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Former Good Witch Now Worships Jesus

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? Read Transcript


- 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."

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