Which Witch is Which

By Renee Johnson

This book has been a way for me to break the silence, and even more than that, it has been a steady source of inspiration and amazement for the past few years.

It taught me that it is possible to take something that hurt me so deeply and turn it around. I hope it teaches you the same. It is possible to heal...

My book is about recovery- what it takes, what it feels like like, and how it can transform your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Renee Johnson
• Release date: Jan 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311410443

Renee Johnson

Renee Johnson’s BioRenee Johnson is a native of Jacksonville Florida and is the mother of four beautiful children. As a woman of prayer, Renee received the assignment to reach out to teen girls in her community. It was in August of 2002, when God gave her the vision of Morning Dove Center For Teen Girls, Inc.In March of 2003, the organization was filed in the State of Florida, and within nine months, it was certified as a nonprofit organization with its 501©3. Since the calling has been placed on her life, God has given her so many ideas to offer service to the young girls, such as Workshops, Teen Summits, Banquets, Clothes Giveaways, and Fashion Shows, which are ways of ministering and serving the girls to meet their needs.Renee is passion about encouraging teen girls to realize their true value and worth within themselves, in Christ, through inspirational and educational teaching and music. Her ministry is positively impacting the lives of girls and young women citywide. She attended local schools, such as Ribault Middle School, Andrew Jackson High School, and graduated from Fernandina Beach High School, in the year of 1980.Renee Johnson has had experience working with children over the past 10 years, with Emma Love Hardy Elem. School, Fernandina Bch. Fl., Head Start School System, as a teacher aide, and she also worked as a teacher with preschoolers at Elm Street Church of God Daycare. Her experience with teens started from her own personal experience while mentoring her 4 teen children, ministering to teen girls in her local church, by encouraging and motivating them, and teens in her local neighborhood.Renee also volunteered with the State of Florida Guardian AD Litem Program, for abused and neglected children, where she had the opportunity to sit in court with families that are being challenged, and have their children taken away to foster care. Renee has had several opportunities to minister in other areas, such as Fernandina, Columbia South Carolina, A Foster Care Group Home in Orange Park Florida, several churches within the local area and schools in the local area as well.In March 2012, Renee became an author and published her first book, entitled “The Blaze of Consumption A Rise From The Ashes”, which became a “Great Seller” as she pursued her dream as an Entrepreneur, God allowed her to birth out her first novel and from that 2 plays were also created from her book entitled “Somethin’s Gotta Give” by Hidden Wounds Productions, and Distorted Truth. Many other book titles were birthed and are being prepared for publication as well. Ms. Renee is now working on her 4th and 5th book, as she continues to minister to those with hidden pain from abuse or rejection that leads to low self-esteem.In June of 2012, God elevated Renee to another level of ministering, where she started the ministry of Vessels of Living Water, which was organized and listed with the State of Florida, to minister to hurting women, nationwide. She has since been invited to speak at several workshops, youth events as well as services that reach out to young women throughout the State of Florida and other States as well.Renee Johnson has 28 years of experience in Customer Care Services, starting out with McDonalds Restaurant as her first job, after leaving High School at age 17, then Kmart Dept. Store, the school system, 10 years of services at Wal-Mart, 3 years of Nursing Assistance in a Fernandina Beach Nursing Home, and she is a certified Home Health Aide, with CPR certificate. She also attended Jones College for 3 years and FCSJ for 6 months of training in medical assistance for home services. Renee is the Director of Domestic Relations with E.Y.L.S. Mentor Program Inc., which is a Non-Profit Organization that mentors ages 5 yrs. Old and up. This organization reaches troubled and At-Risk teens of any gender;Renee is now enrolled with the Florida Theological Seminary School, for her degree in Christian Counseling. Her goal is to reach as many teen girls and hurting women in the Jacksonville area, and extended cities across the nation, which is needed based on the statistics of percentage rates of HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, juvenile crime, sexual abuse, rape, molestation, child abuse/neglect, domestic violence, and teens in and out of foster care. While traveling and ministering to others, her books speak for themselves and God opens the doors for her to minister with boldness.If you would like Renee to speak at your next event, please contact her by email at [e-mail] or you can call 904-418-0836

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Introduction

It is said that a person with a Jezebel spirit is a person that has a controlling spirit, a spirit of witchcraft according to the Kings James version of the bible. (2 Kings 9:22)

WITCH

a person, especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic, especially black magic or the black art; sorceress. Compare warlock.

an ugly or mean old woman; hag:

In the Old Testament of the Bible, God told the people when they enter the land the Lord their God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or cast spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consult with the dead. (Deuteronomy 18:9-11)

WITCHCRAFT

the art or practices of a witch; sorcery; magic.

magical influence; witchery.

WARLOCK

a man who practices the black arts; a male witch; sorcerer.

a fortune teller or conjurer.

SORCERESS

A person who practices sorcery; A witch

SORCERY

the art, practices, or spells of a person who is supposed to exercise supernatural powers through the aid of evil spirits; black magic; witchery.

REBELLION

open, organized, and armed resistance to one’s government or ruler.

resistance to or defiance of any authority, control, or tradition.

the act of rebelling.

According to the King James version of the bible, Rebellion is a spirit of witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23)

After several years of now being divorced from her first husband and now single again, Nira decided to start dating and spending time out with a close friend (Demetrius T. Worshell) that she knew years ago from high school. They lost contact with each other when she decided to move from her grandfather’s home at the age of 19 to live with some friends out of the city. Nira started reflecting on when it all started. The flames of emotions that caused her to be drawn to those affections she use to have, even with all of the issues she was having while in her first marriage, and before she even decided to file for her divorce, she had already made up in her mind, that the marriage was over. Things had to either get better in her situation, or it was proven to be better once she had made some changes in her life. Her children looked up to her for everything they needed and desired. Even with her husband in the house, (the father of her three children) they still bond with her more than they did with their father. A mother’s love carries more weight than a father with unanswered promises.

Now she is looking at life from a different perspective, it seems like now it’s all about Nira and how she can make better decisions that would have a positive impact on, not only her life, but her children as well. This book "Which Witch Is Which" is intended to take you through a journey of Nira’s life that will amaze your thoughts, arouse your curiosity, and challenge you as a reader not to put the book down until you have finished reading through to its entirety.

This book will take you through dark times of Nira’s life when she had to take the bitter with the sweet, step through the curse to get to the blessing, fight through tunnels of depression, fight for the safety of her children, stand boldly face to face with her enemies, cast down strong imaginations of her mind, fight demonic spirits nested in and around her home, and figure out, which witch was witch. When this book has been read, you will then know what the title "Which Witch Is Which" means, how to know when you see a demon, how to recognize sounds in the night that keep you from sleeping, or a touch, when no one is there but you, when a person attacks you with harsh words, lies and evil deeds, and be able to know it’s not the person, but the demon that is using them.

The story will take you through unresolved accidents that could have been fatal, which was used to separate the family, but Nira still held on to what she believed, even to the point of trying to take the minds of her children and caused them to turn on her, for the most part, they began to attack each other. Nira never gave up but kept praying and fasting that one day God will hear her prayers and deliver her from the hand of the enemy (enemies). The trail of abuse didn’t end in the first chapter of Nira’s life (the first book), it just intensified after the change of tactics that the devil used to destroy her mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, the fight was now on!

[Exodus 22:18-20, Laws regarding civil and religious obligations, there were three capital crimes in the old testament, in addition to murder were sorcery, witchcraft and sexual intercourse with an animal and idolatry.]

Echoes of Joy

The Temple of The Living God Church, (one of the greatest churches in the community to attend), was having a revival, and Nira’s church that she attended was invited to come and join in service along with other churches from out of town that would be attending. The choir she was a member of, was on program to sing, Nira and one of her closest friends, Janelle decided to go and ride together, and of course, Nira was the driver. When the service was over, Nira and her friend got in the car and left. While driving, Nira heard a loud noise. Not knowing where the noise was coming from, she and her friend stopped and disembarked from the car and lifted the hood of the car, only to have a puzzled look on both of their faces not knowing what they were looking at, or looking for. Nobody really paid them any attention, as everyone was leaving to go to their various homes. Nira remembered her friend from high school who lives in the area close by, so she just figured that if she stopped by his house, he would know what it was and could tell her what she need to do. So they got back into the car, cranked it up, and drove off with an embarrassing loud clacking noise with smoke coming from under the hood of the car. Often times, things happen in our lives according to a plan of the enemy, and it looks like its right, and for our good, until the real picture is shown, and then we realize it was a set up from the devil. Nira’s intentions were good, but the devil had another plan added to it that she did not see.

When they arrived at her friend’s (Mr. Worshell) house amazingly excited, Nira saw him standing in the driveway in his garage, as she pulled up. He had his back turned at the time, so he did not realize who was coming to see him. As she pulled up behind him, she said, There he is, he’s home, to her friend. Nira’s whole expression changed, and her heart began to beat with double beats as he began to turn around to see who was in the driveway. Even though Nira was overwhelmingly happy to see him, she could barely get her words out right to say hello. It had been many years since they saw each other; she immediately began to ask him if he knew who she was, with the biggest smile on her face. He came to the car window on her side to see who it was. He looked amazed and astonished at seeing her and displaying immediate recognition. Nira began to say when it was the last time she saw him as a young teen walking everyday by his place of employment while going to school and greeting him while passing by each day. Of course things have changed, because now she has become an adult and all of her features have changed. After they began to look at each other without wanting to take their eyes off of each other, Nira remembered she had her friend in the car and the real reason they came by in the first place. So she pulled herself together and introduced them, and began to tell him the problem she was having with her car. As she began to get out of the car to show him what she was hearing and how she saw smoke and how it was a scary feeling to drive, even to his house. He told her to crank the car up so he could listen to it and then proceeded to tell her that there was no way he would let her drive the car in that condition home without even knowing how far she was going. He decided that he would follow her home to make sure they got there safely. So he closed the hood of the car and advised Nira that he just needed to put away his tools, and he would be ready to follow them home. But something suddenly happen that kind of delayed the trip home. There was a blonde head, slim, white woman who came outside of the house, walked directly to him and asked him quietly what was he doing or about to do, with her eyes facing the driveway where Nira’s car was parked. All of a sudden, they both began to walk toward the car as if this was a necessary introduction that had to take place while they were facing such crucial moments. But needless to say, Nira swallowed her selfish thoughts and remembered her childhood upbringing. So as he began to introduce them, he told her this was his friend Sarah, and he advised Sarah that Nira was a good friend from years ago when he knew her mom and did some work for her on her car. He told Sarah that it had been years since he had seen her and needed to follow her home because she was having trouble with her car. Sarah shook Nira’s hand with a crushing smile as she grit her teeth together as if it was not convincing acknowledgment of how he really knew Nira. Janelle was also introduced as well, and the smile remained the same as Sara began to walk back into the house. Janelle warned her that it was getting late and things didn’t look the same and the atmosphere seemed to look as if it was changing around everyone but Nira’s friend. He insisted that everything was fine, and he was getting his keys and jacket so that he could leave with them. Still the moment was amazingly expressing warmth and excitement with Nira, just to know that it has drawn to the night hours and she still had some time to hang out and exchange reflections of the past with her old friend, once they took care of business first. Once he came out of the house and came back to her car, he asked her where are you living now and she told him she lived about 34 miles away. While thinking that he might change his mind about going, Nira’s face began to show disbelief and her mind had all kinds of thoughts going through it, but surprisingly he got in his truck and said, Let’s go leaving his friend in the house, and not even inviting her to come along. Nira cranked up the car, and backed up to allow him to follow her home, and as they began to drive away, she saw his front door of his home opened and she noticed that the lady was standing at the door watching them drive off. As she got half way to her destination, she realized that it was an interesting thing to have just a little time spent with him just to talk; once she takes her friend home and leaves, she had to go home to a husband that she had not quite packed up and left. Even though she had already started packing to leave, Nira was not quite out the door yet. After taking her Janelle home and saying good night she told Nira to go straight home and not to make any stops, and Nira agreed, but…

Janelle told Mr. Worshell thanks for following us home to make sure we were safe. She also said I pray that everything will be alright when you get home and he agreed. When they drove off, they stopped at the next block over and he got out, seeing if he could spend some time with her for at least 20 minutes. She then had to let him know that she was married and needed to be home in a decent time.

She knew that her husband was using drugs heavily and most of the time he really never paid her any attention anymore, so she felt like 20 or 30 minutes would not make a difference anyway. So she had him follow her to the beach so they could get out and walk and enjoy the night for a little bit, with no hidden agendas on either of their minds. Of course the devil don’t play fair, and the bible says, Let not then your good be evil spoken of, (Romans 14:16) and this could lead to just that, if the moment presents itself right. Once they got on the beach, they got out of their cars and embraced each other in each other’s arms. Nira tried to make her hug very short and innocent, but his arms went around her waist and he would not let her go, then he kissed her and began to tell her how he recently, just a few months ago, prayed and asked God to send her back to him, to allow him to see her again, because she was the best thing that ever happen to him. Nira was listening closely but at the same time, she was carefully pushing him away to avoid anything happening that shouldn’t. The stars were so beautiful to look at that night, and the night breeze on the beach just set the moment, but she knew it was not right to be alone with a man she barely knew, only from her past as a teenager, not knowing at that time what love was really all about. So after 15 minutes of getting caught up on each other’s present life’s prospective, Nira reminded him once again that she was married and needed to get home before her husband got suspicious about her whereabouts, as the time was drawing late. He agreed to let her go if she just gave him one more hug and exchanges of each other’s phone number so he could make sure she was doing fine with the car or he knew someone to look at it, because he had friends that work on cars. Once they gave each other the last hug, they both teasingly hugged aggressively tight until Nira stumbled and fell in the sand backwards, which caused sand to get in her hair, and that was not good. Nira had very long hair, and most of the time it was oily, so that caused a problem, because she could not brush the sand out of her hair and it seemed as though she got it all out, but time would tell once she got home and looked in the mirror…

When Nira pulled up in the yard of her house, she looked in the rearview mirror and surprisingly she saw his truck in her mirror, and nervously got out of her car, looked up at her friend and said good night, again thinking he would pull off, but he just sat there smiling. Then Nira heard a familiar voice behind her that asked what’s going on with the car and as she turned around to cautiously answer the question, she acknowledged her husband and quickly introduced him to Mr. Worshell, telling him that he was a friend and at one time, a member of the family at one time in the past. Her husband respectfully shook his hand and thanked him for following his wife home, and invited him in to have a drink or sit for a while, but Nira was giving signals at her husband to let him get back home before it got too late. Mr. Worshell advised he was appreciative of the hospitality, but he was going to go ahead and get back home, so he could get up for work on time the next morning. He gave Nira a big smile and said that they will see each other again, and that he would check on her the following day to see if the car is running alright, and then he drove off. When Nira turned to go in the house, she noticed that her husband was no longer standing there, so she hurriedly rushed in the front door, shut it and acted as if she was so happy to be home and grateful to have a friend that cared enough to follow her home to make sure she made it home safely. Well, that same gratitude wasn’t expressed by her husband, and he couldn’t care less, because the questions began. He angrily asked where were you all this time? What church did you attend? What time did you all get out? Before she could hastily answer his first question, he noticed sand in the back of her hair, and one thing led to another. So unfortunately, she never finished answering him, before he cut her off, got his keys and walked out of the door and slammed it behind him. The tension between them just grew from bad to worse, and after about six months of intense arguing, distrust and disrespect, Nira realized the marriage was over. Her husband drew closer and closer to sustaining his habits of drugs and did not see his family slipping away from him. Nira decided to move to another city, only about 25 minutes from where she was living, to live with her sister, Samantha.

After briefly talking to Samantha, they both decided that this would be the best thing for her and the children, until things got better. So Nira jumped right on it, she packed her bags, and grabbed everything she could of the children’s, and moved out to live with her sister. Nira lived with her Samantha for about three months, and from there, she found her own apartment within miles of her sister. After moving into her 3 bedroom apartment, she had a close cousin, Roshiela that asked to move in with her temporarily to help out with watching the children and helping with the rent, and Nira agreed. Since Nira had help, she spent a lot of time over at Mr. Worshell’s house, because nobody was living there at the time but he and his son, so it was much quieter. At times his son would play his music loudly, or be on the phone with a lot of different people talking, but for the most part the house was pretty quiet. One evening he told his son to clean the yard and have his room clean by the time he got home from work or reap the consequences. His son never really paid him any attention, and things never really were done as he was told. Nira always tried to stay out of their discussions, because it would usually end as a heated one every time. One morning, Mr. Worshell decided to leave the house to buy some car parts in a city nearby. Nira, he said, come and go with me to pick up some parts for this truck that I am working on this weekend, and so she responded with a yes, and they set out to leave and go. While traveling in the truck for about 20 minutes, and right before they could get to the red light to make a right turn, suddenly out of nowhere a car turned and crossed right in front of them without any warning, and caused him to panic, cut his wheel toward the curb, which caused the truck to gravitate toward the sidewalk, and up the curb, right into a big tall metal pole holding a Chicken sign. Nira was screaming hysterically at the top of her voice, and mashing the floor as if stopping the truck herself from the passenger side of the truck, but nothing would even slow the truck down, it’s like it escalated to a faster speed as they were approaching the poll to hit it. After about a second of realizing what had happened, Mr. Worshell asked her if she was alright, and Nira nodded to indicate that she was fine. But something was wrong with her right foot; it was throbbing unbearably in pain like a toothache, with no ease at all. He advised her to hold on as help was on the way, and he began to make a call to his son to let him know what had happened. Within seconds, people were gathering around the truck to see if everyone was alright, and he advised them, please, just check on my friend! Nira’s door flew open, and a man looked right into her eyes and asked, ma’am, are you alright, are you hurting anywhere? to which she responded, yes, my foot, by this time the pain had become so severe, she was in tears, screaming even louder than before. The man looked down at her foot and told her not to move. As he looked down at her foot, he was astounded at what he saw; a bowling ball was on her foot which was causing her foot to start swelling like a balloon! He said, oh my God, don’t move ma’am, the ambulance is on its way. By this time, Nira looked down and saw exactly what the man saw, and became frightened even the more. Then she heard this soft voice said, Oh my, didn’t ya’ll just leave the house, what happened? I told you not to go with him, but to stay home with me. Nira looked up and it was her friend’s son, he wiped the tears from her eyes and told her to be calm, the ambulance was there to take her to the hospital. The truck was totaled, and there was nothing else that could be done on that day but to see that Nira was alright. After arriving at the hospital, minutes of test and x-rays, the doctor found out that Nira’s foot was broken, right by her ankle, and she would need a cast for a few weeks. All of Nira’s family arrived at the hospital to make sure she was o.k., and then took her home with brand new crutches and some pain meds. Within these weeks, Nira got all the attention. The driver of the car just said she was sorry and her insurance would take care of everything. After a few months, things were back to normal, and he and his son were back on bad terms again, and not long after that, he put his son out to live with his mother, but there was still no more peace after that. It was like; their whole relationship had opened (like they say)a can of worms," from his past. Within a year’s time of separation, and filing for a divorce, it was over and that is how Nira moved on with her life as a single woman.

With fear gripping her in the thought of how she was going to make it with four children and making only slightly over minimum wage, she began to pray, that God would see her through it all. Within a few days, the calls started with her friend that helped her with the car, and she advised him that she made the choice to leave her husband and was moving to live with her sister. He was very happy to hear this, not because he had sympathy for her husband, it was like a lost for her husband and a gain for him. He made all sorts of promises and was there every day by her side to make sure that her needs were met, and to make sure the children were taken care of. As the days went by, they began to get closer and closer, and began to spend a lot of happy times together. They went out on dates to the movies, dinner, and occasionally shopping at times. Then one week in September they decided to get together and surprise Samantha and give her a birthday party, at his house…

Nira agreed it would be a good idea, because her sister was often sad and perplexed at the death of her former husband, so they wanted to try and cheer her up; He made all the plans and invited all his brothers and some of his friends over. Nira invited her cousins over and some of her friends as well as some of her sister’s friends. The evening started out well, but nobody said anything about Mr. Worshell’s friend who lived there with the blonde hair. It was like she didn’t even exist, with all the people there and all the music and noise, Nira just knew she couldn’t be sleep. Where was she? Nira wondered. All the room doors were shut, nobody even mentioned her, even when everybody was being introduced to each other, her name was never called, and she was not in view to even be recognized as part of the gathering…

Mr. Worshell’s brother, noticed Nira and wanted to meet her and have a chat, but as soon as he heard the conversation, he anxiously rushed in the living room and put a stop to his interesting thoughts, and advised him that he could talk to anybody in the room except Nira, he advised that she was off limits… then the room door opened and what came to everyone’s wondering eyes, was the lady with blonde hair. She was dressed in a long casual dress top with a pair of see through leotard tights. You could barely hear a whisper in the room, it was like everything came to a standstill for a moment, not a sound came out of anyone’s mouth, and nobody asked, who she was. She had everybody’s attention, especially all the friends of Nira, because Nira had already told her friends about him and she never mentioned the female he had living with him, because he never made a big thing about her. She only knew her as one of his friends; or was she a roommate?

So immediately he stepped in and introduced Pam to the whole room of visitors that did not know who she was, but the words he used did not change, she was still his friend, and only that, as he put it. After the formal introduction, everyone began to go back to laughing and talking