Spiritual Manipulation

Somebody called you early in the morning

The person says, “I just woke up from a terrible dream in which I saw that you are dead and you were being buried…”

The dream was so real that I woke up crying and screaming your name

You said, “Thank you” to the person and got off the phone

You delete the message immediately from your mind because you have knowledge

Nobody in the Bible has a dream about other people or to direct the course of other people

Dreams are always about the dreamer

Dreams are a personal thing

If you have a dream about someone and you tell them, and they believe it and start acting according to the dream (running to pastors to pray for them or locking themselves at home so that the dream does not come to pass), they prove that they have no agenda for their own lives and you have successfully set an agenda for such a person to run with.

An agenda that was conceived in your own reality but transferred to another to own out of fear

God does not allow others to govern our lives by giving them dreams that will affect our lives

If a man dreams, from Joseph to pharaoh, chief baker to chief butler, to Nebuchadnezzar, to Daniel, to Pilate’s wife

The dreams are always about something that affects them personally or their office or kingdom

Once a believer knows this, he or she will no longer be running scared every time one of their drinking buddies or hook-up girlfriends has a dream about them, which is not a good dream.

Imagine a friend telling you his dream comes to pass and that it was you he saw in the dream lying dead in a coffin.

He is not your father or your mother and has no emotional or spiritual connection with you, but hey, he had a dream, and he told you the dream

If you bought into the dream, you are entering into witchcraft territory because it means you will be flying blind while being controlled by another person’s imagination or conviction

The next thing you will most likely do is call a pastor a prophet, or a Muslim cleric, and he or she will not tell you the dream to ascertain it is genuine

You will have to be the one to tell the dream, a dream that is not originally yours, which means you are only going to narrate a story you have no spiritual connection to personally but which you bought into because someone else decided to set you on a course based on his or her dream

This spiritualist you reached out to will listen to you and then begin to prescribe a solution

He might ask you to fast or pray or read some scriptures or take a sacrifice somewhere or do charity or sow a seed.

Someone else’s dream is now going to cost you money and give you a lot of discomfort

You do it, and the man prays for you and assures you that all is well.

All was actually well before you started running around with this strange dream. However, this man you reached out to has now gained a customer in you

He becomes your go-to sorcerer on spiritual matters

He has bills to pay, too, and you are now one of his numerous channels of financial flow

He sincerely believes that you owe him for that consultation, and he or she will collect it in full in due time.

This is the cycle many Christians find themselves in today

One had an interview after six years of waiting to get a job; he told his older sister about the interview

The older sister told a friend, the friend wanted his younger brother to get the job

The friend told his sister she had a dream that her younger brother died on the way to the interview

Older sister calls younger brother not to leave the house or go for the interview

Out of fear, he sits at home crying that God hates him

The friend’s younger brother went to the company and got the job

We all act based on the information we have at hand

If the information is right, we act right, and we see the right result

If the information is false, we act wrongly, and we will get the wrong result

One of the strangest ways the enemy manipulates a believer is to use false information to lead such astray

A sister told me God always talks to her older brother through dreams

She was so convinced by this belief that she told me if she talked to her older brother about me, her older brother would most likely have a dream about me, and the dream would give clear instructions to me that if I don't carry such out the consequences will be dire

I said I was open to it

I wanted the brother to try the trick he had mastered to control her gullible sister with me

A week later, the brother called me and said, "Good afternoon, sir, my name is so and so, and I am the brother to such and such; you see when she was growing up, she started misbehaving after our mother died. We attend this church where prophets go into a trance and deliver messages to us.

She was fifteen at the time, and she was sleeping with everybody interested in having sex with her

I knew she was spiralling out of control while dealing with the grief of the loss of our mother

So, one night, I had this idea, and I put it to work

I started talking as if I was in a vision, and I was masking my voice as if it was my mother's voice

I was talking about things which I know about but were discussions between her and our mother, and I had her convinced

Then I told her that as her mother, I am in heaven and will be talking to her through her older brother's body to give her spiritual guidance from heaven

I told her her brother would be seeing dreams and visions about her, and she should not feel her mother has abandoned her

This strategy worked as I was able to guide her through that difficult time till she got admission into the polytechnic, and without any issue until now

When she called to tell me about you and that she wanted me to start talking about you, I didn't have any information at all, and I desire to keep her convinced of the truth about our mother's spirit talking to me from heaven

So please tell me anything about yourself so that I can convince her that our mother is still talking to her

If you really care about her, please help me with this

I asked him when he would tell her the truth and set her free from the bondage of the lies he had been telling her for years

He said he would let her be after she had gotten married to a good man who could then take over the spiritual leadership of her life

He said, "I will tell her once she gets married that as her mother, I will no longer be talking to her unless it is very important because I am not allowed to intrude into her marriage."

He had it all planned out, and it has worked effectively for over ten years

The sister believes her brother to be a clairvoyant or a medium who receives information directly from the realm of the dead, and all the brother used this to do was manipulate her to do things she would have maybe done or not done if the choices were left to her.

The brother can argue till tomorrow that he had been doing what he believed was best for her

He had her seriously convinced he had the gift

He was wrong

I told him so categorically and advised him to tell his sister the truth so that she can come out of this dependency on her brother's decisions, which was masked as her mother's guiding voice from heaven.

Christians especially should know that God does not talk to any born-again Christian who is full of the Holy Spirit externally.

John 14: 23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them. 24 Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

25 “All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

We have the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, within us, who teaches us all things.

How does it look to you if your father, who is an unbeliever, calls to tell you "a born again" Christian, that he had a dream about you and that it is a matter of urgency for you to see him so that you will make some sacrifices about the dream?

An unbeliever's human spirit wants to take the Holy Spirit for sacrifice to seek the solution to a spiritual problem that the unbeliever got in a dream about the believer.

When you look at these things the right way, you will discover the definition of ridiculous.

A bricklayer once told me that he used to work as a manager with a top company in Lagos state.

He said he built a house for his mother and also bought her a car within two years of graduating from the Yabatech.

I asked him why he left that job to become a bricklayer

He said his mother became uncomfortable with how fast he was making money and achieving many things all at once

His mother believed that those who would die young were the ones who were in a hurry to build houses, buy cars and make so much money early in life

His mother talked to him about this several times, and he laughed it off as her being illiterate until his mother played the "I had a dream" card

As soon as it was a dream, his mother ceased to be illiterate because "God talks to people through dreams."

He said his mother had a dream that he was a bricklayer, and she went to see her pastor.

The pastor told her to call him and instruct him to resign from his job and learn bricklaying if he wanted to live a long life.

Being the only son of her mother, the desire to see him live long and have many children was the most important to his mother.

Her mother's pastor knew this and used it to get her to move her son from Lagos to Sagamu, where she will be seeing him every day and choose a suitable wife for him so that her dreams as his mother may come true.

This man was not told this.

He was told that due to his mother's dream, the job he had was not good for him, and if he kept at it, he would die.

He must resign and move back to Ogun State, where he must open a bricklaying business and settle down in Sagamu, where his mother can monitor his spiritual well-being.

The young man did it.

He is close to his fifties; his mother has long since died

He is married to two women and has eight children

His mother's dream was fulfilled, but he kept lamenting that God had not treated him fairly

He was manipulated out of a particular lifestyle into another one, but he didn't live a fulfilled life

The best thing a believer can do for himself is to gain knowledge; it is knowledge that makes you a master of realms and dominions

Superstitious beliefs have proven over the years and across cultures to be damning rather than liberating

The earlier believers know the truth and walk in it, the better for them.

 

-GSW-