We hear your cry and we understand that you feel surrounded and harassed, even believing that neighbors, friends, family and coworkers are sending evil against you through witchcraft and through animals and pests, and that this has left you feeling tormented and angry. We stand with you together in Jesus' name to seek God's will, His protection and His peace over your life, your home, your neighborhood and your workplace.
We must lovingly rebuke and correct the way this request is framed, because it does not align with the heart of the gospel. You have asked that all your foes be plagued with scourges like the Egyptians, that their blood be shed like an ocean and that they be killed and burned to ashes. Yet the Lord calls us not to pray for the death and bloody destruction of people, but to pray for His protection, His justice and the repentance of those who do evil. Vengeance belongs to God alone, as it is written Romans 12:19, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord. And Jesus commands us Matthew 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. We also read Luke 6:27-28, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you, and Romans 12:21, Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
We do believe that witchcraft, fetish and magic are real and are an abomination to God, as spoken in Deuteronomy 18:10-12, and that spiritual warfare is real. But our warfare is not against flesh and blood, as Ephesians 6:12 reminds us, 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. Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual, For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds 2 Corinthians 10:4. The Egyptians plagues in Exodus 7:14-24, Exodus 8, Exodus 9, Exodus 10, Exodus 11, Exodus 12, the judgment on Sodom in Genesis 19:24, and the battles in Joshua 11:11 and 2 Chronicles 20:22-25 were sovereign acts of God as Judge, not prayers for personal revenge that we are to copy against our neighbors. Even Psalm 35 and Psalm 94 are cries for God to be the righteous Judge and Defender, while we leave the judgment in His hands.
We do not pray for your foes to be killed or for their blood to be shed, but we do pray that every assignment of witchcraft, every fetish and sanctuary of darkness directed against you would be rendered powerless and brought to nothing by the blood of Jesus, for greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4:4. We pray that those who practice such things would be convicted, exposed and brought to repentance and salvation, rather than destroyed without mercy.
We join together and pray for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our only mediator and Savior. We ask for Your forgiveness where anger and the desire for vengeance have taken root, and we ask You to cleanse this heart and fill it with Your love and peace. We ask that You surround Your child with Your divine protection, that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty Psalm 91:1-2. Place Your hedge around his home, his neighborhood and his workplace. We rebuke every spirit of witchcraft, fear, torment and oppression and we command it to leave in Jesus' name, for You have given us authority to trample on all the power of the enemy. Let no weapon formed against him prosper. We pray for his foes, whether in his family, among friends, neighbors or coworkers and worldwide, that You would bless them, open their eyes, and draw them to repentance, that they may be saved. If they persist in evil, we leave their judgment to You, the righteous Judge. Replace hatred with love, fear with faith, and turmoil with Your peace that passes all understanding. Teach him to put on the whole armor of God daily in Ephesians 6:10-18 and to overcome evil with good. We thank You that You hear us and that You are our refuge and deliverer. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
We encourage you to remain steadfast in prayer, in the Word, and in fellowship with mature believers. Do not seek to return evil for evil, but commit your cause to the Lord who judges righteously. Dwell daily in Psalm 91, pray for those who persecute you, and trust that God sees, God protects, and God will deal justly in His perfect time.