A FEW MORE THINGS ABOUT
FAMILIAR SPIRITS
Familiar
spirits aren’t going to want to leave you. How do I know this? The Hebrew word
“shalom” is connected to the meaning for the word. They are perfectly at peace
with hanging out with a believer and to do what Satan has called them to do –
summon other spirits to plague you.
Another part
of their definition is that they are blood-thirst and wicked (but we knew that,
right?)
When people
are not in the practice of going to the Bible for answers, or they don’t know
Jesus as their personal Lord, they may think a psychic can help or direct them.
King Saul went to see the woman who had a familiar spirit when he could no longer get revelation from the true God:
“And when Saul saw the
host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart greatly trembled. And
when Saul enquired of the Lord, the Lord answered him not. Then said Saul unto
his servants, ‘Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to
her, and enquire of her’” (1 Sam. 28:5-7).
Had Saul repented and gone back
to the Lord, he may have been saved, but
because he went to another source for help, he brought doom to himself, his
family and his country.
The familiar spirit knew Saul had
incidents of tremendous fear, so the spirit stirred up that fear. The woman told
Saul what Satan had planned for him. She brought up a spirit imitating Saul’s
old mentor, Samuel, and in Samuel’s voice she told Saul: “The Lord will also
deliver Israel with thee, into the hand of the Philistines: and tomorrow shalt
thou and thy sons be with me.” Where was Samuel? Dead!
If Saul was afraid of the
Philistines before he went to see the psychic, he was even more terrified now.
This bad news from a fake image of Samuel, pushed him over the edge, and sure
enough, he was killed, his sons were killed, and
his whole country was taken over by the Philistines.
People escape bad
relationships, then a while later they go back, or they get attracted to a
different person with the same abusive characteristics. Why? Because familiar spirits operating. Familiar spirits
recognize companion spirits and co-dependent ones. They work to connect people
who will disappoint each other, mistreat each other, or maybe just bore each
other. Familiar spirits work for Satan and will always devise some negative
plan.
Let’s get rid of
them, and the minions they summon to make our lives miserable.
Jesus came to earth to show us what to do:
“And
being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
“Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth” (Phil. 2:8-10).
The name of Jesus Christ is above the name: “familiar spirit,” or any
other spirit, for that matter. Evil spirits must bow and obey when we use His
name against them. And another verse that gives us authority is James 4:7: “Submit yourselves therefore to
God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from
you.” The best resistance is the powerful name of Jesus Christ.
Love,
Carolyn
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