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[Admin note: This is a survivor story from an ex-member who left in 2010 during the first crisis\/exodus. All personal details have been removed by request of the ex-member]<\/p>\n
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When I left Shepherds church, about 3 months later, I went to [a healthy church] conference, which they do every year at the end of the year…it starts on … my birthday….<\/p>\n
While I was in worship there, I heard the Holy Spirit ask this question: do you believe that I forgave you?<\/strong><\/p>\n I said, yes I do.<\/p>\n Then I heard another voice in my head shout “No you don’t”<\/strong> Then after that I shouted back at the voice, “Yes I do!”<\/strong><\/p>\n And then it was like a weight lifted off me<\/p>\n And all of the sudden, I was full of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n It was the best feeling ever.<\/p>\n When I left shepherds church, they told me I worshipped idols<\/p>\n They condemned me and made me feel like I wasn’t following Jesus<\/p>\n I wondered in my mind all the time if I was doing something wrong.<\/p>\n It was that tormenting, lying spirit<\/p>\n It controlled a part of my heart to not truly walk in the freedom of Christ<\/p>\n And Jesus set me free. Yippee!<\/p>\n I will never forget it<\/p>\n I love the faithfulness of my one true Shepherd Jesus<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I had 4 years of their control and “impartation” to be set free from haha<\/p>\n Anyway, I was at this worship event at CSU____ about 6 months after I left Shepherds church<\/p>\n I remember praying for the campus and for their ministry, that they would not be able to deceive people.<\/p>\n And then the Holy Spirit said, Read 1 John 2:27<\/p>\n I don’t think I had read that verse up to this point in my walk.<\/p>\n So I opened my Bible and this is what it said: 1 John 2:27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will[a] abide in Him.<\/p>\n Then I felt led to just flip the bible open to another passage and this is what I landed on:<\/p>\n Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.<\/p>\n I felt like God was saying that I should have nothing to do with their shepherding lie…exposing them was ok<\/p>\n We made some effort to help others for a time<\/p>\n But we also went on to have nothing to do with them<\/p>\n The Bible exposes their lies in so many verses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Admin note: This is a survivor story from an ex-member who left in 2010 during the first crisis\/exodus. All personal details have been removed by request of the ex-member]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13,147,142,141,138,125,151,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-emotions","category-evidence","category-healing","category-info","category-injustice","category-justice","category-spiritual-abuse","category-testimony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubfriends.org\/ubfriends2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}