TESTIMONY

Fighting the strongholds of generational curses in your family - (Miss Sikhathele Mzizi- Nketa, Bulawayo )

The Bible in Isaiah 54:17 says: ["But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgement shall show to be in the wrong and everyone who tells lies in the court will be brought to justice. The servants of the Lord enjoy these benefits; their vindication will come from me. I, the Lord have spoken! - NLT Version.]

I am young lady aged 21 years. I come from a family of humble beginnings. Having grown up in a non-Christian family, I witnessed my family being wiped out by pre-mature deaths either by accidents or long illnesses. In December (though in different years) we used to witness the loss of a family member and everyone believed it was now a tradition for one family member to die each year and we had accepted it. This is a stronghold that kept my family in fears because we used to perish in the order of our seniority. In August 1997 my eldest brother died in an accident. In December 1999 my other brother died after a very long illness and in December 2000 my other brother died after a long illness as well. I got so bitter and hurting because I could not withstand seeing my family perishing in a mysterious and weird manner.

I did not understand what was happening to my family. I looked at my future and that of my family and it looked vague and bleak. My heart became bitter and unforgiving. In 2001 Jesus touched me he lifted me from the deep miry clay and he made me his own. It was at this time that God revealed to me that I had to do something about my family. It downed to me that what affected my family were the strongholds of generational curse, my family suffered from a curse of pre mature death. I realised that all this was the work of the devil. I got redeemed from the curses that caused death in my family and stood for my family with a pure clean heart and spirit. I took some time to fast and pray for my family, I identified all the generational curses that haunted my family and prayed against them. I realised that curses were causing problems in my family not only of death but of wealth bondages as well.

Curses had removed the protection of God upon our lives making us susceptible to death because I had discovered that the devil is cunning I found myself as an ambassador for my family fighting a war of life against death I prayed for the restoration of all that the devil had stolen. I claimed peace and love back to my family. I prayed for prosperity and took my bible, proclaimed all the promises of God upon my family. I witnessed a great breakthrough in our lives. I also prayed for my sister's marriage and believed God for everything that had happened in my Life. I got encouragement and strength in the milk of Word as I attacked the devil in prayer left right and centre. EPH 6:12 - "For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers who rule this world and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms. - NLT VERSION.

Whilst in the battle against the devil I lost my sister who died after giving birth. This became clear to me that I had given the devil a chance to attack. I became stronger than before and took no rest in prayer. I realised as the bible narrating in John 10:10 says that, "The thief only comes in order to steal, kill and destroy but I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly". I prayed until a time that I witnessed a breakthrough. I still continue with my prayers for my family and God is faithful. There are only four of us left in the family out of 8. Had it not been of the Lord the whole family would have perished?

Believe God for a Miracle: Pastor & Mrs. S. Ncube [Nkayi Centre]

God is faithful to his Children. He uses whoever is available for his divine purpose. Born from uneducated families and brought up under hard backgrounds where all around us was gloom and despair. God picked us up and made us his own in 1984 and 1991 respectively. Surely out of dust came out the finest gold of all that is us. Married in 1997 February had our first son in April 1998. In November 2000 we had our first daughter.

God at this time proved to be faithful to us. He is a God of all impossible. Our daughter was attacked by Mild meningitis, which blocked the fluid vain causing her to have hydrocephalous at the age of one month. During this difficult and most hurting moment God encouraged us through his word and with every little challenge we became stronger than before. Many brethren and some notable friends
encouraged us to be strong and we believed God for a miracle. For three and a half years we waited patiently for our daughter to start crawling like other babies.

The doctors had advised us that, she was affected during an operation hence she would not be able to walk and thus will need a wheel chair. In spite of what the doctors had said we believed God for a miracle. Through God’s grace and divine
power, in March 2004 we saw our daughter standing up on her own and by the end of April 2004 she was already running around playing like other children. God at this time restored the joy, peace and happiness that the devil had stolen from us.
God is faithful, he watches over his word to see it fulfilled in our lives. Mayibongwe our daughter is now a happy girl and glory is to the Lord. There is only one thing that we have come to understand as a family, that God has never failed us because
he is a Faithful God.

Inyanga Enkulu NGU Jesu - Mrs. A. Khumalo [Nkayi Centre]

Muhle uJehovah wangithola ngilahlekile, ngibotshiwe ngamadimoni azinhlobonhlobo awolaka, awokulwa kodwa uJesu wangikhulula emandleni obunyama. Ngiyambonga kakhulu uJehovah owangisindisa ngo 1984, ngingumama owayengelasimo engakwazi ukuhlala lobaba ngokuthula.

Ngikhumbula ngelinye ilanga ubaba wangakwami esecabanga ukungisa ezinyangeni ukuthi ngidingelwe abantu bangilungise ikanti ikhona inyanga enkulu enguJesu ekwazi ukwelapha umuntu asale engasafani. UJesu watshintsha impilo yami kwaba mnandi ekhaya. Lokhu kwabangela ukusindiswa kwabantwana bami lo baba wabantwana bami ngoba ebone isandla sika Thixo phezu kwempilo yami.
Okwamanje ngingumama oyithandayo inkosi lomsebenzi wayo, akulanto eyinjabulo empilweni yami njengokusebenzela inkosi yami eyangikhululayo.

Cursed by demons but Jesus saved me - Mrs. B. Maseko (Silobela)

I grew up in a family that believed in traditional ancestral worship. My father was a traditional healer, well known in the community that I grew up in. My mother left my brothers and me (Born as triplets) and went to South Africa when we were only two years and no one ever told us why she abandoned us. We grew up in the hands of my father and I was amongst other children my father’s favorite.

For these reasons all the spirits of the fore fathers that were said to be protecting the family were cased upon me. I grew up in a very mysterious way, which made me very different from other children. These spirits haunted me and I never managed to live a normal life. Strange things used to happen in my life. I used to wake up in the morning on top of a very big tree or in the middle of nowhere without me knowing how I got there. Sometimes, I used to find myself under water in a big dam or river.

It was believed that these gods and spirits were water borne. In the community no one loved me because I was ruthless. I could fight fifty men alone, because I had supernatural powers that came from these spirits. I did not know what love was;
never loved and was not loved. My life was full of obscurity. These demons did not want me to go to school. Every time during exam time or course of the term I used to get sick. This made me to drop out of school. I never used to bath nor wear shoes. My head could not be touched or have contact with some water. I was living in a world of my own. At the age of twenty I looked like an old woman.

The evil spirits always pushed me into doing bad things. I truly believed that no one was unlucky in life as I was. My father because he believed so much in these spirits saw everything that was happening in my life as normal. Because I had never been loved I had that urge to be loved in my life. I felt so empty and useless because there was no love in my life. This was not so long before I met a young man in his late 20s who promised me that he was in deep love with me and wanted to marry me. It was at this time that I found my self-pregnant. I gave birth to a crippled child; it was quite evident through all this that the spirits were trying to destroy my life. The father of my child denied paternity of this child.

I grew up a very bitter and unforgiving woman because of the things that were happening in my life. My father was a mineworker and it happened that he died in the pit after being choked by smoke. My father was the breadwinner, taking care of both my unwanted child and me. His death however marked the beginning of a new era in my life. No one stood with me after his death and the demons that were in my life continued to haunt me. I craved for peace and harmony in my life. In my search for peace and freedom I found myself at a Zionist Church. This church plays African drums and dances to the music and rhythm of the drum. It was in this church that I felt that the spirits were being revived through the dance and music and the beat of the drum. It was at this point that I discovered that I was in the wrong place this therefore prompted me to leave this church. I then heard of a church called Agape Missions. I went there and found for the first time in my life peace and love. They prayed for me and the demons fled away. I felt a deep relief inside my spirit and that feeling of emptiness disappeared God had delivered me. God delivered me out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the light of his son. He set me free, I never dreamt and believed I was ever going to be free. [Romans 8: 2-The power of the life giving spirit has freed you through Christ from the power of sin that leads to death].

I had made a covenant with the demons that I was ever going to worship them since childhood. For this reason the demons had to fight their way back into my life. The war began in my life between the spirits of darkness and the spirit of peace. This was not at all an easy journey. The spirits started visiting me in my dreams and village home threatening to kill me if I refused to abandon my new life with Jesus. I refused to believe this, I told myself that this was one of the lies that the devil was trying to use in order to threaten and intimidate me.

I started commanding the devil with the word of God. I told him that no weapon of mass destruction could be used against me as a child of God. My brothers abandoned me, because they did not want me to abandon these demons. But I had a shoulder to lean on in Jesus. The brethren stood with me in prayer. I later on got married to another man and had two children. The spirits started visiting me at my Matrimonial home in the form of a snake that had wings and wheels. The snake looked like a helicopter. This was a very strange snake that could talk. It was a python snake that changed its colours like a chameleon. This snake was very big; it was about three metres long.

When this snake first came it talked in my father’s voice and gave orders. It commanded me not to cook nor sweep the house and told the children not to go to school. The snake demanded that I had to stop going to church as well. My husband in fear and despair decided to go to a traditional healer seeking a solution to this problem but the traditional healer demanded four cattle before he could chase the
snake away. We did not have the four cattle.

I advised my husband that the greatest doctor that we had to rely on was Jesus. I prayed without ceasing and I also asked my fellow brethren to pray with me. But the snake came back the following day, shouting in anger, and asked why I had told the brethren to pray for me. The snake came for five consecutive days and would spend the whole day roaming around the yard and flew away at night.

My children and I ended up spending the whole day in the house. The snake was strange and scaring. Whatever I discussed at church with other brethren the snake would know and ask me about it. The brethren advised me not to talk to it but to pray when it comes. On the last day that the snake came, I refused to talk to it. Me and my three little children went inside our small hut and prayed to God with vigour
and all supplication for more than eight hours until the snake fled away and it never came back after that. It was during this time that I saw the hand of the Lord upon my life and my family. God delivered me from these demons and I will never be the
same again.

GOD'S PROMISES

Isaiah 43:2 says "When you go through deep waters and great trouble I will be with you, when you go through rivers of difficultly, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up, the flames will not consume you".

John 14:12 says "the truth is, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done or even greater works, because I am going to be wit h the fire".

Malachi 3:11 says "your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not shrivel before they are ripe, says the Lord almighty"

Exodus 23:25-26 says, "You must serve only the Lord your God. If you do, I will bless you with food and water, and I will keep you healthy. They will be no miscarriages or infertility among your people and I will give you long full lives".