Freedom from the Occult

• Let no-one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord...

Deuteronomy 18: 10-13

How does the Occult gain access to our lives?

How does the Occult gain access to our lives?

Two types:-

A. Direct, deliberate attempt to access ‘hidden truth’

How does the Occult gain access to our lives?

Two types:-

A. Direct, deliberate attempt to access ‘hidden truth’

For example: witchcraft, sorcery, voodoo, ouija board, tarot cards, horoscopes, fortune telling

How does the Occult gain access to our lives?

B. Indirectly, often through ignorance, opening ourselves to the influence of the Occult.

How does the Occult gain access to our lives?

B. Indirectly, often through ignorance, opening ourselves to the influence of the Occult.

For example: Freemasonry, horoscopes, consulting tea leaves, hypnotism, some drugs, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Scientology, etc

Recognising the work of the Occult

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Rooted in rebellion and deception

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Rooted in rebellion and deception• Fascination with the supernatural

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Rooted in rebellion and deception• Fascination with the supernatural• Unusual experiences

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Rooted in rebellion and deception• Fascination with the supernatural• Unusual experiences• Desire for power and supernatural

knowledge

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Tendency to manipulate people and situations

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Tendency to manipulate people and situations

• Resistance to authority

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Tendency to manipulate people and situations

• Resistance to authority• Personal struggles – insomnia, nightmares

etc

Recognising the work of the Occult

• Tendency to manipulate people and situations

• Resistance to authority• Personal struggles – insomnia, nightmares

etc• Self-destructiveness

God wants you free!God disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross].

Colossians 2: 15 Amplified

Getting free• Repent – corporate prayer• Renounce• Break• Bless

PrayerHeavenly Father, I repent of any known or unknown participation in the Occult. Specifically Lord, with a conscious act of my will, I repent of any involvement with or dabbling in .... (Repent of anything specific here)

I repent of any known or unknown rebellion, deception, manipulation, intimidation, desire to control, or desire to dominate.

I repent on behalf of my ancestors for any involvement they had in rebellion, iniquity, witchcraft, Satanism, Freemasonry and anything to do with the Occult.

Renounce• I renounce all spirits behind the Occult. I

renounce all rebellion, manipulation and control. I cancel all agreements, known or unknown, that I have made with these spirits

Break• I break every hex, vow, covenant and

agreement that I have made or anyone in my family has made with the spirits behind the Occult. I break every spell, ceremony, ritual, and sacrifice that has given this spirit power in my life. I break every soul tie and every generational tie

Break• I declare that the blood of Jesus cleanses

me from all sin and that the yoke of bondage is destroyed because of the anointing oil. I receive my freedom this day in the mighty name of Jesus

BlessI choose to walk in submission and purity. I

receive the robe of righteousness today

In the mighty name of Jesus. AMEN