Month: June 2024

Ever feel like someone is constantly looking over your shoulder? That there is a presence in your house? You may hear sounds or feel a cold chill in the air now and then. Perhaps, you see a shadow out the corner of your eye. You sense someone is behind you, and you quickly turn to see – nothing. It could be your imagination, or it could be a monitoring demon.

If you look up “monitoring spirits” on AI you’ll read this: “Monitoring spirits are supernatural entities that are believed to watch over individuals or families to track their behavior, actions, and decisions. They are believed to be present in different cultures, religions, beliefs, traditions, and superstitions. In some cultures, they are seen as guardian angels, while in others, they are seen as demonic spirits.”

Of course, this definition of monitoring spirits is politically correct, the woke definition of something that seems otherworldly. But the Christian understanding of such phenomena is quite different from that of a paranormal investigator. The Christian viewpoint is that these beings are never benign. They are demons that don’t necessarily enter people but hang around them, watching their lives and reporting back to higher-up demons. They may be taking spiritual notes on your life to detect possible openings for an attack. Their activity is never friendly or innocuous.

First Peter 5:8 speaks of the devil and demons walking about, encircling our lives, like a roaring lion seeking prey. These kinds of demons may not attack directly, but they will attract other evil spirits who pick up on the surveillance. Because Satan is not omnipresent, he can’t be everywhere all at once. Hence, his emissaries monitor certain individuals to assess which temptations and fears that person is most vulnerable to.

Other than the obvious sense of something following you, how else can you tell if there is a monitoring demon? You may sense them if you indulge in a moral weakness, like pornography or uncontrolled anger. They may lurk if you are smoking weed, over-indulging in alcohol, gaming with occult characters, gambling at the casino, or being promiscuous. They watch for unrepentant sin in your life, rebellious behavior not confessed, or white lies you have told.  Monitoring spirits hang around to see if you have a spiritual opening that constitutes a legal right of entry into your soul.

Monitoring demons exploit spiritual problems which go unresolved, like constant brushes with danger or death. They may target with an unusual number of physical diseases and bodily illnesses. Monitoring spirits keep you under pressure with constant oppression hoping that you will fall into temptation so they can report your weakness to a bigger and nastier demon. If you sense something is monitoring you, it is time to step up your spiritual tempo. Do some fasting. Increase your time in God’s Word. Get back in church. Memorize Bible verses. Seek deliverance prayers. Take spiritual action before a monitoring spirit hands over his job to a worse demon which enters your life and calls your soul his home.

You may have a dangerous demon that you never expected would attack you. Among those who show interest in deliverance, they tend to focus on evil spirits most commonly thought of. This includes demons such as Lucifer, Leviathan, Jezebel, and Beelzebub. But often the spirits that hold people in bondage are related to emotional states of the mind. And because they are unsuspected, they are dangerous. Take for example the spirit of offense.

Here’s how Jesus addressed this matter Luke 17:1-3 – “It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come! It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Offenses, where minor injustices or outrageous insults, have a debilitating effect. They cause bitterness, anger, hate, division, and strife. Offenses cause disruptions in an individual’s mind as well as the larger body of Christ. Just as the spirit of fear can be a gateway to other more powerful demons, so it is with the spirit of offense. Offenses may make you feel that you’ve been wronged, and this may lead to acts of revenge, witchcraft spells to curse them, or even murder.

When someone offends you your first response should be to forgive them. Unfortunately, that’s not how human emotions are wired. When offended we often make a list in our thinking of all the ways we were right, and the other person was wrong. The next step is to find ways to strike back. Initially, those ways aren’t violent or necessarily evil. We simply justify responding to an offense because we have an inflated sense that we need to protect integrity. It’s really our ego that we are trying to protect. In the name of defending our reputation, we may go to unreasonable lengths that’s harmful to the person who offended us.

Stop for a moment and take inventory of all the people who have offended you. Then, follow the path of forgiveness as Jesus taught in the sermon on the mount. One of the most difficult passages of scripture is Luke 6:27-28: “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.” As Romans 12:21 says, “Overcome evil with good”. Plotting in your mind to counter an offense often leads to thinking about how the other person can be hurt so we get even. That’s the devil’s way of corrupting our emotions and opening the door to the demon of offense.