CHAPTER THREE

 

THE LURE OF WITCHCRAFT

I titled this as I did because in the book of James 1:14 we are told that Satan entices us into temptation, that word entice means " to lure". To lure is like a fishing bait fishermen use to lure a fish to grab the bait and be hooked. Understand I was not a Christian in this chapter of my life, but a lure from Satan was placed in my life to lead me into Hell. BUT GOD, would not allow it. 

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CHAPTER THREE

THESE ARE NOT INNOCENT GAMES

Isaiah 8:19 And when they say to you, "Seek those who are mediums and wizards, who whisper and mutter," should not a people seek their God? Should they seek the dead on behalf of the living?

Where do we find me in this chapter of my life? Twenty, divorced, a son and still living with my mother. I had a job as a bookkeeper, my son was in daycare, I was dating a man who in a couple of years I would marry. Also during this time, my mother was going to see a fortune teller. One evening she invited me to go with her and I went, one trip and I was hooked, I had to know what the future held for me, so I went at the least every other week at times once a week. That was getting costly, so when a coworker introduced me to the Ouija Board, I quickly bought one. Now these are not games, but are in fact controlled by a demonic spirit attached to it, people are not pushing the window (can't think of the correct word) but it is hovering right above the board. It wouldn't work for me ( God's protection) but I had a friend who loved cult practices and she would come and it would move through her. One night, I asked it, would it work for me? The board said "Yes". My friend left and I sat down to ask questions. The board told me "I was going to kill myself" I panicked, threw the board across the kitchen and when mother came in she found me a wreck. In fact I was so upset by what it had told me I went and found an old Bible to see what I could find. Well I just opened it up and the first thing I read was "vengeance is Mine saith the Lord, I will repay." And again "The word of God is sharper than a two-edge sword" threw it across the room also. 

You would have thought I would have learned something from that, but though those two things were gone, I was now drawn to Horoscopes and I had a huge book about horoscopes. One night my soon to be husband said "Why do you mess with that junk, it means nothing". And in that very moment God removed all connection to witchcraft from me. Because I did as my soon to be husband said.

This was in the sixties and by the time the early nineties came around, I was saved but drawn back into witchcraft movies; Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and The Charmed Ones. Then one night God said "Why do you enjoy what I hate?" So I stopped watching, but even to this day I still have a strong desire to watch these types of movies and I confess I have found myself watching and then come under conviction and stop, I have heard many Christians say it took years to get the taste of beer out of mouths, or smokers saying just the smell would cause them to want a cigarette, though I didn't drink, smoke, I was saved and still drawn to things that were from my past. Many think they are just movies, but know this whatever we put into our inner man will manifest itself in some form. There was a reason in other chapters in the bible God told His people when they entered into the foreign lands they conquered and possessed, to burn down their high places, destroy their carved images and not to bring them into their home. It was because you would bring in the demon that was attached to the object, including the images from the television screen will come into our mind. When the demon told me I would kill myself, I can testify and will reveal in other chapters Satan has often times placed a shroud of death over my mind, bringing with it depression, thoughts and attempts of suicide.

Ephesians 4:27 nor give place (opportunity) to the devil

God's grace protected me by removing me from this dangerous cult, because He had a better plan awaiting me. But me seeing it right then before I was saved; I didn't, because I didn't know God through His word, and I didn't have His Holy Spirit in me to guide me.

Our gateways to our inner man are:

  1. Our minds and what we think about,

  2. Our eyes and what we watch

  3. Our ears and what we listen to and

  4. Our mouths and what we speak. 

Be wise and not foolish, but guard each part of your gateways into your inner man.

Remember it's just a chapter, God is still moving