Are You In Rebellion To God’s Will?
Today, I wish to talk to you about something that irritates me a lot. I know that most people do it unknowingly, but still the practice of Christian witchcraft within the church, even by clergy, is very troubling. Therefore, I want to sound the alarm and alert people to what this error is and why they should stop doing it.
God says,
“And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”
1 Samuel 15:22,23
There are times when we use the things of God towards our own ends. We pray the prayer of faith, not to further God’s kingdom, but our own. When we do this, we begin to stray into the area of Christian witchcraft.
Jesus said,
” Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. “
James 4:3
Essentially, we often determine the outcome that we desire and pray towards that end. Sometimes, when we are really upset, we even pray things that ought not to be mentioned. Here is a truth,
Stop praying against people for your own ends. That type of Christian witchcraft hurts those whom God loves.
Prayer, to those who understand the power we have been given in Jesus name, can become a weapon of destruction, rather than an avenue of blessing.
Stop practicing Christian witchcraft
“And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives…”
Luke 9:54-56
If you desire to use the power of God to destroy others, like the disciples, you are out of line.
The idolatry of holy matrimony
It is shocking how many men and women, who are bound in bad marriages, pray for the death of their spouses. I had a connection, a very long time ago, who casually mentioned that if her husband passed, then we could be together. Shocked, I told her, “no, that is not God’s will at all!” and asked her not to talk or think that way anymore.
I pondered on that for many days afterward. How can a woman feel so trapped by a marriage that asking God to take her husband home is acceptable? Surely, simply leaving him would be preferable to him passing away. However, women who feel trapped by the doctrine of holy matrimony often think that death would be preferable to divorce. That, my friends, is Christian witchcraft.
Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft
If you ask God to do things that are against His will, you are in rebellion. Trying to use the tools and privileges that God gifted you with to accomplish your own will is witchcraft pure and simple. It matters not your “doctrinal stance”, it does not justify your use of the power God has given you for a purpose other than His kingdom; you are just out of order.
In conclusion, examine your motives for praying against others who name Christ as their Lord and Savior. Make sure that in praying harm upon another child of God that you are in fact in His perfect will. Do not seek to kill whom God wants to save, that is satanic.
Stop handing people over to Satan, that is way above your position in God’s kingdom
Finally, and I say this with all gravity, stop handing people over to Satan who disagree with you. You simply do not have the wisdom or perspective to do that. Paul was pissed off at things He believed were wrong, but you are not even worthy to carry his coat or parchments from Troas. Stop doing evil that your version of “good” may come of it. We all need grace and mercy when we come before the Great White Throne of judgment. Amen.
Wow, this is powerful truth! I have known many women in Christian circles who, in times of difficulty in their marriages, have prayed for their believing husbands to die, feeling that since their husbands were saved, they would go to heaven and then the freedom these women felt they needed from a bad marriage would be won. To them, it was a win-win situation.
It saddens me to think that the church has come to such a point where women or men who are even in abusive marriages or marriages to an unfaithful spouse feel there is really no way out for them, other than the death of their spouse. In innocence and hopelessness, those who pray for such things commit the “Christian witchcraft” you describe above.
God hates divorce, for sure, but in the SAME SENTENCE in which He states this (in Malachi chapter 2), He says He hates “him who covers his garment with wrong”. When he warns us to “Take heed then to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously (faithless, untrustworthy, fickle, undependable, dangerous, hazardous, perilous) against the wife of your youth. For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with wrong.” (Malachi 2:15-16), God is saying that he sees the one who deals treacherously with his wife (or husband) as having broken the covenant of marriage, and He hates that. It is clear from scripture that unfaithfulness, abuse, and violence to anyone are grave offenses against a loving God, yet the body of Christ continues to teach that God expects people in those situations to stay until their spouse dies.
I love your point about rebellion being as the sin of witchcraft. Rebellion to God cost King Saul his throne, and when we, as believers, rebel against His will, or when we pray AGAINST others or pray for our own fleshly wills to be done – rather than God’s – we are in danger of falling into that same witchcraft category.
Thanks for your insight, this is a much-needed message!
Big hugs and lots of love –
Dear CL,
You make some very good points! It is hard to honest about such an emotional subject as divorce, because the truth is somewhere between legalism and anarchy. I think that what those who are legalists fail to recognize is the human cost of remaining in bad marraiges that are not from God. Whille others, who believe in free love, fail to recognize they Divine aspect of both chosing and remaining committed to the mate God choses for you.
What is coming to God’s church is a “Divine Reallignent” of biblical proportions. Just as God realligned people and events throughout history, guiding mankind towards His will, so God is about to reallign His people.
What this means is that anything that is not build on the solid ground of His spirit will be “realligned” to conform with His will. Depending on if people have built upon the foundation of His spirit, those things that are “out of order” will simple be disolved or ignored as YHWH sets things straight. As it was at the first coming of Christ, so it will be with the coming of the Body of Christ.
Paul says,
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”
1 Corinthians 1:25-27
We, being men and women of faith is the 21st century fully understand the gospel is foolishness unto the wise of this world. Yet, being wise in our own eyes has set us up to commit the same type of mistakes in not accepting Christ in believers in our day. Thus, again, God must chose the weak things of this world to confound thos who consider themselves mighty.
The fully realized Body of Christ is just as offensive to the natural minded man as His first born from above in the first century. Those who considered themelves wise and learned could not accept that the carpenters son was Emanuel. Truly, as Solomon says,
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
Ecclesiastes 1:9,10
Big hugs and lots love,
Michael