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Speaker 2: Some of you are not crazy and you're not even overthinking,
but actually God is warning you. The Bible is very
clear whichcraft is real, and it's not just the spooky stuff.
A lot of times the spiritual control, manipulation, and trafficking
with demotic power. Galatians five to twenty list sorcery as
a work of the flesh. Acts nineteen shows us people
burning occultic items when they encounter Jesus. So let me
say this upfront. This video is not a permission to
go and label people as witches because you don't like them.
We don't go around accusing people. But we have to
discern the fruit. We have to discern the patterns, and
we have to discern spiritual influence that people have upon
their lives. So here are the seven signs that may
indicate witchcraft activity in someone around you, and what can
you do about it. Some of you are not crazy
and you're not even overthinking, but actually God is warning you.
The Bible is very clear whitchcraft is real. And it's
not just the spooky stuff. A lot of times the
spiritual control, manipulation, and trafficking with demonic power. Galatians five
point twenty list sorcery as a work of the flesh.
Acts nineteen shows us people burning occultic items when they
encounter Jesus. So let me say this upfront. This video
is not a permission to go and label people as
witches because you don't like them. We don't go around
accusing people. But we have to discern the fruit. We
have to discern the patterns, and we have to discern
spiritual influence that people have upon our lives. So here
are the seven signs that may indicate witchcraft activity in
someone around you, and what can you do about it?
Sign number one They crave control and use manipulation to
get it. Witchcraft at its core is control without consent.
It's the attempt to dominate a person's decision through intimidation, guilt, fear, seduction,
or pressure. Now, the only control God gives us is
self control. God doesn't give us control over another human being,
even when the Lord gave us power and creation mandate
in the beginning in the Book of Genesis, it is
to have dominion over the creation, not to have dominion
over another human being. In the Bible, Jezebel is a
picture of this spirit of witchcraft, which is really control, intimidation,
and domination. She didn't just influence her husband, Ahab, she
ran him. And so you got to watch for the
pattern in people around you who exhibit witchcraft, and that
is this if they say things like, if you don't
do this, I'll punish you. If you love me, you would,
I'll turn people against you. You'll regret it if you
say no. That's not just people with a strong personality.
That is a controlling spirit at work. Sign number two
is they will use spiritual language to manipulate you. And
this is probably the most dangerous one that so many
people fall into. And that is when people use words
like God told me you must do this. The Lord
showed me you're supposed to do that. If you don't
obey me, you're disobeying God. That is a divination dressed
up like prophecy. Ezekiel thirteen talks about false prophets who
claim the Lord says when God didn't speak. A real
prophecy points people to Jesus. It produces freedom, It aligns
with the scripture. It encourages people, it exhorts people. Witchcraft
prophecy produces fear, confusion, dependency, and control, and people feel
like life is gone out of them. I remember when
I was a youth pastor and one teenager told another teenager.
God told me, you're going to be my wife. They
were like teenagers, and the girl just panicked because he
was a stalker. He was stalking her everywhere. She didn't
not only not like him, she didn't even want to
date anybody. She was very young, and so God told
me part it's literally it's manipulation. It is a spiritual
sorcery and witchcraft operating through the work of the flesh
by trying to sabotage another human being using God's name
in vain. Be weary of that, and be careful of
that sign number three. They will get angry when you
say no or when you have boundaries. Healthy people respect boundaries.
Controlling spirits hate boundaries. The moment you say no, things
just change. These people they will punish you. The moment
you have boundaries. They will give you silent treatment. They
will intimidate you. They will have a smear campaign, They
will have a sudden rage, and they will have emotional withdrawn.
This is a classic witch control warfare. In Acts sixteen,
when Paul casts out a spirit of divination out of
a slave girl, the people controlling her exploded because they
lost profit and control. If your no triggers warfare, that
means you're yes. Was never an agreement with those people.
It was actually you being a captive with those people.
Have you noticed who irritated Jezebel the most? It was
Elijah now Ahab, her husband was very passive. Jezebel controlled Ahab.
Elijah was not aggressive, nor was he passive. He was assertive,
meaning he knew his boundaries. He says, no, that's not
gonna happen. We're not gonna do that, and Jezebel just
flew off the wall. I mean she got crazy because
of that. She threatened him, I will take you, I
will do this, and I will do that. That's exactly
what witchcraft does in and through people who are subject
to the flesh sometimes. So how do you combat, Well,
you gotta be like Elijah. You cannot be passive, otherwise
you're gonna be ran by witchcraft. You cannot be aggressive
because you're mimicking witchcraft. You gotta be assertive, You gotta
be like Elijah. You gotta have boundaries, and that drives
people under witchcraft like crazy. Sign them before is there's
a dark push to isolate you from other people who
are godly. Witchcraft often works like a net. It wants
to separate you, isolate you so then it can dominate you.
They'll first soul suspicion about your leaders, about your spouse,
about your friends, and about your church. Oh they're jealous
of you. They don't really love you. You don't need them,
only I who understand you. And that's not love. That's
not that they care for you. It's a trap. It's
actually a recruitment. Is they're trying to isolate you so
they can devour you. The scripture says in First Speedarch
chapter five person that the enemy walks around like a lion.
See the lions. They target the sheep or the animal,
the prey that is separated from the herd. If someone
constantly tries to cut you off from your covering, from
your consul, and from your community and from your church,
you gotta discern it because the enemy will go for
a kill the moment you're separated and they will sow
all kinds of seeds of They will tell you things
that you should should not know. They will tell you
this person said this about you, This person said this
about you, so that you will walk away from the community.
You will walk away from your coveting, you will walk
away from the vice consul in your life. You will
walk away from the church, and then you will be
only with them, and then they come after you. And
so you've got to be very careful. Do not allow
anybody to drive a wedge between you and the community
that is not perfect. None of the community you're covering
your pastor none of them are perfect. But don't fall
into a trap of witchcraft to separate you from the
people that you need in your life. Now. Number five,
and that is when you have a strange gifting in
people without any fruit of the spirit. Now, the reason
why I say strenge is because a lot of times
those gifts that they operate under not only because they
lack the fruit of the spirit, but it's just like
you feel something is off about these people. And this
is huge in deliverance circles. Some people have supernatural gifts,
supernatural knowledge and dreams, and this is where a lot
of people fall for accuracy, but this person accurately described
my situation. But this person gave a word it was
so dead on, it was spot on. Or they have
manifestations in their life, but their lifestyle is unholy, their
tongue is abusive, harsh, and carnal. In Book of Acts sixteen,
the girl who had spirit of divination, what's interesting. She
had accuracy, she was speaking truth, but she had a
demonic spirit and Paul cast it out. So what does
this mean? That means do not be impressed with someone's
spiritual activity or even accuracy. You have to be impressed
by their holiness, by their humility, by the fruit of
the spirit. Because Matthew seven says that you will know
them by their fruits. This does not mean that every
spiritual gift we reject because it's accurate. This also does
not mean that every person that God uses is always perfect.
But we have to not fall for accuracy. Look, the
miracle has happened. The miracles are not a signed that
the person God uses he is pleased with. Remember that
always miracles are not a sign that a person God
uses to accomplish them. God is pleased with that person.
And I can give you examples upon examples upon examples
in the Bible. One of them is Moses. Moses produced
a miracle of water from the rock by in that miracle,
God was so displeased with Moses that he didn't let
him go to the promise life. That tells us God
could use somebody and be displeased with them. So does
it mean that that miracle is demonic? No, but it
doesn't mean we have to practice a discernment and fall
for it. And some people start pure and holy, unrighteous,
but they get so lost in their compromise and in
their sin. They still operate in the miraculous, They still
operate in the gifts, and then comes the mixture. Because
of their sin, it does influence their gifting, it does
influence their spirit, it does influence their things. So and
then you can fall pray for that. So as Christians,
we discern the fruit. We don't fall in love with
the gifts. Only sign number six. And now this is
gonna get serious when you begin to notice occoltic objects, practices,
or innocent doors, innocent gateways that are open in these
people's lives. Sometimes it's not hidden. You actually walk into
their house and you will see terror cards. You will
see crystals used for power or they're using crystals during
their devotions to connect with God. They have energy healing
practices which have nothing to do with Jesus. They have spells, charms,
and manifestation rituals. They go through seances, and they have
spirit guides and psychic readings, books and items connected to
occult systems. And Deuteronomy chapter eighteen ten through twelve is
very clear God forbids that kind of stuff acts nineteen nineteen.
It says believers burned that kind of things when they
turned to Jesus. They didn't keep them as souvenirs. So
dream catchers and all kinds of spells and charms, these
objects are spiritual points of contact. Not everything is just
a decore or souvenirs. Don't fall for it. People like
that a lot of times. They justify these things as
souvenirs and they stay connected to the Kingdom of darkness
through these things. The last thing, and that is the
sign number seven. It's when you experience spiritual oppression after
interaction with these people. You got to pay attention to
your tention. I like to call it pay attention to
the pattern. After you've interacted after you get to know
these people. If you notice, now you gotta take this
with a grain of salt. But you also cannot ignore
this like junk mail. If you notice, after constant interaction
in their lot with them in your life, you notice
the following. It's not in heaviness, confusion, nightmares, irrational fears,
unusual temptation, strikes, anger, strife, division, your prayer life dries up.
Your connection to the word just is not there. Listen
very carefully. Not every bad mood is witchcraft. But if
there is a consistent spiritual residue, you got to pay
attention to it. Perhaps something is happening in the Bible.
When the soul distressing spirit would come upon him, the
atmosphere changed. People around Saul, God's spears thrown at them,
David had to leave. When David came and played music,
atmosphere changed. So learn to discern spiritual residue. Spiritual residue
is this. It's when you experience something happening regularly as
a pattern because of your interaction with those people or
with those places. So what do you do if you're
experiencing the witchcraft signs of people around you? Well, one
is don't freak out or don't panic. You got to
ask God for wisdom and discernment. Number two is you
got to close doors in your own life first. Before
you go pointing fingers and other people. You gotta check
your own doors first. Repent, renounce, or remove some stuff
from your own life. Cleanse your own atmosphere so that
you will become more repulsive to the demonic atmosphere, so
that you are not passive aggressive, But you are assertive
because you know, though Elijah didn't change Jezebel, but Jezebel
never changed Elijah. Jezebel never ran Elijah like she ran Aheb.
So you gotta make sure that you are not aheb.
You're not passive, and you're not becoming like Jezebel by
trying to fight Jezebel. You are assertive. You have your boundaries.
Number three is set boundaries, meaning you don't always need
to confront a witchcraft person like you're seeing it in
the movie. Sometimes you just need wisdom, You just need boundaries.
You just need to limit their access. You gotta stop
sharing personal information with that person. You gotta stop emotional
dependency on this person. And sometimes you gotta protect yourself
by getting further from that and creating some distance, like
Elijah did with Jezebel, and like David did what his
father in law saw. Number four is you gotta break
agreement verbally in prayer. Sometimes you got a prayer, prayer
like this in Jesus name. I've renounced every form of witchcraft.
I've renounced every form of manipulation, and I renounced every
form of control. I cancel every assignment against my mind,
against my family, and against my calling. I belong to Jesus.
I break every ungodly soul tie and every word curse
in Jesus' name. And lastly is sometimes you need to
get deliverance, and you need to go to your covering
or go to your pastor if needed. If you're under
serious oppression, don't fight it alone. Reach out to your pastor,
reach out to your leaders, reach out to a trust,
the deliverance ministry, and get some help. Witchcraft is real,
but Jesus is Lord and the Holy Spirit is gonna
help you. He will expose what you cannot see, he
will protect what you cannot control, and he will deliver
what you cannot fix. So if this helped you drop
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