Good morning fellow Steemians!
Onto the next part of my journey as one who has the ability to discern spirits. If you missed the First Part or My Story. Please read them! Upvote and resteem and then continue to read this one!
Adjusting to a New Life
Life changes when you receive this gift. Perception completely changes. Especially your perception of time and the order events happen. Much of what I'm about to tell you seems like a blur. It's extremely hard for me to list the events in order that have happened because it actually was somewhat of a stress on my brain at the beginning. But let me do my best.
Just after I received this gift, I knew my life was going to be different. I was feeling what other people call "energies" around me. Not just on people but in certain areas as well. I could just feel their presence. I knew that if I was going to have this gift that I should start researching. The people that I prayed with that night had a friend who I went out to coffee with one morning.
This coffee shop was a small little coffee shop in the middle of downtown Colorado Springs in the middle of a neighborhood. It was nice, and homey, plants were everywhere and the mood was perfect for one on one conversations. I proceeded to tell this friend my story. When I told him about the demon that manifested itself to me he asked me if I knew what the name of the demon was. This took me by surprise. I never really thought that this demon might have had a name (later I found out we refer to it as a name but really it just describes the personality and the tactic that demon is using). Together we sat down and started talking about the experience I had such as what I was feeling, what I was thinking, the whole thing.
One word came to our minds as we started thinking and praying. Despair. It made perfect sense. Looking back, it doesn't help my situation right now at all, but it does give clarity to my past. It makes me realize what was going on in my life, and the sin I was a slave to and how it affected me. From there this friend gave me some material that I could start studying to give myself more of an understanding about demons and how they work.
Overdrive
Studying these materials affected me in some way, and I still have yet to figure out why this happened. But just one hour of studying those materials threw my mind into a really weird state. My mind was racing. Making all of these connections to things that most people take for granted in our world. Just small little things that could either be coincidence, or of no consequence, and connecting them to spiritual matters. It was cool at the beginning, but over time it became a burden. I couldn't get my mind to stop! It kept running and running unbridled as if it had been given more fuel than it knew what to deal with!
I was freaking out completely. It was tormenting to my mind, to the point where I can't even remember those couple of days. All I remember is that it happened. It came to this point of sensory overload when I realized that I couldn't do all of this studying alone. Yes, I had God at my side, but I needed somebody to guide me, and show me the correct way in my studies so that something like this wouldn't happen again. I didn't know how to stop it!
A Divine Appointment
After a couple days of this tormenting I asked God to give me a mentor. Somebody to fulfill this role. I kept praying all day for it. Towards the end of the day in the afternoon, I was sitting at a Panera Bread reading my Bible. All of the sudden I felt the atmosphere change in the room. Not that there was anything wrong with the atmosphere, but I felt it change to something... a little bit different... I looked up from my Bible and this man walked in... I knew instantly that there was something different about him. Coincidentally, or not so much, he sits right behind me and starts talking to another couple about some of the same stuff I'm going through. Demons, spiritual matters, association, authority... All of it.
I knew at this moment God was providing this person to me as a mentor. I got up and told him what had happened. From there we started meeting and talking about spiritual matters, and we still meet to this day.
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And as always may God keep you and protect you. And may he make his face to shine down upon you. Have a good weekend all!