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"I found myself giving myself to Satan."

That's not an admission one would expect to hear from a preacher, but Ben Atkins wasn't always a believer. In fact, the U.K.-based pastor went through quite a harrowing journey — one that took him into the bowels of a satanic worldview before he discovered hope in Christ.

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The occult led him to experience demonic nightmares — and worse.

"I was seeing demons, and demons were, like, coming to me and entering me. I just became more and more depressed," Atkins said. "It was at that point I started planning how to kill myself, because I didn’t see a way out. I thought, ‘Well, either Satan’s gonna kill me, or I am. So I’d rather at least seize back one last bit of power.'”

Then, he found Jesus:

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This story originally appeared on Faithwire.com

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