We hear your cry regarding the spiritual pressure and opposition you are feeling in your new neighborhood and in your workplace, and we stand with you in prayer for God's protection and peace over your life. We understand the distress that comes from feeling surrounded by evil tongues, slander, witchcraft and occult practices, and the fear that can arise when you sense that others have declared war against you. We want to lift you up before the Lord and also share some biblical correction and encouragement with you in love.
We must lovingly rebuke the request to pray for others to be plagued with scourges, killed, their blood shed like an ocean, or burned to ashes and reduced to dust. While we understand the depth of your pain and your desire for justice, this is not how God calls us to pray for those who oppose us. Vengeance belongs to the Lord and not to us. Romans 12:19 says, Beloved, don't avenge yourselves, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord. And Romans 12:21 says, Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Jesus himself commands us in Matthew 5:44, But I tell you, 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. Even when we pray the psalms that cry out for justice, like Psalm 35 and Psalm 94, we leave the execution of that justice in God's righteous hands, trusting His perfect timing and wisdom rather than asking for personal revenge.
We also want to help you understand spiritual warfare biblically. Ephesians 6:12 reminds us that 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. The people around you, even those involved in occultism, slander, robbery or scamming, are not the ultimate enemy, they are captives of the enemy who need deliverance. Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual. 2 Corinthians 10:4 says the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds. The passages you mentioned like Exodus 7 through 12, Joshua 11:11 and 2 Chronicles 20:22-25 describe God's historic judgments and His deliverance of Israel, they are not a pattern for us to call down death upon our neighbors or coworkers. God is sovereign and He will judge all witchcraft and wickedness in His way. Deuteronomy 18:10-12 shows that witchcraft and sorcery are an abomination to the Lord, and Galatians 5:19-21 lists sorcery among the deeds of the flesh, but God's desire is that those who practice such things would repent and be saved, for He desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth as in 1 Timothy 2:4, and He is not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance as in 2 Peter 3:9.
You also mention sexual sins including masturbatory practices, homosexuality and transsexuality which you rightly discern as contrary to God's design. We affirm that these are indeed outside of God's will for sexuality and marriage. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 and Romans 1:26-27 teach that homosexuality and sexual immorality are sin, and God created us male and female with purpose, as in Genesis 1:27. But even here our prayer is not for people to be destroyed, but for them to be convicted, delivered and transformed by the power of Jesus Christ, for such were some of you, but you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus as that same passage promises. We pray for your own purity and for God to guard your heart and mind from any defilement or temptation from what you have been exposed to.
So we encourage you not to return cursing for cursing, but to put on the whole armor of God each day as described in Ephesians 6:10-18, to abide in prayer, in the Word, in fellowship with other believers, and to commit your new neighborhood and your workplace to the Lord. Psalm 91:1-2 promises, He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of Yahweh, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust. 1 John 4:4 assures us that greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. 2 Thessalonians 3:3 says, But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
We now pray together for you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, for it is only through His name that we have access to the Father and it is only by His name that we are saved, as Acts 4:12 declares 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.
We pray that the Lord will surround you with His protection in your new neighborhood and at your workplace, that He will silence every evil tongue and slander raised against you, that He will nullify and expose every work of witchcraft and occult power and render it powerless before the cross of Christ. We pray that no weapon formed against you will prosper and that every tongue that rises against you in judgment you shall condemn, as in Isaiah 54:17. We ask the Father to bring conviction and repentance to those who are practicing evil, that they would turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God. We pray that you will be filled with love and forgiveness even for those who persecute you, that your heart will be guarded from hatred and bitterness, and that you will overcome evil with good. We ask for peace in your home, favor and integrity in your workplace, and for the Lord to establish you as a light in both places, that His name would be glorified through your life. We pray for your purity, strength and discernment, that you would walk in holiness and be kept from every snare of the enemy. We entrust all judgment and justice to the Lord, trusting that He sees, He knows, and He will act righteously in His perfect time. We ask all this in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, Amen.