I didn't realize I had the power to defeat the devil and take authority until I got sick and tired of him defeating me. That's when I said enough is enough. I was beating myself up for past mistakes. I was ashamed for what was done to me. I was letting people run all over me and I failed to protect that little girl inside of me. Taking authority gives us the authority not be or feel powerless. To be in full control of our lives, situation and circumstances and not be used as a door mat. Taking authority means staying in full control of our ability to resist the devil. Taking authority gives us the power to command the Devil and all his workers of iniquity to flee and do what we tell them to do and not let them do what they want to do to us. God gives us power to trample on serpents, but we don't trample? God gives us the power to get wealth. Why are we broke? God gives us power to heal all manner of sickness and disease. Why is your body racking with pain? Get a copy of this book and learn to take authority.

Originally written in 1938 but never published due to its controversial nature, an insightful guide reveals the seven principles of good that will allow anyone to triumph over the obstacles that must be faced in reaching personal goals.

Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city. Take Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna’s encounters with the supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s portrait of her spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women’s religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed. Woodbine explores Donna’s religious creativity and her sense of multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic, Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their spiritual worlds.

Upon the death of his wife, at age seventy-two, Kats father suddenly becomes aware of a small portion of the abuse she endured as a child, or so he proclaims. Begging her forgiveness, she visits the miserable house on the hill that holds many mysteries. Hence, the devil whispers begin and never end.