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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