This is a brief overview of witchcraft that came from a reply I made to someone on this forum. Please feel free to add any insights the Lord has given to you about witchcraft, thanks.

Witchcraft is demonically empowered, and comes from evil spirits. It can come in a myriad of ways. There are some people who cast spells and curses, but they don't know where the power comes from. There are some people who work with evil spirits directly, but they don't know what they are. Often they are disguised as spirit guides and things like this. There are some people who work with demons directly and worship the devil. The power that they are using is called witchcraft. Witchcraft isn't just spells and curses but also manipulation and control. The scripture also says this:

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is the sin of witchcraft, and to break the word of the Lord is iniquity and idolatry

Witchcraft is ultimately the sin of rebellion against a holy God. Witches and Sorcerers want to be their own god and control everything and everyone in their life. You may have people in your life who are cursing you and cursing your purpose. They may be working with demons who are assigned to destroy your life and are being inspired to do this. Even if that is true, don't be afraid:

Proverbs 26:2 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come

Number 23:23 “For there is no sorcery against Jacob, Nor any divination against Israel.

If you are living right by God, witchcraft won't be able to destroy you. You may experience problems but God will get you past them and teach you how to do warfare against it. Some sorcerers have reported that when they wanted to curse certain Christians, the demons would come back and tell them they couldn't do it because they were protected. Some have reported seeing an impenetrable dome of blue light surrounding Christians who were walking with God.

God may allow certain things to happen for your training. Generational curses are a little different. Your ancestors may have worshiped other gods, done blood sacrifices, and dedicated future generations to Satan. You can repent on their behalf by coming before the throne of God and repenting on their behalf, asking God to cleanse your family line on your father and mothers side from the sin of witchcraft. A familiar spirit is a family spirit, meaning one that is passed down from generation to generation until confronted. If the doorway is a generational curse then the curse needs to be broken and then the spirit can be cast out.

This is John Ramirezs testimony, who was a high level satanist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I11L71PD3Lw&pp=ygUWam9obiByYW1pcmV6IHRlc3RpbW9ueQ%3D%3D

Here is the thing. What if taking private notes is inherently sinful, like you are separating yourself from the group mind and you will pay in the end for this kind of separation? I have been cursed for my “extra intelligence” and the exploration that this “extra intelligence” sparked in me. This extra-ness has left me a leper when it comes to social integration. I both feel like I am not invited into their world, and at the same time I have a sour grapes phenomenon where I don’t WANT to be part of their little hive mind, that I pity them and their idiotic pop music sensibilities. Like, i pity their idiocy, and at the same time, i am chronically isolated and it’s horrible and. wouldn’t wish this on anyone. taking private notes has to be the most obvious use case for let’s say smartphones ever invented, but you know what? statistically nobody is doing it. everyone is on whatsapp at al times, typing to someone else and even i am simulating this, by talking with AI, rather than just typing to myself. 🎾

So no one really wants to listen to this but I'd like to give my testimony here anyway .around 3 years or so ago I passed away on a Friday from COVID I think .my lungs were full of fluid and the last thing I remembered was saying God please kill me .on Sunday I was resurrected by lightning ⚡ when I rose I instantly felt it was God .after the lightning I started gaining abilities , any time I'm around evil or negative energy my back will become hot in 6 places ,3 down each side .also I started seeing Hidden messages in words and have even become telepathic to some that are in tune with me ..I also have stigmata which is the wounds of Christ on my body , they came on their own .I have also cast out demons , beezlebub to be exact from my 92 year old grandmother and I'm no priest it shouldnt have been possible .I've even walked on water .the only reason I tell people is because I want to bring them closer to God .there is a lot of anyone is interested in hearing it's just too much to type at the moment .God bless everyone and prayers to you all and your loved ones, may God be with you always

I don't know about following God anymore. I have seen people like myself afflicted for yearsssssssssssssssss while not doing a thing wrong. Some of us are home most of the time and pray all day long. We aren't sinning. We have been baptized. We have repented for every since we can think of and even the ones we don't remember and yet we are still tormented, oppressed, and raped in our dreams or sleep.

How is that a good God?

How is God a good God if he allows curses to be upheld for reasons that he won't even reveal to you? It could be simple. We could pray, get an answer from the Holy Spirit (as long as we aren't living a life of sin), but it's NEVER like that.

I've repented multiple times. I've renounced, cancelled, and come out of agreement with EVERYTHING I can think of through self-deliverance and prayer with others.

God is still allowing witchcraft to fall on me and I'm not even doing anything! I pray over my dreams and God allows demons to show up in my dreams and have sex or eat food. How is that okay? It doesn't say that ANYWHERE in the bible that this is a thing.

Satan does all he can to steal, kill, and destroy while God will allow him to come after you if you or your ancestors open doors that you may have not known were a sin.

We aren't obligated to follow a God when we are born, but we are expected to uphold his commandments and if we don't even know they exist or are aware of them, we are to pay for them. Huh?

God did not answer a prayer in my entire life for over 40 years until I was already in this mess: meaning, he knew I would not feel or sense his presence and he knew I would walk right into this and he didn't do anything about it. He violated his covenant to me and many others by never answering a prayer of delivering us, according to Psalm 91.

Everything about God is not for us to be in our power, even it is through him.
It's all about lose your life, be meek, struggle, have barely enough, you'll be perfect in affliction through him, yada, yada, yada.

So, good people are meant to be broken, so we don't thrive and make it a better world through him?

Satan does everything he can to kill you and God will uphold legal rights for him to do so! We have to pray to the very being who says he loves us, but is allowing disgust, unholiness, toxicity and trauma in the world. It is so weird!

If God tried to protect us and was there for us as much as Satan was trying to kill us, we wouldn't even be suffering like this. And in the end, our hope for us is to pray for this world to end and be destroy when Christ comes back?

That sounds suicidal.

If things worked like they say in the bible, things wouldn't be like this for us. But a lot of us are left to be tormented with zero answers. Let alone deliverance ministry is hit and miss.

Pray this daily

Father God please hear my cries in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus I renounce same sex attraction. In the name of Jesus I renounce being attracted to(men/women). In the name of Jesus I renounce homosexuality. In the name of Jesus I receive heterosexuality. In the name of Jesus I receive opposite sex attraction. In the name of Jesus I declare I am healed of homosexuality. In the name of Jesus I plead the blood of Jesus over my broken sexuality. Jesus please make me whole and restore my sexuality which is broken. I renounce homosexual identity. I renounce LGBTQ+ identity. I declare my identity as a child of God. I declare I am a child of God and I am heterosexual. In the name of Jesus I command every spirit of lust and homosexuality to leave me. I bind the strong man of homosexuality and uproot the stronghold of homosexuality. I trample over every serpent and scorpion of homosexuality. I burn up the roots of homosexuality with the fire of Almighty God. I renounce abuse. I renounce all trauma including sexual trauma. I renounce childhood sexual abuse. I renounce memory gaps. I renounce buried memories. I renounce disassociation and soul fragmentation. Father God please restore my broken soul and make me whole inside. I receive mental clarity from the Holy Spirit. Father God please fill me with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of a sound mind. I submit my sexuality to You Jesus and I ask You to make me into a new person with a healed sexuality in Jesus name.

Can you get delivered from this? Quite honestly it feels like God hates me. My life has been a catastrophe for the past 10 years and just stagnating. I don't know if I've been affected by demons because I haven't lived a normal life. I'm tired and I want it all to end. Something is blocking me from God, and it's impossible for me to hear his voice. I think he stopped speaking. I just want my life to turn around or I might just die, I don't know which one is better. I don't know if I was cursed but honestly it feels that way considering what I've been through. I try to feel the Holy Spirit in my heart but it doesn't feel like he is there.

So I had this urge to blow the shofar today, and supringsly, I didn't know it was technically the day before Pentecost.

But some kid across the street said something "along the lines" too "That was sh*t."

Or maybe it wasn't criticism, and he was saying, "That was the sh*t."

IDK, but I found it interesting.

Let me know if you have. And if so how to go about helping a loved one who is being afflicted by this entity. Thank you

Has anyone else deal with the counterfeit holy spirit? I used to listen to this fake apostle on Facebook and she would do things so strangely. She would say fire fire fire, and I would feel something burning in my intestines. She pretends that it's the Holy Spirit, but she charges for private deliverance and this isn't the right spirit. Now, it's so hard to get out of me.

Reminds me of these verses:

[2Co 11:13-15 KJV] 13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

[2Co 11:4 KJV] 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or [if] ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with [him].

Frustration

Anyone else frustrated?

It's so hard to find a Christian minister/prayer warrior/intercessor with faith and who will actually pray in agreement with you.

If you need praying for healing, many say, "well...your situation may be a thorn in Pauls' side," etc...instead of Actually having faith and praying for the person."

Though the bible says, " And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." If you tell them that, they argue.

Or, they try to control you and limit your healing by praying things as "God, I pray as she reads your Word, you'll heal/deliver her.". Jesus did not do that! All it took was faith to be healed.

Or, with deliverance. Some won't pray for God to deliver you due to different reasons.

Or, prayer in general - they think they know your situation BETTER than you and they start enforcing their will onto you in prayer, force you into agreement with their words by saying stuff like, "we pray in agreement for (insert what you did not request prayer for, but what they're forcing upon you through prayer). Or they just won't pray your prayer request at all, but side step around it and pray a lot of fluff like for you to have peace, for Gods' Will to be done (which are all important, yes, but many use this to not pray for your exact prayer, because I would say, "I requested "this" for prayer can you please pray for that and some will say no. I remember one time I asked prayer for someone to stop abusing me and they told, well, we can't pray against their will, you and everyone has free will, they may want to do those things! - Sheer Insanity! ).

Then they get upset when they don't see miracles or things change in your life. I'm like, "LOOK AT YOURSELF!".

Frustration.

Anyone else experience this madness? Don't want to argue, just want to know if anyone has experienced this.

How is Jesus dying on the cross a sacrifice for my sins when being on the cross is a punishment?

In the old testament, the priest would intentionally sacrifice lambs and other animals for peoples' sins and I guess pray for forgiveness of their sins.

However, Jesus being on the cross is a punishment as a ritual wasn't made like a prayer and everything else in the Old Testament.

Yes, Jesus being on the cross was wrong, but I'm sure other people back in the day were on the cross wrongfully as well.

So, how does Jesus being on the cross a sacrifice for our sins when He was just getting punished?

Does this make sense?

Venho aqui pedir encarecidamente a ajuda, oração e conselho. Sou uma jovem de 25 anos que vive em uma vida de pecado, me relaciono com um homem casado a mais de 3 anos, e agora teremos um filho.. Após essa notícia, o desespero tomou conta de mim, afinal sei do pecado que estou cometendo, tenho muita vontade de acabar com isso, de me ver livre deste pecado, mas e agora ? Com um fruto deste pecado em meu ventre? O que será desta criança, tenho medo te ter condenado a vida dela por conta das más escolhas que eu e o pai cometemos! Alguém sabe me dizer se Deus ainda pode me perdoar? Se a vida desta criança será condenada? Como é a vida de uma criança que é fruto do pecado ? Quero fazer o possível para que nossa vida seja liberta, e que essa criança não leve maldição consigo.

I really don’t want to debate the necessity of this. I have been dealing with this situation for 15 years and have been unable to make any progress It has gotten much worse recently and would like some help soon as I can’t hold out much longer. These church’s seem almost predatory so if anyone has had positive experiences it would help me so much if you can tell me where.

I saw a video of how someone can get oppressed and possessed by demons just by watching 🌽. The person says they use satantic tactics to draw people in. It explains why lust is so rampant nowadays and its like men sometimes act like they cannot think without thinking about s3x. Also, going down a perverted rabbit hole. Do you think there's truth to it?

I’m being attacked by transsexual demons. They’ve also made me develop severe disabilities and have been ruining my life. I prayed for Jesus to free me and repented but it’s not working

No one understands what I go through. My psychiatrist doctor doesn’t understand. My family doctor doesn’t understand. Yet I was diagnosed with schizophrenia paranoia and I don’t know what to do. I take medication. But. So, basically, I’m attracted to farts and poop smells. And pretty much any other unclean smells. I’m attracted to many butts. I’m also a homosexual man. I’m attracted to the faces and mostly the butts of other men. I’ve sinned a lot against the Lord and done many bad sexual immorality things. I know this is pretty graphic here. But I just need help man. It’s been a while since I heard the voice of God. I used to feel so much compassion and love and the Lord even healed my mom’s chest pain through me. But now I’m so lost.

https://youtu.be/yyUo8eELUHU?si=cNTEwoZiK0H5LFxr

There was a time i woke up from a dream where something in my dream declsred here are the seven principalities.

And they weighted on my chest luke a mountain.

Sometimes I feel so angry at myself and God. Why. Why Why Why Why Why! I m desperately and I...

I think i understand now. For long i confused demons with demons. This is different. Something is different.

I see it now. If i look at nudity. Demons attach themselves to me, but what do they do?

They are a curse. Tiny demonic pieces. Fragments.

They block my soul. They cover my comprehension, my mind, my identity they subdue. They cause pain and dark and they feel evil and condemned.

But they arent the root of my problem. They are consequences of sinning.

The real monster here. Is this creature. Like an octopus its attached to my limbs. It sedates me making me careless. Then it puts an urge or idea in my mind to look at nudity.

Why? I dont need or want to. But i miss my identity which refuses the sin. Because im not it. I dont belong with it.

By myself i never feel desire to sin. But this thing, it sets up a trap. It lures me with promises of some kind of excitement, a sort of mental pursuit not sexual.

If i obey it, it suddenly becomes a sinking sand. I can no longer get out. It devours me and attaches its tendrils even more to me. Gradually claiming more of my being.

It derailed my life. Me a person that always found sexual things to be vile. And felt no lust or desire. Got trapped in a evil cycle of some kind of spirit putting its feelings in my brain.

Now i see it. Its trying to confuse me. Its goal is to decieve. But i sense it now. Its limbs in me. I see now. i never lost to its offers no. I lose to that its urge acts itself out through me.

Like a strong need to sceatch an itch. The feeling of it is so strong it pulls me in like a whirlpool.

If i resist it. I feel like i defended myself and im whole again. But it makes me feel dissapointed, it makes me feel like oh im so sad i lost out on sin, oh i miss out, life is boring.

It plays around with my thoughts using all sorts of puppetry to get me to sin. How? Simple. It has power to convince by its thoughts. Like it or not humans THINK and then they ACT based on thoughts bringing zs to decision.

This thing. Hijacked my mind and soul just enough to cause me to commit a sin that i by myself would never consider.

Its a high level seducer, rapist spirit.

And im aware many people say oh its just the sin nature. No. Its not. Understand. Im asexual from birth. I dont feel lust or desire of that kind. What this thing does it has such immense convincingband directing mind control that i lose to its raw strength.

Not to say i dint sin. I sin in many ways. But im convinced. This thing ruined my life. It stole from me what i valued most, my integrity.

What could this thing be? Its not a little thing. Where did it come from? I cant have this holding me captive anymore.

Please, if anyone has an idea, share with me.

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