Faith Walk / William Carroll
Faith Walk / William Carroll
Episode 23: Journey of Faith: Confronting Fears, Spirits, and the Power of God's Love with Kaylen Humphries
Welcome to a faith-filled exploration with a special guest who holds a dear place in our hearts, my stepdaughter Kaylen Jewell Humphries. Journey with us as we dive into personal experiences of spiritual warfare, focusing on God's reassurances in our lives, especially during challenging times. We open up about Kaylen,s triumphs and trials, from nurturing a newborn to confronting postpartum depression and even helping out in my battle with my COVID-19. Her sheer resilience and reliance on God's love and power is an inspiring testament to the transformative influence of faith.
The plot thickens as we navigate through the impact of media consumption on our spirits, especially the horror genre. Hear firsthand from our daughter Kaylen about the frightening dreams and fears that ensued from her consumption of such content. This leads us to discuss the significance of being cognizant of what we allow to enter our minds and hearts. We further venture into the murky waters of spirits and witchcraft, sharing insightful experiences and warnings about the potential dangers. As we wrap up, we recount the testimoney of a daughter's boundless love, perfectly encapsulating the essence of our faith journey. Tune in as we traverse through these faith-based narratives.
Well, good morning and welcome to FaithWalk podcast with William Carroll. I'm your host and today I have a very special guest. I have my daughter she's my stepdaughter, but she's my daughter that God has blessed me with Kaylen, Jewell Humphries, and she is a Jewell and I love her so much. And now, listen on this podcast. This is what we talk about. We talk about how God has I have learned the word of God, stood upon the word of God, walked out the word of God. See, I want people to know that you can take God out of the box. Religion puts God in the box. Relationship with God takes God out of the box and you become his arms, his feet, his hands and his mouth. As you go in, you share with his love, with other people. And so today it's a very special honor because this is like I say I've got some daughters and then I have my daughter, I have my two stepdaughters, I have two other special daughters let's say, you know, bonus daughters is what I call them. But this girl here has really have a special place in my heart. Now, you know, she told me one time she said that sounds bad when you say that, but I've always called her. On the last podcast with Janie, I told you I called Katie, our youngest. I called her my gift from God and she's been my gift from God. Well, I've always called Kaylen my love child, even though she's not my child, but I love her like my child. She says, well, that sounds kind of bad. I said, baby, I don't mean it to be bad because I love you like my own child and she's very special to me in my heart. And today we're going to talk about some different things, about what was going on in her life. And well, let's just she's a little nervous. So I'm just going to take off right quick and I'm going to say One of the things about you know, when you call somebody something, you need to be real careful. When you name your child something or when you call them stuff that you call them, you know you don't want to call them dummy all the time, because they're going to be a dummy, you know. And Kaylen, I called her my love child and she actually became my love in a child because when I had COVID about two years ago or three years ago I guess, I got COVID real bad and I will tell this story too.
William Carroll:When I came home, Kaylen came over to visit and they had just had a child, a boy, aiden, and she came over to visit and she was. They didn't know how bad I was because you know they didn't let nobody in the hospital. I came home and I was, my oxygen level was in the 60s 70s with oxygen, and then if I walked, you know, it dropped way down to the 60s. It's supposed to be up at 97, 98.
William Carroll:So Kaylen come in the house and I was in bed and I was back there and I heard Kaylen, I heard her come in and I heard her ask her mom. She said, well, is he dead yet? So yeah, she loves me, see. And so so we was. I was laying there in bed and I heard feet, still the footsteps coming in my room and I thought it was Kailin coming to check on me. So I laid in bed and I kind of laid there and I kind of rolled my eyes back and I Wasn't even moving, you know. And then and I felt somebody Pushing me and I turned around I said is he dead?
Kaylen Humphries:yet.
William Carroll:Not that strong because I couldn't talk that strong, but it was Janie, and Janie don't get mad, you know. But she got mad that she whoop I. It hurt her feelings more than she got mad, you know. And I said I'm sorry, baby, I thought it was Kaylen, but I know that's kind of mean. But Kaylen when I was sick? What, what did you do? I want you to talk some, I want you to tell.
Kaylen Humphries:I had just had a newborn baby and we had just moved in here and Mom was talking about, you know, finding a at-home health nurse or whatever, and about money and stuff. So I decided I quit my job and I took care of the baby and William.
William Carroll:Yes, and they moved in. They had just. They moved in right after I got. Covid When they moved in they were living in an apartment and Kailin had a little bit of Postpartum depression. Talk about that a little bit. Tell them how you were feeling and you know the cares that you had.
Kaylen Humphries:Really, I was just convinced that my son was gonna die of sick and that something was bad was gonna happen all the time.
William Carroll:Yeah.
Kaylen Humphries:I was scared to get in a car because I thought the car would crash and the baby would die.
William Carroll:And and she had a fear. You know, and see, we know that fear Doesn't come from God, fear Comes from the enemy, fear comes from the thief that comes to still kill and destroy. In John 1010 and I always share with Kaylen, always to see 2 Timothy one and seven, and, and it says that you have not been given the spirit of fear, but of power, a love and a sound mind. And Kailin, would you know, she has this fear that a lot of times, like for tests, you were having fear for your college test. I'm just afraid I'm gonna fail. I'm gonna fail, you know, and I kept telling Kaylen Read the scripture, learn the scripture. But she did have a fear, and I'm not saying that that fear wasn't real, because it was real To you, wasn't it, baby?
Kaylen Humphries:Yeah, and like the the spirit in the house.
William Carroll:Yeah, yeah she. She felt like there was In this old house that they were living in. You know it was a house that had been renovated and it was a house that there had been people in there that had been a Manufacturing meth and selling meth and stuff like that you know, which came to light later. But she felt that there was like an evil spirit in that house. You know, and I know a lot of y'all don't believe that there are, but there really are spirits that Attack us, spirits that come against us and spirits that try to create fear in us. Now, as we move along Kaylen you, you moved in the house, but no, let's go back a little bit. Let's go back to when she lived here as a teenager. When she lived here as a teenager, tell them what kind of books you like to read. I.
Kaylen Humphries:Really like this series that. I forgot what it was called, but it was basically about demon hunters and stuff.
William Carroll:Demon hunters. Did they hunt like? Did they hunt not only demons? But it's kind of like that show, probably like Charmed, where they're demon hunters, or what was it? Buffy and the Bandfire Slayer?
Kaylen Humphries:No, I don't really remember. I think I mean yeah, I mean just super-.
William Carroll:It was a book series, though.
Kaylen Humphries:Super-natural stuff. Yes, Basically yeah.
William Carroll:Okay, I'm going to tell you right. Then a show had come out. It was called American Horror, american Horror Show, right, something like that.
Kaylen Humphries:Yeah, something like that.
William Carroll:American Horror and it had this weird intro where you know it would go. It had these springs. It's just weird. It had all these weird pictures. You know, I kept telling her you don't need to be watching that kind of stuff. So as you progressed, and as you, you were probably what? 14, 15, 14,.
Kaylen Humphries:I think 13, 14.
William Carroll:Yeah, she was younger teen and she started watching that stuff, you know, and she started reading those books and my wisdom I kept telling her you know you don't need to do that, but she did it anyway and kind of tell the story about kind of what was going on and what happened. And then we'll get into your dream here in a minute.
Kaylen Humphries:What happened.
William Carroll:Yeah well, just how was you feeling when you were doing all that, when you was reading all those books and all what started kind of happening to you? How did you feel? You know?
Kaylen Humphries:Well, I didn't feel scared like reading them, or like I didn't feel scared. But then at night, when the lights went out and I was alone in my room, I was definitely scared. Yes, I was scared to sleep in my room.
William Carroll:She was scared to sleep in her room. And also Kaylin, if you remember, you were having a lot of dreams. I remember one dream was something about. I don't remember exactly what it was, but you were telling me that there was a something about being in a grave and being hit with a shovel or I don't know.
Kaylen Humphries:If you remember, that, oh, I vaguely.
William Carroll:Yeah, but she was having all these you know, really kind of terrifying dreams.
Kaylen Humphries:That happened. In my book I read about the shovel.
William Carroll:It happened in your book. And then you had a dream about it.
William Carroll:And so, you know, and I kept trying to tell her, I said, you know, we have to be careful what we put in, what we put into our spirit, see, because things that affect our spirit, you know, can create fear in our lives. And so Kaylin had a dream one night and she came down and we as a matter of fact, I found it on Facebook where I had posted it, or her mom had posted it on Facebook, because we videoed her. She's about 13 years old. Why don't you tell them about the dream that you had?
Kaylen Humphries:It was basically just me and my friends were hanging out and the resurrection started to happen and earthquakes started going everywhere and the sky turned dim and then a big hand came down and a lot of people went up, but me and some of my friends didn't go up and I was crying and begging and please, god, please, I go to church every Sunday and Wednesday, and blah, blah, blah. But that wasn't enough.
William Carroll:No. So she was telling us that, you know, in her dream that just going to church, going to youth group, which she did, I mean we went to church every time the church doors opened, and sometimes we opened the doors just to have church, right, katelyn, we were going all over Louisiana and everywhere, you know, and we were just, and she went every Wednesday night, you know, and in her dream it convicted her that those that's not what's going to save you, what's going to save you, katelyn. I'm putting her on the spot now.
Kaylen Humphries:I mean, I re-watched the video and we talked about it earlier. I basically said that God told me that you know, go to the churches and then, after you got to live for Him.
William Carroll:For Him.
Kaylen Humphries:For me, yes, and you got to live for Him. Oh, yeah, yeah.
William Carroll:You got to live for Him, you got to live before your thrills and you got to believe in Jesus. There's a difference between knowing about Jesus and actually believing in.
William Carroll:Jesus and then living for Him. And I just wanted to, I just wanted to share just a minute about. You know, sometimes, you know, the Bible talks a lot about spirits and evil spirits and we allow these things sometimes to come into our house. And here in Deuteronomy 18 and 10, deuteronomy 18 and 10, it says, for example never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. Do not let your people practice fortune telling or use sorcery or interpret omens or engage in witchcraft or cast spells or function as mediums or psychics or call forth the spirit of truth of the dead. Anyone who does these things is distestable to the Lord, because it's because the other nations have done these distestable things that you, that the Lord, your God, will drive them out ahead of you. But you must be blameless before the Lord, your God. We must be blameless before God.
William Carroll:You know, in the King James version it says familiar spirits. You know, and we just talked about mediums, we just talked about fortune tellers in that scripture and they're distestable of God. Actually, the King James says abomination, but we see these things all the time and this is something that happens nowadays. That is a big thing. You know, you got the psychic network that you can call and you can get your palm read. Well, and people are amazed that, oh, she told me everything about my life over the phone. Well, I'm gonna tell you, it's because of familiar spirits. A familiar spirit is a spirit that follows us around. You know, now don't get all scary on me, you know, but they follow us around, they know what we do, they know what we like, they know how we feel, and these people call these spirits up so that they can tell you something about yourself. Now, one of the other scriptures says that should you not go to the living God instead of the dead to find out about what you want? I don't want to go to the dead to find out about me. I want to go to my creator and my maker, baby, you know, and anyway.
William Carroll:So my friend Stephen Hemphill. He has a book out. Well, he has a few books out. One, I believe the name of it is Dante has nightmares, and it's about children that have nightmares, because in his travels across teaching on spiritual warfare, he has found out that kids have nightmares but they don't ever tell their parents. And in that book it teaches how to talk to your kids.
William Carroll:You know, Kaylen now this baby here. Well, she's a young lady, she's not a baby anymore, she's still my baby, but she would come to us. She has been one of my daughters that always tells on herself, she always, and she'll tell somebody and she'll say don't tell William, don't tell mom, you know. Or she'll tell me, don't tell mom. But she always tells on herself and you know. That is a good relationship though, baby, you know that we have, because she would sometimes she'd tell too much, but she would always tell and if she had a nightmare she would come down and she would tell us and we could pray for her and we could pray with her.
William Carroll:Well, my friend, stephen, that I was talking about, has a book on spiritual warfare and it's God's Markers on the Land, the stakes, and it has scriptures on . So we took one of those stakes and we went up in her room and we prayed and we put the stakes in the room and we told her look, you know, the stake has no power, but prayer does. So we told her to get rid of all of her books. Right, we got rid of all your books, didn't you? We got all of those books about demons and all that stuff, and we got rid of all that and we quit letting her watch the horror show and she quit watching. Before then she wanted to go to every horror movie that came out and I told her I said you're just opening the door for those spiritual things and for fear to come in your life. And after you did that, what happened? After you stopped all that? I mean.
Kaylen Humphries:I didn't have. I wasn't scared to sleep in my room, and the bad part is about the I wanted to go see. Every horror movie is that I wanted to go, but I never actually watched them because I was. I just wanted to go because everybody else was going. Right, right, but I really didn't like scary movies.
William Carroll:But kids like to go to scary movies. They want to be scared, they want to be in fear of their life, you know. And so she wanted to be. Oh, you just wanted to follow the crowd, then, baby.
Kaylen Humphries:Yeah, because I don't like scary movies. I don't watch scary movies, but.
William Carroll:Yeah, I never have myself, I don't, you know, I mean, I can watch them, but I don't like watching them. I mean, why do I want to, why do I want to do that? But anyway, so so, kailin, you know she's, she's a. Of course, you know they don't live here anymore. They moved out after about what? A year or so or two years, you know about a year.
Kaylen Humphries:It was almost a year.
William Carroll:It was almost a year and they got an apartment, you know, and and her husband is a deputy sheriff and, kailin, listen, she took care of me when I was sick In state. She cooked my breakfast, she put my socks on, she helped me to my chair, she got my drinks. She was here with that baby, her and Aiden, we're here and they took care of me and they, they just loved on me and, like I say, she quit her job and came to do that Cause Janie was thinking about hiring somebody and I said I didn't want nobody anyway. I told Kailin, you don't have to quit your job, I'm fine. I said I am so appreciated to her cause she, she, she did take care of me.
William Carroll:She was and she still takes care of me. She still loves me and she takes care of me. I tell her all the time when I get old baby, she says, uh, she works at, at, at a assisted living, and she's the the med aid. She took her CNA and then she moved up to med aid within like six months, didn't you baby? And so she's doing so good. So I think I had a hand in creating part of her future as a man-aid and as a CNA.
Kaylen Humphries:Yeah.
William Carroll:Because she's very good at what she does and she's so good with the older people up there and she has a heart for them and a love for them. And if you're gonna be in that career, you gotta have a heart and a love for them. And she just comes back and she tells us all the time about the ones that are just that she just loves and that she just loves to take care of them, and when some of them have problems or health issues, it really tugs on her heart string and she's just such a blessing and I'm so thankful, I'm so thankful for her, I'm thankful for God and I'm thankful for her life and her family, her husband and her son. Kaelin. Do you have anything else you wanna add to this podcast? About anything, I mean, I'm gonna open it up to you here. I'm taking a chance.
Kaylen Humphries:No, Not really. Except that I appreciate you having me. It was actually really cool, Like the mic and the cameras and stuff. It's really cool. I'm not near smart enough to like put all this together.
William Carroll:Oh yeah, you are, let me just say. It's simple.
Kaylen Humphries:Oh yeah, I just appreciate you having me and it's kind of cool.
William Carroll:Yeah. Well we'll have to do it again, baby. We'll do it again and I thank her so much for being on here. You got something else.
Kaylen Humphries:No, I was just gonna say I've already thought. I'm sitting here thinking about another story we can talk about next time.
William Carroll:Oh, there you go, See, you get addicted Because you know what we know that it's what it is is to help you, it's to help you out there. Listen, right now I wanna talk to those of you that are dabbling in witchcraft or dabbling in palm reading or terror cards, and I just thought of something we could do too. But but you know, and watching horror movies, you know, and you think it's a harmless thing and you think it's a harmless thing for your kids. Well, I wanna tell you something God does not give children bad dreams. The evil one does, Satan does, and Satan and you know he had a one third of the angels followed him. He deceived him and he's the one that gives bad dreams, he's the one that gives terror at night. You know, and God does it. He took it in in every you need to talk to you. Just talk to your kids sometimes, If you've got younger kids, ask them do you ever have bad dreams?
William Carroll:Kids sometimes don't tell you. Not all kids are like Kaylin. Katie is one that stays to herself. Katie, don't? You know she don't come and tell us a lot. She's gotten better over the years. You know that she'll come and tell us, you know. But Kaylin has always, and not all children are like that.
William Carroll:A lot of children hide things. They hide especially the evil and the bad dreams, you know, sometimes because they're scared to tell them to their parents. You know, and if your child is scared to go in a room or scared that something's in the closet, you know, don't just tell them, there's nothing there. Go, Go up there, look under the bed with them, open the door with them, pray for the peace of God on them. You know, and listen.
William Carroll:Listen, Matthew, in Matthew 18 verse, Matthew 18, 19,. I think maybe it's backwards, maybe I'm dyslexic today, but it says that we have the power to bind things, bind those spirits and command them to lose them. That's what we did in your room. We command those spirits to looser, we command them to leave this house, we command them to not come back, the spirit of fear to be gone. And we just prayed the blessings of God on her and we covered her in the blood of Jesus. Amen, Ain't that right? So, listen, if you're dabbling in that stuff, you need to repent of your sins, you need to ask Jesus into your heart, because those things are real, there are spiritual things and you can open the door for greater demonic oppression. I didn't say possession, I said oppression, and this is what you pray. You pray Lord Jesus, come into my heart, be the Lord of my life. I believe with my heart that you died on the cross for my sins and I confess you with my mouth. Lord, save me today in Jesus's name, Amen. Now listen, I learned to do this podcast, Kayla, and I will do another one again for it real soon.
William Carroll:If you enjoyed this, don't just hit like, share it with your friends, send it to your friends, Subscribe, Subscribe. Oh hey, I haven't ever said that. Subscribe, Especially on YouTube. You can subscribe and you can hit the notification bell. There's a little bell down there. Hit the notification bell every time one drops I guess it comes to your phone, right, baby?
William Carroll:See there, she knows more about it than I do. But anyway, thank you, kaylen, and I love you so much, and I thank you so much for what you did for me and I just. You're such a blessing.
Kaylen Humphries:Thank you.
William Carroll:Love y'all Until next time. Bye.
