Holy Spirit Fire – a Word of Knowledge Testimony

I had an odd dream in the early hours of Sunday morning before church. I dreamt that I took my two daughters to playschool (they are now grown up but in the dream they were about two and five years old respectively). 

It was a farm school and when I dropped them the teacher told me I needed to put on a pair of shoes that she handed to me. They were black and pointy and I put them on and at some stage while walking around at the school I realised that something wasn’t right, and that I was wearing witches’ shoes.

It was a very odd dream and I didn’t know what to make of it.

At church one Sunday, there were various words of knowledge and one was the word ‘occult’ which I would never normally have responded to as I have never been involved in  the occult in any way that I was aware of. However, I remembered the dream about wearing witches shoes and I went up for prayer.

Zendré prayed for me and as she was praying I sensed fire travelling up from my toes through my feet and up my legs. I didn’t experience pain, it was more warmth and I felt like it was the Holy Spirit’s fire.

Although I wasn’t sure what it all meant at the moment, later I remembered two incidents when I was dressed as a witch in real life.

The first was when was eight. I was a witch in a school concert (along with some others). We wore black, had long nails and pointed hats and stirred cauldrons as we recited the Song of the Witches from Macbeth. I was young and innocent and it just seemed like a bit of fun. It wasn’t particularly sinister or dark and the words Shakespeare used were dramatic elaboration, not literal historical rituals and spells.

However, when I was about 16 I chose to dress as a witch to go trick-o’-treating with friends over Halloween. This time I knew more and knew a little about Halloween’s dark side but not enough to stop me from dismissing any caution I felt to ‘be cool’ and do what my peers were doing.

I’m not sure if either instance of dressing as a witch, both, or the combination of both had any negative effect, but I suspect that I gave the demonic realm some authority in my life, even if it was a tiny bit that they were not meant to have.

I believe God wanted to burn that away as I responded in obedience, so that my feet are no longer shackled in the spiritual realm but have the freedom to move into new places of authority, or wherever the Lord leads. Perhaps Satan had a right to interfere with that because I’d unknowingly come into agreement with something occulatic. But the good news is Jesus came to set the captives free.

Luke 4:17-19
‘and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
    because he has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
    and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

– Elise Kirsten