Testimonies
Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you. I Peter 3:15b (KJV)
I remember it as if it were yesterday; the day the enemy took me and wouldn’t let me go…
I had just lost my Dad to a major heart issue and I was broken, my best friend had been taken from me and I felt alone. Some issues arose and landed me in jail. When I asked the officer to speak with my mother and my brother, I was told that they would see me at a later time. My anger grew and I felt abandoned.
I looked up to the night sky through a sky light window in the cell. In between the window and me there was a set of metal bars just high enough for me to reach. A voice filled my head telling me "NO ONE WANTS YOU, NO ONE CARES, JUST DO IT, END IT AND ALL THIS PAIN WILL END". So I took off the pants provided to me, tied one leg around the bars above me and the other as tight as I could around my neck and took a step off the bed in the cell. As the light started to go dark, I could see a face coming towards me. It was the most awful thing I have ever seen in my life. Just then I was down on the bed with an officer yelling at me telling me how stupid I was.
The years that followed where the worst years of my life except for a few occasions, the meeting and marrying of my wife and the births of my two daughters. Other than those few occasions life was a nightmare. You see evil exists and I know firsthand its power over the weak. That face I mentioned before never left me, it became attached to me. I kept that to myself because who would believe me? For years I constantly argued with my wife, snapped at my girls and I drank any chance I got. I had a bad attitude towards those who tried to help me and advise me. But because the evil that had attached itself to me I was told to do these evil things. If I didn’t that spirit would scream and tell me, “I made you hang yourself and I can do it again”. I was in constant fear of what it would do to my girls, my wife or to me. So I continued to comply with the evil at my side.
One day my youngest daughter wanted to go to church and I got the courage to go. Some weeks later I went to our Pastor and told him of what was going on in my life and my fear. He had the men in church gather around me and they prayed over me. It seemed like an entire day because the whole time the men and Pastor were praying the evil spirit was screaming in my ears. I prayed to God in my head as loud as I could for the Lord to remove that evil from my life. When all the prayers where done, the light shown brighter and the air was lighter. I felt cleaner, I felt whole and I felt God’s love! I had been tortured for so long that I couldn’t remember what those feelings felt like in a long time. Tears rolled down my cheeks from joy and relief.
I owe every day since then to my little angel who got me to go to Church, my Pastor, the men who prayed over me and to the ALMIGHTY GOD. Without their love, compassion and understanding I would be a complete train wreck. I hope my testimony helps at least one person to come know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior as He has become mine.
Scott Nelson
I looked up to the night sky through a sky light window in the cell. In between the window and me there was a set of metal bars just high enough for me to reach. A voice filled my head telling me "NO ONE WANTS YOU, NO ONE CARES, JUST DO IT, END IT AND ALL THIS PAIN WILL END". So I took off the pants provided to me, tied one leg around the bars above me and the other as tight as I could around my neck and took a step off the bed in the cell. As the light started to go dark, I could see a face coming towards me. It was the most awful thing I have ever seen in my life. Just then I was down on the bed with an officer yelling at me telling me how stupid I was.
The years that followed where the worst years of my life except for a few occasions, the meeting and marrying of my wife and the births of my two daughters. Other than those few occasions life was a nightmare. You see evil exists and I know firsthand its power over the weak. That face I mentioned before never left me, it became attached to me. I kept that to myself because who would believe me? For years I constantly argued with my wife, snapped at my girls and I drank any chance I got. I had a bad attitude towards those who tried to help me and advise me. But because the evil that had attached itself to me I was told to do these evil things. If I didn’t that spirit would scream and tell me, “I made you hang yourself and I can do it again”. I was in constant fear of what it would do to my girls, my wife or to me. So I continued to comply with the evil at my side.
One day my youngest daughter wanted to go to church and I got the courage to go. Some weeks later I went to our Pastor and told him of what was going on in my life and my fear. He had the men in church gather around me and they prayed over me. It seemed like an entire day because the whole time the men and Pastor were praying the evil spirit was screaming in my ears. I prayed to God in my head as loud as I could for the Lord to remove that evil from my life. When all the prayers where done, the light shown brighter and the air was lighter. I felt cleaner, I felt whole and I felt God’s love! I had been tortured for so long that I couldn’t remember what those feelings felt like in a long time. Tears rolled down my cheeks from joy and relief.
I owe every day since then to my little angel who got me to go to Church, my Pastor, the men who prayed over me and to the ALMIGHTY GOD. Without their love, compassion and understanding I would be a complete train wreck. I hope my testimony helps at least one person to come know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior as He has become mine.
Scott Nelson
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