Deliverance Ministry - Fire and Ice Ministries River of Life Fellowship

The warfare increases
THE DELIVERANCE MINISTRY
Around this time of my life, the Gideons asked me to give my testi­
mony in many of their meetings. This produced even a greater level
of warfare in my life. I seemed to be attacked at every level. Be­
cause of my testimony, some in the occult would come to me want­
ing deliverance or people would come to me with questions. I be­
gan to realize that I was called to a deliverance ministry. The per­
son I was mainly assigned to pray against prophesied into my life a
call to ministry especially a deliverance ministry. He was the only
one I knew that could relate to what I had come out of and had a
deliverance ministry himself. That was awesome to me. He gave
me several books and information to read to help disciple me along
these lines. I was amazed at the similar experiences of those I was
reading about. A year later (after the call) I had an uncontrollable
passion for Jesus and such a desire to get to know him intimately. I
was never permitted to get close to anyone before. I was finding out
that even though I had a Christian husband our marriage was fal­
ling apart due to the lack of intimacy and love. We became angry
and fought continually. I would never divorce him because this time
I knew that God hates divorce. I wanted to honor God, his word,
and his covenant. I was determined to stay in the relationship no
matter what. I often lay in bed crying asking the Lord if this is what
marriage is supposed to be like as a Christian.
We were not happy and the lack of respect we had for one another
filtered down to the kids. Soon they did not respect us as parents.
How sad all of this was. I was not going to go against God’s word
concerning divorce. So I simply stayed and prayed. As my children
grew older, our family grew further apart. During this time, I began
to develop an intimacy with the Lord. This was very unfamiliar to
me. I knew at this time I was going after Jesus with my whole heart
and not looking back. Everything seemed to be about Jesus. I
guess satan saw this coming and tried to stop it when he attacked
me and I temporarily turned to my old ways. There seems to always
be satanic attack before God does something powerful. It is like the
enemy is trying to keep it from taking place. Satan knew I was
about to really go to a new level in my walk with Christ.
Through giving my testimony at a church, I was introduced to a
woman I will call Sheri (not her real name). She was born into sa­
tanism in a deeper way than I was familiar with. I was able to help
bring her through deliverance some and did counseling with her. I
am amazed at what I see Jesus doing in her life now! Not only was
I delivered from the grip of satan, but now the Lord is using me to
help others get free as well! But now that battle intensifies!
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