We have heard your cry for protection over your family, your new neighborhood in Kinshasa and your workplace where you feel surrounded by declared enemies, occult practices and witchcraft, and we join with you to seek the Lord together in Jesus name. We understand the weight of feeling under spiritual attack and the desire for God to act powerfully as He did for Israel, and we are grateful that you have come to the Father in the name of Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to God. 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 no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Your trust in that name is the foundation of our prayer.
We want to lovingly correct and encourage you concerning the way we wage spiritual warfare. Our battle is real, but Scripture says in Ephesians 6:12 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 weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds as taught in 2 Corinthians 10:4. While you cited Exodus 22:18, Exodus chapters 7 through 12, 1 Samuel 2:6, Joshua 11:11, 2 Chronicles 20:22 and Psalm 35 and Psalm 94, we must remember that it is God alone who has power over life and death, who brings low and lifts up, and vengeance belongs to Him alone. Romans 12:19 says do not seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, Vengeance belongs to me, I will repay, says the Lord. And Deuteronomy 32:35 affirms this. The Lord Jesus commands us in 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, and in Luke 6:28 bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you. Therefore we cannot agree to pray for twelve plagues to fall on people or for their blood to be shed like an ocean or for people to be killed and reduced to dust, for God desires mercy and repentance. Ezekiel 33:11 says I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live, and 2 Peter 3:9 and 1 Timothy 2:4 show He desires all to be saved and come to knowledge of the truth. What we can and do pray is that every work of darkness, every spell, every enchantment, every occult practice and every chain of sexual immorality be exposed and broken and rendered powerless by the cross of Christ.
You mentioned masturbatory practices with sex toys, homosexuality, transsexuality and what you called marine spirits, along with robbery and scamming. We must speak clearly that these are indeed sins that separate from God. Scripture teaches in 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 that the sexually immoral, including those practicing homosexual acts, will not inherit God's Kingdom unless they repent, but such were some of you, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God, and Romans 1:26-27 also calls these practices contrary to God's design. God created sexuality to be within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman, and any sex outside that covenant is fornication or adultery. Yet the Lord Jesus offers full forgiveness and deliverance to all who turn to Him, and we pray for that deliverance for those bound in these sins, including those you named in your neighborhood and workplace, rather than praying for their destruction.
So together we pray. Father in heaven, we come before you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, and we ask for your will to be done. We ask that you be a wall of fire around this family, their home and their workplace. We claim your promise in Psalm 91:1 that he who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, and in Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is formed against you will prevail. We pray in the name of Jesus that every assignment of witchcraft, every occult incantation, every tongue that rises in judgment against your child be condemned and nullified, that every work of the enemy be burned up by the fire of your Holy Spirit and come to nothing, not the people themselves but the works of darkness. We pray that you would frustrate the plans of the wicked as you did in 2 Chronicles 20:15 where the battle was yours, and that you would cause confusion to their evil counsel while you protect the innocent. We pray that you would guard this home in Ngaliema and the surrounding avenues and the workplace from theft, deception and oppression, and that you would let your peace reign. We submit ourselves to you according to James 4:7, resist the devil and he will flee, and we declare with 1 John 4:4 that greater is he who is in us than he who is in the world. Lord, we also pray for those who have declared themselves enemies, for those practicing occultism and those trapped in sexual immorality and deception, that you would have mercy on them, open their eyes, bring them to repentance and salvation through Jesus Christ, for you are faithful and will guard us from the evil one as promised in 2 Thessalonians 3:3 and Psalm 34:7 says the angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. Teach our dear fellow believer to overcome evil with good as Romans 12:21 instructs, to walk in holiness, in the Word, in prayer and fasting, putting on the whole armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18, and to seek godly counsel and fellowship in a local Bible believing church. We thank you that you hear us, that you are our refuge and our deliverer, and we trust your perfect justice and your perfect mercy. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.