GETTING RID OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS

GETTING RID OF FAMILIAR SPIRITS

Familiar spirits are spirits that are familiar with you. They are evil and concentrate on weaknesses in your character. Their main objective is to call in other spirits that will prey on those weaknesses. Familiar spirits are high-ranking demons in Satan's entourage. They knew your parents, your grandparents, and all your family history. They know what illnesses you may be prone to. They see how you act when you've had too many shots of Jack Daniels. They know your triggers. They know what sets you off, what makes you angry, sad, sick, and what makes you afraid. 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.

 

Jeremiah said: "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 negatively affect 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. Get a few of those people to walk by him and cough a little. I’m sure that’s just the trigger that will get Jesse to take the sickness. He’ll have the flu in a week, just like last year and every year since he was a kid.”

 

Familiar spirits know precisely what spirits to call into their game, to delay us, hurt us, or preferably kill us physically, or emotionally just wipe us out. They feed off our weakest mental, emotional, and physical characteristics, calling in other evil spirit players to “steal, and kill, and destroy us,” as Jesus said in John 10:10, the first part of that verse.

 

Just to name a few of those demons that a familiar spirit would call: cancer, arthritis, oppression, jealousy, covetousness, anger, depression, low self-esteem, addictive desires, arrogance, pride, rejection, animalistic viciousness, apathy, fear, etc. These spirits were the angels who sided with Lucifer when he turned against God and was cast out of heaven. But God had a plan for us and a way to send those spirits packing.

 

Many people are already aware of their weaknesses and the things that tend to plague them. But others do not recognize their own tendencies and turn to psychics for help, or for what seems just a fun thing to do. But beware.

 

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).

 

Why does it seem that some psychics really can see your past or predict your future? It’s a straightforward answer: They operate by communicating with familiar spirits. When you go to a psychic, they tap into the unseen world and hear from the familiar spirits watching and influencing you and your family for a lifetime and longer. A familiar spirit that followed your sister can tell the psychic precisely what she might tell you right now if she was alive. The psychic may even be able to know the exact phrases she would use, and the psychic can even channel a similar dialect and the voice of your sister. But it’s a counterfeit.

 

The psychic's familiar spirit uses just enough stuff to get you to believe that the psychic knows you and can even see into your future. 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 good things, but they’ll also say maybe even tiny things to mislead you and get you to walk into Satan’s traps.

 

Remember, your familiar spirits are only there to bring you harm. They do whatever the devil demands of them.

 

When I first learned about familiar spirits being the ones who rally up the demon troops against us, I learned that the familiar spirits have been around us all our lives, so I mistakenly 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.

 

The Lord tells us how to get rid of these evil spirits: “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth” (Phil. 2:10). And James 4:7: “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 spirit, and the Bible says it has to flee, then familiar spirits have to flee as well. And as I’ll show you in another preach letter, that if a spirit doesn’t obey, it’s off to chains of darkness with no “get free cards!”

 

I hope you’ll think about this and begin to recognize the evil spirits being summoned into your everyday life. God has given us the spiritual weapons to kick the demons out, including the high-ranking familiar spirits that keep 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 abundant life is making those familiar spirits bow to God’s Word coming out of our mouths. We are victorious!

 

Love, Carolyn

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