When I first met Ellen & heard about her story, I was utterly mind blown. At the time I still hadn’t completely come to faith, but was learning more & more how much this physical world that we live in, also encompasses & intertwines with the spirit realm. Listening to people’s personal testimonies on how they came to believe in God is wild when you are a non-believer. It really makes you question & try to conjure up any other rational, logic ideas about how things could have happened or played-out. But like the many great scientists such as Isaac Newton who delved into every experiment & theory, most-often than not came to the conclusion that there must be a grand creator. Without, some things are just irrevocably unexplainable. This is Ellen Ebbott’s story…
El you had chronic back pain for 7 years…
Yes, crippling. Everyday was my absolute worst nightmare with pain. All day, everyday. I couldn’t do anything but lay in bed for years. I would cry every single day in desperation for it to be over. I grew up with an illness I was born with that resulted in kidney failure & having multiple surgeries, & that was NOTHING on having this chronic back pain. I would wake up, cry that it was still there, try to roll to get out of bed as the pain was too much to bare. I couldn’t bend at all so i couldn’t just sit & stand up to get out of bed like a normal person. I had to roll onto my knees. Then i couldn’t dress myself, I could do my top half no problemo, but my husband would have to pull my pants over my feet & pull them up. Even the wriggling of getting into them would set off more pain. Then I would walk downstairs to the couch. I couldn’t stand for more than a few seconds without NEEDING to lay back down; the pain when I stood was so extreme. I felt desperate all the time, exhausted, so so depressed & if i didn’t have beautiful kids, I would have killed myself, I couldn’t face another day in this kind of pain.
I saw every kind of specialist there is in Australia, I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on trying to heal. I received so many diagnoses you wouldn’t believe it. Not a single thing gave me relief. None of it. They put me on oxycodone which did take my pain down a few notches, but it made me suicidal so I stopped, then I went down the holistic route & never had any relief. I did a lot of yoga, meditation, reiki, kinesiology, osteo & endlesssssss supplements and regimes. Like I was taking 30+ pills a day. It was half supplements, half medications. I did mental health stuff as there is a huge link between trauma & chronic pain, and I did find heart healing in different places but the pain never decreased. I travelled to several countries for healing in traditional practises. Having to take heavy meds, muscle relaxers etc for the flights, only to get home in more pain. I couldn’t lift my kids. I couldn’t shower my toddler, I couldn’t take the bin out, I couldn’t drive for about a year of it, and the rest of the time, driving was extremely painful. I definitely couldn’t drive more than 5 minutes, and if I did the week following would be 10x worse.
My life was hell. Hell. To be honest. Until Jesus.
What methods did you try to heal it with?
Chiropractic, osteopathic, kinesiology, GP/Medication, neurologist $$, MRI/SCANS $$, pain specialists $$, physiotherapy, essential oils, crystals, CBD/marijuana, Bowen therapy, alcohol (legit), “Healers” , psychics, tantric healers, yoga, pilates, healing retreats, pain & healing course $$, trauma counselling , journalling, pain apps, curable app, meditation , anti-inflammatory diet, psychiatrist , refused surgery, every supplement on earth, Borax, naturopathic , daily rehab, massages, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, gut healing courses, Aboriginal dreamtime healer, cacao ceremonies, exercise , no exercise, channelling, tarot cards, psychics, medium exercise, personal training & antidepressants…
NONE of them were able to cure me of my crippling pain.
One day, a friend (Jordan) asked me, “tell me about your pain”. I told her alllllll about it. I probably spoke for 10 minutes about all the things I had tried. She said “do you want my opinion?” I said “yes” & she said “are you sure”, I said “yes please go on, i’m open to anything”. She said “only God can heal you”.
I was not really surprised, I said “yeah probably, no-one else has been able to”. I knew she was a Christian, I never had anything against it/her, I thought it was just “sweet”. All I saw of Christians was that they just needed something to rely on to make them feel better. I didn’t realise that God is LIVING & healing NOW. That that was open to me. We chatted a bit, I asked pretty pointless questions & then she said “can i pray with you?” I said “yep” & she laid hands on me, asked the Holy Spirit to come & take my pain away. I gave my heart to the Lord there & then. I felt the Holy Spirit fill me & my spine was Vibrating!!!! From my brain stem to my tail bone. I left her house thinking WOW, there is something truly here. I had never felt anything, anywhere else, in any other healing modality that resembled anything close to what I had just felt. NOTHING. So I went home, I laid in bed for a month in 10x worse pain than ever before. My wrists swelled up and I couldn’t move my hands, the ONLY thing I could do was cry & pray. I cried out to God begging him to heal me. Listening to the bible & miraculous healing stories. Someone told me “the Bible is the original place of miracles, & that is what i needed. A miracle.
After a month of terrible crying, but also healing in crying. Learning about how Jesus died for ME, he was beaten & bruised for ME, I felt truly saved from this world. I was overwhelmed with His love, but also suffering in this body. One night, i was laying in bed with my husband & he put his hand on my back. He wasn’t Christian at the time & he wasn’t really interested in becoming one, but he was happy for me to do what “I had to do”. I said “can u pray for me”. He said YES, thank God! I said “repeat after me” & he repeated a prayer about telling the pain to leave in the name of Jesus. I think he said it 2-3 times & he AND I felt something come out of my back. I felt like a plant root being pulled up, come out of the base of my spine. Being pulled root by root, out. At the same time my husband flinched back & freaked out. He said word for word “I felt like a root being pulled up”. I said oh my lord SAME”. He then felt whatever it was, cover him like a blanket, it went inside him. It was an evil spirit. He said he felt all these dark horrible thoughts take over “like a horror movie”, he then jumped up & spewed in our bathroom. I laid there shocked & i couldn’t feel a change yet, but i prayed the same prayers over him. I now know, it’s because he wasn’t Christian, he didn’t have the Armour of God to protect him from this spirit. But God used him. Thank you Lord. We went to sleep & when I woke up, I had NO PAIN. Zero. Gone. Done! HEALED IN JESUS’ NAME.
I haven’t had even the slightest pain since. The spirit in my back was causing the pain. I now can run, lift weights, work, stand, play, swim. Anything. I am eternally grateful for God taking that pain away from me!!! Dave ended up needing some serious prayer to get that spirit out of him. A few days later he gave his heart to the Lord & the spirit left him under lots of prayer. Thank God!!!!
I made a promise when I laid in bed crying in pain to God. I cried out to Him saying “I will do anything, ANYTHING if you heal me, i’ll tell everyone it was you, I’ll change my whole life, I’ll live for you, just please take this pain away”.
He did. So I am. I am now telling everyone what happened to me, & I pray it helps someone else be set free… in Jesus’ name.
Essentially what are you opening yourself up to when you delve into new age / spiritual practices such as channelling, mediumship, divination, psychics & tarot cards etc?
I had no idea that I was opening myself up to not just “good energies” as I assumed / thought, but SPIRITS - of good & bad nature. I’ve learnt that if it’s not of God- it can be extremely dangerous and harmful down the track, because when doing these new age spiritual practices, we’re actually opening ourselves up to demonic entities. I had no idea that I was dabbling in evil. The spirit realm is REAL & that’s why so many people DO dabble, but I didn’t know that I was essentially opening myself up to so much demonic activity.
I found out much later when I was healed (Praise the Lord) that I had allowed a “Kundalini” spirit into my body, it was sitting in my spine, causing the pain (or enforcing it). When I learnt about all of this, my husband prayed on me, commanded it out in the name of Jesus, & I have been COMPLETELY pain free ever since.
The Kundulini Spirit / Serpent.
This article describes in more detail about what the Kundulini spirit is from a former Yogi…
EXCERPT // “According to the yogic teachings found in Hinduism, there is an energy at the base of the spine called “the kundalini” (in Sanskrit it means “coiled snake”). Yogi Bhajan, the promoter of Kundalini Yoga in the West, called it “the dormant power of infinity.” Adherents teach that it is the impersonal essence of the divine, resident within every human being. Strangely and eerily, it is also called the “serpent power”—because it supposedly ‘uncoils’ and rises, in serpentine fashion, through the spinal column (the seven energy centers called “chakras”) to lift a person up to higher levels of spiritual awareness. Upon arriving at the seventh chakra, metaphorically, the serpent suddenly strikes, and God-consciousness is achieved (a conscious awareness that the soul—called atman—is actually one with the impersonal oversoul—called Brahman). In other words, this supernatural revelation empowers the practitioner to boldly declare, “I am God!”—which is the absolute opposite of the truth, utter blasphemy and an echo of the original lie told to Eve in the garden of Eden”…
All spirits, whether evil spirits or not, ALL fall under the spiritual authority of Jesus Christ & must bow to Him. I was just trying to heal myself, I was just trying to heal from traumas & to find peace. I was seeking spiritual enlightenment, but I ended up with crippling pain, depression & anxiety. I never thought I would have come to faith! But God promises us THE OPPOSITE of what I went through. Faith in Jesus as our Lord & saviour is healing, freedom, love, & above all, LIFE.
When you gave yourself to Christ you not only transformed physically, but your whole being…
I was always searching for validation, whether conscious about it or not, I was always searching. In friends, boyfriends, drugs, alcohol, career, money, parties, healing, all of it. I tried it all. I lived it. Loved it. I was addicted to the “cool lifestyle”. Where did it lead me? To death basically. I was suicidal on and off for so many years I cannot count. I cut myself as a young woman, partied so hard trying to feel something, ANYTHING, but the dread I constantly lived with & couldn’t escape it.
I never found validation- or I would temporarily- in a new relationship, cash, sex, drugs or rock n roll. Since giving it all to Jesus, I feel RELIEF, PEACE, calm, love & contentment. I haven’t felt anxious since, I haven’t felt depressed, I haven’t SEARCHED for anything since. I feel complete, as I have the approval of God, through what Jesus did for us. I don’t need approval or validation from man. I am chosen, loved, saved by God alone & that is everything I could ever need.
El with husband Dave.
What were your goals & aspirations before & after becoming a born-again Christian?
Before, I wanted to build a financial wall around myself; I wanted to build an empire. To be free from responsibility, to do what I wanted, when I wanted. Which really just sums up this generation. Now I see my old self as so selfish, but that’s what the world tells you to do. To be “free”, to be successful, to earn lots of money or live your ultimate dream lifestyle. But I never felt free… until I laid my life down for the Lord. Now I am truly free. Free from pain, free from depression, free from DEATH. Now I want to help others experience the ultimate peace that God has for us. I want to serve. I want to forget about myself & focus on God. Giving him all the love I have, for setting me free from the hell I was living.
How can we protect ourselves against demonic entities?
Declare the name of Jesus over everything, I used to think “saging” my house would somehow clear out bad energies. If I believed in those bad energies well why did I think a smell would make them go away? Only God can save you. Stay close to him. Pray. Read his Word & ask for help from mature christians.
You guys just started up Joe’s smoothie bar in Dunsborough, how’s it all been going?!
It has been a dream! We are having so much fun. We get to make people feel healthier & happier every day and I honestly pray I get to tell people every single day about what happened to me, to hopefully help someone else avoid what we went through.
What makes you happiest now?
JESUS & praying for people who are hurting.
Favourite album?
Zion by Hillsong United
Thank you for reading.