Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08070 Deliverance ministry has become an established feature of charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity, with dedicated teams, training programmes, conferences, and a substantial body of literature devoted to the practice. In some churches, deliverance sessions are a regular part of congregational life, and in others they are presented as the key to spiritual breakthroughs that…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08066 The practice of rebuking Satan and demons verbally has become so common in certain Christian circles that many believers assume it is simply what Scripture teaches. People rebuke the devil over illnesses, financial problems, traffic jams, and virtually every other inconvenience, often with great confidence and volume. But the question of whether believers…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08067 Paul’s instruction to “give no place to the devil” in Ephesians 4:27 is one of the most practically important statements about spiritual warfare in the New Testament. It is also one of the most misunderstood, frequently cited as a general warning about demonic activity while its specific context is overlooked. What Paul actually…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08068 The language of “spiritual strongholds” has become deeply embedded in contemporary Christian vocabulary, particularly within charismatic and spiritual warfare traditions. Churches hold conferences on breaking strongholds. Prayer ministries target territorial strongholds over cities and regions. Individuals are told they have personal strongholds that need to be pulled down through specific spiritual techniques. But…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08064 Every believer knows what it is to be tempted, but not every believer can distinguish where a particular temptation is coming from. Scripture identifies multiple sources of temptation, and understanding the difference between satanic temptation and the pull of our own fallen nature is not merely an academic exercise. It has direct implications…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08062 The idea of generational curses has become deeply embedded in certain streams of Christian teaching, particularly within charismatic and deliverance ministry contexts. The claim is that the sins of ancestors can pass spiritual curses down family lines, binding subsequent generations to patterns of addiction, poverty, illness, or spiritual oppression until those curses are…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08063 If generational curses are not a biblical category for the believer in Christ, the related question follows naturally: can curses of any kind affect Christians? The question matters because there are believers who live in genuine fear that someone’s spoken curse, a practitioner’s hex, or some form of occult pronouncement has power over…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08060 Tarot cards and fortune-telling are not harmless curiosities. They are not neutral tools that become dangerous only when misused, nor are they cultural relics that have somehow outgrown their spiritual roots. Scripture addresses divination and occult practice with a directness and severity that leaves no room for casual experimentation, and the pastoral reality…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08061 The horoscope column in a newspaper or the astrology app on a phone may seem entirely harmless, and most people who glance at their daily horoscope would never describe themselves as involved in the occult. Yet Scripture treats astrology and the attempt to discern the future through the stars with the same seriousness…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08078 The prayer of Jabez, found in a brief passage in 1 Chronicles, became a cultural phenomenon in evangelical Christianity following Bruce Wilkinson’s bestselling book The Prayer of Jabez (2000). The book sold over nine million copies and spawned an entire industry of related products. Some have connected Jabez’s prayer to spiritual warfare, treating…