Witchcraft in the Church: Myth or Reality?

By Jean Tshibangu

Many men of God are struggling in their ministries and had not been revealed in the forces behind their difficulties. Drawing from Gods Word and real-life experiences, Jean gathers the information that led him to unmask the works of witchcraft in the church.
Jean Tshibangu who has been visited by the Holy Spirit is concerning about the question of whether witchcraft can operate within the church and how to defeat it. Understanding the activities of witchcraft in the church is vital for anyone. Some are astonished to hear that despite the mighty work of the cross, witchcraft is still working in the Church. The answer to the main question is for the author yes, and a Big yes. Witchcraft operates in the Church. It is active and real even though some seem to ignore it.
As you read this, you will realize that some local Churches that are still embroiled in continual conflicts, slimming, divisions, are under the influences of witchcraft. etc... By reading the content of this book, you will be strongly built. The good news is that on the cross and by the cross Jesus destroyed the works of darkness and won over the devil

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Apr 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524630690

Jean Tshibangu

Jean TSHIBANGU is senior Pastor and founder of the CAREMS Ministries based in the United Kingdom of England. He holds some qualifications such as Master in psychology applied, Management Studies from the University of Leicester and a diploma in Biblical and theological studies. He is author of several books among the best sellers. He is married with big family.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Witchcraft In The Church, Myth Or Reality?

A lived reality!

Chapter 2: Symptoms Of Witchcraft In The Church

The works of the flesh

Impurities

Fornication and uncleanness

Homosexuality

Dissolution and Divisions

Idolatry

Magic (White and Black)

Enmity and animosities

Quarrel

Disputes

Incessant accusations, ingratitude, and suspicions

The false prophecies

Inexplicable and casual groups tailored-made.

Fake friendship and kindness

Stubbornness and rebellion

THE PESSIMISM and the Contempt

The Spirit of Balak

ANGER

Bad Company

Chapter 3: Witchcraft, His Strategies, and Tactics

Bewitchment

Manipulation

Domination

Intimidation: Physical Threats

The Spirit of Control

The Ministry of Diotrephes

Chapter 4: How to Defeat Witchcraft in the Church?

IGNITE the fire of the Holy Spirit

REBUILD the ALTAR of God

The PURIFICATION and Sanctification

Pray and Wait

RENEWAL of the Covenant

CONFESSION and Repentance

USE Spiritual Weapons

Stay Connected To The Goals of GOD

Deliverance

Prepare One Self

The Fear of God, Source of Life Filled

SOME Characters That Manifested Fear Of GOD.

Rely on GOD who is the beginning and the end

EVALUATION of Work and Choice of Builders

Rebuild in Unity

Rebuild following the Instruction of God

With Christ As the Foundation

Be able to Forgive

Giving in the House of God

Expect Salary from God

Chapter 5: Rebuilding the Spiritual walls and doors

The Spiritual Doors

The sheep gate

The Fish Gate

The Old Gate

The Valleys Gate

The Dung Gate

The Fountain Gate

The Water Gate

Horses Gate

The East Gate

The Sheep Gate

Chapter 6: Rebuilding Human Walls and Doors

The Eyes

A lying tongue

Umbilical Cord

Sexual Intercourse

The Hands and Feet

The Head

The heart

Conclusion

Personal Notes

Other books by the author

About The Author

My deep appreciation goes straight to the Lord God Almighty who gave me the breath of life and this inspiration to put different underwriting revelations He wants to communicate to His people.

Also, to my wife and the mother of my children, the charming Monique Mbiya

My children and grandchildren,

To all brothers and sisters of the CAREMS Church, and all those who supported me in one way or another, from afar or nearby.

PREFACE

W itchcraft in the Church, Incredible! Some might exclaim and would advise, maybe it would have been better speaking out without writing to avoid endorsing retaliation from those who pretend to be more spiritually ma ture.

Chimera or Reality? Here the author has braved attacks and unpopularity to embrace the subject and unmask the works of darkness as they appear in local Churches today. He wrote several other books, which are among the bestsellers in bookstores, and here he is again coming with a new hard-hitting title, Witchcraft in the Church, myth or reality?

What is going on in some Christian Congregations today? Slimming, stagnation, split up, all kinds of struggles, defections! Many experience struggles, but do not realize that it is Satan’s strategy to weaken them and render them powerless and lifeless. By lack of discernment, people spend their time searching the responsible among physical members while things are happening in the spiritual realm.

The author leads his readers through more than one hundred pages to recognize the presence of witchcraft within our local Churches and how to fight it. To illustrate his views, he puts in light the personal experiences that he has gone through in his ministry. Relying on many learned verses of Scripture, he demonstrates how it is possible to overcome witchcraft and its promoters. They took the body of Sanballat and Tobiah in the time of Nehemiah with the aim to discourage, so that he could not rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Today, they operate openly in broad daylight and are surprisingly recruited among the direct collaborators of the pastor. Is it necessary to hide, or yell to the scandal facing the image that most are waiting for a Church that preaches Jesus Christ? There are so many reasons to read this new book and make it bedside documentation for any responsible of a Christian congregation.

Valentin MbuyiMuluila

INTRODUCTION

B roaching the subject of witchcraft in the Church might seem absurd for some categories, even weird since most believe that through the redemptive work of the cross, Jesus stripped Satan of his p ower.

This book is the result of seven years of intense psychological and parapsychological research on phenomena observed in some individual members of the local Churches, examined against other experiences lived by some men of God in the light of the Word of God.

Once in the ministry, my attention was attracted by a certain number of facts and issues that I found strange. Naturally, in common sense, it is presumed that such a person behaves like a witch. Those who reach this judgment first have the image of the behavior of a witch that they compare to that of the person suspected.

My approach as Psychologist and Pastor was to observe the conduct of the person and consider the facts in the light of the word of God, and popular beliefs to reach the conclusions.

Note that the Bible does not contradict itself and everyone agrees on it. We believe that Christ came to destroy the works of the devil. Therefore, Christ is still in His Church; no one can in any way raise this matter in the local Church. He said himself in the Gospel of Matthew 16: 18: ‘I will build my Church, and the gates of the hell of the dead shall not prevail against it.’ Christ recognizes the existence of these gates of the dead. He does not ignore them, but He reassures that these works shall not prevail.

When grace was given to me by the Lord to open my eyes and see how the devil works in the local Church, there was a lifting of the shield in the Church and the City, and I paid a hefty price. I have dealt with all the evils, and the Church has been affected. Several departures from the Church followed, also a fringe of the entourage and a part of the community also distanced themselves from me, not knowing I was dealing with the spiritual world of darkness. Apparently, the weapon used had reached its target to weaken my ministry. Apart from the word of God, I was denouncing the works of darkness. As I couldn’t hang the gloves, I felt comforted by the Scripture of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians, who told them: For do I persuade men or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, O should not be the servant of Christ (Galatians 1: 10).

I was also encouraged by the book of Ephesians 5: 11 that exhorts us to not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather to condemn them. The aim of this book is to demonstrate how witchcraft operates in the Church and how to defeat it. Christ says in Matthew 7: 16 that you shall know them by their fruits.

We live in tough times where the destruction is visible. Wars, hostages, killings, famine and disease, sudden deaths, floods, tortures, dictatorship, divorces – in short, the enemy is activated to destroy everything, according to John 10: 10. The phenomenon is much evident and dominates the history of the creation since after the flood of Noah’s time, the Lord said in His heart: I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. (Genesis 8: 21).

However, every day, we are powerless witnesses of the deterioration to the extent of individual, family, community and nations. There is, for example, more depravity of morals, a decline of faith, divorces, murders, wars, incessant and unwarranted, massacres, genocide, hatred, jealousy, multifaceted divisions, cosmic erosions, etc. In a nutshell, the destruction of all, both cosmic and socio-economic fabric. It is without any doubt that Witchcraft is the primary root to all disasters the world is facing today.

In front of this situation, three attitudes are observed: either participate in the destruction with others, remain indifferent, or rebuild. The most distressing are that the first two opinions take over and dominate the life of humanity.

In one of the books of the Old Testament, messengers came from Jerusalem bringing the news of his country to Nehemiah, while he was in exile in Babylon. He is recounting the facts:

Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was at Susa, in the capital, Hanani, one of my brethren, and some men came from Judah. I questioned them about survivors, Jews who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. They said to me: those who remained from captivity are there in the province, at the peak of misfortune and shame; the walls of Jerusalem are in ruins, and its gates are burned with fire (Nehemiah 1: 1-5).

As a reminder, the Lord had urged the children of Israel to abandon their wicked ways and observe His commandments and ordinances under the law that He had prescribed to their fathers as sent by His servants the prophets. But they hearkened not. The Lord was vehemently angry with them and sent them away from His face. The Lord rejected all the people of Israel, He humiliated them and delivered them into the hands of looters. He had eventually driven them out from before His face. He reminded them of the story in the book of Jeremiah 16: 10-13 and 32: 33-36:

When you tell these people all this, and they ask you, Why has the Lord decreed such a great disaster against us? What wrong have we done? What sin have we committed against the Lord our God? then say to them, It is because your ancestors forsook me, declares the Lord, and followed other gods and served and worshiped them. They forsook me and did not keep my law. But you have behaved more wickedly than your ancestors. See how all of you are following the stubbornness of your evil hearts instead of obeying me. So, I will throw you out of this land into a land neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor. They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. They set up their vile images in the house that bears my name and defiled it. They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molek, though I never commanded – nor did it enter my mind – that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin. ‘You are saying about this city, By the sword, famine, and plague it will be given into the hands of the King of Babylon"; but this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says…

History indicates that in 586 BC, the children of Israel thus found themselves in captivity in Assyria, Babylon. Their captivity had two meanings:

1. The judgment of God against Israel;

2. And a period of national repentance and renewal that would lead to the restoration of this rebel person (Psalms 137: 1-9; Ezra 5: 12).

Nehemiah was among those who were in deportation. In the scriptures in the book of Nehemiah 1, he had just received the news from his brother Hanani who had remained in Jerusalem that the walls of the city were destroyed and doors burnt down.

The walls can be regarded as a kind of weakening of the Kingdom of God, instability in your life or drought. And doors are their security.

They said to me, ‘Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire’ (Nehemiah 1: 3).

The temple represented their identity while the walls and doors, their security.

1. Those who have remained in captivity wasted their time in hatred, slander, backbiting, divisions, laziness; in music, dancing, in political history, in indifference, in idolatry and all Barbary. Upon his arrival, Nehemiah awakens their consciousness: ‘you see in the miserable state where we are’ (Nehemiah 2: 17).

2. Those to whom they reported the news were abroad living in a different air and under the best conditions compared to the one that benefits the diaspora today.

3. This message is aimed at the Christian community in the same way Jesus reprimanded the Laodicea Church:

‘I know your deeds, which you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm – neither hot nor cold – I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and did not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire so that you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so that you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes so that you can see’ (Revelation 3: 15-20).

Such is the attitude of the Church today; it lives in the warmth that is the expression of indifference, of neutrality in the presence of the events. Destroyer has invaded the local Churches and is acting firmly to destroy everything.

Although Nehemiah held a good position in the Royal Court, he was so saddened by the news that he sat down and wept, he was several days in desolation, fasted and prayed.

Jerusalem may be your life, your marriage, your community, your Church, or your country. Nehemiah was in good conditions as some of us due to his position in the Royal Court, but he disregarded all these advantages and went back to his country because he kept indelible memories of it. He answered to the King who was wondering about his state in these terms: ‘Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?’ (Nehemiah 2: 3).

What is your reaction when they report to you the bad news about your Church, your pastor, your community, your country? What is your attitude when things don’t work properly in your Church, in your society? The way you react determines who you are.

Behold! The time of passivity is over. During this time, certain categories of persons are prone in the disparaging of men of God and the Church in general, without any qualms. They don’t seem to feel any sympathy for what is happening in the Church. They are in joy and broadcast it. They are driven by negative provisions they have inherited from the destroyer and accusatory who has become their master. They seem not to take the exact extent of the phenomenon, so they are under the influence of the devil dictating their conduct. Under the pretext of being pious, they act under the effect of pride and self-delusion that dominate their lives, and they console themselves in the bashing.

The community of Laodicea thought that because of their wealth, they could stand by themselves. But Christ said to them: ‘you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked’ (Revelation 3: 17).

The Laodicea Church was relying on its wealth, its banks, its manufacturing industries (wool, carpets) and its medical centre – that was the busiest in the world, due to the invention of the eye and ear drops – and was not expecting anything from anyone, because it felt sufficient.

Nowadays, such is the attitude of those who confide in themselves believing they are sufficient. They are urged to put the right eye drops in the eyes for them to see, and dress appropriately. They are spiritually weak and fake to be rich. They are rich in potential, but poor spiritually. They are sinful, but they see only the sins of others, because of the beam that prevents them from seeing the mote that is in their own eyes. Their vision is impaired by the evil that is in their heart and influencing by the fact even their personality.

Nehemiah went straight to request the permission to return to build Jerusalem. He will thus get the mission order from the King and provisions of building materials. He had a recollection of the words of God who had told Moses that if the people could not observe the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that He had prescribed, He would scatter them among the peoples. He stood up and went to Jerusalem.

Our marriages need Nehemiah; our community