5 Signs That Your Life, Family Or Work Is Under A Demonic Siege

My focus today is to exhort you on the need to protect your family and work from demonic oppression.

Scripture Reading 

1 Peter 5:1¹–11 KJV

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  

Exhortation

The Bible tells us that you have an enemy who is roaming and roaring like a loin, seeking whom he might devour. He is out there and can work through anybody at all. He comes to steal, to kill and to destroy (John 10:10²). This old foe and adversary is still busily working seeking whom he might devour and that should not be you.

A careful study of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ reveals that the devil worked through Jesus’s closest companions. The devil worked through Apostle Peter and Judas Iscariot. That is why you must be sober and vigilant.

A few of the signs that suggest that the hedge of protection around you have been compromised and the enemy have gained access to your life, your family or your work include;

1. When your ground yields thorns and thistles instead of grapes and figs:

When a curse is operating in your life, thorns and thistles will grow instead grapes and figs.  You make losses rather than profit. Deuteronomy 8:18³ teaches us God gives us power to make wealth. The child of God must make gains and nothing should stop that.

2. When you suffer great losses under bizarre and unexplainable circumstances. 

The life of Job explains this. Every good and perfect gift comes from God (James 1:17⁴). Bad and bizarre gifts are the workings of darkness. We all know how Job suffered losses, death and strange sicknesses because the devil sought to tempt him.

Jobs life was intact when the Lord’s hedge was around him. God had built a hedge around Job, his family and work. The devil only gained access when the hedge was broken. When the hedge was compromised, then came the losses, death, sickness and pain.

May the Lord build a hedge around your life, your family and your work in Jesus’ name!

3. When you suffer massive accusation from friends, family, strangers and enemies alike: 

The devil is the spirit of accusation that work in all accusers.

The events in the last days of the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the high priest Joshua in the prophecy of Zechariah points to the fact that accusations is the work of demons. And let me say at this point that every accusation is evil, whether its basis is true or false.

The only antidote to accusation is prayer and purging of the contempt. Joshua’s garments had to be changed in the prophecy of Zechariah was changed (See Zechariah 3:1-3⁵)

4. When you suffer extreme feelings of isolation, condemnation, guilt, rejection, fear or sorrow: 

Carefully study the life of Jesus Christ, King Saul, and the man of Gadara:
When the Lord said His soul was sorrowful even unto death, His life was under siege. The devil had targeted Him; and Princes of the age were raging with wrath (See Luke 22:53⁶)

We have not received the spirit of fear to be timid; but of power, of love, and of a sound mind (2Timoty 1:7)

The king Saul felt sorrowful and confused when an evil spirit attacked him (See 1 Samuel 16:13-23⁷) It is time to refuse every continual stay of any evil power in your life.

The man of Gadara felt so lonely and rejected that he left home to go and dwelt in the cemetery (Luke 8:27⁸) A feeling of rejection and loneliness is not from God, reject it.

5. When your health comes under attack

Healing and deliverance is the bread of the children (See Mark 7:26-27⁹) Any absence of soundness in your body is an indication that the enemy is at work near.

It is important to remind you that your liberty and safety has been fully paid for; your freedom can not be contested by anyone anymore but the devil is lawless being. This is why you the need to fight him off.

Any evil power projected against your life is rebuked now in the name of Jesus Christ! Be ready to resist every attack of darkness in the name of Jesus Christ!

Stay blessed; I love you!

Referenced Scriptures

1. 1 Peter 5:1 (KJV): The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: ↩︎
2. John 10:10 (KJV): The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ↩︎
3. Deuteronomy 8:18 (KJV): But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day. ↩︎
4. James 1:17 (KJV): Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. ↩︎
5. Zechariah 3:1-3 (KJV): And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. ↩︎
6. Luke 22:53 (KJV): When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness. ↩︎
7. 1 Samuel 16:13-23 (KJV): Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah. But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the LORD is with him. Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep. And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul. And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer. And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight. And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him. ↩︎
8. Luke 8:27 (KJV): And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs. ↩︎
9. Mark 7:26-27 (KJV): The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. ↩︎