Finally, Deliverance!

There is a small group that just started up last semester-catering to young adults and VCU students. LIFE group! I love going there to meet with Holy Spirit and my family in Christ SOOOO MUCH!! But last time, I did not feel like calling anyone to pick me up Wed night, which would be my last time before heading up to Freddy'sBurg. I felt I would be "in the way" since I live maybe 30 mins away from Paul and Nancy's [campus pastors] house, so I just settled and planned on resting at home.
Lo and behold! Nancy calls me while I'm making dinner and asked if I had a ride. I said no and that I didn't ask anybody. Then, she said she'd call people and find me a ride. I was feeling indifferent, so I said, "okay, thanks." A few minutes later, she found me a ride and a second afterwards, Patrick called me & told me he was gonna pick me up in 20 mins or so. So speed up the story past getting ready and picked up....zoom right up to when we got to Paul and Nancy's house, a cute little place with a yellow door.
They were singing worship songs and it was lovely, but I couldn't get myself to concentrate on the discussion. I was looking around, thinking about other stuff even when I wanted to listen! I didn't feel depressed...still indifferent, like staring out into space constantly trying to pull myself in. You know that feeling?
Anyways, Nancy even asked me what I was feeling and I just didn't know. I knew it was something not of the Lord, but I didn't know, so she said we'd talk. Someone felt like to end life group, we should separate guys and girls and pray. So six of us gals talked about prayer requests. Many people said they were being attacked by sickness. Two or three were coughing or had a sore throat. Quickly, it got to my turn and I felt a pull to share about what happened to me in the van coming home to Richmond from the OneThing Conference in Kansas City.
"In our van, people were hardcore praying for others to get set fear from oppression, fear etc. I think it is safe to say everyone was in the Spirit that night. When I heard Ethan pray for his sister to get set free from fear, the thing inside me just freaked out. The thing meaning a spirit of darkness...something was trying to hold on to me and it wasn't good. Immediately, every person who could reach me starting praying for me in the spirit or with understanding. They were trying to war against this thing!! One or two asked me to look in their eyes, so they could command it to leave me, but it did not want to look into anybody's eyes. It made me growl and shake and try to escape from the grasps of my friends, while I felt exhausted and scared that this was actually happening again!! [A similar situation happened last year on the way back from OneThing 2008]. My friends tried to discern what this was, but could not. As time went on, I do not know how long, maybe only a couple mins, our driver called Benjamin, prayer director of RIHOP, and all vans came to a halt on the side of the highway. People stopped praying as Benjamin came and brought me to his van instead, leaving my friends in the van feeling afraid and confused I'm sure. I was so tired from the spiritual activity, it was hard for me to get out of the van. But once I got into Benjamin's van, the Lord showed me something. There are altars to Buddha in my grandpa's house AND in my uncle's house."

I shared a very condensed version of that at Life group that night. I told Benjamin when it happened that I didn't understand why. "I'm not in immorality, why did this happen to me again?" Right away, Nancy answered that is it not my fault. I could repent on behalf of my relatives. So the ladies lifted me up in prayer. Nancy led...she said,"Repeat after me, Eva,...I repent...on behalf of my family...for the spirit of adultery...to Buddha!" I did not have to look into her eyes, but it was not long before I could feel IT reacting to the prayers of the saints. After she said, "to Buddha..in Jesus name," I could feel the thing leave. Literally, peace came over my spirit and I lay there on the couch [for I had fallen over] taking deep breaths and feeling joy enter in. Finally! I had been delivered after who knows how many years that thing had been attacking me. The heaviness was lifted and I was so grateful to God and my sisters' prayers! I left with that same gratitude and hugged everyone. Nancy told me that God reminded her to call me to come that specific Wed night like, "Nancy, make sure Eva has a ride." Oh, how the Lord works! I will miss them much in Freddy'sBurg. I know...it is only an hour away, but I love them a lot!
So HALLULEJAH!!! I AM FREE!!!