One Evil Act Led Her to Witchcraft, Until God Led Her to Him

“I felt used, abused and unwanted.”

Faith Aponte was a self-described social butterfly, active in church and school, where she ran track and was a cheerleader. That all changed when she was sixteen and was sexually assaulted by a classmate. Faith blamed God for not protecting her.

“If you really love me, then why would you let this happen? I believed that God was not for me. Like, he was more against me.”

Faith lost interest in school and struggled with depression.

“I felt like trash. I felt less than; I felt unworthy. Just here for others to kick me around like a can on the floor.”

Desperate to take back control of her life, she came across a post on social media and thought she’d found the answer.

‘“It's like, did you know that you are a soul having a human body experience and that you're more powerful? That you're powerful like God, but you just have to tap in and meditate, align your chakras? I was like, ‘Oh, so maybe I didn't have this knowledge, so maybe I'm able to manifest safety, love, friendship.’ You know, all that stuff that I desired. That kind of got me down the rabbit hole of New Age.’”

Faith immersed herself in New Age philosophies and astrology. Soon, she was identifying as a witch.

“I thought I was in control. I felt like I had that form of connection, like protection, because nobody wants to mess with a witch. They're scared, you know? It gave me that security. It gave me that power.”

Over the next few years, Faith went deeper into witchcraft. However, she noticed that as hard as she tried, life wasn’t getting better. She bounced from place to place, and job to job, never feeling stable or secure.

“Maybe I just need to ground myself, you know? Or maybe I need to work on my crown chakra for my mind a little bit more. Let me meditate more. Let me do this.  I went from studying Greek mythology, to Roman, to Christian Witchery.”

Faith moved in with Jovaun, a boy she knew from high school. Her life continued to be chaotic. One night while performing a moon ritual to restore balance in her life, she realized something.

“I'm a Libra, and if I'm in balance, then why is my life off balance? And I was like, “Jesus, this, this, this doesn't work. This does not work.” So, I just broke down and cried and I said, ‘God, if you get me outta here, I'll get rid of all this stuff.’”

The next morning, Faith got a check in the mail. She and Jovaun were able to move, and Faith got a new job at a hotel. Still, she wasn’t happy.

Sad, upset, angry, depressed. It was just all there. It was just all there. 

“With New Age, they have these rituals, which is a new moon bath ritual, new moon, new me. So, you wash yourself every new moon and you're new. And I'm thinking in my mind, well, you have baptism and you only really gotta do it once. I just wanna be clean. I just wanna be new. I want this old thing to shed off of me. So, I'm like, ‘God, I wanna get baptized.’”

At that moment, a man walked into the lobby and invited her to his church.

‘“The Lord was working on my heart slowly as I went to the church and they would say, ‘Oh, we, we cancel out witchcraft.’ And she doesn’t even know me like that. She doesn’t even know where I came from. She just discerned it in the spirit. “We come against witchcraft, we come against occults, we come against this,” and I'm just shaking. My hands are shaking. So, I was getting delivered without even knowing it piece by piece. It just helped me more and more. It was that thing that I was looking for, that peace.’”

A few days later, she attended a nearby tent revival, and the speaker got her attention.

“‘He told me everything about myself. I was like, ‘How did he know that? How could he tell me about that without tarot cards, without a crystal ball, without an Ouija board? I don't know.’ So, I was kind of like, huh, “Okay, God, maybe you do see me. Maybe you do hear me.”’

Faith responded to the altar call for prayer. When she woke up the next morning, she knew something was different.

“‘My depression was gone, my anxiety was gone, my suicidal thoughts were gone. I fell to my knees, and I said, ‘God, I was so dark. I was so dark. But you are light.’ And ever since then, I've been following Jesus.’”

Faith threw away all of her witchcraft paraphernalia and replaced it with the Bible.

‘“Once I had a realization of who I was within the scripture, within the word and what he had to say, it basically was like, ‘Oh, you know what? I am loved. And you know what? You are gonna provide all my needs for me. I don't have to do these in my own strength.’”

Soon after, Jovaun also accepted Christ, and they were baptized. Since then, he and faith have gotten married and had a baby. Faith is grateful every day for Christ’s redeeming love and power. 
“There's no God like him at all. I tried every other God, but there's no God like him.

He sees me. And even when I thought that God didn't see me, he did. He sees me and he loves me. I'm not depressed. I don't have anxiety. I'm not walking in fear anymore. I'm free.”