Radically Saved in my room: from New Age, Personal Development, Inner Healing to salvation by grace

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Disclaimer: This testimony is deeply personal, and intended to connect with those who may be facing a similar situation. I hope to illustrate that true peace, forgiveness, redemption, and restoration are possible.
My Testimony
In 2016, I found myself for the first time experiencing depression, which started my desire for inner healing. After initially seeking a counsellor, this led me to a journey through mindfulness and personal development. I explored yoga, and meditation, which later led to things like Reiki, energy healing, crystals, and manifestation. These avenues were aimed at seeking genuine peace, purpose, and fulfillment.
By the end of 2020, after getting my Reiki Level II certification, I sensed my continual search for peace was coming to an end. Shortly after, I came across a video from a woman I admired in the leadership coaching and 'Spiritual' community. She shared how, after years of success, she renounced her thriving coaching business to embrace the deep peace that she received from a relationship with God through Jesus. Initially, I thought she was going crazy.
Growing up in the Roman Catholic Church, I viewed Jesus as a figure of condemnation and control, leading me to reject Him entirely. I believed that being a “good person” was sufficient, which pushed me to seek spirituality through alternatives like Reiki and meditation. However, after several years in that space, I felt drained.
After watching her video, one night, around 1 a.m., I prayed for a relationship with God through Jesus. At that moment, I experienced a miraculous cleansing of the unforgiveness, resentment, and bitterness that I thought I had healed. I was filled with a profound peace, joy, and rest for my soul that I never knew was even possible. It became clear to me that the same healing and miracles Jesus performed in the Bible thousands of years ago are still available today.
The next morning, I was led right away to read my bible, where everything I just experienced was confirmed. I was convicted of practicing witchcraft and acknowledged sin for the first time after reading Deuteronomy and seeing the scripture that blatantly says "witchcraft is an abomination to God" Deuteronomy 18:10-14 reference. Even with this intense statement, I felt zero condemnation. I knew in that moment most of, if not all I was practicing was separating me further and further from the one who wanted to freely offer me this peace and rest for my soul if I went to Him.
As I kept reading, more was being confirmed. The "white light" I saw in my room was confirmed through Acts 9:3, along with the new change of heart from this "heart of stone" of unforgiveness and bitterness to a heart of flesh that was soft towards God and others seen in Ezekiel 36:26-27 saying: "Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you and bring it about that you walk in My statutes, and are careful and follow My ordinances."
I never knew though, that calling out to Jesus would bring transformation, a changed heart, deep-felt forgiveness as well as inner healing. Again as I said earlier, when I thought of "spirituality" I truly thought of yoga, meditation etc., which is what I originally turned to when I wanted inner healing.
In this video I talk about overflowing with the revelation of His love and forgiveness which led me to renounced my former practices and threw away my crystals. This was also later confirmed as I read more of Acts: "And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. Acts 19:19"
Tossing away everything I spent an embarrassingly amount of money and time on became an unquestionable joyful "yes" to do after experiencing the deep peace, rest, joy and love that I thought I had on my own, but then experienced even deeper upon salvation.
Despite any preconceived notions you might have, I pray my testimony offers you hope and healing and leads you to a genuine relationship with God.
Note: While the miraculous is not a requirement for salvation, this is how God revealed Himself to me in my journey, and I share it as a testimony.
The Message of Salvation
“If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth, he confesses, resulting in salvation.” - Romans 10:9-10
It doesn’t matter who you are, what you’ve done, or what you currently believe. If you desire a relationship with God through Jesus, He will meet you and offer you the gift of salvation, that comes with deep peace and rest for the soul.
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