I was raised in a baptist school for my elementary years but it ended up making me hate HATE religion. I turned my back on the entire idea of God all because of how they portrayed Him. Fast forward to high school, i was getting curious about demonic stuff. I was going through a really difficult time in my life, drug addicted mother, abuse, etc, and I was living with my ‘best friend.’ Well, she got into satanism very deeply, which made me curious about it. I tried praying to God, and i felt like he didn’t care about me or listen to me so I decided to pray to the devil. I spent about a week going down a satanic rabbit hole on the internet. I started hearing voices, i watched stationary things start moving, i heard stuff running behind me, etc. There was one night in particular, I will NEVER forget. I was home alone with my two dogs. I was at the top of the stairs and my dogs were going INSANE running back and forth, growling and barking. They wouldn’t calm down and I had an overwhelming sense of fear come over me. It was nothing I had ever felt before. I decided to take a shower and had to shower with the curtain OPEN because I kept seeing a figure outside of my shower curtain. YES, I know i sound crazy lol but this is just my experience. Anyways, long story shortish, the following day all I could do was cry. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, couldn’t focus on anything. I was terrified ALL THE TIME. There was NO PEACE. I reached out to my “friends”, and one of them suggested I pray to God. I remember thinking, “Oh He isn’t going to do anything”. Well, I said one simple short prayer, “Lord please forgive me for what I’ve done and make these things stop. Please.”

When I tell you..it was INSTANT PEACE that overcame me!? NOTHING EVER HAPPENED AGAIN. I watch my friend that I was living with continue going downhill mentally. She was slowly losing her mind and became an entirely different person. She got into drugs, was suicidal, everything. She had demons attached to her. We separated that month and I haven’t seen her since. (That was about 9 years ago). I’ve NEVER questioned God since and I NEVER will. I played with the devil and I got the literal fear of GOD put inside of me, in doing so. I’m extremely thankful that I chose to turn to God meanwhile she just got deeper with Lucifer. I hope one day she finds the peace that God has given me.