They conquered him completely through the blood of the Lamb and the powerful word of his testimony. They triumphed because they did not love and cling to their own lives, even when faced with death. (Revelations 12:11, TPT)
A few months back I was taken in a vision back to a young age of not yet a teenager. In this vision, Holy Spirit showed me the most horrific figure I have ever witnessed, it even smelled of rotten flesh. I stepped back unable to identify what I was seeing, however, I did recognize two individuals. One was my best friend at that time. The older man I remembered as he was the uncle of the grocery store owner in the small northern Maine town I lived in at that time.
The sight of this creature and its smell began to make me quiver and felt as though I was going to vomit. I asked Holy Spirit why He brought me there. He explained that this was a place in y life’s timeline where the spirit of lust had entered in. This spirit had kept me captive in a prison for almost my whole life, yet I didn’t know when that door had opened. I had prayed for years for the revelation, yet I had to this point not seen it.
Holy Spirit said gather your strength for a moment as I want to share something with you. The scene, like a movie, began to play This scene was one that I had either forgotten or buried under a wall of guilt and shame. I slowly began to gather myself and began to remember, my friend and I were about 11 years old at the time. We were riding our bikes near the town dump and this man asked if we could help him move something.
After we were done, he asked us if we wanted some soda, to which we both said yes. As we were drinking the soda, he started asking us what we thought about girls. At that time we didn’t have much good to say, basically that they were pests in our eyes. He then showed us a magazine and in it were pictures of naked girls. At that point, embarrassed, we quickly finished our soda and said we had to go.
At this point in the vision, as we were leaving the room I saw something I could remember seeing, it was a dark figure with evil, almost snake-like eyes and it started to follow us out. It stopped just short of leaving the man’s home.
A couple of weeks later, we rode to the dump again in search of treasures that we were sure people had unknowingly thrown away. Once again as we were leaving to go home, this man invited us in. And again he showed us the magazines. This time we stayed a bit longer and as we were leaving that dark figure followed us out. This went on for several weeks, each time upon leaving the figure would follow us a little further.
One day towards the end of summer on our weekly visit, he began to show us videos. We stayed there for several hours almost in a trance, and this time as we left, there were two figures, however, they didn’t stop following us on our way out. Then Holy Spirit said, now I want to show you something that may shock you. I hesitantly said ok. At that moment, as we got on our bikes, it seemed like these two figures disappeared. Then I found myself looking in the bike mirror on my handlebars and saw my face. Horrified is almost too gentle of a word yet it is all I can come up with at this time. I was horrified as I looked in the mirror, for my eyes had taken on the form of the dark creature. As I looked at my friend, in shock I saw the same thing had happened to his eyes.
Holy Spirit then said “It was at this time when you unknowingly welcomed this demon of lust into your life. Yes, you were walking in youthful innocence, yet the enemy took full advantage of that innocence. Then I looked back and saw that horrific foul-smelling creature and said is that him?
Holy Spirit said “Yes, that is him.
I then asked Holy Spirit why have you waited so long to show me this? He said I didn’t show you before now as up to this point the enemy would have deceived using legalistic religion to trap you into believing that it was your fault. It wasn’t, it was the older gentleman and hell’s fault. However, now you are not only strong enough to handle this truth, but you have also stepped into and embraced your identity as that of a New Creation, as a son of the Father, Along with that you are now knowledgable of the Spiritual weapons that you have inherited as well as trained in their use.
At that moment, as though a command or permission had been given, in what was almost like an out-of-body experience I watched my Spirit man move at the speed of light as though he was on fire, welding a flaming sword, he not only took the head off that demon, he then proceeded to cut him to pieces. That image of my Spirit man closely resembles the image I found and have used since then in my profile photo and the logo of Remnant Warrior Ministries. It was after this vision that Holy Spirit said the Father is given you a new name, WindWalker.
From June up until now, I have dealt with several other demons that have tormented me over the years, and with the help and guidance of Holy Spirit they have been defeated.
I share this testimony in light of Revelations 12:11, for it is indeed only by the Blood and the testimony of the Lord’s work in me that has allowed me to stand in Victory. I pray that this will bring liberty to others as well. People do not realize the demonic trap that porn leads its victims into. It robs people of freedom in so many ways,. It can destroy marriages and whole families. It is literally a spiritual door that opens one up to a multitude of demonic entities, for lust is not just satisfied with sex, it wants to rule every place in one’s life from money, and relationships all the way to one’s possessions. It wants to imprison people in any and every way possible.
So if the Son sets you free from sin, then become a true son and be unquestionably free! (John 8:36, TPT)
I thank the Father, that I can truly give praise, glory, and honor to the Lord Jesus Christ for completely setting me free!!!
~Russ G. Welch A.K.A. WindWalker
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