Jenna

“At 15, I took a bottle of sleeping pills with vodka — and left my body. A voice told me I could go with him, or get up, because he had plans for me.”

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What they struggled with

Childhood sexual abuse Demonic oppression Drug addiction Alcohol addiction Occult involvement Spiritual warfare (post-conversion)Suicide attempt Shame Bereavement / grief

False refuges

Drugs Alcohol Occult practices

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Patience Father's heart Shepherd's heart Defender Healer

Religious background

Roman Catholic Atheism

Main testimony theme

Secondary theme

Deliverance and freedom

How they came to faith

Gradual journey Supernatural encounter

God accusation

God allowed this to happen to me

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony contains childhood sexual abuse, demonic oppression from early childhood, a suicide attempt involving an out-of-body experience, and a near-fatal illness in an infant. What makes it worth watching is the extraordinary thread of divine pursuit running through every dark chapter — and a mother's account of angels standing over her dying son the night before his brain scan came back clear.

What this story teaches

People can be surrounded by undeniable evidence of the supernatural — including direct encounters with the demonic and the divine — and still resist faith for years. God works with that resistance rather than overriding it, planting seeds and waiting for the person to be ready.

How God moved

Go Deeper

I think it's important to pray for non-believers, to pray for everybody, pray for people that are stumbling, pray for people that are strong in their faith, but never stop praying because prayers do work. And Jesus will intercede. And we don't know in which way he will do that, but we know that he will if we ask for it in his name. So I would say never stop praying. And never stop reaching out to people that may need Jesus and have not met him. I think it's important to recognize that healing isn't always miraculous even though it can be. Sometimes it has to grow. Sometimes it has to be tended to. And so I think that's one of the most important things I've learned on my journey is to not rush it. It will happen when God is ready for it to happen cuz he knows when you're ready. God will put us right where we need to be when we need to be there if we trust him.

People can be surrounded by undeniable evidence of the supernatural — including direct encounters with the demonic and the divine — and still resist faith for years. God works with that resistance rather than overriding it, planting seeds and waiting for the person to be ready.

What you can take from this

If you have been carrying childhood trauma in silence this week, try doing what Jenna did: say out loud to God, 'I'm giving this to you,' and notice whether the weight begins to shift.

Unnamed entity

From age 5-6 onward: nightly nightmares of a demon-monster chasing her down an endless hall with no voice to call for help. Sleep paralysis with a shadow laughing and mocking. A looming presence and physical sensation of a hand clamping her shoulder in bed. Could not sleep in the house.

Spirit of death

At age 5-6, commanding thoughts — experienced as external, not her own — instructed her to go to the kitchen and stab herself. She did not think about death, just that it was what she was supposed to do. Later, at approximately 20, a suicidal spiral led to taking sleeping pills with a bottle of vodka.

Progressive entrapment

Tried drugs as a teenager to stop feeling horrible things and reliving childhood memories. Continued for years. When she cut off drug-using friends around age 20, she escalated into alcohol — which runs in her family on both sides. Got better in one area, worse in another, leading to the suicidal spiral.

Counterfeit spirituality

A friend introduced a method of spirit communication. Spirits gave names, called the friend by name when absent, moved objects, and held full conversations. They appeared to befriend Jenna. She now believes they were entirely demonic. The sessions escalated demonic activity in the home.

Other

Shortly after marriage, a man with a cross on his shirt groped Jenna in a convenience store. She felt it was meant to mock her faith and deter her. It triggered all her childhood sexual abuse memories and caused the first stumble in her faith — 'How could you let this happen again?'

Unnamed entity

As Jenna began reading the Bible and coming to faith, demonic encounters ramped up in her apartment. A venomous, angry presence stood in the doorway staring. Her husband saw it simultaneously. As they prayed, it entered, hit the top of the doorway, turned into a shadow, and shot across the ceiling. Shadows continued appearing until her husband rebuked them in Jesus's name.

1

I decided that I was going to pray anyway. And at this point, the car was moving.

2

Okay. This is 100% the truth. Jesus is real. He is God. He did die on the cross. And he is the only way. There is no other way.

3

God, I believe that you can heal anybody. If this is your will let it be done. If it's not, I guess he's yours. I had kind of at that point really relinquished him to God.

4

I gave it all to God and all of those memories and things started to fade away and go off into the distance.

5

I'm sharing my faith with my son, with my mom... with friends that I had never really talked to before and now to where I'm joining the prayer team at our church and will be praying for other people.

John 14:6

Jenna's own words at conversion: 'He is the only way. There is no other way.' — direct echo of Jesus's declaration.

John 16:33

Friend told her God guarantees trials but promises his presence — echoing Jesus's words 'In this world you will have trouble.'

Revelation 3:20

Jenna's belief that Jesus knocks on everybody's door — direct echo of 'Behold I stand at the door and knock.'

Psalms 141:2

Host references prayers as incense to God's throne — Psalms 141:2 imagery.

Jenna spent years running from God despite repeated divine overtures, then came home through gradual seed-watering — mirroring the prodigal's long journey back.

Like Paul, Jenna was a hostile opponent of God who was stopped in her tracks by a direct divine encounter that reversed her trajectory.

Asher's cardiac arrest and full neurological recovery with no trace of damage mirrors the valley of dry bones — life called back from apparent death.

God pursued Jenna across years of rejection through dreams, a near-death encounter, and a human witness — the shepherd leaving the 99 to find the one.

The accusation

God allowed this to happen to me

What they said

“How could you let this happen again? How could this happen again? As a believer, how could this happen again?”

How God answered

A wise friend told her God promises eternal life but not a problem-free life — he guarantees trials but promises to be present in them. She gave her anger to God and found peace. Her son's miraculous recovery and her father's final moments confirmed God's faithfulness.

Resolution

Partially resolved

Jenna's Christian Walk

Prayer

The power of Prayer — Christian husband stood in the gap for Jenna.

Worked alongside Jenna and engaged her in sustained conversations about God over many years, patiently answering her hardest questions — why do kids get cancer, why does God allow suffering — with grace and always having an answer. His persistent witness softened her resistance until she picked up the Bible herself. He also rebuked demonic shadow entities in Jesus's name during the early months of her faith, demonstrating the power of that name in real time.

Is today your day?

Yes — I'm Ready

Absolutely, He will.

You don't have to figure everything out right now.

You don't need to have all the answers.

If something stirred in your heart while you were watching or reading — that's not nothing.

That is the Holy Spirit gently knocking on the door of your heart.

Stay right here. There's no rush. The Spirit doesn't pressure or hurry.

Watch another video. Read a little more. Take your time.

When you're ready — even if “ready” just means a little curious — Jesus is ready to meet you.

You don't have to clean up your life first.

You don't have to pass any test.

You only need to say a simple “yes” to Him.

He will take care of the rest.

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.”

Luke 11:9

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