How to Recognize and Remove Witchcraft

Witchcraft occurs when a person focuses their spirit’s intention to manipulatively influence energy or outcomes. This might be aided with rituals, symbols, and natural elements — but none of those are necessary. At its core, it is any attempt to override another’s will in order to traffick them.

When direct spiritual pressure fails, the most common alternative is a hidden offer to trade “spiritual energy” – where you absorb their bad energy, and they take your good energy, where you implicitly agree to receive their curses and they get your blessings. It is effective when the target agrees with it.

The topic of spiritual energy may seem unfamiliar, since so little is taught about how God’s spiritual economy works, especially in religious environments where it's dismissed as New Age nonsense. Yet, all energy is God’s energy, just like everything else. It’s simply a matter of how it’s used.

What is Spiritual Energy?

Spiritual energy, like physical energy, is the capacity to cause change. The fact that it is always flowing is one of the most fundamental truths in existence.

The key issue is whether or not the energy is aligning with love, where love is understood as mutual self-gift with God and others. For instance, Jesus imparts the flow of spiritual energy by commanding and blessing things on earth to align with how they are in Heaven, wherever we agree with it, whereas witchcrafters pervert this by commanding and cursing things for selfish gain, regardless of who agrees with it.

For example, if we're not paying attention, we may find ourselves hindered in certain areas of life by someone near us whose jealousy is quietly draining our capacity to flourish. They operate covertly out of unhealed pain — yet over time we begin to notice something we've struggled to name: their behavior is not merely unconscious woundedness, but something more intentional.

This blog post is not an invitation to paranoia — it's a tool for discerning where we're being exploited, so we can invite God in to protect us and our stewardship. These insights come from both the Spirit’s revelation and lived experience.

Read a testimony on this:
Zia's Healing from Energetic Abuse

Here are three areas worth examining:
Spiritual Signs, Interpersonal Signs, and Community Signs.

1. Spiritual Signs

After interactions with certain individuals, you may notice physical sensations that are hard to explain — tightness in the chest, heaviness, a sense of constriction. These often lift only through directive prayer: not general prayer, but prayer that addresses specific dynamics like anger directed toward you, occult interference, curses, binding spells, etc.
You may also notice anxieties that arrive alongside this person with no clear origin, including thoughts that feel invasive and out of character, or dreams that feel like pressure rather than rest.
One key discernment marker: the claims of the past don't match the present tense experience. For instance, if someone tells you they used to be involved in spiritual darkness long ago, yet you notice that oppression you’re experiencing around them feels present-tense. In other words, old strongholds will feel like an abandoned building; active witchcraft feels inhabited.

What to do: Be aware of sensation mismatches.

2. Interpersonal (1-to-1) Signs

The most consistent mark of this dynamic is that nothing moves. You invest significant time, care, and wisdom in another — but your relationship never improves and the person’s character never transforms. Their circumstances may quietly improve while yours diminish. There is a persistent sense of depletion after every interaction, not the good tiredness of honest relating.

Patterns:

Public and private personas differ sharply. Intense admiration in private, subtle put-downs and loaded questions in public — especially in front of people who respect you.
Mixed signals that feel intentional. Lavish warmth in one moment, subtle dismissal the next, a 2am crisis the following week, then cool indifference. The confusion is designed to destabilize you and make you emotionally reactive.
Their advice consistently points toward your diminishment. Any counsel they offer will suggest you become smaller — step back, give your influence away, be seen less. When someone's guidance reliably points toward your erasure, pay attention.
Your strengths are undermined while your weaknesses are cultivated. Healthy relationships celebrate what is strong in you — this dynamic quietly pokes at your wounds, minimizes your gifts, and positions itself as your only source of support, creating dependency that feels like intimacy but functions like a trap.
Your guidance is sought but never received. Help is requested at inconvenient hours with high urgency. Nothing changes. The cycle repeats. Sometimes your advice gets attributed to someone else; sometimes they announce they "already knew all that." The cumulative effect is a slow erosion of your confidence in your authority with God.

What to do: You do not need to confront or expose. Simply say, with calm clarity, “This relationship isn’t a good fit,” and disengage. That is a complete sentence.

3. Community Signs

In group settings, these patterns tend to take specific shapes.

Gotcha dynamics. Questions to you are posed not to learn but to expose — to get you operating inside their framework rather than your own God-given framework. If you see through it, the game collapses. If you get insecure, the trap closes.
Strategic relationship-building. They pursue people who have social influence but may be more vulnerable or less discerning — not those who will see them clearly. This allows for spiritual energy theft and creates a base of legitimacy and potential leverage before they ever approach the more discerning people in the room.
Numbers as false consensus. They may arrive with their own community to create the impression that “everyone agrees but you.”

What to do: Trust your read on group mutual self-gift. You don’t need proof to quietly reposition yourself socially.

Keys to Protect Yourself

Invite Jesus to send to Heaven any system trafficking the witchcrafters.
Repent for any place you are trying to do God’s job to protect yourself from witchcraft, especially by any less conscious child parts. Repent for any “sabotage” child parts that think it is holy, righteous, inevitable, or humble to be taken advantage of.
Forgive the witchcrafters and anyone related who may be participating in the trafficking system (e.g., church, family, government, culture, coven, etc.)

Remember that the witchcrafters are not the actual enemy, but they are being puppeted by larger darkness.

If they open a portal to attack you, this gives you an extra measure of authority over the stronghold.

In forgiving them, you need not give them anything – your best gift might be the tough love of allowing them to suffer the consequences of their own refusal to surrender to God.

Invite Jesus to show them his face. The witchcrafters are loved by God – and forgiving them will release your provision from Heaven (and there’s as well, even if it comes in the form of tough love.)

Allow Jesus to release the inheritance that he offers you in this season.

Allow God to Shore You Up

Those who operate in witchcraft look for specific openings and energetic vulnerabilities: unhealed shame, a habit of over-giving, the need to prove worth through helping, giving endless benefit of the doubt to people who have already shown you who they are, and neglecting people and places that are actually flourishing.

To heal any leaks, ask the Holy Spirit some honest questions:

Am I investing disproportionate energy into people who aren’t growing, at the expense of those who are?
Am I ignoring my discernment because I’m afraid of being judgmental?
Am I confusing obligation with calling?

What to do: Actively sow into what is working — the people who are growing, the relationships where honor flows both directions, the places producing fruit. This is not abandoning the struggling – it is faithful stewardship.

The Reason This Happens: You Are a Honey Pot in the Spirit

You are not being targeted because of what you lack, but because of what you carry.

Witchcraft targets people who enjoy the genuine love of God. Your light, influence, and mutual self-gift are things that threaten structures built on selfishness, fear, and control.

Sow to God whatever may get stripped away by the attacks so that He can protect you in that place. God will remove what was shaky to begin with: alliances with divided hearts, and relationships built on hidden agendas. What remains is legit and unshakeable.

Occasions of attack may result in a graduate-level education in discernment. Every time you work through one, you become less accessible to the same tactics. Your wounds that they agitated get healed when given over to God, and you come forth better than before.

Closing: It Always Comes Back to Love

As one who loves everyone in the depths, Christ is steadfast, but not naive. He is not shocked by brokenness, nor afraid of the darkness, and neither should we be. He invites us into wisdom to make us stronger, with a freedom to give without being drained. Free to lead without being controlled. Free to love without losing ourselves. Love never fails.

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“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”
Matthew 10:16

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