Alvin Mast

February 4, 2011

As a young child I was taken to the neighbor minister to be "brauched" (powwowed) on. This was done for such things as sore throat, earache, canker sores etc. As a child growing up I had an extreme fascination and attraction to these types of things.

By the age of 7, I had "bought" (removed) the many warts from my hands with a piece of string. At about 10 years of age I watched the neighboring bishop "witch" for water. He began with a forked branch and located some water veins etc.; he then switched to 2 L-shaped 1/8" bronze welding rods. He held 1 in each hand; they would cross when he came to an underground water vein. When he was satisfied that he had found the best vein, he proceeded to do the most "amazing" thing my young eyes had ever seen! He stopped and switched to 1 rod; he held this L-shaped rod pointing out in front of him and proceeded to have the rod "tell" him how deep the vein was. He started the rod to swing and then the rod seemed to have a mind of its own as it became a blur and "whir" of motion. That rod flew so fast it snapped off at the L (67 feet it said)! This was great! I determined to try it myself. I got a forked peach branch, rods, and proceeded to try the procedure myself. It worked, although I could not get the rods to fly up and down as fast as the bishop... amazing! As I grew up, Esp, Ekankar, body floating, etc. were all topics that drew me like a magnet, although these never worked for me no matter how hard I tried.

At about 22 years of age I watched the movie "The Exorcist" and observed the amazing "Ouija" board. A few months later out of the blue (or was it?) I was offered the opportunity to try a Ouija board. I determined to empty my mind and get this thing to work, but it didn’t. Now fast forward to age 41. By this time I had been an Amish church member for 17 years, and for 14 years I had struggled with SEVERE compulsive restitutions and confessions to the degree I was afraid to do or say anything. It was as if I were a prisoner locked up in my own body.

At age 41 I was converted to Christ; for approximately 2 weeks everything was great and then my old enemy the devil decided to exercise the "rights" I had given him in my growing up years. If I would have gone to a psychologist, I probably would have been diagnosed as being schizophrenic. My mind was constantly full of many, many voices: all my waking hours day and night were spent "fussing" with these "voices". I was bound with fear beyond comprehension. Words cannot begin to describe the "hell" I was in, but I was finally on the winning side and “greater is He who is in me than he who is in the world". Hallelujah!

I did get help with some things, but I struggled with this compulsion for another year and then one morning in absolute desperation as I cried out to my God and Savior; he brought the memory of using the "Ouija" board to my mind. My wife and I went outside the house and renounced my use of the "Ouija" board and my arms tingled like they were charged with electricity; and after we got finished praying it was as if someone had "turned" the faucet off on my compulsion and I am totally free to day! Praise God!

This is now 3 years later and I had some other areas that I was being "extremely" oppressed in and God revealed to me that I needed to get rid of the prophets of Baal in my life that I had opened the door to when I had involved myself in the "brauching", the water witching, the "buying" of warts, the Ekankar, etc. And now the prophets of Baal" are gone and I am ready for the "sound of rain".

I know there are still some things that I will need to be freed from, but this morning as I was standing up from my time of prayer, a scene of Jesus in the distance flashed before my eyes, My Savior is faithful. I have a few scripture references I would like to give for anyone interested in researching them: Hosea 4:12-13, Ezek. 21:21-23. "Born to serve" - May God bless each one you.

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