My Scary Life before Christ Saved Me

By Lillian “Lee” Mosoma

MY SCARY LIFE follows the story of some strange and scary experiences in the life of the author. Imagine having demons talk to you and you are the only one who hears their terrifying voices, or the phone ringing without a sim-card and battery. Then imagine telling people and they think that you have gone mad.

Wake up world, the devil is here to destroy your life in the spirit! How much do you know about your spiritual life? We are not living our own life, but a life that is controlled by evil spirits. But as mere human beings, how can we fight the demons? These demons are moving with us all over the place, and no one will accept that they have demons unless the demons manifest in them. We are living in the dark world and no one is safe, unless we choose God and live in the light or we choose to live in the darkness where the devil is in charge.

About the Author

Lillian Lee is a caring and loving woman. She grew up both in a rural area and in the city. She would go to the mountains to fetch wood for cooking and go to the river to fetch water. Lillian is a straight-talking person, who doesn’t like to pretend. She raised eleven children (her own and her late siblings) and she taught them respect and how to behave towards other people. She hates pride, jealousy and arrogance. She becomes emotional when she sees a woman carrying a child for nine months in her womb, and after she gives birth, she takes her child and leaves it in the street to die. Her wish is for God to give all women a loving heart, because every child deserves to be loved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lillian “Lee” Mosoma
• Release date: May 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005112349

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My Scary Life Before Christ Saved Me

My Scary Life Before Christ Saved Me

Lillian Lee Mosoma

Copyright © 2021 Lillian Lee Mosoma

First edition 2021

Published by Lillian Lee Mosoma publishing at Smashwords

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Testimony

This book is about my true-life story before and after the Lord Jesus saved me. It is for the whole family of Christians as well as non-Christians who want to turn their lives to Christ Jesus. What I have learnt is that God will never reveal His glory to sinners until they repent from their evil ways. I started to see the glory and the light of God when I repented. Yes, we are all His children but it takes a real child to understand what his or her Father really wants. If you obey and follow His commands and rules, then you will be called a committed child of the Most High God.

He loves us unconditionally but the devil is always trying to disconnect the relationship between us and God. As a human being, I didn’t know that when we are born, we are born under many evil spirits. We live in the world where we are born and live under the watchful eyes of the evil spirits. We live in a dark world where we are controlled by the evil one, without noticing. We are the lost nations. We enjoy everything that we see with our physical eyes, not knowing what is happening with our spiritual lives. As long as we sleep and wake up, everything is just fine for us. We only remember that there is a God when we have problems. We begin with our selfish prayers, so that He can help us.

People of God, I know where I come from in life. If it wasn’t for Christ who saved my life, maybe I would have been dead long ago. I thought the life I was living was real until Jesus revealed the true life in me. We are all covered by the cloud of this dark world.

1 JOHN 5:19 WE KNOW THAT WE ARE ALL CHILDREN OF GOD, AND THAT THE WHOLE WORLD IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE EVIL ONE.

The truth is that we can’t fight the evil spirits alone without the help of the Holy Spirit. Jesus rescued my life from the hand of the devil. I am a mere human being – how can I fight the evil spirits? Yes, I needed the spirit of truth to fight for my life, which is the spirit of God.

I want to share my testimony with the people of this world, especially those who are facing challenges in their lives. Before Jesus showed me the real world we live in, I didn’t even believe in spiritual things. I thank God for everything that He has done in my life. Now that I know who I am, I thank the Holy Spirit for guiding me in writing this book. We need to know the God that we are serving. Some people think they are serving the true God while they are busy worshiping the demons.

When King David was writing the book of Psalms, he was thanking God for making his enemy powerless. It was his testimony. This is also my testimony about how powerful God is in our lives. I realise now that in Christ, we are all equal whether we are Black, White, Coloured, Indian, rich, poor, great, small, educated or uneducated, wise or unwise. People of God, life is not always about what we have. We can have money but this can’t buy us happiness, peace of mind and joy.

When I look back from where I come, I am really shivering and scared at the same time and I thank Almighty God that I am still alive today. God really spared my life. He has a purpose for my life, which is why today I share this life of mine with everyone. You will read Bible verses in this book to understand the value of your life in God. May the good Lord give you wisdom to understand the reality of this life we are living and to bring light into your heart so that you can see how true God is in our lives. May this testimony help you and strengthen your faith and belief that Jesus is here to protect us in the spirit. God be the glory!

Opening Prayer!

Father God, I humble myself before you as I come to thank you for this precious life you gave me. As I write this book of testimony to everyone who is going to read it, Father give them wisdom and understanding, and open their spiritual eyes to see what is hiding from them. Let them know that the safest place is in you and know that the world is just a temporary place for us. Lift their faith up, Lord. Oh God, you are holy, trustworthy and faithful to us. Create the love in our hearts, in Jesus name. Amen!

Table of Contents

1. Life in the Darkness

2. Physical Attack

3. My Weak Body – Sickness

4. The Calling

5. Lack of Knowledge

6. To Focus on the Word of God

7. Spiritual Warfare

8. Following the Footsteps of Jesus

9. Pastors Should Preach What is Right to Unite the Children of God

10. You Become Untouchable When the Glory of God Shines Upon You

Special Thanks

Chapter 1

Life in the Darkness

JOHN 8:12 JESUS SAID, I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, WHOEVER FOLLOWS ME WILL NEVER WALK IN DARKNESS, BUT WILL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.

In the beginning, I never understood the darkness He was talking about as when we grew up in our family, there was no one who read the Bible. We used to hear the word of God only when we were at school so I didn’t take it seriously because I had never heard anyone in my family speak about or discuss the word of God.

Growing up with my sisters, brothers and both of my parents, we used to believe in our ancestors. When we were sick, our parents would consult a traditional healer so that they could hear about and know what was going on with our lives. They would come back carrying charms which we call muti. When they arrived home, they would burn the charm and instruct us to kneel down. Afterwards, they would cover us with a blanket so that all the smoke entered our bodies. Hey, we cried a lot and coughed very strongly, trying to kick away the blanket. But they would make sure they pressed the blanket down so that the smoke did not come out. That was the life we were living but I never felt comfortable with it. So one day I confronted my mom and asked her why she kept doing these things to us when we were sick and why she went to traditional healers instead of taking us to the hospital.

She said to me, You are still young. When you grow up, you will understand the importance of traditional healers in our lives. We need them to know whether our sickness is caused by witches.

She continued by saying we live in a cruel world of witches so if we don’t protect our loved ones, witches could destroy them with many sicknesses, causing madness, fighting and all kinds of evil. When I asked her if she had ever seen a witch before, she said a witch couldn’t be seen because there is no one who walks around with a mark on their forehead indicating they are a witch. She said sometimes you can be bewitched by someone who is close to you, but you cannot see whether the person is a witch or not because witches use charms to destroy people’s lives.

There were times when our family gathered together for certain ceremonies. They would call everyone of that surname, saying that the ancestors were very angry so they needed to kill a goat or any other animal that was asked of them in order to seek forgiveness. They would make home-brewed beer for everyone and would take some to the graveyard to pour on the graves as they spoke to their ancestors. People would sing, dance and drink, saying we were thanking our ancestors for our lives. Even when things didn’t go well, they would continue saying that maybe our ancestors were angry for something else. We grew up in a family where our elders only believed in the ancestors and traditional healers. With every single problem, they would go and consult a traditional healer who would then throw the bones. They told us that this was the way to talk to the dead, and to know where the problems came from. So we lived that way, even though we never enjoyed life under the watch of the ancestors. We would struggle through life with problem after problem even though people were busy praising the dead ones.

We moved from town to town, changing schools and meeting different people. One day at school, our class teacher went out to the staff room.

One of the boys stood up in class and said, Someone stole my classwork book. Who is that person?

After repeating this a few times, he said, You children of witches, your parents sent you to steal my book so that they can bewitch me. I know that your grandmothers are so evil and they want to kill me because you told them that I’m a genius.

At that time, no one dared to answer him. I began to ask myself questions. Is everyone aware of the witches? Who created those witches? How do you know if a person is a witch? Why do they choose to destroy other people’s lives? Who pushes them to do such evil things to human beings? I was so confused because I wanted to know the truth about where they got the power and why people were so afraid of them. You could not even hear people talking about God as they were all talking about witches, ancestors and traditional healers.

For me, it was not easy to hear someone talking about the powers of God while everyone in my environment was praising their ancestors. It was only in assembly at school that I heard the word of God from teachers. I had questions in my heart. Is God aware of those witches? If he does know, why does He let them destroy other people’s lives? I didn’t know the truth but all those questions were running in my mind. Sometimes people would say that God and the ancestors were working together. We heard that God created Heaven and Earth, but I didn’t know about His powers because most of the time people said that even pastors would go to traditional healers to get some powers before they went to preach the gospel. Which means they also doubted the power of God.

HOSEA 4:6 MY PEOPLE ARE DESTROYED FROM LACK OF KNOWLEDGE.

One day while visiting a friend, I asked her if she knew all about witches. I said that maybe she could then explain to me some things that I didn’t understand because I was so curious to know the truth.

She responded, You can’t see the witches because they are people who pretend to be good to others while they are full of jealousy. They won’t come and tell you they are witches. They don’t have marks on their faces to show that they are witches. They do all their evil things while no one can see them. They can go and consult a witch doctor to collect charms so they can secretly destroy you.

I asked her if she believed that witches and ancestors had powers over God. She told me that her whole family were Christians and they believed in God.

I told her, "I heard people saying even Christians sometimes go and consult traditional healers before they go to their churches. They take their children to traditional healers, sangomas, to cut their bodies with razors so when blood flows, they put muti on it.

She laughed and said, Here we are Christian. We are committed to Christ Jesus and we believe that by His blood that was shed on the Cross of Calvary, we are saved. We don’t need any charms, except the blood of Jesus.

It was the first time in my life that I was hearing someone talking seriously about the power of God.

She said witches were real and could cause destruction to everyone except those who accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour. I was so confused and felt like I was in darkness because some people said one thing while others said another.

I remember one day sitting under a tree, chatting with my mom and our neighbour, while my younger sister was playing skipping rope with her friends. In the afternoon, we saw a girl coming from a distance. One of my sister’s friends immediately stopped playing and came and sat with us. I asked her if she was tired of jumping.

She said, No, I just got bored when I saw my friend coming here.

Why? I asked. Is she not your friend? Maybe she also wants to play with you.