FAMILIAR, BUT NOT YOUR
FRIEND
Familiar spirits are
spirits that are familiar with you. They
are evil and concentrate on weakness in your character, bringing in other spirits
that Satan uses to hurt you. Familiar spirits know your parents, your
grandparents, all your family history. They know what illnesses you may be
prone to. They know how you act when you’ve
had one too many shots of Jack Daniels. They know your triggers. They know what
sets you off, what makes you angry, what makes you sad and what makes you sick.
They are familiar, but they are not your friends. God has given us the truth
about familiar spirits, and He’s given us
a way to get rid of them.
God tells us to stay away
from them: “Regard
not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled
by them: I am the. Lord your God” (Lev. 19:31). Real psychics operate by
communicating with familiar spirits. When you go to a psychic, they tap into
the unseen world and hear from the familiar spirits that have been watching and
influencing you and your family for a lifetime and longer. A familiar spirit
that followed your grandfather can tell the psychic exactly what your
grandfather might tell you right now if
he was alive. The psychic may even be able to know the exact phrases he would
use and the psychic can even channel a similar dialect and the voice of your
grandfather as well.
So what’s so bad about that? Satan uses just
enough right stuff to get you to believe that the psychic knows you and can
even see into your future. Then they’ve got you. Then the psychic can predict
something for you.
But what do they predict? They now know enough
from the familiar spirits, to know what kind of things you’ll believe. They
will say some promising things, but they’ll also say things to mislead you and
get you to walk into Satan’s traps.
Remember, your familiar spirits are only there
to bring you harm, as much as the devil demands of them.
“All
my familiars watched for my halting, saying, ‘Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him,
and we shall take our revenge on him’” (Jer. 20:10). Why revenge? Because if
you are following the teaching of the Bible, then the devil hates you because he hates the true God and he gets
at God by going after God’s people.
How do the
familiar spirits operate? They are like the coaches on the devil’s football
team. They call certain evil spirits onto the field when they see there’s an
open door. For example, when things go badly at work, they may call in spirits
of dread or rejection and fear, whatever they know from the past, of things
that work negatively on you. Hypothetically they may say, “Hey, spirit of dread, come on over in the morning
when he’s half asleep and lay heavy on him. He’s in the perfect frame of mind
for you to really get some influence. You’re
going to love it.” Or for another person, maybe it’s hypochondria. “Hey, spirit of infirmity, Jesse is starting to see
some people getting sick around him. Just get a few of them to come by and
cough a little. I’m sure that’s just the trigger that will get Jesse to take
the sickness. He’ll have pneumonia in a week, just like the last time.”
Familiar spirits
know exactly what spirits to call into their game, to block us or hurt us. They feed
off our weakest mental, emotional and physical characteristics, calling in
other evil spirit players to “steal, and to kill, and to destroy us,” as Jesus
said in John 10:10, the first part of that verse. Just to name a few of those demons: cancer, arthritis, oppression, jealousy,
covetousness, anger, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, arrogance, pride,
rejection, viciousness, apathy, and on and on. All these spirits were
cast out of heaven when Lucifer turned against God. But God had a plan for us
and a way to send those spirits packing.
When I first learned
about familiar spirits being the ones who rally up the demon troops against us,
I heard that the familiar spirits hang around us all our lives, so I thought
that we couldn’t get rid of them. Also, I falsely believed that we only had one.
After studying the Bible, I saw that the familiar spirits are usually in
groups. So if you get rid of one, beware, because you may have to get rid of
more.
Then I woke up to
the truth of Philippians 2:10 and James 4:7. “That at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth.” And, “submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Neither of these verses says that familiar spirits are excluded from the demons that must bow and
flee.
If I am resisting
and rebuking any kind of spirit, and the
Bible says it has to flee, then familiar spirits have to flee as well. And as I’ve
shown you in other preach letters, if a spirit doesn’t obey, it’s off to chains
of outer darkness with no “get free cards!”
So I did it. I
rebuked a familiar spirit that kept calling in a spirit of dread. I ended up
having to give it a one-way ticket to chains
of outer darkness, and it has never bothered me since. Praise God.
I hope you’ll
think about this, recognize spirits being summoned into your life and kicking
them out along with the familiar spirit that keeps bringing them in. Freedom is
that close.
Jesus said: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more
abundantly.” Part of the more than abundant life is getting free from
those familiar spirits. Let’s make them far away strangers instead!
Love, Carolyn
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