We hear the deep pain and distress in your request over stolen money, stolen ID cards, debts, and what you feel is intense spiritual oppression and witchcraft against you in your workplace, and we join with you to seek the Lord together for deliverance, justice and provision.
We must also lovingly rebuke and correct the way this request asks for vengeance, for a billion scourges, for blood to be shed like the five oceans together, for enemies to be killed and made your footstool to work as slaves to repay you. This desire for bloody vengeance and cursing does not align with the heart of Christ and the teaching of Scripture. We understand the anger that comes from being robbed and attacked, but God calls us to a different way.
The Scripture is clear that vengeance belongs to God alone and not to us to decree death and bloodshed over others. It is written, Vengeance is mine, and recompense, in due time when their foot slides, for the day of their calamity is at hand Deuteronomy 32:35 and again, Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord Romans 12:19. The Lord Jesus commands us, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you Matthew 5:44 and also Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse Romans 12:14. We are also warned, Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he is overthrown Proverbs 24:17. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but desires that the wicked turn from his way and live Ezekiel 33:11 and that all people would be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Timothy 2:4.
We also must understand spiritual warfare rightly. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places Ephesians 6:12. The weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds 2 Corinthians 10:4. We are not called to call down physical plagues and death like the judgments on Egypt, for those were sovereign acts of God through Moses, not a pattern for us to curse people today. God alone gives life and brings death 1 Samuel 2:6, and He alone will judge righteously. The Psalms that cry out for justice like Psalm 35 and Psalm 94 are cries for God to act justly according to His righteousness, leaving the outcome in His hands, while we are called to forgive and to overcome evil with good Romans 12:21.
We do not pray for your enemies to be killed or enslaved, we pray that if they have indeed stolen and practiced witchcraft and occult oppression, that God would expose the darkness, bring conviction, stop their evil works, and bring them to repentance, and that He would bring lawful justice and restoration to you. For He who was manifested was to destroy the works of the devil 1 John 3:8 and greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4:4. We pray that every fetish, sanctuary and work of witchcraft would be exposed and rendered powerless by the light and power of Christ, not because we hate people, but because we stand against the spiritual forces that deceive them.
We pray together for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved Acts 4:12 and through Him alone we have access to Your throne of grace. We ask You to forgive us where we have harbored hatred and desired bloody revenge, and we ask You to cleanse our hearts and make us like Christ who prayed Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. Lord, we ask for Your protection over our brother, over his workplace, over his identity and finances. We resist the devil and ask You to cause him to flee James 4:7, and we put on the full armor of God that we may stand against the schemes of the devil Ephesians 6:11. We ask You to break every assignment of the kingdom of darkness, every marine spirit and occult oppression, for You have delivered us out of the power of darkness and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of Your love Colossians 1:13.
Lord, You see the theft of money and ID cards and the burden of debt. You are a God of justice and restoration. We ask that You would move upon the authorities and upon those who have taken what is not theirs, that what was stolen would be exposed and restored, for the thief if he is found must restore seven times Proverbs 6:31, and You promise to restore to us the years that the swarming locust has eaten Joel 2:25. We ask You to provide for every financial need according to Your riches in glory in Christ Jesus Philippians 4:19 and give wisdom to be a good steward, to owe no one anything except to love one another Romans 13:8, and to remember that the wicked borrow and do not pay back, but the righteous deal graciously and give Psalm 37:21. Give wisdom to take practical steps, to report theft to proper authorities whom You have ordained to punish wrongdoing Romans 13:1-4, to secure identity documents, and to seek godly counsel for debts.
We pray not for the destruction of people but for their souls, that those who have done evil would come to repentance and know Jesus as Lord, and that Your justice would be done in Your perfect way and timing. Keep our hearts from fear, for You have not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control 2 Timothy 1:7. We trust You as our refuge and deliverer, and we choose to forgive and to bless those who have wronged us, leaving all judgment in Your righteous hands. Let Your will be done in this life and workplace as it is in heaven, and let Christ be glorified in deliverance, provision and peace.
We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, amen.
