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We are going to quickly look into what Familiar Spirit is all about? When someone is having a spirit of divination, he /she is possessed with familiar spirit. Acts 16:16 tells us of young girl who has the spirit of divination. In the original Greek the word ‘divination’ comes from the word PUTHON which is also translated python. So in a nutshell she was operating with the spirit of python – Snake Spirit. She possessed the satanic ability to charm her victims until she and the spirit possessing her could take control of their minds. Take note of her words in Acts 16: 17, “The same followed Paul and us, and cried saying, these men were servants of the most High God, which shows unto us the way of salvation”. She was giving clear word of knowledge most “familiar spirits prophets” in the church will do.

To give you a clearer understanding of what we have at hand, let me quickly explain to you how familiar spirits operate. The word “familiar” is derived basically from the same Latin word used for FAMILY and it is applied to that which is known through constant association especially with reference to persons.

A familiar spirit is an evil spirit that has managed to gain entrance into the family line. The familiar spirit will stay with the bloodline or the family tree until the lineage dies out or they are cast out. They are spirits assigned by Satan to families. They are spirits that are familiar to a person, a thing, a place. If they are cast out from one family they will seek another family or stay inside pets maintained by the original family especially cats & dogs.

The word familiar spirits is mentioned about sixteen times in the Bible. (Deuteronomy 18: 10 – 12, I Samuel 28: 8 – 9). This message is not actually to totally address the issue of familiar spirits but to describe the problem we have in hand in the Body of Christ (for more details visit [link to www.schoolofwarfare.org).] Let’s look at the modus operandi of the familiar spirits and closely see the operations of these modern day “familiar spirits prophets”. Take note that am not trying to be judgemental but seeking to point out the ills around us in the prophetic ministry – so we must WATCH OUT! Satan will usually assign one of his familiar spirits to an individual or family. The duty of such spirit to collect every intimate and detailed information of that individual and store them in a spiritual file and those files are been referred to as Akhastic records in metaphysical parlance.