So welcome! Can you please state your name and where you're from. Hi! So my name is Oralia and
I am from Sunnyside but I live here in Tri-Cities now. Can we get a round of applause for Oralia.
So we are so glad to have you here but can you tell us so what was your life like before
Christ and before your deliverance? So I grew up Catholic. I never knew of God. It was mostly Mary.
If you would just go into our home, it was like Mary here, Mary there, rosaries everywhere,
even in our cars and so I grew up in a home where my father was very abusive mentally,
physically, emotionally, verbally not just to my mom but to my siblings and I. I have five other
siblings. so we all kind of went through it and he just always talked down on us and so because
of all the abuse done to my mom and to us, that kind of led me to an addiction to marijuana and
alcohol. I started smoking and drinking alcohol by the age of 11. So and through that addiction,
I kind of just felt a void that I was missing from my parents. There was no love,
there was no connection and no relationship with either of them you know my mom was absent
because of all the abuse and so that led me to the drinking and smoking. So my dad was very hardcore
alcoholic like he would start drinking at like between hours of three and five in the morning
and so I saw him you know pour out water bottles and put liquor in it. So I poured
out water bottles and put liquor in it and I would just kind of carry that throughout my day to numb
just all the pain that I was going through. Wow. So you went through so much leading up to your
deliverance and the process getting here you went through so much abuse, so much trauma but can you
tell us how you ended up at HungryGen and how you came to Christ? So I ended up at HungryGen through
my best friend's boyfriend. He actually got delivered here. We were just hanging out one night
and talking about scary stuff and documentaries and movies and he was just like well, do you
want to see something that's real and he pulled up this you know deliverance video and he was
getting delivered from a spirit of legion and at the time, I had already been going to a Christian
church maybe for a couple months but they didn't talk about deliverance or healing or anything. So
this literally just flipped my world upside down. I had so many questions and so and the
relationship that I was in at the time and through all the abuse, it caused me to move out of my
home. I was 17 when I moved out and so this person that I was dating at the time, he was also very
abusive and physically, mentally, spiritually all the ways and he was a Christian too. So
through our relationship, there was just a lot of abuse and so I texted my friend's boyfriend. I was
like, Hey you know I think he's demonized. How do I get him where you were you know
and so he gave me somebody's number and we were texting back and forth and that person invited
me to a prayer line. I have never heard of prayer line before. But I came and I didn't come for me,
I came for you know the person that I was in a relationship with and while I was here,
we were getting him registered and a person asked me, well are you gonna be
in the prayer line? And I was like, No you know I'm not here for me, I'm here for him. And so
um she encouraged me to you know go through prayer line and that prayer line was in 2017. It was New
Year's Eve and I didn't understand what really went on but I know I got delivered from something
and so then after that deliverance, I got baptized a month later here at HungryGen
and a month after my baptism, my dad ended up murdering my mom and he committed suicide and so
instead of you know going to the Lord, I turned my back on Him and I did my own thing, more smoking,
more drinking just to numb all the grief, the pain that I was feeling at the time and so then I ended
up getting out of that relationship and I moved to Pullman and moved in with my now fiance Aaron and
so it was in Pullman where you know the Lord came and knocked at my door once again and so I was
only watching online but through online services I was delivered from the addiction to marijuana.
But it was always kind of like, kind of had it in my mind that I still would smoke sometime in the
future but then also there was a service talking about, I didn't mention this in other times but
there's a service where they prayed for witchcraft and there was like something starting to manifest
inside of me but didn't fully come out and the Raised to Deliver in Federal Way was coming up
so I signed myself up and I drove from Pullman to Seattle to go to that and so I got delivered from
witchcraft that a family member you know put up on my family and even through all of that like I just
still wanted to run back to smoking like I just was one foot in and one foot out. I wasn't all
in. So I put myself through a lot of torment and suffering that shouldn't have been there
and I think my turning point was last October. I got into a car accident
and I just heard this service you know where Pastor Vlad said, If you ask God to break you,
that is the fastest prayer that He's gonna answer and I'm here to testify that, that is true.
But even through all the you know all the things that I was going through at that time,
they were just horrible but I wouldn't be here where I am if I hadn't asked God to break me and
so through those months, I just went through a lot of like just cleaning out all the garbage and like
letting go of like music and stuff, movies that I watch, all of that was like holding me back.
So in December they announced the 21 day fast and I wanted to prepare myself for that fast.
So I did a two to three day fast and it was at the point where I almost gave up,
in those two, three days that I went into my bedroom and I prayed and I actually went through
self-deliverance in my bedroom and God delivered me from a spirit of Jezebel and just all the grief
and depression that came from my parents death and I was also delivered from smoking marijuana to the
addiction. Yeah. Come on. Come on. God is so good. He is truly a restoring and delivering God. Amen.
So can you tell us now, now that you've been delivered, now that you've been set free,
you've been clean from smoking for over two months now and what would
you tell someone who's going through that journey now? I also wanted to
mention one more thing. I suffered with migraines since I was 13, I'm now 24,
last weekend, we had an encounter weekend through life class and I was healed from those migraines,
even prior to encounter weekend, I had a headache that was like lasted two weeks like just every
single day, all day, just never went away and so I was healed from that. But my advice would
be you know when God knocks at your door just go all in. Don't keep the foot in and foot out
because you will put yourself through torment and suffering that you don't need to and just
hold on to a certain verse you know God will put something on your heart that will take you through
it. For me, it was Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
That was so powerful. Thank you so much for sharing.