Yaya

“I collapsed on my kitchen floor, felt my last breath leave my body, and there was no heaven — no angels, no colors, no presence of God — because I had drifted from Him.”

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What they struggled with

Demonic oppression Spiritual warfare (post-conversion)Serious illness / cancer Relationship breakdown

False refuges

Searching for love

What this story reveals about God

Relentless pursuit Patience Restorer Faithful to his word Shepherd's heart

Religious background

Protestant Christian

Main testimony theme

Deepening Faith

Secondary theme

Near-death experience

How they came to faith

Supernatural encounter Hitting rock bottom

Content advisory

Before you watch

This testimony contains two near-death experiences, one of which involved dying alone on a kitchen floor with no sense of God's presence — a spiritually sobering contrast to the first. It is heavy in spiritual warfare content but deeply instructive for anyone who has felt their faith erode through a toxic relationship.

What this story teaches

People can be spiritually gifted and genuinely believing and still drift into relationships that become doorways for destruction — the enemy specifically targets those with spiritual gifts and uses intimacy as the entry point.

How God moved

Go Deeper

Number one, I would say you just give up to God. Give up. Just you have to — and I talk to people all the time and I always say, 'Are you fed up enough? Have you been fed up enough to give up everything and just turn to God?' You have to be fed up enough in a righteous anger. It's okay to be angry. You look back and you say, 'Hey, this has been something that's been in my genealogy for years before I was even born.' Don't give up on God because he will not give up on you.

People can be spiritually gifted and genuinely believing and still drift into relationships that become doorways for destruction — the enemy specifically targets those with spiritual gifts and uses intimacy as the entry point.

What you can take from this

This week, honestly assess whether any relationship in your life is costing you your closeness to God. If your health, peace, or spiritual life has deteriorated since a particular person entered it, that pattern is worth examining prayerfully.

Familiar spirit

A familiar spirit followed her genealogy and engineered a counterfeit relationship with a narcissist, using synchronicities — initials on license plates, name on radio — to make it appear God-ordained. This gave Satan legal access to her life through the soul tie.

Unnamed entity

Through the soul tie with the narcissist, demonic oppression manifested as a mysterious physical illness — strokes, seizures, low blood pressure, 14 medications, 32 wires on her head — that no doctor could diagnose. She collapsed dead on her kitchen floor.

Unnamed entity

During the narcissistic relationship, dreams became heavy and terrifying — dreams of aliens and wickedness. She had always written her dreams down but during this period they were oppressive rather than revelatory.

Counterfeit spirituality

The enemy disguised familiar spirit activity as divine confirmation — synchronicities like initials on license plates and the narcissist's name on the radio — to look like signs from God that the relationship was meant to be.

Revelation 9:6

Speaker saw in a dream people wishing for death and unable to find it — confirmed this vision by citing Revelation 9:6 directly.

Joel 2:25

Speaker cited God's promise to restore what the locust has eaten as assurance He will restore time lost to toxic relationships.

Jeremiah 29:11

Cited in closing prayer as the basis for binding to God's plans rather than the enemy's.

Philippians 4:7

Host references peace that surpasses understanding guarding hearts and minds — echoed in the testimony's call to surrender to God.

Speaker died on her kitchen floor and the Holy Spirit breathed life back into her body, directly paralleling God breathing life into dry bones.

Speaker drifted from close fellowship with God into compromise, suffered consequences, and returned to restored relationship with Him.

Host explicitly cites Lot's wife as a warning against returning to toxic relationships after leaving — speaker affirms this principle.

Yaya's Christian Walk

Prayer

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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