Journalist's Life-Changing ENCOUNTER With God's Power!

Every time I tell this story, I am filled with tears.

Even right now, I'm filled with tears because I never thought I would see this day.

In the mighty name of Jesus Christ!

That unclean spirit - you have no right to stay in her body.

I say, get out right now!

Be released in Jesus’ name!

Be released, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ!

Oh Holy Spirit, touch her right now - touch her spirit, soul and body.

Liberate her soul! Liberate her spirit! Liberate her body!

That pain of the past - be released right now!

Be set free right now! Be set free in Jesus’ mighty name!

Thank You, Jesus. Our sister, you are free to the glory of God.

Rejoice. Rejoice in your freedom!

Thank You, Lord.

My name is Anita from Botswana.

I graduated in 2017 and before I graduated, there is a process in our country where

we need to undergo an internship in order to graduate.

So I studied Journalism and Media, and I was opportune to do

my internship with a newspaper called Sunday Standard.

After three months of my internship, I was given employment

without undergoing the process of applying or going through interviews.

I really enjoyed my job and I still enjoy my job.

As time went on, the whole world suffered from COVID, which changed a lot of things.

Because of that, there was a shift in the atmosphere in how we were working,

as well as with payments and many other things.

I started developing depression and I lost interest in the job that I was working in

and the industry in which I was in.

And then I decided to start applying for jobs

so that I could go into other fields of communication.

Unfortunately, from 2021 till this year,

I was applying and I never received any letters -

either a regret letter or just to acknowledge that they have seen my application.

I would apply and never get any feedback. Nothing.

There was a year, which was 2022, when I applied for over 200 jobs

and not even one of them responded back.

I would send emails every week. I would be applying for jobs every week.

And I would never receive any email telling me that I had been shortlisted

or I should come for an interview or whatsoever.

It was really depressing and I didn't know what was wrong.

I didn't lose hope and I didn't lose faith.

I continued to apply. I continued praying,

I just believed that one day, there would be change.

I was also suffering from nightmares.

In these nightmares, I would see myself in dreams having sexual intercourse.

It could be with people I didn’t know.

Sometimes, it would be with demons or creatures I couldn’t recognise.

I didn't tell anyone, not even my mother or family,

because I was afraid of what they would think or say.

So If I refused, I would wake up sometimes with bruises.

Sometimes I would be in a position where I saw these entities

having sexual intercourse and I was not taking part in it.

And whenever I saw such a thing, I would not see anything good coming my way.

In the beginning of this year in January, my mother introduced me to God's Heart TV

and she told me about the Interactive Prayer with Brother Chris.

I sent a prayer request for Interactive Prayer. I didn’t think much of it, honestly.

For me, it was just like any other prayer or church service I’d been involved in.

On January 30, I sent out an application to be part of a youth leadership training program.

And after that, three days later, I received an email to be part

of the Interactive Prayer Service with Brother Chris, which I joined.

Physically, nothing special happened.

I didn't shake. I didn't vomit. I didn't... nothing.

It was just a normal prayer that I joined and I didn't take anything into consideration.

Little did I know that God was working behind the scenes for me.

Every time I tell this story, I am filled with tears.

Even right now, I'm filled with tears because I never thought I would see this day.

On February 21, a week after the Interactive Prayer Service,

I received my first call to come for an interview.

Apparently, that interview session lasted for three days.

I came on the last day.

As much as there was a lot of people, there was no fear within me.

For me, I felt like the fact that I made it to this interview after so long,

after three years of applying and not receiving anything - it was enough for me.

It shows that God has truly turned my case around.

I walked into the interview room and the panel were so shocked that I was smiling.

They didn't know why I was smiling because everyone who walked in

was having serious faces, and I was the only one who smiled.

And they were asking, ‘Why are you smiling? Why are you so happy?’

I couldn't even tell them why I was happy.

I just sat down, carried on with the interview and I went back home.

And the shocking thing is, unlike other interviews, mine lasted for about ten minutes.

Others were less than five minutes.

So when I heard others saying the interview was short,

I said to myself, ‘Did I say something wrong?

Did they have to correct a lot of things?’

But little did I know I was accepted for the program,

to be part of the Youth Leadership Training Program.

It's a nine month leadership training program offered by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Botswana.

And they gave me this opportunity to be part of 20 youths of Botswana

to participate in this nine month program.

I forgot to mention that while all this was happening,

because it was happening week after week,

I was also opportune to be part of a special Interactive Prayer with Brother Chris.

I joined in that prayer session.

I have never experienced those dreams again till today.

I sleep peacefully. I don’t wake up with scars or anything.

Even on the day when I received the email that I had been accepted,

instead of having those bad dreams, I was awarded a white envelope in my dream.

And after I received that white envelope, the following day I received an email

saying that I had been accepted in the training session.

In terms of my career, I've been a journalist for the past seven years.

And in the seven years, I had never received any recognition.

I was just like any other journalist.

But lo and behold, on March 19,

I received an email that I was nominated for the first time in my life to receive an award.

I prayed about it, and on March 23, I was awarded the ‘Vunani Annual

Botswana Woman’s Sports Award’ as Journalist Of The Year, Print.

And here is the award - my first ever award!

It is over all Botswana but this one is the sports category because I'm a sports journalist.

In 2020, I joined a nonprofit organisation called Young African Leaders Forum.

This is a nonprofit, youth led organisation,

which empowers the youth of Africa within the continent as well as the diaspora.

We advocate for the needs of others and we encourage the youth

to just participate in the country, in society.

I was doing this work for free. I was just volunteering for this job.

I didn't think anything of it.

And in this process, I was using my resources.

On April 18, I was appointed the Regional Coordinator for the Southern Region of Africa

for a two year period, to lead summits in this region

The youth of the Southern African Region is my responsibility.

And to add on it, I am preparing a summit that will be hosted in Zambia in November

for the first time in Southern Africa, and it can only be by the glory of God.

This one comes with payment.

For this appointment, I will be paid.

I will also be paid for being an ambassador for my country.

It’s actually two payments at once.

So what's your advice to our people who have joined us today from all over the world

about what Jesus Christ can do in their lives?

First and foremost, when I took part in the first Interactive Prayer, I did one thing -

one thing that changed my entire life.

I surrendered to God and I opened my heart.

Those were the keys to unlocking my blessings.

Had I not done that, I don't know if I would be here to testify.

So I would encourage everyone to search deep down in their hearts

and to surrender everything to God.

I want you to know that disappointment doesn't mean God has forgotten you.

Everything has its own time.

God managed to shower me with blessings in a period of three months,

For many people, it would take a longer time to achieve whatever I achieved.

So I would encourage you to keep on going, to keep on praying and to keep on believing.

Don’t hold back or doubt God in anything.

God is capable of changing your story in a blink of an eye.

It doesn't take Him a long time to change your story.

If we can just reposition ourselves, we will get everything that we need from God.