Basically it is a picture of a man with long hair depicting Christ, with his heart displayed on the outside of his body. My mother in law gave me that picture to have in my home, telling me it would protect me from evil. Just the opposite turned out to be the case.
I placed the picture on the wall in the hallway. I began to feel strange around that picture as though it were alive. One day as I walked past the picture, the head of the man turned and laughed at me. I became hysterical with fear, praying to God to protect me. Then I called my father to please come and take the picture away, I didn't want to touch it or go near it. My father was not particularly spiritual and acted as though I was having a break down.
I fell to my knees after that incident and asked the Lord to forgive me of my sins and to save me. I had made a profession of faith at 12 years old, but had not lived for the Lord and had no encouragement in the home to read the Word or seek Him about anything. Going to church was more of a ritual than it was about righteousness and holiness.
It wasn't until years later my husband told me that his father had the same experience with that picture, laughing at him, which was the reason his mother was getting rid of it, but no one told me.
Some of these artifacts that Catholics worship have demons attached to them. God used that terrible experience to show me my sin and my need to turn to Him.
Shortly after that I began to question everything I had learned from the Catholic church, it all began to look dirty and ugly to me. I am convinced that the experience with that demon was God allowing me to see pure evil, frightening me back to Christ. If I was saved at 12, the need to be obedient to His Word was being neglected. I was not reading His Word, until now I thought I wouldn't be able to understand it. I then began to read the Word, seek the Holy Spirit and have been growing ever since. Not only could I understand it, I now had the drivenness to seek every tidbit of wisdom God could give me.
I write about these things to warn believers that we are living in a time when the demons are very active, they know their time is short, that in these last days they will be attempting to ruin the lives of as many people as they can through their lies and tactics.
Also, the warning is that many people who say they believe the Bible, will not believe that demons are active today. With the increasing wickedness of our times, the mocking and rebellion against God in every way possible, we are going to see things that we never before saw, violence becoming more intense and vile. More people will act wickedly, more people will have no conscience and more people will be lacking natural affection, empathy and kindness. As God says in His Word, "they will have a form of religion but deny the power thereof."
2 Timothy 3 tells us all about it. The father of lies is whispering in the ears of false believers, making them think they have a reason to hate those that walk with Christ.
2 Timothy 3:1-8
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
These wicked people mentioned in 2 Timothy will not be operating merely in human sinfulness, they will be controlled by the devil, the reason their hatred, contempt and activities are so deeply depraved and foul, as well as completely irrational.
We are living in these last days right now, make no mistake, the things you see in the actions and attitudes of people are real, they are not normal, they are not natural human responses, they are without a doubt, demonic.
1 Timothy 4:1
"4 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;"
The good news is that we do not have to be overcome by the wiles of the devil. We can walk in victory over sin through Christ our Lord Who lives in us. We can learn the effectiveness of prayer and obedience that protects us from the devil's ploys. Hallelujah!
2 Peter 1:3-11 3"According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ."
