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Sequoia

“They were warring with Lucifer over my soul — and God told me to surrender, and I screamed Jesus.”

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What they struggled with

Childhood sexual abuse Father wound Alcohol addiction Shame Demonic oppression Occult involvement Human trafficking Anger Loneliness / isolation

False refuges

Alcohol Sexual behaviour Power / status / wealth Searching for love Online fame / audience

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Unconditional love Defender Restorer Mercy Father's heart

Religious background

Protestant Christian

Main testimony theme

Secondary theme

Deliverance and freedom

How they came to faith

Supernatural encounter Relational influence

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony contains graphic descriptions of sex trafficking, domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, and a full demonic deliverance session including named spirits and physical manifestations. What makes it worth watching is the specificity of what God dismantled — not just a lifestyle but a legal demonic claim — and Sequoia's complete absence of shame in the telling.

What this story teaches

People do not stay in destructive lifestyles because they love them — they stay because shame convinces them they are too far gone for anything better. The moment shame loses its grip, the door to freedom opens.

How God moved

God was protecting Sequoia from death for years before she knew him — shielding her in hotel rooms, warning her through the Spirit, sparing her life repeatedly. He did not wait for her to clean herself up. He met her in the baptism room in her street clothes and broke what years of addiction had built in a single moment. He fought for her soul against the highest-ranking enemy she had ever faced.

The lie Sequoia carried

I felt like trash. Like just trash being taken out. I felt like my life had no meaning.

What Jesus showed her

She carried the wound of childhood sexual violation, maternal rejection, and years of being treated as property — believing she was trash with no meaning. The shame of what she had survived and what she had done to survive it kept her from freedom even after she first encountered God.

Go Deeper

And I always say because a lot of people stay in addiction and all these lifestyles because of shame. And that was the biggest thing of mine. I dealt with so much shame because I couldn't believe what I had put myself through. I couldn't believe what I put my children through. But when I got saved, there was no shame in my God. There was no shame in Jesus. And I speak boldly. I testify. I go out and I tell everybody about Jesus because of what he did for me. There is no shame in God. There is no condemnation. He makes all things new. And we don't have to carry our shame because God already did it on the cross. Jesus died and took our shame so we can walk boldly. So anyone who has anything to say about you from your past — you know, we are only vessels. When people condemn you, they're vessels for the devil. And you just plead the blood of Jesus and he will give you heavenly peace. That is the lie of the enemy — that you are worthless, that your life has no meaning. You are beautiful. You have so much meaning and so much life left.

People do not stay in destructive lifestyles because they love them — they stay because shame convinces them they are too far gone for anything better. The moment shame loses its grip, the door to freedom opens.

What you can take from this

If shame is the thing keeping you from walking into a church or asking for help this week, name it out loud to one safe person — shame cannot survive being spoken in the light.

Core lie

I felt like trash. Like just trash being taken out. I felt like my life had no meaning. The rejection from my mother, the childhood violation, the bullying — I believed I was worthless and different and that nobody wanted me.

Shame spiral

That's how the enemy gets us — he gets us from getting free from bondage by keeping us in shame. He would tell me, 'What are you doing in this church? You're not worthy to be in this church.' I wrestled with my salvation. I couldn't believe what I had put myself through, what I put my children through.

Progressive entrapment

I went from smoking to drinking to being completely blacked out drunk, making $2,000 in a night and waking up with nothing. I was drinking myself into oblivion. I hadn't been sober since I was 18. Going cold turkey could have killed me — that's how bad my addiction was.

Spirit spouse

The spirit spouse said, 'I own her. I own her.' The incubus — he just wouldn't leave me alone. He dealt with the spirit spouse first. It was very stubborn. It had to be cast out with the blood of Jesus.

Unnamed entity

I was getting attacked almost every night. Every night I was getting what we call sleep paralysis. But I knew it was demonic because I could see them. I could literally see the demonic entities. They were choking me. I was levitating. My children were getting tormented.

Counterfeit spirituality

I tattooed all three of his clubs in the back of my neck with the all-seeing eye. That was like almost like me writing my name in blood to him. I didn't think about what type of spiritual contract I was binding myself to. That's how the enemy works — the devil works in legalism.

Family weaponisation

My mother put me out at 18 for her boyfriend. I felt like trash being taken out. The rejection I felt was awful. I didn't understand why as my mother she didn't stick up for me. That rejection spirit followed me — I always felt very different, never fit in anywhere.

Spirit of condemnation

When I was in the world, he would tell me, 'What are you doing in this church? You're not worthy to be in this church.' And the voice at the baptism tank: 'You're not worthy to get in that water.' Anytime you get out of any lifestyle and you hear condemnation, that is not God — that is the devil.

1

I told God that he had all authority and I completely surrendered. There was nothing nothing that I wanted.

2

He said, 'Sequoia, renounce Beelzebub.' And I did. I renounced Beelzebub.

3

They were calling out Leviathan, Jezebel, Legion. They called out the spirit of python, Jezebel, Leviathan, Legion, rejection, bitterness, witchcraft, unforgiveness, perversion, spirit spouse, incubus, Delilah, Beelzebub, and Lucifer. They were warring with Lucifer over my soul.

4

He said, 'No, throw her in that tank with what she has on.' I get baptized and addiction completely broke. I hadn't been sober since I was 18.

5

I deleted all my social media. Everything I deleted social media. I blocked everyone that was not conducive to my life.

6

I'm going to church. I'm doing it. I join small groups cuz we have a large church.

2 Corinthians 5:17

Speaker explicitly states 'when we give our life to God, we are a new creation' and 'he's made me a new creation.'

Romans 8:1

Speaker declares 'there is no condemnation in God' — directly echoing Romans 8:1 as the answer to shame.

Isaiah 43:1

God told her 'I have called you by name' — verbatim echo of Isaiah 43:1.

Matthew 7:23

Speaker warns viewers about judgment day: 'Depart from me, I never knew you' — direct quote from Matthew 7:23.

Hebrews 13:5

Speaker states 'he will never leave you or forsake you' — direct echo of Hebrews 13:5.

Isaiah 1:18

In closing prayer, speaker declares 'you will wash them white as snow' — echoing Isaiah 1:18.

Psalms 139:13–16

Speaker prays 'before we were born in our mother's womb, Lord God, you formed us' — echoing Psalm 139.

Multiple named spirits including Legion cast out; speaker's body physically affected; complete transformation followed.

Speaker left home, descended into degradation, returned broken, and was received with love and restoration by God.

Spirit of Delilah named and cast out during deliverance; seduction and soul-tie bondage central to speaker's story.

Addiction and lust broke instantly at baptism; speaker emerged a new person — old life buried, new life begun.

A woman from a life of sexual sin encounters Jesus, is forgiven completely, and walks away without shame.

Sequoia's Christian Walk

Alcohol addiction completely broke at baptism — sober for the first time since age 18. Lust and perversion broke the same day. Deleted all social media and cut off everyone not conducive to her life. Enrolled children in school. Reading the Bible with supernatural clarity. Attending church and small groups. Walking without shame.

He's made me a new creation. I was always a very mean person, very selfish, and he gave me a heart of flesh.

Alcohol addiction — 'addiction completely broke. I hadn't been sober since I was 18.' Lust and perversion also broke at the same moment of baptism.

Addiction completely broke. Lust had broke. The spirit of Jezebel, needing to be seen — I deleted all my social media. Rejection, bitterness, witchcraft, unforgiveness, perversion, spirit of python, Jezebel, Leviathan, Legion, spirit spouse, incubus, Delilah, Beelzebub, Lucifer — they were cast out. All cravings taken. No shame.

Prayer

The power of Prayer — praying mother stood in the gap for Sequoia.

Her mother never stopped praying for her and never stopped looking for her, even while Sequoia was unreachable in the lifestyle. She brought Sequoia to a church where a woman prophesied over her life and introduced her to another woman who took her to the radical 24-hour church where her deliverance journey began. A woman at the hospital also prayed for her son to survive when she nearly miscarried after being assaulted.

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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