There were 3 girls (maybe in their 20s) walking and chatting about 20 feet ahead of me on the sidewalk as I walked back home from a “cardio & power prayer” workout. I was soaked with sweat and the Holy Spirit. Because my pace was much quicker than theirs, I quickly caught up to them, and just as I started to pass them, one of the girls screamed and threw herself against the wall of a building along the sidewalk.
When I say she screamed, I mean a soul-piercing scream like I’ve never heard before. It seemed to carry pain from every cell of her body. Simultaneously my body turned to ice, all the heat from my workout dissipated, I was ice cold. Goosebumps covered my skin. Tears just started pouring from eyes. Evil was next to me. I don’t know if it was because the evil spirit possessed her that it gave it more physical presence/power or what.
She continued screaming and throwing herself into the wall. Her 2 friends grabbed her to stop her from slamming into the wall. I went around them as fast as I could with tears streaming down my face. As soon as I was a few feet past them, the girl’s screams stopped. The presence of the Holy Spirit [in me] was no longer near her. Unfortunately, it took a minute for me to understand what was happening and to turn back to help but then they were gone.
Before this I hadn’t realized that pain - emotional or physical - has a warm undercurrent to it. For example your heart might be shattered because you had loved someone. Or if injured, pain signals are being sent to your brain to warn you that something harmful happened to the wholeness of your body. Our pain is love or wholeness breaking - it’s based off something that was good.
This evil presence wasn’t anything good being broken - it was the total absence of anything. It was true death. It was pure desperate lonely hatred. It was by far the worst thing I’ve felt. Merely walking by this one little manifestation of evil for a matter of seconds caused me to have an awful physical and emotional reaction... and I had the Holy Spirit’s protection. I understood why I had never heard a scream like that before.
It's no a fairytale. Hell and evil are real. We cannot give-up on anyone. We have to LOVE ALL people. We have to PRAY for ALL people. Then the light within us will send darkness away screaming.
If I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
The light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it. John 1:5
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