FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN MARRIAGE: BEWITCHMENT 2
I warmly welcome you to the September edition of the Singles’ World. In the last edition, I discussed the prevalence of bewitched people in our society and the danger of getting married to such people. One of the examples that I gave was about people who travelled abroad for studies or greener pastures and whose spirits were invoked and summoned to come back home with diabolical and mystical powers. Thereafter, their attitudes and dispositions were very weird and absurd.
Parents who perceive that their children who travel abroad and ought to take care of them at old age are not likely to return home again are noted for such malevolent acts. Creditors whose debtors ran away with a large sum of money could also resort to this. Demonic women or girls who were jilted or cheated by men after sexual abuse can also do so. I showed you that getting married to such bewitched people can greatly destroy your marriage and preclude you from enjoying life. This is a serious foundational issue that needs to be addressed.
Most marriages face many foundational issues that are often challenging, thorny and knotty to handle. In most cases, couples do not know the severity of foundational issues. In some cases, such couples direct their spiritual arsenals to wrong targets. Even when their targets are correct, they often do not succeed in overcoming such problems. Couples I know live with their problems in life. Can you imagine that! I often say that marriage is meant to be enjoyed and not to be endured.
In this edition, I intend to press on this issue of bewitchments. I pray you will not enter this evil trap when choosing your life partners in the name of Jesus Christ. I also pray that the Lord will show those already in this trap mercy in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Bewitched People: Apart from those who are recalled magically and mystically from abroad and in the process become bewitched, there are others who experience bewitchment and are as deadly as those who are summoned from abroad through sorcery. First, there are parents, especially fathers, who place curses on their daughters that insist on getting married to men that do not enjoy the approval of their fathers.
Many years ago, there was a young girl who wanted to marry a young man, and the father was opposed to her choice. When the daughter insisted and married the man of her choice despite her father’s opposition, she was cursed by her father. The woman, who married as a virgin and was well read in the academe, has remained barren until today. There is no hope that she can ever have any child until she goes to the grave. She is a very good Christian. She is now over 75 years of age. Her husband found children for himself through other women after waiting and praying for decades without having any positive results. In this regard, God cannot be queried. Many men today jump at a chaste woman like her. All that glitters is not gold. Of course, this is not her fault. She had the right to marry the man of her choice, even though the place of parental consent in marriage cannot be easily overemphasized.
How do we know those that have been bewitched or cursed to avoid them very early? Occasionally, this can be difficult to achieve. Generally, it is not safe, especially in African society, to marry men and women whose parents are vehemently opposed to your marriage proposals, especially when your insistence is threatened by parental and ancestral curses. When your would-be in-laws are opposed to your marriage proposals and you have prayed, and they are not ready to budge on them, wisdom demands that you stay off from such partners.
In addition, if the prospective in-laws are diviners, soothsayers, spiritualists, magicians, witchdoctors, native doctors, Alfa, spiritists, occultists, necromancers, palm readers, star gazers, and astrologists, it may not be safe to marry the children of such people at all times, especially if they are not warm about your intentions to marry their children or wards. Even if they are completely in support of your proposal, such homes and children born into such families operate under very serious curses.
Secret sacrifices may be made about you without your knowledge. If they are not in agreement with your proposal and do not want to disclose this to you, they may cast a spell on your partner or put a demonic wedge between you and your partner, which may not manifest immediately but later. Such a spell or wedge can result in marital confusion, unmanageable and constant problems and divorce. The elders say all lizards lie prostrate, but we do not know which of them has stomach ache.
By the grace of God, we will continue from here next month. Please do not forget to send me your comments and testimonies. If you are not born again, please surrender your life to Jesus Christ today. Tomorrow may be too late. Until then, God bless you. Amen.
Pastor Jide Ajidahun
