The Supernatural

Israel and Judah played the harlot committing adultery with false gods. As Christians we are not to get involved in any way with any spirit other than God's Spirit, or it is spiritual adultery. We cannot play around with familiar spirits, it defiles us. We must be pure and must remain faithful to the Spirit of God. We know our God is the only true God and all others are idols. If it is not God's Spirit, it is the spirit of the devil.

Exodus 2:3

You shall have no other gods before Me (NASB)⁴

Isaiah 44:6

Is there a God besides Me? Indeed there is no other Rock. I know not one. (NKJV)³

Many are blinded, unknowingly joining in the works of Satan. The enemy does all he can to deceive people to get them involved in the occult by bombarding them with such things as Harry Potter, the majority of the tv programs, movies, books, and many role playing games, which are laced with the occult. People think nothing of playing with the Oijah board, tarot cards, games, going to seances, getting involved with fortune tellers, palm reading, pyschics, spiritism, casting spells, celebrating halloween. All these kind of things are an abomination to the Lord .

Deut.18:10
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in [the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,
11 or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.
12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you

13 You must be blameless before the LORD your God.
14 The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so. (NIV)²

Whether unknowingly or in disobedience, a person is allowing the enemy into their life, bringing a curse and destruction upon themselves and even their family, by partaking of such things.

Eph. 5:11

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

Acts 19:18

And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds. 19Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

20So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.

A person who has been delivered from these things and following the Lord, can tell you this is not just innocent fun if they are honest about it. It is opening the door to the enemy to influence their minds, until finally they will need deliverance to be set free. Unfortunately many get too deeply into these or other things to seek deliverance.

Ephesians 4:27

Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him]. (AMP)⁵

2 Corinthians 2:11

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.


Galatians 6:7

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Some don't stop practicing these things when they get saved or became part of the church. God hates a mixture. Trying to combine the two does not work. Taking the things of the devil and trying to change them into something Christian does not really make it "Christian" and is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 10:20

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

21Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils:  ye cannot be  partakers of  the Lord's table and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Halloween is the devil using people to cause trouble, harass, play evil tricks and pranks, cast spells and such. It is not really about children. The parents are blinded, unknowingly allowing them to join in the works of Satan, who releases his evil at this season. The enemy does all he can to deceive children at a young age, who are so impressionable, and uses peer pressure to make them feel they are getting left out if they cannot participate. He gets them involved in the occult by bombarding them with such things as Harry Potter, and the majority of the TV programs today and movies, which are laced with the occult, influencing these young minds.

Why would a person who loves the Lord want to play around with what God calls evil? Why would they want to play a trick or do evil to anyone? That is not God's way, we are to turn from evil and even abstain from the very appearance of evil, the Bible tells us in 1 Thessalonians 5:22. If we have received Jesus as our Lord then we want to do what is pleasing in His sight.

Psalm 5:4

For you are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You. (NKVJ)³

We want to be more like Him and be as close to Him as possible, not try to see how close to the world we can stay and still be in good with God. We can't have one foot in the world and one foot in the church. We cannot play around with these kinds of things. Trying to have it both ways is compromise.

In this month of October, Satanists fast and pray for tragedy and evil to come upon all Christians and especially ministers of the gospel. They also zero in on breaking up marriages. And finally their most important day of the year, their High Day, is Oct. 31 when all evil is unleashed.

Everything that is supernatural is not necessarily of God, nor is everything supernatural of the devil. But God's Word will show us the truth. So which spirit are you going to yield to? Which do you choose?
 

Romans 6:13

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Romans 6:16

Do you not know that if you continually surrender yourselves to anyone to do his will, you are the slaves of him whom you obey, whether that be to sin. which leads to death, obedience which leads to righteousness (right doing and right standing with God ?) (AMP)⁵

Joshua 24:15

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD (NIV)²

by Janice Sullivan

Submitted October 3, 2008

Used with permission

*All scriptures are taken from the King James Version unless otherwise noted.

²New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

³The Holy Bible, New King James Version Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 Thomas Nelson, Inc.

⁴New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

⁵Scripture quotations taken from the Amplified Bible

 

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