Abused by family, government, churches and friends. Marielle Krogh’s testimony.

Marielle Krogh and her oldest living daughter Bethany were abused by Marielle’s family of origin, Marielle’s first ‘”husband”, government, churches, and friends. She is a Christian, a survivor of extreme abuse, and a longtime follower of this blog. She gives a brief version of her testimony in this post.

For so long, I was wrongly accused and blamed for being tortured for decades by family, government, churches and even friends who betrayed me and mocked my faith.

Trigger Warning

I had POW torture tactics used against me: starvation, sleep deprivation, physical and sexual abuse, murder of my two unborn children, the torture and killing of my cherished animals as retaliation, heavy surveillance monitoring of my life, stolen financial resources, long term isolation and excommunication from most of my family. (Earlier in my faith, they told me they wouldn’t support me in my baptism.)

I was delivered into the courts by my murderous church, Bethany’s father and his family. (I hate to use the term ex-husband for that man, because it wasn’t a consensual marriage.)

Jesus gave me unfathomable strength when I didn’t think I could go on. Even through the suffering, He refined me, deepened my sanctification and repentance for any sin in my life.

But other days, I repented for being a victim, and that just about killed me. I would hear the words of my former pastor like a tape recording on repeat: “There are no victims! Even Jesus wasn’t a victim! This is all for the glory of God!” he screamed.

Satan loved to tempt me with suicidal ideation to try to escape all of this. But in those moments, Jesus truly entered the furnace of suffering with me.

In the courts, I was tormented for being a Christian. Bethany’s attorney caused excruciating suffering for Bethany and me. He slandered me as a mother and believer. “So, mom, you’re here because you want the abuse of your daughter stopped, do you?” he mocked. He looked at my emaciated little girl and said, “kiddo, you look fine to me. I heard your mom has been teaching the scriptures to you from very little. Did you know my name is Peter? That’s in the Bible. Look it up. The church was built on Peter.”

Jesus gave me endurance that I didn’t know was even possible. I was able to make it all the way through trial to fight for Bethany’s life, lest she die at the hands of these people. I put all of the abuse evidence on record, so if either of us should die, they’d know who killed us.

I never imagined the state would retaliate against me for bringing “too much evidence”.

Only in the Luciferian spirit is someone made guilty for being innocent.

Jesus continued to give me unbelievable strength and endurance. He helped me expand the ministry in my area, by directly exposing the county for its grave evil against children. I was threatened with imprisonment, and for periods of time I had to go into hiding.

I was stripped of my financial life savings. I became so poor materially at one point that I was wearing fraying clothes and swept the rug with a broom because I couldn’t even afford a vacuum. I lost teeth due to malnutrition and was mocked by family, telling me I was living the life of Les Miserables.

When pregnant with my second-born daughter, I began falling and experiencing trauma seizures due to brain injuries. The afflictions to my health became so grave, I almost bled to death giving birth to her.

Just a few short years later in my ministry, the county then wanted to seize my second daughter, so we had to flee.

In the middle of all this, I was falsely accused of being of the devil, because I was facing so many losses and mounting injuries. For a long time, I believed it.

At the height of the persecution, I had scriptures weaponized against me in very strategic ways, so that I would believe my Lord had abandoned me and didn’t want or love me. I was told He enjoyed my suffering for His glory.

I experienced homelessness for following Jesus. People spitting in my face.

And this is the first time I’ve ever found a safe place. I’m living in a beautiful place out in nature, where the Lord brought me and my believing family (with the exception of Bethany right now).

I’m still facing ongoing persecution like forced separation from Bethany for almost three years due to my ministry and testimony for Jesus.

This is only part of my testimony, but I realized I had to start somewhere.

I’m experiencing life changing revelation from Jesus and my battered brain and body are beginning to heal for the first time in my life.

But this past week, I was caught off guard by all the trauma coming up. And it led to a long PTSD trauma episode with seizures. Once again, the enemy tried to taunt me with suicidal ideation.

I’m so thankful that I was able to ask my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to pray for me. Your prayers have been heard and clearly answered. Because today, I woke up and the pain started leaving me. The trauma associated with proclaiming the living gospel has started to dissipate. I’m sitting up in bed right now with tears running down my face. I feel joy! Genuine joy!

Thank you so very much for praying for me!! Thank you for the gift, brothers and sisters and Jesus, for helping me see that the bondage from Satan cannot triumph over me.

For we overcome by the blood of The Lamb and by the word of our testimonies.
(Revelation 12:11)

#wearemother #jesussaves #endtimes #FamilyCourtCorruption
#perseverance #JesusIsLord

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More on Marielle’s story:

Forbidden Food: When abuse includes forced starvation and malnutrition — This article uses a pseudonym, but Marielle is happy for you to know that it’s her story. (An Internet Archive can be found here.)

My Brain Created 100 Personalities to Protect Me: An incredible story of survival and the failure of family court — This article, by Amanda Kippert, describes some of what the family court did to Marielle and Bethany. (An Internet Archive copy can be found here.)

Episode 07: The Trauma of Abuse Caused Her Brain to Split Into More than 100 Personalities — The podcast presenters are not Christians and they use some salty language and outdated terminology. From the 17:22 time mark, they talk about Marielle’s story, then Marielle comes on for the last ten minutes.