 Melissa, would you please share where are you from and how did you get to Congregian? How did you hear about us? How did you end up here? So my name's Melissa and I'm from Hermiston and I go to Hermiston Assembly in Hermiston and I remember Pastor Vlad speaking at our church a couple years ago and it had sparked my interest to this church just because of the message that was preached and so I would randomly come here but it was about a month ago that I reached out to my friend that goes here and asked her when's the next healing and deliverance service and she said March 28th and I'm like, that's my birthday, I gotta go. Come on, right on the birthday. That's so awesome. We know that you received a powerful deliverance. Would you please start sharing with, what were the things that you experienced in your life and like situations and some setbacks that the devil has held you in, would you please start from there? Okay, so I was radically saved seven years ago and I was filled with the Holy Spirit three years ago but I always struggled with my identity and my value to where it would always be a cycle of anxiety and depression and isolation and I would have moments of breakthrough but I could never really, truly get free and I didn't understand why and I mean, it kinda seeped over in my relationships with people, my family, I would only get so close to them and then I would retreat back into this place of just anger, I really didn't like myself and I knew what the word said and the truth of what his word but I could never make that connection to myself because I knew God wasn't a liar but I just, I didn't understand why I was going through this and I poured it out on a lot of it blaming my husband. I mean, we had a lot of issues together, a lot of it internally, I would never speak it out but I know that I wrestled with a lot of feelings and thoughts of separation, thoughts of divorce because I put so much expectation on him that I thought he needed to love me a certain way or speak to me a certain way for me to feel loved or feel valued and so I really wrestled with a lot of thoughts of separation but just myself too that I could just never get free from the anxiety and the... What caused all of these issues, internal battles, a trauma in your life? Could you please elaborate on that? Yeah, so like I went through a lot of abuse when I was a child, a lot of sexual abuse and God brought a full, like I was able to deliver the people that had done this to me but yes, I was able to forgive them but there was always something like I realized I locked myself in a prison of unforgiveness because I was so ashamed of myself for what was done to me and... And during the deliverance, what were you experiencing? I'm sorry, before that, I know for the... Before you came in here for deliverance last month, you started to seek the Lord intensely. You were so desperate for deliverance. Could you share about that? Yeah, so I always had a place of communication with the Lord about through everything but just in the last two months, my prayer life just began to get so intense when no one was looking, like I would just really seek frequently the Lord in a secret place to where I knew what was going on internally wasn't lining up with the truth and I just began to seek the truth because I knew this wasn't the place that God had for me. I want you to notice something. Deliverance and healing is for the children of God. There's no such thing. If you're a Christian, you cannot struggle with certain demonic oppression. We believe that it belongs to those who follow Jesus Christ and so if you're a Christian, if you have the Holy Spirit and you are experiencing something that you cannot explain, some demonic attacks, don't be afraid to seek out deliverance because Jesus Christ came to set the captives free. He gave bread is to the children, amen. And if you're a child of God, deliverance belongs to you. And another thing I want you to notice that deliverance is for the desperate. You have to be desperate. You have to know that you need this and that belongs to you. And like Melissa, she started to pursue Jesus Christ like never before and here's what happened. She came for the prayer line and would you please tell us what were you experiencing while standing in the prayer line and how your deliverance was for you? Okay, so when I came up to the prayer line, I knew I had to keep my eyes closed because I would get distracted because I wanted to watch what was going on but I felt a couple of hands pray over me and I just kept my eyes closed the whole time and I know the main guy that was praying for me, Ivan. He just led me through a simple prayer of open your heart to the Lord. So I said that and immediately in the spirit I felt this steel wall come over me and that's the wall that I felt in the natural my whole life was to keep people at a distance. And I kept hearing the Holy Spirit say the word stubbornness and I told him that. And he said, I want you to pray that you're gonna renounce the spirit of stubbornness and come out of agreement with it. And immediately when I said that the demon manifested and like just took control and I was so aware what the demon was saying but I had absolutely no control. But I know everything that the demon was saying was things that I wrestled about myself, the doubt, the anger, the shame and the unforgiveness. Wow. And so what happened after the deliverance? What after what took place here? How do you feel now? And what is the difference that you see right now? Would you please share to everyone? So I really don't like all the anxiety is gone all the depression is gone like the doubt that I wouldn't even step out and share is gone. And God has just like opened doors radically like every single day for me to share my heart that I was once hidden away that he's just opened doors for me to share what's happened and I'm excited. I'm not like afraid or ashamed to share it anymore. Come on, let's give a hand of thought to Jesus for this powerful deliverance and for the power of God to that it touched your life and it set your friend delivered you. We are so happy and we rejoice with you and we are thankful that you're not ashamed to share your testimony because we believe that it will touch a lot of people. Melissa, and with this being said would you please share a word of advice to people who might find themselves in a similar situation. Maybe something happened to them while they were young or trauma or something that caused them shame and caused them to be locked in themselves and now they need deliverance from certain things. What would you tell them? So I know it's hard to imagine your life free from the pain and the anxiety because I've met people they can't even imagine but it's true, it's for you and you just begin to seek the Lord and you don't have to figure it out. He will line it up for you. You just seek Him and know that that place is not for you. Not no matter what you've done, no matter what's done to you, He has freedom for you. Come on, come on. Let's put our hands together for Jesus. Hallelujah, thank you so much. Wow, what an amazing story. You know, I loved what she said. You don't have to work so hard. You know, just seek the Lord and the Lord will start aligning things for you for you to receive your deliverance, amen.