During the war my mother took me to fortune-tellers. She wanted to know if my father would come back from Germany. If you wanted to know about the future, you went to a fortune-teller. I had been told that these people had a gift from God. I did not know if there was a God, but others believed it so?

Now I wanted to know if Joseph would come back to me as he said he would.

The fortune-teller reading her tarot cards, told me that he would most definitely come back to me.

As time went on and I would not see Joseph as much as I wanted to, I became impatient and went to see another fortune- teller. This one told me that he would not come back to me. Of course I did not like this answer, so I would go to a third one, because I wanted to hear, what the first one had told me. My conscience was bothering me a lot. Believe me being the "third party," if I can say it nicely, is not easy. You are constantly reminded that he has a family that is counting on him, and you can never count on him or make plans.

The fortune-teller she was also a friend, was as all fortune-tellers are, a blabbermouth. When something came to pass, she was the first to say that she had been the one to predict it. If something that she had predicted did not come to pass, she did not like to be reminded of that fact. Fortune-tellers will also tell their friends what they have predicted about others often they are your friends also.

Because you know who they are, it can become very uncomfortable.

I was shocked to find out that if a woman would ask Janet to read the tarot cards, and Janet knew that she would like to get rid of her husband, she would be told that the cards revealed that he would die of cancer, or be in a car accident.

This came to pass in one case that I know of, the man was cheating on his wife and was told that his wife would die of cancer, and when she really did, he felt so guilt ridden that he could not marry his lover.

I was told that Joseph's wife would die in a car accident. Several of the people who were told that their partner would die, knew each other, and when we met would think, poor “Charley”, he is going to die of cancer.

And “Mary” dies in a fire poor thing.

If you are still in doubt if these people have a gift from God, I tell you this story.

Janet told us that we should take out accident insurance, like the thing she had said about the people, was a done deal, a fact! I too would think sometimes, well if Joseph’s wife has to die, it is not like I did it. Then I would be so racked by guilt, that I would pray and ask the Lord, to keep her from all harm.

If you have never been involved with fortune-tellers, you must be shaking your heads in disbelief and I can't blame you, it is different once you are involved. You can't see straight, you are confused and guess why? Satan is behind these things. He wants to keep you under his control and will promise you anything he thinks you want.

He knows your secret desires very well and will work through them, to get you ensnared.

The lord works through people, but so does Satan! Please don't be curious.

Stay away from anything that tells your future! It’s not from God. It’s satanic!

I had now come to the point that I did not want to go to fortune-tellers anymore.

Satan has other ways too and I know that now also. I had been fooling around with an Ouija board. If you are not familiar with this "game", it is a board with the alphabet, numbers and a disk, where two people put their hands very lightly on top. When I played this with a friend she would always accuse me of moving the disk myself to the letters that I wanted it to go too. This was not true. I barely touched it, or I would just hover above the disk.

I would ask the Ouija what my name and address was, just to test it out, and the disk would go to the correct letter or number. I became so good at this that I could do this alone. I don't know why, but I often thanked God for the good things that happened to me.

I was not sure there was a God, but just in case. So now I prayed, talked to God. I did not get on my knees, nor did I close my eyes, I just directed whatever I had to say to this God, if He was there.

I had made many mistakes in my life, had moved too many times, I thought I would ask through the Ouija board, what I should do about another move I wanted to make.

Well before it had worked just fine, but now the words were a mumbo jumbo. I could not make anything out of it.

I tried it again several times, but the results were the same I said; “God you don't want to talk to me this way?

Okay! Don't!”

I found out later that my praying had cancelled out Satan's power. Wow!

Joseph came to see me he wanted me to take him to my friend the fortune-teller. He still did not have his dentist license, and he was anxious to find out from the tarot cards, if he soon would. I told him that I did not want to go anymore, that it made me now uncomfortable, but he insisted, so we went.

While we were watching her arranging the cards, I all of a sudden I remembered what she had said about Joseph's wife, that she would die in a car accident. Of course I had never told him this.

I asked to talk to her for a minute, and pleaded with her not to tell him anything bad. She answered that whatever she saw, she would tell.

In desperation I prayed to God that He would not let Janet say what she had told me, about Joseph’s wife.

I will never ever, forget that day, as the cards were laid out, she kept saying; “ahum, ahum, hum.”

It was fascinating, as I had never experienced this before from her.

She finally looked at Joseph and told him that he had to be a very confused person that day because she couldn’t read those cards. It was amazing!

It was then, that a little light went off in my head, what is this about praying? If these people had a gift from God, as I had been told, then how come when I prayed, they get confused?

God had answered my prayer, not once, but twice now. First it was through the Ouija board and now through the fortune-teller.

I now believed that there was a God, there had to be!

Now I began my search in earnest. Who was God, and what did Jesus have to do with it all?

Joseph told me that he could not believe in God because he, Joseph, had a logical mind. I asked him what about Einstein, he was a mathematical genius, so he had to have had a logical mind, and he believed in God.

He stopped dead in his tracks while we were walking in a busy section of Westwood, in L.A. He looked totally shocked, and said that maybe there was something about what I was saying.

I did not even know Jesus myself, and I was witnessing to Joseph about Him.

I want to tell you, never fool around with the Ouija board it is not a game. It is very demonic.

A little minister's boy saw kids at school on the playground with the Ouija board. When he told the kids that it was wrong what they were doing, they laughed at him. The boy then told them okay, ask the Ouija where it gets its power. The boys did and the Ouija answered; “Hitler.”

The boy knew that this was a lie, so he commanded it to tell the truth, this time the answer was; “Satan.”

A family would every night after supper, take out the Ouija board and play the game. They had noticed that the cat liked it also, for as soon as they started to play, it would come out too watch.

One day a Christian happened to stop by at the time they were playing. She was shocked when she saw what they were doing, and told them so.

They too, did not want to believe her, so she said to ask the Ouija what it wanted from them.

When they asked this, the answer came; “Your soul.”

They were so upset that they threw the board in the fireplace where they all saw the face of a woman appear. The Christian said; "You must do this burning in the name of Jesus." The next day the cat was found dead.

Stay away from the Ouija it is not a game! It can bring you in spiritual darkness for years to come.

I sure wished that I had never heard about this diabolical, so-called “Game”

It is dangerous, very dangerous

A Dutch evangelist came to town, and I went with a few friends to the meeting. I was so full of guilt, that when a worker there asked me if I was ready to repent and sin no more, was I ready to accept Jesus as my personal Saviour, I said; “Yes, yes, I will!”

I would tell people that I had found Jesus until someone said to me that they didn’t know He had been lost.

I now became a fisher of men in earnest.

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