I now knew how to defend myself from the angel/demon and I’d be lying if I told you that it was easy. It was a long and arduous uphill battle. I faithfully attended church meetings and made chains of prayer (which is something I had never heard of).

The angel/demon was enraged by my decision and became extremely aggressive towards me. He’d attack me and say, “You’re not going”. This may seem strange to you, but the truth is that the more chains of prayer I did on Fridays, the less power the angel/demon had over my body. So he decided to change his strategy and began to verbally abuse me. What a struggle.

Hearing the Word of God, learning how to understand it and changing my attitude by separating myself from everything that went against His Word, led me to realise that I was possessed by a demon and that he was inside of me (this is what was explained to me by the bishop).

I learned that by using the name of the Lord Jesus and believing, believing without any doubt (using my faith), that creep would not be able to touch me. That’s how I changed the course of my life, through faith in the Merciful Lord Jesus.

I had first-hand experience of the power and strength that is in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. During the chains of prayer, the pastors performed strong prayers that caused the angel to manifest and later be rebuked. Those men were used by God to help me.

I manifested violently and couldn’t remember anything afterwards. When I came to my senses, I would be extremely tired and all I saw was the pastor’s ripped shirt and the overturned chairs. At first, I thought they had hypnotized me but it wasn’t them doing this to me, it was the angel who refused to leave me. My son often said, “Mom, you looked like a monster”!

Great changes happened in my life. People began noticing a difference in me, especially one of my long-time friends. One day, he decided to accompany me to church and on that day he saw me manifest. I noticed that he seemed upset on the way back home. He turned to me and asked, “Tell me the truth Fatima. We’ve known each other for many years. Were you pretending or was that for real back there?” I simply answered, “Look man, that was totally for real.”

From that day on, he began frequenting the church and also manifested with an evil spirit. Today, he’s delivered and serves God.

It was and always will be a constant battle against the forces of evil. After being in God’s presence for 2 years, my mother passed away. Whenever I remember what I wrote down for her on that request to God, I know that He was faithful. She didn’t pass away before having the joy of seeing me in the Lord’s presence.

I’ll always be indebted to the Lord Jesus Christ for showing me His mercy and the opportunity of having His Word revealed to me and to my dear mother who never gave up on me.

Today, I’m free. I’m free from the cocaine, free from the depression and free from the sexual abuse. I no longer hear or see the demon but I know he exists and wants to destroy me. The phrase I heard in my mind that day became a true manifestation in my life: “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.”
The truth is that evil forces exist. They’re demonic and their main goal is to destroy us. Their target isn’t planet earth or our riches because they are not physical. We, human beings, God’s creations, are their target.

Believe if you will and understand if you can.

I’m not, nor was I ever crazy.

I, Fatima, now 49 years old, know that Satan and his demons exist and will do everything in their power to destroy us, whether or not you believe in them, since they are spirit.

I didn’t write my life’s story with the intention of portraying myself as better or worse than anyone else. My purpose was to speak out to the world about my life experience with Satan and his evil forces.

I’d been in church for 10 years without enough courage to tell the world this side of my story and how the Lord Jesus delivered me from all this evil. All the glory and honour be given to the Lord Jesus and to Him alone. Only He, and no one else, together with the Holy Spirit who is also a Spirit.

I, Fatima Carvalho, testify that God exists and so does Satan. My life is the greatest proof that He exist, delivers and saves.

The courage to tell the world about my story came from an incident with my 3 year old granddaughter. One day she said to me: “Grandma, there’s a monster that usually comes into my room.”

I immediately felt a piercing pain shoot through my heart and I told my son: “It’s him; it’s that creep, it’s the demon.” I said to myself: “You disgusting creep, I’m going to unmask you; you pig!” The difference now was that I knew how to fight this demon.

I was dreadfully ashamed, but I decided to talk to God. For the doubtful, it’s true, we can speak to God. He’s also a Spirit. If in the past I spoke with a demon, imagine now! Of course I’ve spoken and continue speaking with God.

I told Him: “God, take me to Your land.” And it happened. The church planned a trip to Israel, the opportunity I had been waiting for, and I went to Israel on a mission.

I had long conversations with God during my trip to Israel. One day at dawn in Nazareth, I said to Him, “Lord, perhaps I’m walking down the same street You walked many years ago. Please give me the courage I need and remove all this shame, so that I can tell the world how much I suffered in the hands of Satan, and I, Fatima, will glorify You every day of my life. I will only serve You, my Lord.” That’s how it happened.

In June 2006 (a funny coincidence, it was also my birthday), the church asked if I could give my testimony. Nobody had ever heard this part of my testimony yet. I always spoke about how God freed me from my drug addictions and a couple of other things but I never said anything about the demon because I felt ashamed. But on that day, I announced to the world about what the demon had done to me and how he was rebuked from my life by the Lord Jesus Christ.

God gave me the courage I asked Him for and I thank Bishop Macedo and the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God for believing my story, the true story of my life. The devil works by making you question and doubt yourself. God works with faith and certainty.

Don’t think that he stopped coming after me the day I unmasked him. What’s different now is that I’ve learned how to fight against him. I don’t have special powers nor am I strong enough, but the One who lives inside of me is. Satan is a liar; he deceives mankind into thinking that he doesn’t exist.

Today, I’m a happy woman, delivered from evil. I don’t think that what God gave me in all His mercy, can be purchased for any amount of money.

Everyone encounters problems, but I know how to face them now because I know who the good Angel truly is. Frustration, depression and fear, are no longer a part of my new life.

I wasn’t the only person in my family to be harassed by evil, but through our faith in Jesus Christ, we learned how to confront and fight against those forces.

I fought, I fight and I will keep fighting.

Satanic forces exist, believe it or not. I was a target, but I was given the opportunity to meet a higher power, Jesus Christ.

I fight the good fight and I’ll continue fighting forever because I’d rather die fighting than hand the victory over to a demon!

Notes

I, Fatima C. Carvalho, was born on June 9, 1960, in the former Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe.

On May 13, 1962, I came to Portugal on a ship called Guanzi. We arrived in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and never went back to the island. I would like to go back one day because I remember how beautiful it was.

I learned how to speak the dialect from the island of Sao Tome with my mother and I understand the dialect of the island of Principe.

After arriving in Portugal, we went to live on the south banks of the Tagus River (called Cruz de Pau) and that’s where I grew up.

I decided to write this book so that those who may be suffering the same problem that I suffered, may find a way out.

It was my 3-year-old granddaughter Melanie, who alerted me about the trap the angel/demon was setting for my family. In her innocence, she said, “Grandma, a monster keeps coming into my room and scaring me.”

She warned me. It was him, the angel/demon. I sought courage in God because I was embarrassed to tell the world my story.

God gave me the courage I needed and took away the shame.

May this be a blessing in your life!

Experience

When the bishop said that night: “My dear, you’re going to write a book,” I didn’t think I could do it. I attempted to write the book over a period of 3 years but whenever I began writing, that dark force of evil tried to stop me. Several things would occur; things that my mind couldn’t grasp or find an explanation for. But I knew he was the one trying to stop me.

I hand wrote this whole book because it was the only way I could show the demon that the same hands he used to write things backwards were now being used to glorify the Lord Jesus, the One who defeated him.

Sometimes things happened, things we couldn’t find a logical explanation for. It took much prayer, fasting, determination, dedication and certainty. Today, I’ve finished the book and I know it will help guide many people who are suffering with the same problem I suffered to understand that there is a way out. The path to happiness exists.

We weren’t born to suffer. The Word of God says: “I saw Satan fall like lighting from heaven” (Luke 10:18). “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).

Steal: our peace, happiness and joy;

Kill: our soul forever (in hell);

Destroy: God’s creation (mankind).

But the Word of God also says: “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). This means, abundance in all the aspects of our lives.

For those who don’t believe in occult forces, I say: Examine your lives. Then ask yourself again whether they exist or not. When we don’t understand or don’t want to understand, it’s easier to believe that they don’t exist.

God bless you and may He reveal Himself in the lives of all those who read this book.

Maria de Fatima da Cruz Carvalho