Witchcraft Prayers—Silence Demonic Assignment Sent to Destroy You

What is a witchcraft prayer?

Witchcraft prayers can be hexes, vexes, incantations, and spells. Witchcraft prayers can be curses. Witchcraft prayers can intend to bring people great harm, including harm to their minds, families, finances, businesses, ministries, health, and more. Witchcraft prayers can invite the enemy to wreak havoc on the life of an innocent soul.

Most Christians—even Jezebel’s intercessors—aren’t praying straight-up witchcraft in the sense we imagine when we first hear this dark word. No, in the Christian world witchcraft prayers often sound more benign. But make no mistake, the power of death can still be released into an atmosphere, a person’s life, a city, a nation, or a circumstance through witchcraft prayers, even if they sound innocent enough.

The challenge for many is discerning witchcraft prayers from the mouths of Christians, especially when the person isn’t intentionally trying to do any harm. Indeed, it can be difficult for the undiscerning to recognize witchcraft prayers because these petitions often come from a sincere heart. These supplications are often sincere and offered with great passion. The person praying may not even know they are praying witchcraft prayers! Remember that. We’re not wrestling against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers (see Eph. 6:12).

Jezebel’s Witchcraft Prayers

So the question is, what is a witchcraft prayer in the context of Jezebel’s intercessors? Simply put, a witchcraft prayer is when you pray your own will instead of God’s will. Witchcraft prayers are not Spirit-led but flesh-led. They are not God-inspired but soul-inspired. You could call these utterances carnal prayers, but I call them witchcraft prayers because that’s what this type of intercession is releasing.

Sometimes Jezebel’s intercessors do know what they are doing. Other times they do not. But because they are defiled, Jezebel’s intercessors are often used as puppets to pray against God’s will or lead others to pray outside His will, which never leads to anything good. At best, the time spent in intercession is wasted. At worst, witchcraft prayer gives the enemy an open door to attack.

Jezebel’s witchcraft prayers aim to control people and situations. Rather than trusting God to bring His will to pass, the Jezebelic intercessor asserts his or her will into the mix. Even if you are praying for God’s will, you can’t tell God how to do His job. Like tumors, some witchcraft prayers are benign. They are soulish prayers that fall to the ground. God does not hear them. Others are malignant and work to steal, kill, and destroy (see John 10:10). Either way, we don’t want to join with, agree to, or tolerate witchcraft prayers—ever.

A benign witchcraft prayer might sound like this: “God, cause my prodigal to come home now!” God is not going to make anyone do anything. He doesn’t violate our will, so He’s not going to answer prayers asking Him to violate someone’s will. The prodigal son in the Bible came home when he got to the end of himself. Instead, we might pray for God to encourage the prodigal with His love.

Another example is self-focused witchcraft prayers, which may sound like this, “God, speak to the pastor about putting me on the worship team.” That’s a self-centered prayer. It assumes the pastor doesn’t pray or doesn’t hear from God. It assumes that God wants you on the worship team, when He may not. Instead, we should pray, “God, if it’s Your will, would You open a door for me on the worship team?” That’s the prayer of consecration.

Another example is, “God, make my husband stop acting that way.” Instead, our prayer should be, “God, help me to walk in love with my husband while You are working in him to form Christ’s character in Him.” Now, do you get the idea? Essentially, in a witchcraft prayer you are saying, “God, give me what I want.” That may or may not be in your best interests. It may or may not be God’s will. It may flat-out oppose God’s will.

A friend of mine who is not saved was having a lot of trouble with his ex-wife. He asked me to pray for him. He said, “Pray I don’t choke her and that if I do choke her, I choke some sense into her.” Of course, I didn’t pray that because it’s a negative prayer. Nothing good can come of that, and it’s still agreeing that he might choke her. Instead, I prayed that God would give him His peace and self-control.

There are more malignant examples of witchcraft prayers that proceed from the mouth of Jezebel’s intercessors, though. Examples might be, “Lord, remove that person from his position on the worship team and put me in my rightful place.” Or, “Lord, bring my competition low and cause my business to prosper.” Or, “Lord, make that person my spouse.” These types of prayers can release clouds of confusion over people or even open a door for the enemy to work in their life.

One of the dangers of Jezebel’s intercessors is that they don’t always release witchcraft prayers in a public setting like the woman in our prayer room. You may never hear the prayer, so you can’t bind it before it has a chance to wreak havoc. Often, Jezebel’s intercessors pray flowery and eloquent prayers in public, but fleshly, carnal, witchcraft prayers when no one is listening. Only later do you see the effects of Jezebel’s intercession.

Wicked Works of Witchcraft

Jezebel’s witchcraft prayers often fall into the Galatians 5 category of works of the flesh. In Galatians 5:19-21 (NKJV), Paul the apostle writes:

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like.

Many believers feel good about themselves when they read Paul’s list because they aren’t participating in these activities. They spend more time in the prayer closet than they do in front of the TV. But that doesn’t mean we’re not praying witchcraft prayers. We need to look at these tendencies in us before we go on a witch hunt. We need, too, to understand what prayer really is and the laws of prayer so we don’t violate them.

Galatians 5:20 speaks of the work of the flesh as witchcraft. Different translations use different words, such as sorcery. If you look at the Greek word for witchcraft in this verse, it is used as a metaphor for idolatry. And obviously anything we do out of the flesh is rebellion. Another way to put it is, rebellion is rooted in the flesh.

Jezebel’s Rebellious Prayers

Because Jezebel hates God, this demon will lead intercessors to pray rebellious prayers. Consider the words of Paul the apostle in Romans 8:7 (AMPC), “[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God’s Law; indeed it cannot.” When Jezebel works to renew the mind of the intercessor, the intercessor doesn’t know that their prayers have become hostile to God. They are deceived and sincerely don’t see it.

Paul also offered this wisdom in Galatians 5:17 (AMPC):

For the desires of the flesh are opposed to the [Holy] Spirit, and the [desires of the] Spirit are opposed to the flesh (godless human nature); for these are antagonistic to each other [continually withstanding and in conflict with each other], so that you are not free but are prevented from doing what you desire to do.

Because Jezebel’s intercessors are often influenced by a spirit other than the Spirit of God, these prayers are antagonistic and in conflict with what the Spirit of God desires.

God is clear—rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. He says so in 1 Samuel 15:23 (NKJV), “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” The New International Version puts it this way, “For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.” The English Standard Version says, “For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.”

The New American Standard Bible offers, “For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry.” The Christian Standard Bible says, “For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and defiance is like wickedness and idolatry.” And The Message brings it home: “Not doing what God tells you is far worse than fooling around in the occult. Getting self-important around God is far worse than making deals with your dead ancestors.”

We all have flesh, and any of us can come under the influence of a Jezebel spirit in our prayers. We need to avoid rebellious, idolatrous prayers. Paul said in Romans 7:18 (AMPC), “For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh.” We need to crucify our flesh so that we don’t pray from our carnal nature. We need to submit ourselves to God before we submit our prayers to God. We need to die to self and present ourselves as living sacrifices unto God (see Rom. 12:1). When we do, Jezebel won’t have any room to infiltrate our prayers.

The Danger of Witchcraft Prayers

Demons counterfeit the operations of angels. So when we pray witchcraft prayers, the demons come to execute those words. Witchcraft prayers unleash demon powers that tempt and seduce people to think and do what we want them to think and do. The targets of witchcraft prayers may come under something like a spell and begin to act in ways that oppose their true desires—and God’s desires for them.

Jesus said in Matthew 12:37 (NKJV), “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” The word condemn in that verse means to make a judgment against. In the realm of witchcraft prayers, your words are either seeking justice or inviting the enemy’s condemnation in someone’s life. Also consider Christ’s words in Luke 6:45 (NKJV):

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

We know that whatever is not of faith is sin (see Rom. 14:23). Witchcraft prayers are sin. You aren’t praying from a heart posture of faith. You are praying with a heart posture of control. My great-grandmother was at her wits’ end with one of her sons. After he came back from World War II, he acquired a terrible drinking habit. It was probably because of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Back then, of course, people didn’t know anything about PTSD.

My grandmother didn’t want him to die a drunkard. She was a godly woman and feared he would get in a brawl or harm himself. So she prayed, “Lord, do whatever it takes to keep him from bringing that bottle to his mouth again.” Well, she meant well, but the devil is legalistic. The next day, her son shot his arm off and walked around with one arm for the rest of his life. But that didn’t stop him from drinking.