6 Symptoms of Prophetic Witchcraft: Are You At Risk?

Prophetic witchcraft confuses and deceives your soul.

Your soul is your mind, will, emotions, imaginations, reasoning, and intellect. Prophetic witchcraft sows subtle seeds of deception in our souls. Prophetic witchcraft renews our mind to lies, bends our will to serve idols, and exploits our emotions for greedy gain. Prophetic witchcraft releases vain imaginations, reprograms your reasoning, and infects your intellect.

You are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body (see 1 Thess. 5:23). When you align with prophetic witchcraft, it does plenty of damage to your soul, and it grieves the Lord. Remember, Jesus died for your soul. Your soul belongs to God (see Ezek. 18:4). As such, we should be good stewards of our soul.

Put it simply, prophetic witchcraft does damage to your soul. It’s difficult to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind when you are living under a cloud of prophetic witchcraft that’s driving you into thoughts, feelings, and actions that grieve His heart. God wants us to be in health and prosper even as our soul prospers (see 3 John 1:2). But prophetic witchcraft toxifies our soul.

Prophetic witchcraft releases dullness and death to the soul through the power of words. There is death and life in the power of the tongue (see Prov. 18:21). Thank God, He can restore your soul (see Ps. 23:3). Now consider this: Psalm 19:7 (ESV) tells us, “The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.”

Prophetic Witchcraft Renews Your Mind to Lies

Think about it. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (see Rom. 10:17). Likewise, faith in the false comes through continually hearing the false. Our minds are renewed, in large part, by what we hear, what we say, and what we meditate on. That’s why Paul chronicled these Holy Spirit-inspired words in Romans 12:1-2:

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

This is a serious warning. Beseech means to urge. Mind renewal was such a strong conviction in Paul’s life that he put a demand on the Romans—and us—not to allow the spirit of the world to pol- lute our souls but to let God’s Word revive and renew our souls. Prophetic witchcraft conforms our minds to the ways of the world. John wrote in 1 John 2:15-17 (NLT):

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

The good news is you can reverse the curse of prophetic witchcraft on your mind. God wants to break in with light and deliver you from the ties and the lies that bind. He can accelerate the renewal of your mind by deploying truth bombs to blow up every evil seed the enemy sowed in your soul.

Prophetic Witchcraft Builds Enemy Strongholds

Little by little, prophetic witchcraft builds strongholds in the mind. Biblically, a stronghold is like a castle in the mind—a fortress, an argument, demonic reasonings, and wisdom. James speaks of a wisdom that does not descend from heaven and calls it “earthly, sensual, demonic” (James 3:15). Thankfully, the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to destroy strongholds in our minds (see 2 Cor. 10:4).

Prophetic Witchcraft Leads You into Carnality

Paul asked the church at Galatia, “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified?” (Gal. 3:1). Prophetic witchcraft takes your mind off Christ and sets it on the things of the flesh. It manipulates your soul and distracts your heart from the main thing.

Prophetic witchcraft taps into your carnal nature and fleshly desires, which can be idolatry. This is dangerous long term. Paul told us in Romans 8:5-6, “For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” The good news is you can reverse the curse and start sowing to the Spirit again.

Prophetic Witchcraft Makes You Dull

Prophetic witchcraft makes it more difficult to hear God’s voice. When we don’t make a habit of pressing into God’s presence for ourselves and waiting for His still small voice to speak to us directly, we are prime targets for prophetic witchcraft. When we look to people over God for direction, we are on a pathway to dependence on false voices.

The writer of Hebrews spoke of those who became “dull of hearing” (see Heb. 5:11). Think about it. Jesus spoke of those whose hearts had grown so callous they could hardly hear with their ears and their eyes were closed (see Matt. 13:15). Dull in the context of these Scriptures means slow, sluggish, indolent, languid and, yes, dull, according to The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines dull as “slow in perception or sensibility.”

Prophetic witchcraft releases words that often defy the Word of God—or the timing of God—for your life. If you give your ear to it, you will be slow to hear instead of quick to listen to the truth. Think about it for a minute. When a knife is dull it can’t even cut through a tomato. When your hearing is dull you may follow the voice of a stranger because you can’t tell the difference between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. You can’t accurately cut through the clutter of voices in the spirit.

That’s why intimacy with God is so important. Jesus said His sheep follow Him because they know His voice (John 10:4). That Greek word for know is eido. According to The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon, it means to perceive by any of the senses and to have regard for one, cherish and pay attention. If we don’t get to know Jesus—to regard, cherish, and pay attention to His voice—we are in danger of mistaking a stranger’s voice for His voice (see John 10:5). The good news is you can draw close to God and He can re-open your eyes and ears. You can be more sensitive than ever to His heart.

Prophetic Witchcraft Bends Your Will

Prophetic witchcraft bends your will away from God into idolatry and immorality. God has given us a free will. Your will is used to express your desires, choices, actions, consent or disagreement. When Christ walked the earth, fully God and fully man, He had a will but He submitted it completely to God. We need to do the same, but when we submit to prophetic witchcraft we find our will bending toward sinful pursuits.

God will not violate our will, but the enemy does everything he can to bend our free will to his pleasure. Speaking of those who oppose the truth, Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 2:26 (NLT): “Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants.” Prophetic witchcraft releases a darkness in your soul that distorts your will.

When we submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, he will flee from us (see James 4:7). When we don’t resist prophetic witch- craft—whether it’s due to ignorance, idolatry, or some other illness of the soul—we are not submitted to God. When our will is not submitted to God, the enemy has a legal right to steal, kill, and destroy (see John 10:10). When our will is not submitted to God, prophetic witchcraft devours (see 1 Pet. 5:8). The good news is you can realign your will to God through the gift of repentance.

Prophetic Witchcraft Sullies Your Imagination

Prophetic witchcraft sullies your imagination. Imagination, which is part of the soulish realm, is neither good nor bad. Merriam-Webster defines imagination as “the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality” and “a creation of the mind.”

Your imagination is a gift from God, and the enemy wants to pervert it. Paul told the church at Corinth that eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has pre- pared for those who love Him (see 1 Cor. 2:9 ESV). God wants us to imagine ourselves healed, whole, and prosperous because His Word tells us by His stripes we are healed (see 1 Pet. 2:24) and that He wants us to prosper and be in health even as our soul prospers (see 3 John 1:2).

Prophetic witchcraft skews the holy imagination with what the Bible calls vain imaginations. Paul spoke about the vain imagination in Romans 1:21 (KJV) in context of sinners: “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” When our imagination becomes vain—which means showing undue or excessive pride, marked by futility, foolish, silly, and having no real value—we are heading for destruction.

Shortly before God told Noah He was going to destroy the earth with a flood and commissioned him to build an ark to preserve a remnant of people and animals, this happened: “The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that every- thing they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil” (Gen. 6:5 NLT). Again, a sullied imagination leads to destruction.

Later, when the people set out to make a name for themselves by building a tower called Babel:

The Lord said, “Behold, they are one [unified] people, and they all have the same language. This is only the beginning of what they will do [in rebellion against Me], and now no evil thing they imagine they can do will be impossible for them. Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech” (Genesis 11:6-7 AMP).

Your imagination should be yielded to God and sanctified. God doesn’t want you imagining vain, foolish, silly things that have no value. He doesn’t want you using that creative ability the wrong way. Likewise, He doesn’t want you to receive ministry from those whose hearts are devising wicked imaginations (see Prov. 6:18). When the imagination—the thought—doesn’t line up with God’s thoughts, He wants you to cast those imaginations down before they renew your mind to a false prophetic reality.

Paul put it this way: “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5 KJV). Kathariereo, the word for casting in the Greek, has a violent connotation. It means “to pull down, demolish; with the use of force: to throw down; to destroy,” according to The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon.

This command is imperative. What you don’t cast down will take root. What takes root will renew your mind. What renews your mind will inform your words and deeds. What informs your words and deeds will shape your life. The Holy Spirit wants to use your imagination to lead you into His plans and purposes for your life—to show you what’s possible. Prophetic witchcraft uses your imagination against you to pervert your mind and heart. Don’t let it. The good news is you can consecrate your imagination again and begin to imagine His will.

Other Ways Prophetic Witchcraft Affects You

These aren’t the only ways prophetic witchcraft can attack you. In these last days, false prophets abound, stealthily infiltrating our churches. Many can fall prey to their subtle ploys. But if you find yourself in bondage, there is hope. In my new book, Deliverance from Prophetic Witchcraft, I expose these false prophets and empower you to break free from their deceptions and witchcraft so you can walk in supernatural victory.