Jenny Weaver was attracted to the acceptance and power witchcraft promised, but she soon discovered its sinister side. Now that the door was open, how would she drive out the tormenting spirits?
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- Things were happening.
I was moving things.
I would go up to a drawer
and before my hand would even touch it,
the drawer would go
and open.
- [Narrator] Jenny Weaveralways thought dabbling
in witchcraft was harmless fun.
Until she discoveredsomething much more sinister.
- Lights would bust and break
when we would start talking about
the demonic realm.
Class fell all over us.
- [Narrator] Jenny grew up
on Florida's Gulf Cost
with seven siblings.
Her home was dominated by abusive parents,
who handed out punishment
for the slightest offense.
It wasn't much better at their church
that didn't teach about a loving father,
but a vengeful angry God ready
to condemn sinners to hell.
- I was always thinking God's disappointed
in me, God's upset.
So it was really filledwith shame and condemnation.
- [Narrator] Then, her father walked out,
leaving 13-year-old Jenny, her siblings
and their mom destitute.
- So I must not even be worthy enough
to be loved, to be thought of,
to be cared for.
You shouldn't even be alive.
Why are you even here?
It'd be better off ifyou just killed yourself.
- [Narrator] Feelingpowerless and unloved,
Jenny started cutting and smoking pot.
Then she saw a movie about teen witches
that showed her a way totake charge of her life.
Soon, she was pouring over books
about witchcraft, Wicca and the occult
and trying spells with her friends.
- Wiccan religion is do what you want,
but do no one any harm.
It's kind of like, well,it's the good witch.
I felt like I had power
and so I'm looking at this like
this is the most amazing thing ever.
- [Narrator] But that power and control
were only an illusion because the turmoil
in Jenny's home andwithin herself remained.
At 17, after a fight with her mom,
Jenny ran away and dropped out of school.
Bouncing between friends'homes and drug houses
over the coming years,
she got into harder drugs,
sometimes blacking out for days.
- And I was so broken andso hurting all the time,
that I engaged in just the craziest things
you could imagine
and just gave myself away
to whoever, whenever, whatever.
It didn't matter.
- [Narrator] Then she moved in with a girl
who came from a family of witches.
Her new friend showed herthe things she thought
were harmless were fun opened the door
to a dark, sinister andvery frightening world
Jenny only thought existedin books and movies.
- You would feel demonspirits literally walking
by you like a humanbeing was walking by you,
touching you, scraping the walls.
I would hear, "I'm gonna choke you out
until you die, I'm goingto take your life,"
all the time constantly tormented.
- [Narrator] Terrified, shestopped practicing witchcraft,
but the demon of addiction
would continue to haunt and torment her
for years to come.
- I would just say if I just die now,
I just die now.
And I would just lay there and go
I just hope I just die.
I hope these drugs, these are the ones
that just take me out this time.
- [Narrator] At 26, she was living
with her boyfriend Steven
and hopelessly addicted to meth.
Then she got pregnant.
One day, seeing no hope for her
or her baby's future.
- I just fell on my knees
and I screamed out asloud as I possibly could,
"God help me!"
And it was like theloudest longest scream.
I remember it just being like oh, please.
And I didn't see lightening,
I didn't see any of that,
but I felt a peace.
And that was the firsttime I felt the Lord saying
to me in my heart and heart,
"I'm gonna help you, I'm gonna help you."
- [Narrator] Jenny says that help came
in an unexpected way.
Two days later, she was arrested,
sent to jail and ordered
to complete a drug treatment program.
There, she began to hearabout a different God,
a Heavenly Father who was loving, merciful
and ready to forgive throughhis Son, Jesus Christ.
One night, Jenny whispered a prayer.
- I just cried and said,"God, I just want you
to help me."
I really wanna love people,
but there was such a hardness
and I just asked the Lord to take it
and I just said, "Lord,I'm just gonna give you
my life today."
And I surrounded to the Lord
and I knew that everythingthat I had gone through,
everything that I had done
had been forgiven.
And when Jesus did that for me,
it changed everything.
Everybody that had threw me away,
he came and he healed all that.
- [Narrator] The day of her release,
Jenny gave birth to ahealthy baby girl, Cameron.
Later, Steven also got clean
and accepted Christ andthe couple married in 2013.
But a part of Jenny'spast wasn't letting go,
and for a few years, she still sensed
a dark presence in her life.
Then, at a deliverance service at church,
a woman led her in prayerto renounce witchcraft.
- I would say, "I renounce,"and if I would try
to say it at first, it was like woo,
and they wouldn't let me.
It was like my mouth was,
I couldn't even get the words
and they would say, "Err, we're not,
we're not leaving, no."
And they would curse and spit.
It was very, very, very crazy.
- [Narrator] Finally.
- I knew there was a release.
I could tell, I could feel it.
I knew I was like, okay, I'm free.
They're gone, they're gone.
And I was just, "Thank youJesus, thank you Jesus."
- [Narrator] The past far behind her,
Jenny went on to developa close relationship
with her mom.
She was also able toreconcile with her dad
a few months before he passed away.
Today Jenny is a homeschool mom,
entrepreneur and worship leader,
sharing her music andher passion for the Lord.
- Jesus came running after me.
When I cursed at him,when I literally said
the worst kind of wordsyou could imagine at God
and the whole time himcalling my name saying,
"No, she's my daughter.
I'm coming after her."