Letting Go!

Letting Go!
Saying goodbye can be really painful, but there are some things in life that we need to let go of and say good bye to. As the song writer says... we have to know when to walk away, know when to run. It simply means just letting go, no matter how you do it, Just let Go!
There are just some things in life, we have to come to a decision that it is time to get rid of. There are things that will drive us insane and there are other things that will just simply wear us down, these things have brought you more heartache and pain, and more sorrow than joy…Be it a friend, and situation, a job, or whatever it is that is stopping you from walking in the Gods perfect will.
When I decided to walk away from the occult more than a year ago, at first before I made a full commitment to God, I asked myself… how was I going to live without the people I had known for so long?... I thought it was hard starting over a new life knowing that I have invested so much time and energy in the occult. However I knew that once I had walked away God was going to take care of every situation in my life and that he was going to restore me. I also came to realized that my years spent in the occult, were years wasted, I spent my time doing something that really had no purpose and really didn't matter, something that brought me more pain that joy and yet I continued to held on to it. I was so buried in it that there were things I couldn’t see there were times that after the pains had ended I had began to look at it as joy, or even tell myself that, it would get better soon, when truth is… it was never going to get better. Nothing will without God!.
Letting go can be hard at first, but I will assure you that when you let go of something, God always has something better in store for you. God has a plan and purpose for each and everyone of us, but it is up to us to let go of the old things in order to receive the new. It will be hard to see the vision right now when we are stuck in an emotional vacuum that will only hold us down. But if we trust God, forget about everything and everyone else and Give God that chance, it is then that we will more forward and grow, knowing that God is able to do all things, all we have to do is just let him, take the step, take the chance, let go of whatever it is that have you bound, I will assure you that once you have Jesus will lead the way and I promise you that everything will work out better that you can ever imagine.
Let go today! It is time to let go! Let Go and Let God.

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My testimony... (I share this everywhere )

You can see the annointing on a person's life and you can watch them grow in Christ, preach the Gospel and lead others to Christ. But one thing for sure, the person you are looking at that is walking in the will of God and doing His work. has been though something that could have taken them out. some of us have been to hell and back but we are here today because the grace and mercies of God . God kept us and He had and still have a great call and plan  on our lives.

Below is a preview of my story and How God kept me even when I didn't want to be kept.

I grew up in a small neighborhood in St. Ann Jamaica with my mom and step dad I am the youngest of six children, Thou born in the Bahamas I didn't know anything about the Bahamas or any of my family in the Bahamas. My mom and I weren't close and so we didn't talk about a lot of things. And there were just some question I didn’t ask

My mother and stepfather had owned business and so they were both gone early in the morning and didn’t come back until night, which also meant while at home I was alone. At an early age I came to realize I had the gift of dreaming and interpreting dreams, and so by the time I began to share my dreams with others I would find out that it would be very fascinated to not just them but to me also. I gave my life to Christ and got baptize in a Church of Christ we attended at an early age of  13, shortly after my baptism I went off to a school where I boarded  school. I went home every other weekend, with the exception of some weekends where I would go home more often.

One weekend while staying over I went out with a friend I had known from my hometown and it was then that I met Larona an older lady, who was not from Jamaica but spent a lot of time travelling back and forth  and had a lot of connections not just in Jamaica but over the world. She  played the role of a good friend a mother , and a sister in my life. Not long after meeting her I moved back home to attend a school closer to home and that also meant I was closer to her, since she as well was not far from my home town.

She would later introduce me to the occult lifestyle. The moment I said yes was the moment I had opened my spirit to everything the devil had to offer. I began to read Tarot cards and started to dabbling the occult. I was even able to build my own cliental base.

I became advanced and after a year and a day of studying and educating myself in basically all the religion that practiced magic and how they did it. I began that practice and later became a professional. I had no interest in anything else but that and school at the time meant nothing to me but a place of good friendships and socializing

I was able to work on my own and also had people of all age group consulting me. This was something that most of m

Of course things had begun to change with me, not just spiritually but as a person and the only persons who knew what was going with me were the people in the occult circle. My  mother, had suspected that all the changes I was going through had to be that I was on  drugs and that maybe I was addicted to some form of drugs or maybe selling drugs, since she often heard people came to me all the time. Some  how she knew some of the names  but she didn’t know the real story.

The selling of drugs or the taking of drugs was far from the truth, but at the time, I didn't really care what persons thought about me or was saying. Because my love for everyone had gone and I was so consumed by the life of the occult that it was sucking me in more by the day .

At the age of 16  My mom brought me back to the Bahamas, I kept up with the regular  excise of the occult until Larona was able to get to me.

There were time I wasn't able to do much practice. But  When I started to practice and gained clients I started to do that almost as a living, and before I knew it it was my life. I started to do a wide rage of Tarot card reading, and spiritual cleaning for people and their homes, I also did a other spells . I was hired along with a few friends that I had trained to read cards, to come and read tarot cards at functions that were done here in the Bahamas for some mayor USA Based company that were meeting up her in the Bahamas .  

By the time I had became an adult I would start to tell friends what it was that I was doing and would also practice for some of them.  However I did have a lot of Christian friends some of whom would make it clear to me that what I was doing was wrong and that one day God was going to change me to do a work for him.  Even thou I didn’t see it then, but today I thank God for them .

In early 2007, after doing a series of the biggest readings I have ever done in my life for a major US based company, I came home and didn't want to talk about my night, and neither did I want to read for anyone for the rest of the week, I just felt tired. Spirituality, Physical and mentally tired. And for the first time in my life I didn't want to do any of what I was doing anymore . There was a strong conviction going on within me, one that no one who knew that side of me would have understood, and so I had turned to someone for help, who would later send me to a Lady Rev. who said she would help me pull through what I was going through, but instead of helping me she wanted me to help her out with magical spells and witchcraft because of some situations and problems she was having of her own, When I wouldn't she insisted that I teach her what I knew so she could at least help her .She had so much ungodly things going on with her it was too much I had to expose her. I was disappointed, but I was not about to give up the fact that I wanted to change and wanted to have God as part of my life. I began to pray and cry out to God for help, asking him to have mercy on me to help me out, help me with a job so I would have less spare time or no time to do what I was doing. Shortly after God allowed me to mysteriously find a particular Ministry. Yes I was a member of another church and it was not that my church was not preaching the word to me, or it was not that they agreed on what I was doing, because the few who knew my lifestyle would encourage me all the time to stop, and to turn to Christ, however for me I was not ready and I knew because I had found so much comfort in the church I was a member, I knew I had to step out in order to get help. Where I spoke to someone on the telephone, while waiting to meet with the pastor, I got a Job, paying me the same amount that I was asking God for and the hours were the same . Even thou I knew I wanted change it was hard to let go of some of the things of the occult right away and when I went to meet her to talk I wore the Pentagram I have always worn around my neck and I also had other things that represented the occult in my bag, However that was that day, that very afternoon that my life had began to change and it was there that I made a commitment with God that I would never look back, once he took me through. Yes I had a lot of ups and downs, I had many fights spiritual, I was rejected, Ostersized , criticized and looked down at,  I had a lot of sleepless night, many attacks from the enemy, everything circumstance that could have rise up against me did. But I had made up in my mine no matter what the circumstances where I knew and still know that God is on my side and he would see me through, he is in Control of every situation in my life. And he was going to see me through. Because he promised me that I want to say to say to anyone out there who is going down the wrong path …. I have tried it all … Things can never guarantee eternal life, financial gain, lust, personal profit, greediness, selfishness, etc. All the things that we are tempted by the devil with. So we must stand strong and put on the armor of the Lord and never sell our souls to the devil for temporary satisfaction. The only way you can lose your soul, is by choosing to deny Jesus Christ. How we spend our time in this life and what we put first is all a matter of priorities. We can put our own desires and wants first, or we can put God first. It is up to us to choose…. Jesus came to set the captives free. He came to remove sin's chain, so that we may know comfort, eternal security and peace with God through Him. His sacrifice made on the cross, long ago, was for the forgiveness of all believers' sins. He came to offer this freedom to every one of us. Some of us will believe and gladly accept Him, and some of us will not. Those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God, that He died on the cross for their sins, and rose from the dead, can ask God to forgive their sins and to remove their chain. This is the Truth. This is what's known as the Gospel (good news) of Jesus Christ. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Evangelist Aleacha Sweeting