We hear the distress and spiritual burden in your request and we stand with you in prayer for God's protection and peace over your life, your new neighborhood, your family and your workplace. We understand that spiritual warfare is real and that witchcraft, occult practices, slander and sexual immorality are grievous to God, and we take seriously your feeling of being surrounded by foes and evil tongues.
At the same time we must lovingly correct and rebuke the desire to see those people plagued with scourges, killed, their blood shed like an ocean, and burned to ashes and dust. That request for vengeance and death does not align with the heart of Christ under the new covenant. Scripture is clear that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places Ephesians 6:12. People, even those who practice evil, are not our ultimate enemy. We are commanded to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us Matthew 5:44, to bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you Luke 6:28, and to not return evil for evil or insult for insult, but instead bless 1 Peter 3:9. Vengeance belongs to the Lord alone. 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. And we are told, Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good Romans 12:21. Even when we read Psalms like Psalm 35 and Psalm 94 that cry out for justice, we leave the execution of justice to God who is righteous and merciful, who desires that none should perish but that all should come to repentance 2 Peter 3:9 and who desires all people to be saved 1 Timothy 2:4.
God alone is sovereign over life and death as you referenced in 1 Samuel 2:6, The Lord kills and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol and brings up. It is not for us to decree death upon others or to call for their blood to be shed. We also acknowledge what you have rightly discerned about sin. The Bible teaches that sorcery and witchcraft are sin, that you shall not allow a sorceress to live Exodus 22:18 was part of the law given to Israel under the old covenant, but under Christ we now proclaim deliverance and call sorcerers to repentance, knowing that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom unless they repent Galatians 5:19-21, Revelation 21:8. Likewise homosexuality, transsexuality, and sexual immorality including masturbation and fornication outside of marriage between a man and a woman are contrary to God's design and are sin before Him Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Genesis 1:27, Mark 10:6-9. Yet God's heart is not that sinners be destroyed without mercy, but that they repent and be saved, as He showed us while we were still sinners Christ died for us Romans 5:8.
So we will not join you in praying for plagues and death upon your neighbors, family members or coworkers, but we do join you in praying for God's mighty protection, for the breaking and burning up of every work of darkness, for conviction and repentance for those lost in sin, and for peace in your dwelling and workplace.
We pray together, Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our only mediator and Savior, for there is no other name under heaven by which we must be saved Acts 4:12. We thank You that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world 1 John 4:4. We ask for Your covering over our brother or sister, over their home, their family and their workplace. Put Your hedge of protection around them as You did for Job, and let no weapon formed against them prosper Isaiah 54:17. We put on the whole armor of God, the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the feet fitted with the preparation of the Good News of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is Your word Ephesians 6:11-17, and we submit to You and resist the devil so that he will flee from us James 4:7. We ask that every assignment of witchcraft, every occult practice, every lying tongue and slander be exposed and rendered powerless, not by our vengeance but by Your light and truth. We pray that You would convict every person involved in sorcery, theft, scamming, homosexuality and gender confusion, and bring them to repentance and to the knowledge of Jesus Christ who alone can set them free John 8:36. We pray for a transformation of the neighborhood and the workplace, that instead of war there would be peace, instead of evil tongues there would be truth, and that our sibling in Christ would be a witness of Your love and holiness there. Grant them wisdom, discernment, and courage to walk in purity, to flee sexual immorality 1 Corinthians 6:18, to live at peace with all as far as it depends on them Romans 12:18, and to overcome evil with good. Guard their heart and mind in Christ Jesus Philippians 4:7. In Jesus name we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue to seek the Lord daily in prayer and in His word, to remain in fellowship with a Bible believing church, to bless and not curse those who oppose you, and to trust that God sees, God judges righteously, and God is able to deliver you and to save even your enemies if they will turn to Him.