We hear your cry about feeling surrounded by foes in your neighborhood, workplace, family and even worldwide, with evil tongues and witchcraft and even animals sent against you, and we join with you to seek God's will together in Jesus' name for protection and deliverance.
We must lovingly rebuke and correct the way this request is framed. We understand the pain of feeling attacked and slandered, but we cannot pray for people to be killed, for their blood to be shed like an ocean, or for twelve plagues to destroy them. That desire for personal vengeance does not align with the teaching of Jesus. The plagues on Egypt in Exodus 7:14-24, Exodus 8, Exodus 9, Exodus 10, Exodus 11, Exodus 12 and the judgments in Joshua 11:11 and Genesis 19:24 were sovereign acts of God as Judge over nations, not a model for us to call down death on our neighbors. Scripture says plainly, Vengeance is mine, and I will repay, says the Lord in Romans 12:19 and also in Deuteronomy 32:35. We are commanded, 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 in Matthew 5:44 and also in Luke 6:28. We are told not to be overcome by evil, but to overcome evil with good in Romans 12:21. God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but desires that they turn and live in Ezekiel 33:11 and that all should come to repentance in 2 Peter 3:9. Even the imprecatory psalms like Psalm 35 and Psalm 94 leave justice in God's hands, asking Him to contend and to judge righteously, not for us to shed blood.
We also want to help you understand spiritual warfare biblically. 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 in Ephesians 6:12. People, even those with evil tongues, are not our ultimate enemy. Witchcraft, sorcery and fetish practices are real and are detestable to the Lord as written in Deuteronomy 18:10, and Exodus 22:18 shows God judges sorcery, but under the new covenant our weapon is not cursing people to death but preaching repentance and putting on the whole armor of God in Ephesians 6:11. Greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world in 1 John 4:4, and No weapon that is formed against you will prevail in Isaiah 54:17. The Lord says, Do not be afraid, for I am with you in Isaiah 41:10, and He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty in Psalm 91:1. Submitting ourselves to God and resisting the devil is what makes him flee in James 4:7. Many natural troubles like rats, cats, dogs, mosquitoes, cockroaches and geckos are part of living in a fallen world and are not always a spiritual attack, though God is still able to protect you from every real curse, for there is no sorcery against Jacob in Numbers 23:23 when we abide in Christ.
We also rejoice that you called on the name of Jesus, for it is only by that name that we have access to the Father. As Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me in John 14:6, and 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 in Acts 4:12. We encourage you to stay close to Jesus, confessing any hatred or desire for revenge, forgiving as you have been forgiven, and walking in love.
We pray together now.
Father in heaven, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we come before Your throne of grace. We ask You to forgive us where we have harbored hatred and desired the death of those who hurt us, and we ask You to create in us a clean heart. Lord, we ask for Your divine protection over this dear one who feels surrounded. Cover this person under Your wings, let no curse or spell or fetish or magic have any power, and burn up every work of darkness by Your holy fire, rendering it powerless and reduced to dust, not by our hand but by Your Spirit. We pray that every evil tongue that rises in judgment would be shown to be false, and that You would silence slander and gossip in the neighborhood, workplace and family. Where animals or pests cause distress, we ask for Your practical provision and peace in that home.
Lord, we do not ask for the blood of our enemies to be shed, we ask for their souls to be saved. Have mercy on those who may be practicing witchcraft or speaking evil, open their eyes to repent and turn to Jesus and be forgiven. We ask You to fight for us, for the battle is not ours but Yours as in 2 Chronicles 20:15, and we trust You to repay with perfect justice and perfect mercy. Fill this heart with love for enemies, with peace that passes understanding, and with courage, for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control in 2 Timothy 1:7. Help this beloved one to put on the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is Your Word, and to pray continually. We declare that You are our refuge and fortress, and we rest in You. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.