(Acts 16:16-18 NKJV) Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. {17} This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” {18} And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.
I wanted to bring these verses to everyone’s attention to make a point.
Many times when people go to a fortune teller, they come away astounded and impressed that this person could tell them things about their past. They do this in two ways.
1 – They make guesses based on events that are common to most people.
2 – They are aligned with familiar spirits, which feed them information about your life.
Familiar spirits speak things that are true, but their source is demonic and evil. After speaking these things about your past, they have your full attention and they will typically tell you things about your future and these things will usually be dire and negative.
So many times this will result in great oppression in a person’s life because they have now allowed themselves to be under the influence of a demonic spirit without knowing that this is what’s taking place.
In the scripture above, Paul became annoyed with this young woman, even though the words she spoke were true. He saw through what was going on and cast the demon out of her.
Just because words that are spoken are true, doesn’t mean they come from the Source of Truth. Be very careful and cautious as to whom you allow to speak into your life. The consequences can be very serious.
Seek His peace and trust fully in Him.
Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie
Seven Seas Ministries
P.O. Box 272
Bradford, RI 02808
401-377-5400
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