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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