Every time about this year, the spirit of witchcraft gets so thick you’d have to cut it with a power saw. It never fails. Here we are again… another October and new battles against this spiritual force that cause you to feel like you want to give up and quit.

Spiritual witchcraft (I’m not talking about witches brewing up spells, OK, so please don’t send me a bunch of e-mail defending your religion) can cause you to grow weary in well doing and even faint — if you don’t know what you are dealing with.

During this season, I am going to write a series of posts about witchcraft. As prophets and prophetic people, we need to war against this or it will cover us with is cloud. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

Jesus listed a number of signs that would follow believers. One of them is this: In His name we shall cast out devils. Of course, we first have to discern which devils need to be cast out. That’s what the Apostle Paul did when he cast out a spirit of divination from a slave girl in Acts 16.

We see a contrast between two women. There was Lydia from Thyatira whose heart the Holy Spirit opened to receive the message of salvation. On the other hand, we see a young slave girl who was prophesying over Paul and his fellow laborers:

“As we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who was possessed by a spirit of divination [claiming to foretell future events and to discover hidden knowledge], and she brought her owners much gain by her fortunetelling.

She kept following Paul and [the rest of] us, shouting loudly, These men are the servants of the Most High God! They announce to you the way of salvation!

And she did this for many days” (Acts 16:16-18 AMP). Keep Reading »