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Chapter 6 -

The wrong sources

 

 

 

One important thing about guidance is that we wouldn't seek it from the wrong sources. Many people may seek guidance from spirits that are not from God but belong to the kingdom of darkness. Generally, the hope of something better, finding a spouse, or some similar desire may drive people into these areas.

   The wrong source of guidance is seen in things like

 

- Fortune telling from cards or palm-reading;

- Visits to a fortune teller or a clairvoyant;

- Horoscopes;

- Psychometrics is the act of predicting and passing information through physical objects or belongings.

- Predictions made while looking into a mirror or a crystal ball;

- Using a ouija board to communicate with the spirit world.  Commonly used in spiritualism. Many well-known mediums have started with ouija boards.

 

-  A pendulum and a divining rod are also methods that have led people astray. People may have regarded them as normal scientific methods thinking that they have nothing to do with the powers of darkness. They have been commonly used, especially in searching for water, fortune telling, searching for lost people or determining medical care.

   If you have been involved in either of these methods (pendulum or divining rod), it is good for you to understand that they are not neutral. Everything used in spiritualism or other activity that answers questions by means of movement – whether pendulum, divining rod or ouija board -- is always from the devil and not from God.

   Using these methods does not lead to God’s guidance; they will only mislead you. They can bind a person spiritually and lead his life into a shipwreck, which is a common end to involvement in spiritualism. In his book Between Christ and Satan Kurt Koch shares several examples of how these practices have negatively impacted people's spiritual life.

   The next example provided by Ingerlise Provstgaard describes similar activity. In her book Kauko-ohjattu [Med fort hånd] (p. 70,71), she writes about pendulum-principle activities. (In the same book she described her interaction with UFOs before finding salvation): 

 

Based on my own experiences and observations of other people, I am convinced that everything that is based on the pendulum principle belongs to occultism and comes from the darkness. These might be a pendulum defining diseases or giving instructions on their treatment, a willow branch showing the place of a well, or a steel wire predicting ground radiation or veins of water or any such thing that gives answers to questions through movement, not forgetting the glass above a circle of letters.

   They do answer the question, but the answers come from evil spirits. From liars and seducers.

   That is why I have never been able to be happy about people’s stories of getting meaning to their lives or health after having visited occultist supermarkets. How could I be happy about God’s enemy giving meaning to their lives when I believe that his only purpose is to steal their life? How could I be happy about God’s enemy giving them a diagnosis and told what sort of treatment they should get, when I am convinced that he only waits for the day when he can give them the bill. He does not do anything for free. He wants to own their souls – it is his goal.”

 

Commit your LIFE to GOD! When people search for guidance from the wrong sources and rely upon wrong predictions and prophecies, they are giving permission to the devil to interfere in their life. Whenever we turn to the wrong sources, we give the reins of our life over to the devil and evil spirits who want to direct our lives and mislead us. This is what happened to Saul when he asked counsel of a seer who had a familiar spirit (1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Samuel 28:5-20)

   Seeking predictions from dark sources can also cause emotional injury: depression and despair about the future can result, especially if the person sees parts of the predictions coming true. A prediction may become a curse that deeply affects a person, changes the direction of his life, and heavily burdens his mind.  Many have fallen into self-realizing the predictions they’ve received, meaning that they themselves have started to make the predictions come true.

   If you are bound by these predictions that come from demonic or satanic sources, you can be freed. When you give your life to Jesus Christ and confess this sin to God, you will be freed. As a believer born again in Christ, you can also command -- in the name of Jesus -- the evil powers that are trying to direct your life to leave; they must do so.

   You should also take into consideration the next verses, which teach us about guidance from God. When you have given your life to Him, you are under His guidance and not under the influence of dark forces or their predictions. Trust the truth in the next verses; do not doubt them:

 

- (Ps 37:5) Commit your way to the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

 

- (Ps 55:22) Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

 

- (Jer 31:9) They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

 

- (Phil 1:6) Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

 

 

 

 

Jari Iivanainen