FAMILIAR, BUT NOT YOUR FRIEND
In Jeremiah 20:10, God tells us about familiar spirits.
Jeremiah exclaimed: “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 Lord and the teaching of the Bible, then the devil hates you
because he hates the true God, and he gets back at God by going after God’s
people.
We see in the above verse that Jeremiah calls these
spirits “my familiars.” Why? Because they are spirits
that are like stalkers. They are familiar with people as
individuals. They are evil and concentrate on weaknesses in a person’s
character, calling in other spirits that have affected the person and hurt them
before.
Familiar spirits know your parents, your grandparents, and
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 ways to get rid of them.
And God tells us to stay away from those who communicate
with 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 a person goes to
a psychic, they tap into the unseen world and hear from the familiar spirits
that have been watching and influencing the person and their 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 accuracy
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.
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, rejection or 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, 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, sicknesses, viciousness, apathy, fear,
and on and on. All these spirits were cast out of heaven with Lucifer when he 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 familiar spirits
hang around us all our lives, so I wrongly thought that we couldn’t get rid of
them. Also, I falsely believed that we only had one. After studying the Bible
on familiar spirits, I learned they are usually in groups. So, if you get rid
of one, be awake, 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, using
the frequency of the name of Jesus Christ or the frequency of the blood of
Jesus to cast them out and send them away, the Bible says they have to flee. That
includes familiar spirits! And as I’ve shown you in other preach letters, if a
spirit doesn’t obey, it’s off to chains under darkness with no “get free
cards!”
So, when I realized I could get rid of any familiar
spirits around me, 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 under
darkness, and it has never bothered me since. Praise God.
I hope you’ll think about this, and when you recognize that
certain evil spirits have been summoned into your life, you kick them out, along
with the familiar spirit that brought them in! Freedom is that close.
Jesus said: “I am come that they might have life, and
that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10b). Part of the more than
abundant life is getting free from those familiar spirits. Instead of letting
them be familiar, let’s make them total strangers and send them far away!
Love, Carolyn
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