Truth

At first, Emily began to cry in her sleep. The crying was not just like tears rolling down her eyes, she looked like she was in deep pain when she was crying in her sleep. At first I was just surprised and I just watched her as it went on. The pain looked so real so then I woke her up because it was kind of scary. I told her she was crying in her sleep and she just said "hasn't that ever happened to you?" It has never happened to me. I thought it was just her releasing her emotions in her sleep because Emily does not cry that much, especially these days, I don't think she has cried for about a month or two. So I just though it was nothing serious and went away.

Then I heard her crying again. I thought it was kinda weird and funny because it was so unlikely that someone would cry again after crying the first time. Its like when someone sleep talks, its hard to get them to sleep talk again. I totally didn't think she would cry again because its sort of a one in a million chances. But she cried again right after basically. It was weird because she did not really put her head town to rest when she cried. She basically like closed her eyes and the started to cry almost instantly. She said that she was conscious of what was happening and was like " why am I crying?" I am not even sleeping."

So I filmed a bit of her crying because I thought it was funny. Then I saw that she was slowly getting louder and louder and then she woke herself up and laughed a bit. So I said " Were you faking that?" And she said no. It was weird because she never has done that ever before. And then I asked why she was crying..
And then she said it felt like something was inside her. Like she cant control it, like a demon was inside of her.

Immediately after she said that she started screaming and crying harder. The first thing that I thought of was "In Jesus Name." So I started to just pray over her and ask for Jesus to drive out all the evil. I was not afraid because I knew God would save her, but I did not really know how to release the demon from inside her. So I just kept praying " In the name of Jesus! Get the evil out of her! Jesus please release her of these demons!"

She was crying, yelling, kicking, screaming, and her face always looked like she was in pain. Her face would always change and she looked like her face muscles were out of control. She said that it was like pressure that was upon her and she could not control herself. Her stomach hurt like an intense ab work out. It was like demon was inside her gut, causing pain. She could not control herself. She didn't want to scream because it was 1am and my dad was sleeping. She could not control her kicking, screaming, crying or yelling. All of it was out of her control. Sometimes she would just say my name while she was in pain.

She felt like something was inside of her, like something was forcing her to do violent things. She wanted to kick and punch and break things but she held herself back. I kept praying for her and sometimes the movements and cries would subside, but they seemed to always come back. I realized that I needed help and that more prayers and love of others would probably help her situation. I think God wanted me to tell people. Its weird because for this youth conference I helped to plan, I just realized how hard it is for me to ask for help. Its like God was teaching me how.
I went up stairs to talk to my brother.

I said " Hey, can you pray for Emily? I think something is inside of her, something like a demon."
He said " really? are you serious?"
I said " Yes, please pray for her"
He said "okay."

Then I called Chris lam but I think he was sleeping, so was Jere. Jason Fan was awake when I called him up.

Me " Hey Jason what are you doing?"
Jason "Oh just hanging out, why?"
Me "Oh why are you still awake?"
Jason "Our church is having the lock in right now. thats why"
Me "Oh I see, Hey can you pray for Emily? I think she has a demon inside of her right now"
Jason " Whats happening?"
Me " I dunno, like her stomach hurts really bad and she is screaming and crying out of control right now"
Jason "are you sure shes not just sick or anything?"
Me "yes I am pretty sure its a demon or something evil, could you please pray for her?"
Jason "is that her screaming in the background?
Me" yeah you can hear her"
Jason " okay I will come over"
Me" okay thanks man, see you soon"

All the while Emily is screaming and shaking and I keep holding her hand, her head and praying that Jesus would heal her, that Jesus would come and save her. She was crying and yelling very loudly now. She said that she could not look at me; that it hurt to look at me. She said that I looked like a demon when she looked at me.

Then after I called Jason, Emily said CALL JOJO! So I called up jojo

Me " hey jojo"
Jojo "hey whats up"
Me "what are you doing?"
Jojo "um...... sleeping, or going to sleep"
Me "oh so you are just about to sleep? Hey can you pray for emily right now? I think there is a demon or evil spirit inside of her."
Jojo " oh okay I will"
Me "Thanks Jojo"

During this time Emily was screaming and talking to her uncle Keith to pray for her. I think she was trying to fight the force of the demon at this point and could talk and say her own thoughts.

Then I kept praying with her and then she felt the prayers of everyone work inside of her. I kept praying as well and she felt like the demon was being sent out of her. I kept praying as others were praying and she felt God's presence totally within her. She turned to me and said

" I can smile now! I was not able to smile before!" I felt as though she was gaining control of herself through the power of God. God's power was within her and she could slowly feel the demon losing grip.

She started speaking " I think God wants me to use this experience. God wants me to tell people. God wants me to help you James, God wants me to tell this to everyone. God wants you James, to tell people too. I am supposed to help you James. Then I called Jojo to tell her the good news. I gave the phone to Emily.

Then when Emily was talking to Jojo it was like God was speaking through her. She said that God loves what Jojo was doing and that God is so thankful for Jojo and her work. Then I called up Jason to tell him too. God then told Emily to tell Jason that He says hi. HAHA! that is the funniest thing..
So then Emily went to my phone and told Jason "God says hi."

After as Emily was talking to Jojo I put my head into my hands and then I just all of a sudden started to cry. This crying was not just tears falling down my face manly cry, but it was bawling like ugly face cry. I haven't done this since I was maybe like 8 years old. I was crying hard with no control with just joy overcoming me and I dunno how to explain it. It was like the spirit of God came over me and made me cry. I was not sad or overly happy, it was just kind of a out of control God moment. Something I have never experienced before. I wondered if this was a little taste of how the Pentecost was.

Then after Jason and Keith came to my house and we started to pray for her. At this point Emily was not screaming and was not yelling anymore. So we prayed a little bit and we kind of thought that she was released. Then I was telling Keith and Jason what happened, and then when Emily was trying to explain, she was not totally able too. She paused in her story and was not able to coherently finish her story the way she wanted. There was this awkward pause and silence and it seemed like she couldn't say what she wanted. So then I kept explaining what had happened to Jason and Keith and then Emily interrupted me and said " Can we pray?"

So then we said yes and we continued to pray. The demon was trying to fight back and gain control over Emily again. So me Jason and Keith all continued to pray about Jesus blood and his sacrifice that saved us, How Jesus saved us so and how we are free now. Then someone prayed about love. It dawned on me that I was forgetting that aspect of God's saving grace. Then we continued to pray that God's love and power would drive out all evil. We kept proclaiming for the spirit to leave in the name of Jesus! It was powerful when we said Jesus' name. Emily would start to tremble and shake and the pain would go away. Not only our prayers were felt, but all those were also praying for her.

We continued to pray and I called up Jojo to pray some more so that the evil would be cast away completely. I remember sometimes when I said Jojo's name, Emily would scream or shake. Finally after much prayer and proclaiming to the evil to be gone, Emily felt at peace. She gained full control of her body and senses. She said that the imagery was like there was a great white bright light inside of her, and the demon was like a dark speck. God was like stomping on the dark speck that was trying to fight its way back into Emily. Also like Jesus was fight off the demons.

" It's like Jesus has these great big white hadoukens that are fighting back the demon." Emily
" I thought to myself, wow, this is like intense kinda like a video game"
" I felt as though God was speaking to me and through me, like I was talking in third person"

It was weird because at one point Emily could visualize and feel the power of Keith and Jason's prayer as they were coming to my house. She could see them praying as they were driving on deerfoot between 17th ave and memorial drive.

At one point I wanted to film the whole thing, but I felt compelled to prayer instead. I felt like if I stopped praying, that the demon would gain a foothold in Emily.

After I listened to the song " you never let go" by matt redman I burst into tears again. Not only into tears, but the only words out of my mouth were Oh God! Oh God!

The words were so true for Emily in the song that I couldn't control myself. I was just crying and shouting. I could not even try to fight the tears like I usually do. It was weird because my mouth was just open and I could not close it. I felt like a big baby man. I was driving at this time and there were tears in my eyes on deerfoot. If anyone saw my face when I was driving, they would probably have laughed their heads off. I know I would have.