Witchcraft and Psychics

[Florian7051]

I don't currently have a church; I'm hoping that changes next week, but I had something come up today that makes me hesitant to bring it up to a community who doesn't even know me yet. Not the first impression I want to make. I wasn't raised in the church. I didn't seek a relationship with God until I was in my late 20s. I've tried to read the Bible but find it very difficult to understand, not just the literal translation from a dead language to English which is structured completely different, but also things like deciphering what is a parable and what is literal, or what is contextually applicable to a specific time or event and what is a blanket statement that is timeless. I am smart, but I am not educated. I usually end up looking up specific scriptures that apply to questions that plague me, then I listen to someone much smarter than me break it down and explain it on YouTube. I came across the topic of Psychics and my heart stopped. When I was 18 I lost someone close to me very violently and very suddenly. She was reading a book called "Words I Wish I Wrote" by Robert Fulgram. In and of itself the book is harmless but it caused an unhealthy obsession with philosophy and theology. During this time in my life I moved from one philosophy or theology, dissected it, and moved on to the next. I eventually came to Witchcraft and Astrology. It's not like I gathered some witches and had a seance but I fully submerged in it from an academic point of view. I believe this may have left me vulnerable. One night I had a dream of an astronaut floating in space, his visor was shattered, and his flesh was completely frozen. When I touched him he broke apart into tiny pieces. I woke up immediately and I don't know why but I knew there was going to be a shuttle explosion. I told my girlfriend at the time and asked if there was a shuttle going up anytime soon and she told me she didn't think so. I live next to where the shuttle launches. That night we found out there was a shuttle going up it was the night of the Spaceship Columbia disaster. Fast forward I had another dream one night that I came home and my front door was wide open. I knew my house was broken into and I knew the person was still in the house. I went to search the house but woke up in absolute fear. I again told my girlfriend I don't know how I know what this means, but I am going to get robbed at gunpoint and if I don't give the man the money he will kill me. Within the week this happened at the hotel I worked at. This never happened again after these 2 events but 1 night I was working in this hotel 3rd shift and a couple came in. It was down pouring outside and they didn't have enough money for a room. We were relatively empty and the woman was with child, so I asked what they could afford to still leave them with money for food for the night and agreed to take that as payment versus sending them back out into the storm. The woman thanked me and told me she was a psychic and said she would read me for free for being so kind. I didn't believe in any of this at all but it was 3rd shift and I was bored so I conceded to some entertainment. The woman looked at me for only a couple seconds and gasped. She told me I had a hex put on me and the only way she could remove it is if I audibly said the name of the witch who placed it on me. I guessed a few ex girlfriends of mine and she said that those were not the name. At that point I said I don't know then, sorry have a good night. She didn't seem like she wanted to leave nor did she seem like she wanted to stay. She thanked me for the room again and went to her room with her husband. They didn't check out before I left in the morning and I never saw them again, but some time later I found out a girl who asked me out that I turned down because I was dating someone else actually practiced witchcraft as well as her whole family. I saw this video today and my heart stopped. Please tell me this is a biblical parable and not a literal story. I always took this stuff as a parlor trick but all of a sudden I'm afraid that if this is real then studying it, even though it was academically, may have made me susceptible to it. Is this forgivable? Can this be undone? I am so terrified that I was able to understand these seemingly loosely related dreams and translate them into a perfect premonition. This whole video has got me terrified but I have no one I can ask about this.

 

[Richard T]

I don't currently have a church; I'm hoping that changes next week, but I had something come up today that makes me hesitant to bring it up to a community who doesn't even know me yet. Not the first impression I want to make. I wasn't raised in the church. I didn't seek a relationship with God until I was in my late 20s. I've tried to read the Bible but find it very difficult to understand, not just the literal translation from a dead language to English which is structured completely different, but also things like deciphering what is a parable and what is literal, or what is contextually applicable to a specific time or event and what is a blanket statement that is timeless. I am smart, but I am not educated. I usually end up looking up specific scriptures that apply to questions that plague me, then I listen to someone much smarter than me break it down and explain it on YouTube. I came across the topic of Psychics and my heart stopped. When I was 18 I lost someone close to me very violently and very suddenly. She was reading a book called "Words I Wish I Wrote" by Robert Fulgram. In and of itself the book is harmless but it caused an unhealthy obsession with philosophy and theology. During this time in my life I moved from one philosophy or theology, dissected it, and moved on to the next. I eventually came to Witchcraft and Astrology. It's not like I gathered some witches and had a seance but I fully submerged in it from an academic point of view. I believe this may have left me vulnerable. One night I had a dream of an astronaut floating in space, his visor was shattered, and his flesh was completely frozen. When I touched him he broke apart into tiny pieces. I woke up immediately and I don't know why but I knew there was going to be a shuttle explosion. I told my girlfriend at the time and asked if there was a shuttle going up anytime soon and she told me she didn't think so. I live next to where the shuttle launches. That night we found out there was a shuttle going up it was the night of the Spaceship Columbia disaster. Fast forward I had another dream one night that I came home and my front door was wide open. I knew my house was broken into and I knew the person was still in the house. I went to search the house but woke up in absolute fear. I again told my girlfriend I don't know how I know what this means, but I am going to get robbed at gunpoint and if I don't give the man the money he will kill me. Within the week this happened at the hotel I worked at. This never happened again after these 2 events but 1 night I was working in this hotel 3rd shift and a couple came in. It was down pouring outside and they didn't have enough money for a room. We were relatively empty and the woman was with child, so I asked what they could afford to still leave them with money for food for the night and agreed to take that as payment versus sending them back out into the storm. The woman thanked me and told me she was a psychic and said she would read me for free for being so kind. I didn't believe in any of this at all but it was 3rd shift and I was bored so I conceded to some entertainment. The woman looked at me for only a couple seconds and gasped. She told me I had a hex put on me and the only way she could remove it is if I audibly said the name of the witch who placed it on me. I guessed a few ex girlfriends of mine and she said that those were not the name. At that point I said I don't know then, sorry have a good night. She didn't seem like she wanted to leave nor did she seem like she wanted to stay. She thanked me for the room again and went to her room with her husband. They didn't check out before I left in the morning and I never saw them again, but some time later I found out a girl who asked me out that I turned down because I was dating someone else actually practiced witchcraft as well as her whole family. I saw this video today and my heart stopped. Please tell me this is a biblical parable and not a literal story. I always took this stuff as a parlor trick but all of a sudden I'm afraid that if this is real then studying it, even though it was academically, may have made me susceptible to it. Is this forgivable? Can this be undone? I am so terrified that I was able to understand these seemingly loosely related dreams and translate them into a perfect premonition. This whole video has got me terrified but I have no one I can ask about this.

Thanks for sharing. Yes, you can turn everything around. First, I will note that God gives gifts without repentance. When you do not submit yourself to God, those gifts can still be active but usually the results are quite bad; bringing fear, not love, torment and not hope. So you did open the door to the devil but it is nothing that you cannot be free from. If you still feel oppressed, cursed or any dark cloud over you, you need both teaching and possibly some deliverance.
For me, my start was gaining an understanding of what I had been doing. Lester Sumrall's "Demons the Answer Book" was helpful in getting my eyes opened. Now it seems quite simplistic to me, as I have read other books on spiritual warfare and deliverance.

Here is an internet library where you can get it for free. (Might require you to register) but it is truly free. Demons : the answer book : Sumrall, Lester Frank, 1913-1996 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The spiritual world consists of the dark side, and the God side. You likely have seen pieces of both. The goal is to cut off the dark side and fully activate the God side. To cut off the dark side you need knowledge of the word like the armor of God, and other biblical underpinnings. You can also try self-deliverance or if that is unsuccessful or seems too hard then try some deliverance with a person who has some experience with it. Often too if you get around a church where there is some power, the anointing from God will melt much, if not all of that away.

To fully activate the God part, you need to be is to fully submitted to Jesus and His word. From that confession and humillity, God will not only forgive you but he will empower you to help you become the person that you were destined to be. Whatever fears you might have from your past can be completely erased. Whatever sins you have done are also completely forgiven if you ask. Again, humility is key. Repent and ask God to make your heart right, that your eyes and ears can hear him clearly and that you want to shut the door on anything that hinders your walk with him.

From your new perspective, God can use whatever talents and abilities that you have as you submit to Him. So really it is a bright and hopeful future for you. Some churches may not be very experienced in the power and love of God. I would suggest you find one that is. Why? because Paul suggests this. That both a demonstration of power and wisdom can flow to and through you.


1 Corinthians 2:3-7 (NASB)
3 I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,
4 and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
5 so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God.
6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
7 but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;

God's blessings to you.