This forum title "Help! My neighbor is a witch...." really made me laugh inside, because I have been there. I was a baby, baby Christian, not even a year under my belt. Our front doors faced each other, about 5 feet apart. She was some kind of leader; I am not that savvy on the hierarchy and terms of all that sort of thing.
The Lord used this experience to put spiritual hair on my chest. Although I hated the crucifying of my flesh at the time, I grew leaps & bounds in Jesus during those days and weeks. Oddly enough I had signed a new lease to move from my 1-br to a 2-br apartment, same building, just upstairs, before the "war" began.
She (I will call her M) had avoided me (my opinion only, just a feeling I had), but freely spoke to my not-Jesus Freak-thus-not-threatening neighbors openly. She told them of how the government used her power to know things supernaturally, had even paid her for her services. Her husband had a tyrannical spirit about him, and her child walked in fear and described vividly the "creatures" (demons) that lived in the field outside our apartment complex.
One day, as I came home from work, there she was, in the breezeway, speaking to my neighbor. My other neighbor had had a stray cat give birth to kittens on her porch, and did either one of us have a box to make a little safe spot for the momma & babies?
M's eyes fixed on me, and for the first time, and this has never happened since, something in my belly began to roll around. I quickly said that I had a box and I would be right back. Collected cat & kittens & retreated to safety of my apartment as I tried to decipher what just happened in my belly.
Still don't know what happened in my belly.
This began 2 weeks of the most intensive warfare I have ever had. I could not sleep and developed a bad cold. Manifestations of all kinds occurred. I turned to my Christian friends (one was a former witch) for help, but oddly enough, they blew me off; the Lord then sent different warriors to fight beside me. One brought his Bible, passed M on the steps to my apartment, she said to him, I see you have your bible, I have questions, can we talk? He just laughed and said not this time. His grandmother was a practicing witch, and he had served the Lord for decades and knew to focus on bringing aid to God's kid, at least this time anyway.
Once he started praying and reading scripture & going to war, M banged on my front door. He refused to open it to her and continued to read the Word & pray; I was somewhere between dazed and confused yet the Lord managed to get into me the basics of warfare during this season.
I told other believers from my church, who told others who lived closer to me; they came and prayed over me, and my apartment, even the breezeway. Demons were bold & haughty, and with the help of the Lord & patience of my friends, we prayed and took authority and off they went. One friend saw M from across the parking lot & felt M's radar scanning the immediate area for christians, so my friend took the "scenic route" (walked on grass instead of sidewalks).
One friend came over and as we prayed, she felt led to pray for me; she put her hands on my head and an assignment broke off my mind that was so powerful I felt it continue to leave me for quite awhile.
One friend called during this time; after hearing my situation, she told me to call the church prayer line, so I did. Normally it was an answering machine, but a man, a friend of mine, answered (divine intervention). I explained what was going on; he asked me to come over so he & the leader over the Singles group could pray for me. I went, and they prayed. He asked if I spoke in tongues? I said, well I have been prayed over for that but it hasn't happened. He said, do you have a syllable? I said Yes, "Ta." He said to say "Ta" over & over and eventually the tongue would flow. They broke fear off me. I went there covered in fear but came back free and full of the power of the authority of God.
It was during these days the Lord broke my heart for M and I began to love her and understand that Satan is using her as a puppet, and Jesus loves her very much and He died as much for M as He did for me. My prayers for her were birthed from brokenness for her condition. I prayed a lot for her son too.
A few days later as I packed for my move, I was singing a praise song, and my tongue switched from "Ta" to the supernatural flow of the gift of tongues. I didn't even realize it until the song was over.
I moved, and the next day, I flew to England on business. Many supernatural manifestations occurred on that trip.
I came back and found out that M had been beaten quite badly by her husband (she had broken one of their windows out). Also a bobcat had been reported prowling the stairwells. Had M manifested as a bobcat? No way to know, but I suspected. The more seasoned Christian warriors who had been to my apartment, and had met or seen her, had stated she was quite advanced (I don't even want to know what that means).
I never knew what happened to M but I promise you that she was a gift to me from God, to catapult me to new levels in my faith and Jesus.
