Editor’s note: The following testimony was shared with Pastor Joe.

My name is Alice. I am married and have one daughter.

I come from an animist family. After I was born, my mom and dad separated. Afterward, my mother remarried a prominent witch doctor. I grew up without knowing my biological father or knowing my village.

When I was 15, people told me that I possessed great power I could use to protect myself and make money. I did not know what the people were talking about. In our culture, if people talk this way, it means you are a person who is devoted to the devil. But I did not know anything.

After my conversion to Christianity and baptism in 2017 and my marriage in 2019, my eyes opened to the real spiritual war I face. The first thing the spirits did was attack my fertility. I miscarried triplets during my first pregnancy. In 2021, I lost the twins of my second pregnancy. My adoptive father told me that the spirits dug a grave behind my back, meaning any child I conceived would be offered to the devil and would not see the day of his or her birth.

Despite being an Adventist, I went through several churches searching for a solution, but in vain. I lost all hope of conceiving. Then, someone told me to go to Fria so Pastor Joe could pray for me. One Sabbath, I went.

As Pastor Joe prayed during the presentation of a child, he said I would have a child the next year.
After the Sabbath, I returned to my husband.

A month after the prayer, I became pregnant and informed Pastor Joe. From the first month until I gave birth, I prayed and read the Bible online with the pastor. Today, I have my daughter, thanks to Jesus. I also now understand that many people like me suffer from an initiation of which they are unaware and need Christ’s help through the intervention of a man of God for their deliverance.

Author’s Note: The Animists of Central Africa need to hear that Jesus Christ still delivers from oppression and heals diseases. Please pray for us as we prepare to share Jesus with these precious people.

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