SID: Tell me a couple examples of… We know about the dragons you’ve faced, witchdoctors, et cetera in Africa and places like that, but what kind of dragons does the housewife, the student, the businessman, the trash collector, what kind of serpents are they facing?
DANIEL: Well, I read an interesting story in a British newspaper a while ago. The headline, if I paraphrase it, it said a man’s a rock python, eight foot rock python named Tiny, kills him in his sleep. And I was thinking about that. And I was thinking, that man’s snake probably started out as this cute little pet he brought home from the pet store. And he coddled it and he nurtured it and he raised it. And that was the beast that eventually took his life. And I thought, what an appropriate metaphor for what so many Christians and what so many believers and people experience in their lives. Because the reality is, the things that we struggle with, the things that take people down, things like addiction, things like divorce, problems with relationships, problems in jobs, all these different things, the darkness, the bondages that destroy people’s lives, they very often start as a small pet. And we are the ones that feed those things. We nurture them, we coddle them, and then they end up destroying our lives.
So one of the great keys is to learn how to identify those things when they’re young, when they’re small, and kill them in their inception, smash those eggs.
SID: Now you have had a number, a lot of people come and want to do you harm, witchdoctors, et cetera. Tell me, pick out one witchdoctor that came to kill you. I mean, to kill you.
DANIEL: Yeah. Well, this was also a story in Nigeria. And I had to get the backstory of this later from the local pastors. But, in Africa, this is the place where voodoo originated. And so it’s very well known, witchdoctors, witchcraft, animism, we call it Juju, which is just all this witchcraft.
SID: Now some people watching us right now, they think that’s just, that’s not true. But this is a real demonic….
DANIEL: Go on one trip to Africa, you won’t need any more convincing. It’s real. It’s very, very real. And so there are different levels of these witchdoctors doctors, even in the minds of the locals. And some of them, in their minds, are good. Some of them are bad. What we know, we understand that all of that stuff is evil, but in their minds, there’s good and bad. Well, this lady was bad even by voodoo standards. One of the pastors told me, he knew of 10 people that this woman had cursed to death, two of them were relatives of hers. And see, why this lady was feared is because her job was to put curses on people that would kill them.
Well, when we come into a city for one of our campaigns, Sid, there is one group of people that’s not very happy about it. And that’s the witchdoctors.
SID: Why?
DANIEL: Because when we come in, it’s an amazing thing, their witchcraft stops working. There was a man that came to a campaign, a witchdoctor, he was furious. He said his business is that you go to his house, he has these stones out on the lawn.
SID: You buy them.
DANIEL: No, you pay money. You stand on a stone and you hear what he would convince you is the voices of your deceased ancestors. And so he came to us. He was very mad. He said, “Ever since you came to the city and started preaching, my stones aren’t speaking anymore.”
SID: Now for those that don’t understand, if it’s not their dead ancestors speaking, who is speaking?
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