Kelley Cannon Testimony:
CAN HELL SAVE ME ?
CAN HELL SAVE ME ?
by Kelley Ann Cannon
A Testimony on Demonic Possession and Oppression
Dedication and Thanks
I dedicate my testimony to Dr. Jerry Schmoyer, Pastor Butch Paugh, and Everett Cox, for all the information and personal help given to Joe, of how to conduct Deliverance Ministry. Special thanks is due to Dr. Jerry Schmoyer for all the email correspondence, for his prayers, and for personal information shared with Joe.
We thank Yeshua the Messiah, for the inspiration, help, and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Also, we want to thank all of the prayer warriors that prayed for us. A special thank you is given to Natalie Hudok for her help in editing my testimony.
CAN HELL SAVE ME ?
Written by Kelley Ann Cannon
Introduction
From my conversion in 1990 until 2009, the demonic spirits had been there all along. These demonic spirits had been tormenting me all of my life. Once I had come to Yeshua (Jesus), these demon spirits had become dormant, waiting for me to drop the protective wall around me. When my faith became weak, my rebellion became strong. When I allowed sin to take control of my life, they came in like a flood. The demons that I allowed to enter put me in a state of mental illness. They also opened a gateway for the sex slave demons to enter in.
What you are about to read is a testimony on demonic possession and oppression. You will discover what led up to the problems that I faced during this demonic activity and how I, being a born-again, Spirit-filled Christian, was attacked by multiple demonic spirits that took complete control of my emotions, spirituality, and faith.
PART I. My Personal Experience with Demonic Activity
By the time I was 19 years old until the age of 35, my adopted parents could praise me in one breath and curse me in the next. I was beginning to feel I was being rejected and abandoned. I felt that I could do nothing right. My mother was always telling me that I was stupid, lazy, and never finished anything that I started.
During this time, my life was a life of rebellion. I was put into tap dancing, ballet, and piano lessons and dropped out of them. My withdrawal was rebellious. I got married the first time and pregnant. My marriage was rebellious. I fought to get out from under my parents’ control of my life. My battle was rebellious. I was well on my way to demonic possession and oppression.
My Life Growing Up
Growing up, I was raised in an upper middle class family. My mother was a pharmacist and my father, a criminal attorney. Being busy professionals, they hired a nanny, who prepared meals, cleaned house, did laundry, and took me to and from school.
I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic kindergarten, grade school, and high school. Yet throughout those years, I never knew who Jesus Christ our Savior was. Every day in grade school, before morning classes, the service was conducted entirely in Latin. I had no idea what was being said. I never understood God’s Word and was not a born again Christian. I heard only the 4 Gospels-Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John-and nothing else. I never really learned anything about God, only their interpretation of what to believe, which was inaccurate and deceptive.
As I grew up, my mother and I did not get along. She really did not want me. I was adopted from Italy and brought to the States in 1958 at two years old. My father wanted to adopt me, while my mother did not.
When I graduated from high school at 19 years old, I moved out on my own. I attached myself to the opposite sex and was very promiscuous, looking for love in all the wrong places. I got pregnant out of wedlock and was shunned by my mother. Feeling pressured to give the child up and also believing it would be for the child’s best interest, I gave my newborn baby up for adoption through Catholic Charities. The child is now 36 years old.
Seven years later, I got married, got pregnant, and had another child. In 1986, my ex-husband abandoned me and our daughter, leaving me to raise her by myself.
My ex-husband was a control freak, never physically abusive but mentally abusive. He would not allow me to leave the home in order to gain employment. I had no social life.
When I met Steve, he had a $300.00 drug addiction per day. After several months into the marriage, Steve was committing adultery and fornication and continuing his drug use. One day after I was out buying groceries, I returned to find him in bed with another woman. When Steve abandoned me and his daughter, he said he was going to buy a pack of cigarettes and would be right back. He never returned. In my heart, I knew he wanted out of the marriage. This was the year of 1985. Divorce was my only choice. In 1987, the marriage was dissolved as result of abandonment. I still was not a born again Christian.
During those 2 years, 1985-1987, I had acquired men and boys to live with me. I was terrified of being alone, even though I was sexually used and abused. I was trying very hard to raise my daughter alone. When my daughter was 3 years old, I had to go to work. I took her to a friend’s house to watch her while I was at work. I was gone only a couple of hours. During that time, I later found out that my friend’s husband sexually molested my daughter. He had totally penetrated. I did not know anything about it, but I could sense something was not right. She was terrified of any male that came into the home. The man at that time was 25 years of age, molesting a 3 year old. I feel that this man was a pedophile.
I was on welfare at that time, with the DHHS threatening to take away my daughter to become a ward of the State. This was when my brother and his wife stepped in. I was still under the sex slave demons that had control of my life.
My brother and his wife took guardianship of her and raised her until age 16. She then became uncontrollable and was sent to live with my mother. While she lived there she stole from the home and pawned items in order to buy drugs. Because of what had happened to her, she was trying to be accepted by her peers. She was also looking for love in all the wrong places. This is a generational curse. Like mother, like daughter. At the same age as I had been, 19, she had a child out of wedlock. The State took her child from her because she had drugs on board. I did not have any say in the matter.
Since then, I have forgiven her, but she could not forgive me. She was not a born again believer. She was bitter, angry, and unforgiving. I believe that she was encountering demonic activity in her life. Being molested at a very young age opened a gateway for the sex slave demons to enter into her body. The only way the situation would change would be by doing two things: 1) accepting the Lord into her life and seeking God’s mercy, and 2) praying and asking forgiveness of her iniquities.
My Conversion
This took place in 1990 . I was traveling in my father’s car with my husband-to-be, Joe, in the passenger seat. Joe said to me to ask Jesus to show me who I was and then to ask Jesus to show me who He was. When I did that, I accepted the Lord into my life. I have been a Bible-believing, born-again Christian since 1990.
Before getting married, we had courted for about 6 months. We were married on September 16, 1990. Now, Joe and I are getting ready to celebrate 23 years of marriage.
Testimony of Demonic Possession and Oppression
It all started when I shared smoking marijuana with a non-believer. Sharing that with an infidel opened up gateways for demonic spirits to enter in from the infidel to me. This was done several times. Another incident is when sharing marijuana with a full blown New Ager. This invited more demonic spirits to enter in. This person was a White Witch, claimed to be light, and practiced witchcraft that included Reike (body massage that involves chanting for permission to adjust the body) crystals, incense burning (to cover up the marijuana smoke), and Meditation music.
These rituals were a huge door opener for demons to enter in. This was an addiction; the
demonic spirit had complete and total control. Having that sin of addiction is rebellion against God. The biggest and most dominant demon was the demon of fear.
- Fear of poverty
- Fear of being alone
- Fear of going outside
- Fear of driving a car
- Fear of people.
- Fear of rejection
- Fear of sleeping, eating, drinking water
- Fear of bad dreams.
It all boils down to the spirit of fear!!!!!
All that time I had turned my back on Yeshua (Jesus) in my life.
Those multiple demonic spirits took total control of my life. I wouldn’t even let Joe go to work. He did not know what to do. Joe had never seen this before.
Joe took me to a church to be delivered from these demons. But the church did not know what to do or how to deal with the issue at hand. All they were doing was waving flags, singing, and babbling in tongues.
My husband took me to the ER. On the way, I tried to open the door to jump out of the moving vehicle. Further on in my testimony, my husband will elaborate on the trips to the ER. I was classified with a mental illness. I was put into a program called, “Pathways.” While there, I was put on anti-depressants and anti-psychotic medication. I did not know if I should put a hat on my feet or shoes on my head.
Previously I’d had an ulcer. At this point, the demons caused me to have such anxiety that my ulcer exploded. The demons were literally trying to kill me. They still had complete control of my body and mind-physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was rushed immediately for emergency surgery to patch the hole in my stomach. While in the hospital, the demons still had control over me. I was cursing the nurses, screaming at the top of my lungs. They were still tormenting me. I had an IV in my arm, and the demons told me to rip out of my arm. And I did it. I ripped out the IV, and blood was everywhere. With that surgery, I had 32 staples and 27 stitches to close the incision. The incision went from the belly button all the way up to the sternum. There were 90 days that I had no memory of this demonic activity.
My question is this, Can Christians be demon possessed and oppressed? Answer: Absolutely. So it was back to Pathways. I was then court ordered to the State Mental Institution, continually on anti-depressants and anti-psychotic drugs. I now belonged to the State. There is nothing pretty about a mental institution. They keep you drugged up in order to keep you in control. While in the institute, I talked to my psychiatrist. I told him that I was not mentally ill, that this was a demonic possession and oppression. Granted, these demons still had complete control of my mind and body. Demonic spirits want you to think that their thoughts are your thoughts. I continued to talk to my psychiatrist and told him that I wanted the lethal injection to end my life. Granted, those were the demons talking through me.
Outer Body Experience (what Hell was really about)
Immediately after talking to my psychiatrist, I was taken into a room and stripped down and put into a suicide jacket. While in that room, the Lord took me out of my body through an outer-body experience. The Lord showed me my destination if I did not change my ways. I was an observer of what Hell was going to be like.
Here is the description of what I saw. Hell was very dark, extremely hot, and very smelly. I heard people who were in Hell, cursing God, blaspheming God, in total torment. But I distinctly heard one voice say, “Why me Lord? This is not fair Lord. Why am I here?” I believe that this was portraying me. The Holy Spirit revealed this to me. I thought I was righteous, but the Lord was showing me myself.
In Romans 6:23, we are told “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (KJV) Also in Romans 3:10, we read, “There is none righteous, no not one.” (KJV) Zechariah 2:5 “For I, saith the Lord, will be unto [him/her] a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of [him/her].”
When I came back from this outer-body experience, I put my hand to my nose and smelled it. It smelled like sulfur. That is how close I was to my destination if I had not changed my life. While still in the suicide jacket, I prayed, and this is what I prayed:
“Father, forgive me for kicking you out of my life, I want you back into my life. I don’t
want to go to Hell. That is full of darkness; you are light. Please come back into my
life.”
When I had finished my prayer, I felt some of the demonic spirits leave my body. I was to be in the mental institute for 90 days. I was released in 33 days. Also they had told me that I would have to be on the medication for the rest of my life. Still in the institution, my husband, Joe, prayed every day for my deliverance with intercessory prayers. Joe went to the court of divinity, pleading with God to intervene. He did a Daniel fast, not eating his favorite foods for 21 days.
When I finally came home, there were still several demons left in me to be delivered from. This took some time to be completely set free from demonic activity.
The 90 Days
[The following section was dictated to me by my husband Joe, as I do not remember much of what took place during this time.]
Being Kelley’s husband, what Kelley went through, I also went through. The 90 days was like a living Hell.
The insomnia she was suffering, forcing me to stay awake at night, was hard on me. Also, the anxiety she was going through was like a living Hell. I did not know what to do, even though I knew that this was demonic.
One day we went for a car ride, hoping this would settle her down. We ended up in the
emergency room. They ran a lot of tests on her and sent her home with sleeping pills. They did not work. And all of this time, she just wanted to die and take her own life. Still there was no sleep.
We went to the emergency room a second time. In the parking lot, she tried to take my knife off of me, to use it against herself. I would not allow her to do this.
Kelley found a pocket knife in the glove box and proceeded to attempt to cut her wrists. The hospital sent her to a treatment center called “Pathways”. Three days after she was in Pathways, a friend of ours called me, mentioning that she had a talk with Kelley on the phone. Kelley had told her that she had talked to the psychiatrist, “If I take these pills, will I be released earlier?” The psychiatrist answered, “Yes.”
And Kelley said to our friend, “I took these pills, and I lost Jesus.” A few days later, Kelley ended up in the hospital with a ruptured ulcer. I remember that walking down the hall, I could hear Kelley screaming at the top of her lungs, totally out of control, manifesting.
And so it was back to Pathways. She was there for a short time, then released to come home. While at home, Kelley was manifesting, hyper-ventilating, anxious, not eating, not drinking fluids, refusing to bathe, and refusing to go to the bathroom on her own. She refused to let me go to work and refused to let me sleep. Frightened to let me out of her sight, she could not even function, logically, mentally, and emotionally on her own. She collapsed from dehydration and ended up going to the emergency room for the third time. Released from the E.R. and riding home, I noticed something different. She became very arrogant in her thinking. She kept telling me that people were watching me and that the police were going to stop me. When I got her home, her personality switched to another personality. As we were talking, I asked her, “Is Jesus God?” As much as she wanted to say, “Yes”, she said, “No.”
At this point, Kelley was manifesting so much that the demon spirits were literally talking to me. I was bewildered, not knowing what to do, or how to deal with this. That night, Kelley stood guard in the house, watching out all the windows and telling me they were coming to get me. Two days later, it was back to the emergency room. While in the E.R., Kelley mentioned that these voices had told her to kill the two cats, the dog, and me, and to burn the house down, and to kill herself. In John 10:10, it says, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” (KJV)
That evening at the E.R., before Kelley was sent back to Pathways for the third time, she stated to me that she tried to control the demons so much, that they took total control of me. While still in Pathways, she was kept in a locked room, under surveillance, severely and heavily sedated. Now she was to have a court date.
Kelley signed her rights away before the court date. She was off to Warm Springs Mental
Hospital. She became ward of the State.
Still not knowing what to do, I went to the internet, searching for anything I could find on Deliverance Ministry. That’s when I came across Dr. Jerry Schmoyer, in Philadelphia. Through email correspondence, he helped me with certain prayers to pray over Kelley. With help also from Everett Cox of Deliverance Ministries, I undertook twice a day praying for Kelley. I also entered into a Daniel fast, seeking God’s love for a deliverance.
When I heard that Kelley had been put into a suicide jacket, I realized that I was beginning to lose her as my wife. So I went into a court of divinity, asking the Holy Spirit for counsel, asking the Messiah to be my defense, and asking that God would intervene. After Kelley was released from the suicide jacket, she was doing great, felt a whole lot better, and began talking about Jesus to the staff in the mental hospital. She had done a 180 degree turn.
All this time, I, too, was heavily attacked by demonic spirits. I was averaging about 3-5 hours of sleep, if any at all. I was fighting off the demons of fear, insomnia, and voices telling me to commit suicide.
When Kelley finally came home, she asked me what had happened. She had no recollection that it was the month of June and thought it was still the month of March.
PART II. My Learning Experience
What I have learned through my experience of demonic activity is that no matter how spiritual you are, you can have demonic activity in your life. Demons are real and can influence your life. The only way this can happen is if you allow the demon spirits to take complete control of your life. This gives them rights to do what they intend to do to destroy your life. If you allow sin back into your life, you are giving demon spirits rights into your soul.
[Much of the following is excerpted from the online article “Can a Christian Be Demon
Possessed?” by Chris Ward, D. Min. at http://www.logoschristian.org/possession.html.
Phases of Demonic Possession and Oppression
Satan finds a weakness, or a door through traditional family behavior(iniquities) or through the reckless behavior of the individual(personal sin). Satan usually seduces a person with something simple and almost innocent unless it is generational sin.
Demons (Nephilim) like to solicit your active free-willing participation. It is more of a kill and a sport to them!!!
Put a Guard at the Gate.
The gate to the carnal self is five-fold:
- sight
- smell
- sound
- taste
- touch
A demon can come in through any of these five gates by tempting the guard at the door. If the guard allows the demon in, then the demon has rights, power, authority, curses, and assignments on your body. The demons gain total control.
Evidence of Demonic Activity in a Person’s Life
The biggest and foremost demonic spirit is unforgiveness.
Examples: Anger, bitterness, bondage, condemnation, confusion, deception, control, addictions, fear, doubt/disbelief, fatigue, heaviness/stress, infirmity, leviathan(water spirit) pride, mental illness,(being lunatic), depression, rejection, sexual perversions, poverty, rebellion, strife, torment, witchcraft(occult) and ungodly soul ties.
All demonic activity in one’s life, is a result of sins (i.e.) breaking God’s laws. In 1John 3:4, states,” Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the Law: for sin is the transgression of the Law.”
Sin is trespassing against the Word of God. Which means unclean. All demonic spirits
(leviathan) is the presence of uncleanness in your life.
There are 3 simple prayers that will help you with deliverance. The first prayer is:
Heavenly Father, please forgive me of the sins of _________, For I put this sin under the Blood of the Lamb (Jesus Christ) for the forgiveness of my sins. Please forgive me. Demon spirits and associates no longer can you use these sins to gain access to my life. I have been forgiven, and I choose to forgive myself and all others. By the power of the Blood of the Lamb, I rescind your rights off of my body, I cancel your power, your authority, your curses, and your assignments. I command you to go to the feet of Jesus to be judged. Never to return, or send any demon back in your place. I call upon the Blood of the Lamb to cover me, and a wall of fire to surround me. It is done, it is finished.
The second prayer is:
All demon spirits in this house, that have entered in by rights, authority, power, curses, and assignments or through generational sins, you must leave now. I rescind your rights off of this house, I cancel your power, your authority, your curses, and your assignments, in the name of Yeshua (Jesus) to be judged. It is done, it is finished.
Then anoint the house, room by room, with oil, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Also end the prayer with this:
In the name of Yeshua (Jesus) Christ, the Son of God, I command you unclean spirits to leave, vacate, in Jesus’ name. GO!!!!!!!!
If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior into your life, here is a sinner’s prayer to pray:
Dear Jesus, forgive me of my sins. I desire eternal life, for I know I am going to Hell. I want to be born again, and be set free from the powers of darkness that has controlled and tormented my life. I desire now, Jesus Christ to be number 1 in my life, to serve Him as a child of the Living God. In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Conclusion
Through the deliverance, both Joe and I have become Deliverance ministers. In Deliverance Ministry, there are some Bible verses that a person can read to keep the demonic spirits away from you. One of these verses is this, Luke 10:19, “Behold, I give you all power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” II Timothy 1:7, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.” Refer to Acts 1:8 (KJV).
There is nothing more powerful than the name of Yeshua (Jesus), the Messiah. Demons want you to think that their thoughts are your thoughts. The demons cannot get into your thoughts, but they can become your thoughts, only if you allow them to do so. To call upon the Blood of the Lamb, to cover you, and a wall of fire to surround you, and the warring angels to protect you.
One Last Comment: If you believe demons can no longer attack Christians to be possessed, harassed, or tormented, then maybe the need for deliverance of the Demonic Lie Program is at hand. Also, if you do not believe that people can go to Hell, the Deliverance Demonic Lie Program is also at hand.
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“I have known Kelley Cannon and her husband Joe for several years. Long before Kelley was wonderfully delivered from the devils that tormented her, I had a chance to speak with her. Even in a phone conversation anyone with even a little spiritual discernment could recognize the fact that Kelley was in a deep, deep depression and much more. Over a period of several months I witnessed Kelley’s recovery from this attack of Satan and his demons, and it was nothing less than miraculous! This little booklet will be a huge blessing to all that read it. Kelley and Joe now attend the fellowship that I have been privileged to pastor.”
Pastor Butch Paugh