Interview Transcript
This post relates to the interview just above. There are glitches in parts, where it jumps a bit and some words are lost. For this reason, I’ve transcribed what I said in most of those parts, just so that you have a better idea of all that was said.
At 1:30
Sally: Birgit, you’ve been a Christian now for ten years, a committed Christian, right?
Birgit: Yes, and that’s the term for it, a committed Christian, because prior to that I was a believer in Jesus but I didn’t realise that it was a problem to also be dabbling in the occult.
At 1:41
Birgit: Whenever I share my testimony I love to start off with a verse from Hosea, it’s Hosea 4:6, which is “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” And it’s a real reminder, I think, to believers to really get to know God as He is revealed in the Bible, what He likes and what He dislikes and also the design He has for our lives …
At 2:51
Birgit: … But as you say, I committed to living for Jesus ten years ago [at time of interview]. It was November 1996 … and He has transformed my life in the meantime …
At 4:33
Sally: Were your parents Christians as well? Was your family? …
Birgit: [I can’t remember the exact wording for this part, so this is a paraphrase] Yeah, my Mum was a believer, she didn’t have the awareness of the occult being a problem … so she was, yeah …
At 4:50
Birgit: … There were three particular spiritual beings, who had … names … I could never kind of make these names up because they were quite sort of sophisticated and I was just sort of three, four years old at this time …
At 10:31
Birgit: … because prior to my involvement in the occult, I had been your typical exuberant, outgoing teenager … through my involvement in this, I developed this extreme fear, and extreme anxiety …
At 11:00
Sally: You describe yourself at the time, that you were like a shell …
At 13:05
Birgit: … I became tearful, very, very withdrawn … I had a deadline for an assignment and because I was just crying and unable to concentrate I called my older brother …
At 13:31
Birgit: So I called, I called my mother … she said, ‘Birgit, I think you have to pray.’ And so after my brother left, I did. It was so weird, I had never thought to do that before. Even believing in God, He was so far, so far from my experience. It was just the most weird thing to do. But I prayed. And God instantly gave me a vision in my spirit. And basically I was kneeling in this [dark dungeon or cave] and this brilliant shaft of light shone down and it sort of illuminated an ascending staircase. And God gave me the word in my heart that He was going to take me from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light, step by step. And it was so powerful, and it was so, um, amazing, that I knew that God was real. And what came next was this overwhelming sense of peace …
At 14:38
Birgit: … if people haven’t experienced the reality of God, this is Who He is, He is the Prince of Peace, He is the Comforter … He is the One Who brings the peace we all desire, He is the One Who brings acceptance, He is the One Who brings life, He is Life, He gives life. You know, the Bible says He’ll give us beauty for ashes … you know, He promises to transform us … You know He says in, in John 10:10 that enemy comes only to kill, to steal and to destroy, but He comes to bring life, and bring it in abundance …
