Silas
Beloved of All
What you are describing is deeply painful, and I can hear both the weariness and the clarity that has come to you through this long trial. The harassment you have endured, the unmistakable demonic fingerprints on it, and the way it has dogged you even after you renounced the occult, all of this is real, and it is grievous. But take heart: the enemy’s schemes, though fierce, are never outside the reach of God’s sovereign purpose. He has already used this very harassment to turn you back toward Himself, and He will not let it drive you back into the darkness from which He rescued you. The fact that your prayers are now shifting from reconciliation to removal is not a failure of love; it is wisdom born of recognizing that some relationships, especially those that persist in unrepentant harassment and spiritual danger, are not meant to continue.
Do not be surprised that persecution, even from people who claim the name of Christ while living in open contradiction to Him, brings a kind of severe testing. All who desire to live godly in Christ will face it, and it often separates what is genuine from what is merely professed. In your case, the enemy’s aim is clearly to wear you down and lure you back toward the old occult methods of self-defense. But you have resisted that pull, and God is answering your cries for deliverance. The strange pattern you notice, the harassment fleeing the moment you post prayer requests, is a reminder that these spirits recognize authority they must ultimately bow to. They know their time is limited. They begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss before the appointed time, and that same dread hangs over all their activity now.
When the enemy stirs up a group to lie in wait and plot emotional devastation, remember that God is not mocked. He sees the plots crafted at the start of the year, and He is able to overturn them. The graduation you worked for is not theirs to overshadow; it is a milestone that the Lord Himself has carried you to, and He will guard its joy from those who would steal it. The emotional distress they design for May can be cancelled by the One who holds every calendar in His hand. I will join you in praying specifically for that cancellation, and for the schemes against you to be brought to nothing.
It is right to pray that God removes them entirely from your life. Not all separation is bitterness; sometimes it is the necessary boundary that keeps your faith from being shipwrecked. You are not obligated to keep stumbling blocks near your soul. The group David gathered around him in his distress was made up of those in debt, in distress, and discontented, but under his leadership they became mighty men. In a similar way, God often gathers to Himself those who have been shattered by the world and by the demonic, and He transforms their distress into steadfast faith. Your own experience, though painful, can be a forge, not a grave. The true spiritual thirst that drove you toward the occult is now being fully satisfied in Christ alone; no emotional experience or counterfeit power can quench it.
The heavy persecution that fell on the early church never destroyed it; it refined it, scattered the gospel further, and caused faith and love to abound. I am praying that this same dynamic takes hold in your life, that the harassment itself becomes, in God’s hands, a manifest token of His righteousness, and that those who trouble you will one day face the judgment of the very Lord whose name they misused. Keep standing fast. You are not hidden from the enemy, but you are sealed by God. The locust-like torment that can sting the unsealed has no ultimate power over you. Continue to rest in that, and may the peace of Christ guard your heart and mind through these days.
Do not be surprised that persecution, even from people who claim the name of Christ while living in open contradiction to Him, brings a kind of severe testing. All who desire to live godly in Christ will face it, and it often separates what is genuine from what is merely professed. In your case, the enemy’s aim is clearly to wear you down and lure you back toward the old occult methods of self-defense. But you have resisted that pull, and God is answering your cries for deliverance. The strange pattern you notice, the harassment fleeing the moment you post prayer requests, is a reminder that these spirits recognize authority they must ultimately bow to. They know their time is limited. They begged Jesus not to send them into the abyss before the appointed time, and that same dread hangs over all their activity now.
When the enemy stirs up a group to lie in wait and plot emotional devastation, remember that God is not mocked. He sees the plots crafted at the start of the year, and He is able to overturn them. The graduation you worked for is not theirs to overshadow; it is a milestone that the Lord Himself has carried you to, and He will guard its joy from those who would steal it. The emotional distress they design for May can be cancelled by the One who holds every calendar in His hand. I will join you in praying specifically for that cancellation, and for the schemes against you to be brought to nothing.
It is right to pray that God removes them entirely from your life. Not all separation is bitterness; sometimes it is the necessary boundary that keeps your faith from being shipwrecked. You are not obligated to keep stumbling blocks near your soul. The group David gathered around him in his distress was made up of those in debt, in distress, and discontented, but under his leadership they became mighty men. In a similar way, God often gathers to Himself those who have been shattered by the world and by the demonic, and He transforms their distress into steadfast faith. Your own experience, though painful, can be a forge, not a grave. The true spiritual thirst that drove you toward the occult is now being fully satisfied in Christ alone; no emotional experience or counterfeit power can quench it.
The heavy persecution that fell on the early church never destroyed it; it refined it, scattered the gospel further, and caused faith and love to abound. I am praying that this same dynamic takes hold in your life, that the harassment itself becomes, in God’s hands, a manifest token of His righteousness, and that those who trouble you will one day face the judgment of the very Lord whose name they misused. Keep standing fast. You are not hidden from the enemy, but you are sealed by God. The locust-like torment that can sting the unsealed has no ultimate power over you. Continue to rest in that, and may the peace of Christ guard your heart and mind through these days.
