A Texas woman opened up about turning away from witchcraft to follow Jesus Christ.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Lindsay Smith, 24, revealed she was introduced to the occult by a guy she was dating in high school.
“He actually started teaching me about astrology, Ancient Egypt, all of the things like the New Age and the witchcraft stuff. I ended up getting out of the relationship. It took me like nine months to get out,” she said.
Smith further stated, “The relationship was very abusive, narcissistic, and it involved mind control.”
“He would do witchcraft on my mind. It took me a long time to get out. It was like, every time I was trying to get out, blackmail, ‘I’ll do this and you won’t be able to ever find someone else,” she continued.
She also said he would threaten to “leak” pictures of her.
“It was bad,” Smith recalled.
Smith, who was adopted as a baby and raised in a Christian household, also spoke about having access to the spiritual world as a child.
“I first started seeing spirits, which I thought were ghosts. I thought I had a gift of being able to see ghosts. But they were really demons,” she recalled.
Smith said she had “countless encounters of seeing things like that” and opened up about her first experience.
“The first time I saw something from the spiritual realm, it appeared to be like a black and gray dust cloud flying through my grandma’s house,” she shared.
She continued, “There was another time I was just laying in bed trying to fall asleep, and I just saw eyes staring at me from the bathroom, and I was like: ‘What is that?’ Because I didn’t know anything about spiritual warfare.”
Smith said she was unaware that what she was seeing was demons she should be “rebuking” and “not ghosts.”
“They’re not kind or nice spirits of people that are just wandering around. That’s not what they are. They’re literally demonic spirits that were preying on me,” she asserted.
However, because of her family’s lack of belief in her abilities, she chose to reject Christianity at a young age.
“I was seeing ghosts, and I would tell my Christian family. … ‘I’m literally being able to see in the spirit,'” Smith recalled.
She also said Christians weren’t of much help with her questions either.
“I was going and telling Christian people what was happening to me, and they would just tell me, it’s my imagination. They have no explanation for me. That kind of made me think in my mind, ‘OK, well, my answer is not in the Christian Church,'” she explained.
As she got older and entered grade school, Smith continued to see “terrifying” demons.
Yet, her family told her it was just her imagination. This caused her to spiral into depression and anxiety because she always felt “misunderstood.”
“I was so shy — really, really like in my shell,” she shared.
In college, Smith entered into a same-sex relationship with a woman who was transitioning into a man in 2017.
“I was dating this person, and I was learning so much about the whole LGBT mindset of being ‘open, accepting whatever people, you’re born this way. … There’s nothing you can do. There’s no solid concrete objective truth,'” Smith said of the relationship.
Smith continued to practice witchcraft and remained in the relationship, but started to realize neither brought her peace.
As time passed, Smith said she continued in the relationship and practiced witchcraft but began to realize both were not bringing her peace.
“The root of it was depression. If we’re being really honest, the root of it was generational curses, trauma, fear; all these different things. … It’s a counterfeit. It’s not real peace,” she expressed.
After digging for answers for a few years, Smith began to search online about witchcraft and New Age. During her search, she came across video testimonies of former witches who turned to Christ, which was life-changing for her.
“It was the truth that I was always looking for and I finally got,” she said.
She continued, “‘[I Googled] what is this New Age to Jesus? What is New Age?’… I started watching these videos for a whole week straight. I’m watching a boom, boom, just all I’m consuming is that, and I was literally destroyed.”
Smith further emphasized how “destroyed” she was after her discovery.
She shared:
“Every single thing that I built my life on was torn down in that moment. I threw everything [out], the spiritual books. I had all these witchcraft books. They were witchcraft books. People were trying to teach you how to control and manipulate energy. It was so disgusting. So I threw all those away. I threw out all my crystals [and] sage … [and] natal chart.”
On May 31, 2021, Smith decided to surrender her life to Christ. She also ended her same-sex relationship and completely walked away from the occult.
As a result, Smith said she no longer sees demons after being delivered from them by God.
“I’m still trying to figure God out. There’s so many facets to Him. I can’t even sit here and be like, ‘I know everything about Jesus,’” she stated.
Furthermore, Smith spoke about her intimate relationship with God.
“I know what the Bible tells me. I know I experienced Him. I know how I talk to Him,” she said, adding “I know when He answers my prayers. I know that about Jesus.”
However, she said she desires to know more of Him.
“He said in His Word, we prophesy in part, but at some point, it’s going to all be revealed to us. I’m like, ‘I know You, but I know there’s so much more to You that I don’t know,'” Smith shared.
