I don't know if this counts.. but
At sixteen I woke up in the middle of the night and a male voice, leaning right down into my ear said: "Her Husband." I know it doesn't make much sense.
Then, twice in my life while I've been crying and near hysterical, I've had 'visitations'... the first time I was despairing over my poverty - single mother, no job prospects, etc and I was crying. A voice said "Turn away from your God. He doesn't care about you." I hadn't been praying or thinking of God at all. But I started right after that voice said that!
The second incidence was during another "woe is me" fit. I was feeling very poorly and said aloud, "I know the devil is trying to get me again." And it was like the wind was sucked out of the room - the blackness cleared and I was well.
I do suffer from depression and cannot take meds for it, so this is a probable cause (for the despair, at least) Often when in the depths of the disease I have strong urges to do harm to myself although I never have. Usually I want to put my head through a window - I was at that point when I called out the devil, so to speak, and I couldn't believe the immediate end my suffering came to at that moment.
It was incredibly powerful for me and has left me certain that evil is real, and that it does have an agenda.
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