & to the surface that I needed to deal with & face, that I would’ve ever been able to come up with on my own.  This happened through dreams, open visions, and/or God speaking in an audible voice during personal prayer times. 

One of the greatest things that came out of going through this ministry is the new revelation I have about Father God.  Just before I started going through the process with Rick, the Lord showed me in a vision, how my earthly father had slapped me across the face when I was in middle school.  I was devastated & completely humiliated; I know because I saw it all over again & relived it.  I saw myself crying in my homeroom classroom at school.  I did not remember this until God showed me; nor did I think this was an issue.  My Dad was a great Dad; always involved in my life & loved me very much.  And yet, I started noticing, that even as good of a childhood I thought I had; there were things that happened that had broken my spirit and/or my heart when I was a child.  My father slapping me was just one of these things.  God showed me how even this one incident has caused me to have a wrong perception of my Father in Heaven & caused me not to trust Him.  At the beginning of the deliverance process I had a hard time because I wasn’t letting God in.  But, I quickly learned that God does not correct & discipline the way my earthly father had.  God does not humiliate, harm, or threaten us in any way.  Instead, our Father in Heaven, is extremely gentle, always loving, patient, kind, & slow to anger, when He disciplines & corrects us!  As this reality sunk in, I started to trust God for the first time!  It was then & only then, that I could allow the Holy Spirit to go into the deep recesses of my heart & show me the darkness that was there.  “You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light” Psalm 18:28.   For the first time in my life I was overcoming the shame & guilt that had buried all this gunk I was holding onto all these years.  The Lord also showed me that the teasing from my father & siblings, saying that I was adopted, was the cause to my root of rejection.  This rejection was an open door for things to operate in my life that were not of God & was a foothold for the enemy.

But, the GOOD NEWS is that God has healed & delivered me on so many levels (in the name of Jesus), that I am able to move on for the first time in my life!!!!  I realized that I wasn’t completely delivered from my past involvements in the occult & new age; even though as a Christian, I had previously renounced & repented of such things.  But, now I have been delivered & set free from any generational involvement in the occult or witchcraft, as well as my own involvement.  In one of my sessions with Rick, I was delivered from a spirit of divination.  After I got delivered of this, everything changed; I could hear God’s voice more, I started to sleep & have more God dreams, & reading the Word of God became fresh& alive again, instead of the religious experience that it had become.  Now I can see how an occult spirit really keeps the truth about Jesus & ourselves covered & hidden in the dark!  I experienced such breakthrough after I was delivered from that spirit! 

I also came to realize that many of my patterns of anxiety came from trying to please & be accepted by my father & my family members; mainly through performance.  Much of my anxiety stemmed from the fear that I would do the wrong thing or make a wrong decision.  Failure was not an option.  I had to be perfect!  This would constantly send me into a tail spin anytime I had to make even minor decisions.  If I failed in any way, it would be debilitating for me.  But, post-deliverance, I now know in my spirit, that I am acceptable to my God, I have been adopted into His family, & I don’t have to fear rejection or failure anymore!!!!  This truth has relieved me of so much pressure & anxiety to perform in all areas of my life!  I have become more dependant on God.  The prideful idol I built & put up of myself, in order o feel good about myself, has been cast down & shattered!  I have been humbled yet again & it is wonderful!  I can finally just “BE” more often than feeling like I have to “DO” all the time!  I am continually learning how to rest in my Father’s presence, to be still, & to sit at His feet.  I am at peace more often than not.  I continue to walk in this new freedom day by day, by God’s grace!!!  I am not perfect, but God is.  So many new freedoms that I cherish so dearly!  One of the greatest is  knowing that I can pour out my soul to God & cry out to Him with all my might.  In my spirit I just know that God loves me, cares for me, listens to me, & answers me!  The new discipline that I am now walking out with God, is to keep my mind on the NOW moment & not to let my mind wander into the past or into the worries about the future.  This has brought me such peace & rest.  I am able to sleep again & any restlessness I experience I just bring it to God immediately!  I am not that little girl anymore that is afraid of the dark & feels like she’s always kept in the dark.  I have come out of this season of deliverance as a more mature Christian, who has been truly rescued from the dark & brought into the light!!!!!  Thank you Jesus!  And thank you Rick & Julie!  God Bless You Guys!

-Wendy

 

 "Do not be afraid," Samuel replied. "You have done all this evil; yet do not turn away from the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. Do not turn away after useless idols. They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless. For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own.”  1 Samuel 12:20-22       HALLELUJAH!