This story is insane … The fact that it happened is off the charts. I’ll admit it. I’ve been guilty of saying before, “I feel like I’ve been run over by a truck.” I never knew what that felt like until one fateful day in September 2019.
I went to visit my mother in West Texas at the retirement building where she lives. It was super-hot that day—100 degrees-plus. I was getting my bags out of my car, and just wanted to sit down in the shade to drink some water and catch my breath. The sun was beating down were I was parked. So, I saw three vacant covered parking spaces nearby. I sat on the parking curb in the middle spot. I literally just sat down when a large, blue with silver chrome accents pickup truck pulled into the space to the right of me.
As quickly as the truck pulled in, it backed out. I was thinking that the person must have pulled into the wrong spot. What I was not prepared for was for the man to literally drive his truck on top of me! I was literally face to grill with his Ford emblem. My legs and lower body were completely under the truck!
I literally was thinking, “This cannot be happening to me right now! This man cannot be driving his truck on top of me!” Looking back on it, I’ve been in this position of denial many times in my life when bad things have happened in other areas, but never have I been pinned down by a huge pickup truck. I think I actually said out loud, “Are you kidding me right now? Are you actually running over me with your truck?”
The difference between other times in my life where I felt like situations and life were running me over is that this time I didn’t linger in that position. I didn’t feel sorry for myself and say, “Woe is me! Somebody rescue me!” No, I immediately went into action mode, crawled out from under that truck and confronted the driver. He was an old man, and he probably didn’t see me there … I don’t know how, but I had mercy on him and gave him the benefit of the doubt. I could tell that he was shaken by the event, too. I told him, “I’m not mad at you. I’m shaken up and my knees are scraped up, but I’m fine. You need to be more careful next time.”
Truthfully, he was just being used by dark forces to try and bring harm to me, but they failed. What I was immediately thinking was, “This is not normal! People don’t go around running over innocent bystanders!” I heard Frank Sinatra singing:
‘Cause it’s witchcraft. Wicked witchcraft.
I got my stuff upstairs to my mom’s apartment, and told her what happened. There was a deliverance service going on at her church that night that we weren’t planning to go to (and I wasn’t dressed to attend seeing that I was wearing shorts and sleeveless shirt—not my normal church attire), but we jumped in the car and went.
Her ministry partner who is a deliverance minister agreed that this was a spiritual, witchcraft attack, and she prayed over me.
I began fasting and praying with Brother Kay Broachie in 2015. He’s a deliverance minister in Maryland who is originally from Africa. He talks a lot about how to pray against witchcraft attacks, and he says that we have the power to send every curse or witchcraft attack back on the person who originated it—whether they are the person who cast the spell or the person who paid to have it done. He calls it the Return to Sender prayer, and instructs you to pray, “Every evil arrow that has been aimed toward me, I return it to the head of the sender.”
Psalm 91:5 says, “You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day.”
“An arrow is an injurious weapon that has capacity to cause a damage or death on a living object,” explained Bishop Dr. Julius Soyinka in a sermon. “Spiritual arrows are invisible attacks from the kingdom of darkness to specific or unspecified targets. Specific targets are those that the enemy intended to harm with their arrows, while the unspecified are those that were not intended by the enemy but the arrow got to them by accident or by coincident.”
Bro. Kay also says that you have the right to give back every evil plan and scheme that has or is being plotted against you.
King David wrote, “Since they hid their net for me without cause and without cause dug a pit for me, may ruin overtake them by surprise—may the net they hid entangle them, may they fall into the pit, to their ruin,” Psalm 35: 7–8.
Since this event, I pray every day that the arrows that have been aimed toward me be sent back on the head of the sender and that every pit that has been dug for me, the digger will fall into to their own ruin.
Christ told us that the Kingdom of Heaven/Kingdom of God is within. You are powerful. You have everything you need inside you to save yourself. You don’t need to go looking outside yourself for saving.
I’ll leave you with this thought: It’s important to armor up every single day so that when life—or a literal Ford pickup truck—runs over you, you can save yourself and not be paralyzed in disbelief.
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,” Ephesians 6:10–18.
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