About the Occult
One of satan's favorite weapons agaiinst us is occult involvement. The occult (meaning "secret" or "hidden") is satan's world of the spirit. Occult involvement means that we seek to gain knowledge or personal power from a spiritual source other than God. The special danger of occult involvement is that it appeals to our spiritual hunger, which is our innate desire to find the Lord, and diverts us from Him into the occult underworld--a dead end. It is also a form of idolatry.
When we open ourselves up to the occult involvement, we violate the first commandment, "You shall have no other God but Me." (Exodus 20:3) and Jesus' commandment, "You shall love the Lrod your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all you strength." (Deut. 6:4-9; Matt. 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27). Remember also that the wrong things that we do in innocence and ignorance hurt as much as the thing we do deliberately.
Satan has set occult traps throughout our world into which he hopes that we will fall. God's way of healing us through confessions, renouncement, and forgiveness works not only for our sins, but also for our errors and ignorance.
As you read through the following list, ask the Holy Spirit to recall to your mind every involvement you have had. Keep in mind that many of these activities are clearly of the occult, but the occult nature of some of them may not be as clear. Please mark any and all possible activities, even if there is a question in your mind as to their occult nature, so that you are confident you renounce all possible occult or demonic influence in your life.
Have you ever- just for fun, out of curiority, or in earnest, done any of the following?