Stefan's testimony
From bondage to freedom
From the world to God's kingdom
On 29 December 1996, a new world opened up for me.
That day, I was born again and came to know Jesus. I was 29 years old at the time. What a day that was - a great burden fell off me. On that same day, my wife Wendy and I accepted the Lord Jesus into our lives. Much had preceded this.
He has drawn us out of the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love. - Colossians 1:13
When I was young, I was not happy. I always felt alone and misunderstood. It started as early as kindergarten. Everyone played with each other, but for me, I didn't belong. It was as if everything was always for someone else.
There was shame and inferiority in me just for anything fun and joyful. Even my own birthday I didn't want to celebrate.
When I was five years old, there was a party at kindergarten - a costume party. My mother had arranged a witch's costume through acquaintances. I remember very well that I did not want to put it on. After some insistence, I put it on anyway. The moment the cape went around my body, and the wig and hat were put on my head, I felt something enter my body. At the time, I had no awareness of what exactly was happening.
Often I felt a certain fear that I could not describe
Often I felt a certain fear that I could not describe.
As I grew older, I experienced in my mind that I could speak to the spiritual world. That inexplicable fear remained. There was also always a fear in me of death. In the nights, I often had dreams in which I fell down. The terror then woke me up. Or I would dream of a traffic accident, and that event would literally take place the same day, in front of me.
Around the age of 11, we were doing glass spinning with friends - we were summoning spirits. At the time, we had no idea what we were actually doing.
A voice also always said in my head that I would not live beyond 27 years of age
Slowly, my life began to change, and I fell more and more into depression.
There was a voice in my head that kept saying I would not live past 27.
As I got older, those voices got louder. They forced me to talk to them every time. They literally said, "Stefan, be in spirit."
I always tried to ignore it, but it persisted.
During that period, I constantly felt a dark presence around me. It was as if there was always something behind me, though I couldn't explain it.
My body also felt constantly icy cold.
When I was 19, I met my wife Wendy. That happened in a special way. When I was 15, I saw her once with two girlfriends. At that time, I already knew I would marry her later. After that, I didn't see her again until I was 19. Four years later, it happened that she came to live opposite our parental home. That's how we got in touch again.
"Beware of Christians, these are life threatening, these are prayers, stay away from them"
Wendy regularly took me to visit a relative of hers. This woman was born again, but this did not feel comfortable. Every time I went near Christians, a voice inside me said: "Beware of Christians, they are life-threatening. They are prayers - stay away from them."
At the time, I was depressed. I had fear of people, voices in my head, and thoughts of dropping out of life. It got worse and worse. There were times when I could no longer look at people - my head and my eyes were literally pulled down. No matter what I did, I could not fight it; it was stronger than me.
On Sunday 29 December 1996, things changed, we both had an encounter with Jesus and were converted
Yet there was still something blocking in me
After this happened, we both felt a change in our lives. A deep peace had entered us that we could not describe.
Yet I still felt something blocking me. I couldn't exactly name what it was, but I felt bound and didn't know where that bound came from.
As I started reading the Bible more, I began to recognise things that were going on in my own life.
Thus, I read in Exodus 20:5 That God allows the crimes of previous generations to continue into the third and fourth generation:
"You shall not bow down to it nor serve it, for I, the LORD your God, am an envious God, Who repays the crime of the fathers to the children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me."
- Exodus 20:5
A lot had happened in my ancestry that I was totally unaware of. There was prostitution, clairvoyance and other occult practices.
The spiritual world opened up to me, and I began to see more and more clearly where the bondages and blockages were.
Deep down, I knew: God's Word is truth. These things had to depart from my life. But how?
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