{"id":84689,"date":"2026-07-21T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84689"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:21:31","slug":"kathie-lee-gifford-reveals-how-spiritual-encounters-with-jesus-demons-have-impacted-her-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/kathie-lee-gifford-reveals-how-spiritual-encounters-with-jesus-demons-have-impacted-her-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathie Lee Gifford Reveals How Spiritual Encounters With Jesus, Demons Have Impacted Her Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Christian Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Media personality Kathie Lee Gifford opened up about the spiritual moments that have marked her faith journey, including a meeting with Jesus when she was a child and encounters with what she believed to be demonic manifestations.<\/p>\n<p>Gifford, who came to faith in Jesus through the late\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/my-entire-family-came-to-faith-through-billy-graham-says-tearful-kathie-lee-gifford.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rev. Billy Graham<\/a>, said that she first encountered Jesus in a dream when she was 6 years old. \u201cI was raking leaves with my daddy, and I looked up, and there was Jesus sitting on a cloud,\u201d she said. \u201cHe had His legs folded and \u2026 [He\u2019s] making a fire with wood. &#8230; And I looked up, and I said \u2026 \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Jesus,\u2019 and He looks down at me. He goes, \u2018Kathie.\u2019 Smiled at me.\u201d\u00a0One demonic encounter she said happened during a trip to Israel and the Middle East when she was 17. While visiting Bethlehem, Gifford said that she entered a church with her mother where other people were lighting candles.\u00a0During the visit, Gifford said that she and her mother encountered a cloaked monk who growled at them, explaining that she and her mother had left their purses on the tour bus, so they could not leave a monetary offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Christian Post: Media personality Kathie Lee Gifford opened up about the spiritual moments that have marked her faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84690,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84689\/revisions\/84690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}