Prepare-for-War

The years passed and troubles came. The religious group my parents were in became very evil and demonically controlled. They claimed to be the only people in the whole world who knew the truth and who were going to heaven. Drunkenness and adultery were rampant within the group. I was an outcast both inside and outside the group which caused me many hours of tears, but, the Lord was keeping the covenant and protecting me from sinful relationships. Demonic mind control was so total within the group that everyone was completely ruled by fear, including my parents. It became a tightly controUed cult. Members were taught that they would lose their salvation if they left the group or .disobeyed its leaders. But, my mother had already taught me in my young years that I was always directly re sponsible to God for everything I did or said, that I must never just go along with a group, and that I must always study God's word (the Bible) and decide for myself what was right and what was wrong according to God's word. She didn't know that she was teaching me right out of the group which made up her whole life. It's interesting as I look back on it now I realize that when I accepted the Lord at that young age He gave me the gift of discerning of spirits. I didn't know what it was because we were taught that the gifts of the Holy Spirit were not availa ble in this age. I remember so many times coming home from the group meetings crying my eyes out sobbing, ..Daddy, Daddy, there was evil there, I felt it!" I used to lit erally get physically ill every time we went to a meeting, but my parents did not understand what was happening. During the troubles of my teen years the covenant was for gotten by both my parents and myself, but not by God. God kept the covenant! In the 26th year of my life I finally severed my links with the group in which I was raised, left home for the first time and started medical school. I lived on a large university

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