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My baptism was ‘not that great’ as it turned out. This is an understatement. Here’s what happened.
I became a Christian in my bedroom, alone, by accident, at 27 years old. The story of my conversion is HERE. Then I was a ‘closet Christian’ for three years before I got with a church. After that, it took another year or so before I got the guts to come forward and ask to be baptized. I knew about baptizim, and I knew you were supposed to get baptized after you became a Christian, right? It’s just something that Christians were supposed to do. You get baptized to declare to the world that you now follow Christ. I had no problem with that. I knew I belonged to Jesus and to God and that I owed my very life to Him.
So the day came. I got dunked. I felt nothing from it really, but all went well.
But then there was the day after. All hell broke loose. I got ATTACKED!!!
It felt like demons from hell were after me. I was being tortured. Voices were screaming at me to go buy an oozy (a machine gun) and shoot everyone in church, then take my own life. The pressure to do this was intense and incessant. It went on for weeks. I grappled on to an assistant pastor with both hands because I didn’t know how to handle what was happening to me. It was all I could do not to carry out what was being commanded of me.
I do not believe that this was ‘all in my head’. I believe that I was truly demon possessed as a result of my ‘coming out’ in baptizm and that there is much more to this baptizm then many might realize. Eventually the dust settled and all became quiet again. The demons realized that I was not going to co-operate with their scheme so they left.
My question now is… are there others who have experienced similar events as a result of being baptized and who scurry away from Christianity because they don’t want to be labeled crazy? Maybe the demons don’t get the ultimate prize of death to a church crowd and the baptized subject but they do get a consolation prize. One less follower of Christ. And no one is the wiser. They say to each other…
What ever happened to so-and-so?
Didn’t s/he just get baptized recently?
A Christian Overcomer 
I doubt it was the baptism, but I know anytime someone openly declares God hell attacks. And yes, people are lost because religious congregations want smooth, not true, relationships. I pray that more people of faith live love instead of talk it, take an interest in others instead of seeing only the inconvenience of caring. If you live by the couch instead of the cross, well…
May the God of all love grant you (and any other caught in a battle against evil) find PEACE
Why do you doubt it was the baptism? Can you explain this further?
What I meant was, every act of our loyalty to God makes evil enraged. The baptism was just one of those and so it wasn’t the baptism, but the obedience you felt to do what God asked that stirred the forces of the enemy. Sorry if I wasn’t clear on that. It was the condition of the heart, not the “getting wet” that I see as the cause.
Peace
oh. Jesus faced the devil after he got baptized. What do you make of that? I wanted to get your take on that.
can you reply to the first comment so that it doesn’t get so narrow?