At work yesterday I was listening to the radio and a preacher was talking about ghosts and spirits. He spoke of one time he walked through a haunted house with a friend. The tour guide was showing them a room where a ghost was frequently seen. Supposedly this was the ghost of a woman who died on her wedding day by falling down the stairs. He asked the tour guide if she wanted to hear the biblical perspective on ghosts. The tour guide said she did. He explained that in the bible Jesus sent some spirits out of a posessed man and these spirits had begged Jesus to send them into a herd of swine. Jesus did this. The preacher explained that the 'ghost' they were seeing was not of the woman. When she died her spirit left the earth. What people are seeing now is a familiar spirit. A demon that got to know the family and is wandering now because it doesn't have a body to inhabit. The demon took on the likeness of the woman. The tour guide said she liked the word spirit better than demon. The reason I'm telling you this story is because the pastor ended his talk with prayer. He asked God to show us where we sinning by toying with the spiritual world. I prayed along with the pastor. This morning I was awoken by a dream that scared me awake.

I was taking pictures in a crowded room of my son and his uncle. They were acting goofy and I was just snapping away. I stopped to look at the photos and as I cycled through them I came to a picture of Norma. Norma died a couple of years ago but there she was sitting right there as plain as day and as healthy as I had ever seen her. I started to show the picture to the guys but then I woke. When I woke I knew why I had this dream. I have toyed with the supernatural. I have consulted Ouija board and I have consulted a fortune teller and I have raised and been raised off the ground by going into trances. This dream was from God showing me my folly. He answered that prayer quickly and left me without a doubt.

You see lying spirits have mislead me by telling me enough truth for me to believe and then telling me enough lies that I have chosen the wrong path. One dream in particular comes to mind. Recently separated from my first husband, and dating another man, I had a dream that involved my mother, and from that dream I determined that I must choose the man, live my life. What this did was take the focus from my children and my focus moved more onto my future second husband. How I wish I would have stayed with all of my focus on my children. I should have been there more for their childhood instead of half there.

How the spirits told me the truth. From the Quija board I was told at what age my brothers would die. I was also told when I would die but for some reason I just can't seem to remember what age that was. (Which is a good thing.) The fortune teller told me that I had recently lost two people and that I was estranged from someone I loved very much. At the time I thought she was full of malarky. I couldn't recall losing anyone. But I had lost my father and my aunt. (serious memory problems). I was estranged from my son at the time (his wife was on the low end of her bi-polar cycle.) I was told that I would have trouble with my lower half, my legs, my hips and my ankles. So enough truth has been told but those lies . . . how they have hurt my family. Also, by hearing those lies how much of this is just me making it come true? Like the pain in my hips and knees?!?

Playing around with fortune tellers, dream interpreters, astrology, ghosts, etc., are forbiddin for very real reasons. AVOID all of these. Demons are bad. They have been around for a very long time and they know how to twist the truth. God loves us and tells us to avoid them and He tells us how to avoid them AND He protects us if we ask.

I like how the haunted house people and others soften the blow by calling them spirits. Don't be fooled. Call them what they are and stay away.

The Lord showed me tonight where I sinned (fell). He also placed these memories back up where I could remember them. I don't want to remember how I let my children down but I have to. I have to.