WOMEN IN ACTION

Before coming to Jesus I had my life totally destroyed. I suffered from many spiritual problems as having visions, hearing voices, nightmares, I was afraid of darkness and death.My family was deeply involved with witchcraft. It all started back when my mother was 18 and had repeated panic attacks, screaming and claiming she was going to die.

My granny would take her to the hospital with no avail so she decided to seek for help in the mystic world through card readers able to speak with the spirits and do witchcraft.One medium said my mother was suffering from the spirit of her late father who was missing her and wanted her dead by his side.

In order to resolve this situation, my mother had to “develop her spirituality” and soon after she was the one reading cards, giving consultation and doing witchcraft, getting deeply involved with mysticism what led her to a destroyed marriage, fights,  physical abuse and finally the divorce.I do not recall having my mother and father together, enjoying of a happy family. The only comfort was in my older brother.I started to hear voices at the age of 5: someone was calling my name or people were supposedly speaking in the next room but in actual fact there was no one.

Soon later, I started to have visions and I turned into a nervous child and afraid of everything.I could not sleep because I was afraid of darkness and I felt like there was an evil presence under my bed. On the other hand, I was afraid of falling asleep and dying.When my mother found out of my fears and complexes, she said I was as “gifted” as she was and I should develop my spirituality otherwise I would not be happy.Following my mother, I also engaged in learning how to see the future in the cards.When I was 12, my mother got married again promising us a family and happiness but her second husband was an alcohol abusive.

He was coming home everyday totally drunk and violent and there was a strange behavior in him that would lock the kitchen to impede us to feed, remove spares from the washing machine so that my mother would not make use of it, not to pay bills so that electricity and water supplies were suspended. We run out of electricity and water in the house for months.He was threatening to kill us with knives and I remember being locked in a room with my mother and brother for two days without food and not being able to go to the toilet.Another time, he locked us out of the house and my mother had no money even for a loaf of bread.

We spent the night under a building emergency staircase.As I was not feeding well, I developed anaemia and was slave of my fears and complexes; I was terrified just about everything.My brother went down the road of drugs and bad friendship and drifted from the family problems. He was the only emotional support I have had and now was gone.Though my mother was “working for the spirits” and trying to help people, our life was turning to the worst.At a young age I have hit the deep of the hole and was convinced that there was no way out until when one lady showed me the UCKG and taught me about Jesus Who could give me interior peace.It was not easy because more I was seeking for God’s help, more abusive my step father turned to against me but in the church I was set free from all spiritual problems, traumas and fears kept for so long.

I blossomed into a secure and fulfilled young woman and I am happily married.My brother was freed from the addictions and is also married and a father of two healthy children and we keep a beautiful relationship with our father whom we were separated from, during childhood.My stepfather has changed completely and lives well with my mother.Everything has changed when I used my faith and met our Lord Jesus and the living God through the UCKG.

Silvia and Pr Marco Candido are currently ministering at the UCKG Australia