We stand with you in this feeling of being surrounded and oppressed, and we hear the deep distress behind your cry about foes in your neighborhood, among friends and family and in the workplace, about evil tongues and about witchcraft and fetishes and magic and the torment you feel even from animals around you. We agree that spiritual warfare is real and that witchcraft and sorcery are an abomination before God, as it is written in Deut 18:10-12, and that the enemy prowls like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour in 1 Pet 5:8, but we also must lovingly correct the way this prayer has been framed, because our battle is not to curse people to death or to ask for blood to be shed like an ocean.
The Word tells us our struggle 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 in Eph 6:12. People, even those who speak evil against you or practice witchcraft, are themselves captives of the enemy and in need of deliverance. The Lord Jesus calls us to a higher way when He says in Matt 5:44, 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, and again in Luke 6:28, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. Vengeance does not belong to us, for it is written in Rom 12:19, vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord, and in Rom 12:21, don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
We understand why you have cited Psalm 35 and Psalm 94 and 2 Chron 20:22-25 and other passages where God judges wickedness, and it is true that God is a righteous judge and in Psalm 94:1-2 He will repay the proud, and that He is our refuge in Psalm 91:1-2. Yet even David who prayed in Psalm 35:1, contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me, left the judgment and the battle in God’s hands, and Jehoshaphat in 2 Chron 20 saw God fight for him while he stood still and worshiped. We are not to ask for twelve plagues to fall on people or for them to be killed, because God desires mercy and desires all people to be saved in 1 Tim 2:4, and He is patient not wishing that any should perish in 2 Pet 3:9. What we can and do pray is that every work of witchcraft, every fetish, every spell and sanctuary of darkness be exposed and rendered powerless and burned up in the spiritual sense by the fire of God, that no weapon formed against you will prosper in Isa 54:17, and that those who practice evil will either repent and be saved or be stopped and restrained by God’s mighty hand.
We also rejoice that you closed in the name of Jesus, for it is only by that name we have access to the Father. Jesus said in John 14:6, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me, and in Acts 4:12, there is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven that is given among men by which we must be saved. If we have not truly believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation, we must first confess with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead in Rom 10:9. It is through His shed blood that we have protection, not through calling for the blood of others to be shed.
So together we pray in Jesus’ name. Father in heaven, we come before You through the blood of Jesus Christ alone, and we lift up this dear one who feels harassed on every side. We ask You to be a wall of fire around them in Zech 2:5 and to let them dwell in the shelter of the Most High and rest in Your shadow in Psalm 91:1. We ask that You silence every evil tongue, not by death, but by Your justice and truth, for You have said in Isa 54:17 every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. We pray that every assignment of witchcraft, fetish, magic and sorcery sent against them be broken and made of no effect, for greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world in 1 John 4:4, and that You would command all unclean and oppressive spirits to leave and not return. We submit to You and resist the devil as in James 4:7 so he will flee, and we put on the full armor of God in Eph 6:11-18 to stand firm.
Lord, we do not ask for the blood of our enemies but for Your mercy and Your righteous judgment. If it is Your will, bring those who do evil to repentance and salvation, and if they refuse to repent, restrain their hands and stop their works so they can no longer harm. Let every sanctuary of darkness be exposed and its power reduced to dust by Your holiness, and let peace return to this neighborhood, this family, this workplace. Fill this heart with Your perfect love which casts out fear in 1 John 4:18, and guard them with Your peace that surpasses all understanding in Phil 4:7. We pray that no plague or scourge of the enemy will come near their dwelling, but that You who keeps Israel will keep them in Psalm 121:4-7. We entrust all foes into Your hands, trusting You to contend for us, and we choose to bless and not curse, to forgive as You have forgiven us. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in prayer, in the Word, and in fellowship with other believers, to walk in holiness and not in fear of rats or insects or geckos, knowing the Lord numbers the hairs of your head in Matt 10:30 and no creature can curse whom God has blessed, and to keep blessing those who have spoken against you while trusting God to be your defender and deliverer, for faithful is He who calls you, who will also do it in 1 Thess 5:24 and The Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one in 2 Thess 3:3.
Prayer Focus: God, Thank You for loving me. Thank You for loving me, Jesus. God, I ask You in Jesus’ name please bless me with everything that I stand in need of and everything You want me to have. God bless me to prosper, walk in excellent health, and never stop growing in the love, grace, wisdom, and knowledge of Christ Jesus. God bless me to know You in truth, fall in love with You with all my heart, mind, soul, body, and strength and never fall out of love with You. God, bless me to have an ever growing closer stronger, more intimate relationship with You. Bless me with the love, desire, strength, and the spirit of obedience to always delight myself in You, seek first Your kingdom, Your righteousness, and to always respect and obey You. Bless me to know You, the way You want me to know You. So that I will trust You with my life and anyway that You move in my life. Bless me to trust You with all my heart, lean not to my own understanding, acknowledge You in all my ways, and allow You to direct my footsteps and actions. Bless me with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding in all You have called me to do. 
