From Animism to Jesus!

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Hi, my name is Fam Seng, I was born in Laos, I was the youngest of six children in my family. Being the youngest I was expected to follow everyone else and be obedient.

As young as I can remember, my dad was an influential man in our village, and he was also a shaman. Often times he practiced divination and preformed spiritual rituals. So was my mom. She got me involved in ritual preparation and taught me black magic – they even dedicated me to spirits.

When I was eighteen, I got married, then we had our first daughter shortly after that. Out of fear of evil spirits, my mother-in-law, who was not a Christian, told my husband to take our daughter and me to church so we could ask Jesus for protection.

Out of respect and obedient to my mother-in-law, we attended a local church. In that church there was an elderly woman who befriended me and started to disciple me in the way of Jesus. She told me that God loves me so much that he did not even keep His Son for Himself. God sent Jesus to die on the cross to set me free from sin and bondage. Right away I felt the love of God pulling me towards Him. At that time, I was under spiritual attack, day and night, and I knew I couldn’t get out of it myself because I involved myself in so many years of practicing dark spiritual rituals.


I told my husband that I needed Jesus and I’ve decided to follow Jesus. He told me he wanted to wait so he could make a few more sacrifices to his dad, who had passed away few years before. I respected his decision but thanks to God, He sent two young men from our church to disciple my husband. They helped him see that he needed Jesus too. So, my husband also made that decision to make Jesus his Lord and Savior.

 
We asked mother-in-law to follow Jesus with us and she said “No, no, I have other children and I can’t leave them, I can’t leave our culture and our tradition too.” We prayed for her over the years. She came to church with us often, but she didn’t ask Jesus to be her Lord and Savior. Until, one day my daughter said, “Grandma you have been coming to church with us many times and we love you. But if you were to died today you wouldn’t be going to heaven. You will end up in hell and be separated from us forever”. Be little as my daughter was, she was telling her grandma the truth and it hit her hard. It challenged her to think deeply. Then, a few weeks later, one morning the pastor was doing an ‘alter call’ at church and my mother-in-law went up and kneeled down and asked Jesus to be her Lord and Savior.


Now is there anyone here today can relate to my story? If you feel God is calling you that He loves you and want to start a personal relationship with you, then it’s not by coincidence or by accident. It is God’s divine appointment to meet you and reach out to you. You simply need to ask Jesus to forgive your wrong doings and ask Him to be the Lord and Savior of your life. If you need someone to help you pray or help you understand more, then let us know. Thank you for reading my story and God bless you all.

Editors Notes: Learn about Animism here. https://www.gotquestions.org/Animism.html

Learn about Shamanism here. https://www.gotquestions.org/shamanism.html (You may read or listen to these articles.)

Learn more about the Mien people here: https://maehongsonthailand.com/mien-people/ or here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_people and here

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