When it comes to dark spiritual powers, money is very much part of the whole thing—demons don’t mind being bought. I can go on the internet now and order, with a lot of money myself, plenty of dark spiritual powers; and the more money I have, the more access I will gain from these dark spiritual powers.
The Holy Spirit is not a power or a force, he is a person, he is Lord, and he can’t be bought.
Most Christians however, are not tempted in that direction. For us, it is much more subtle…
It may be in the way that we think about Christianity. Why are you a Christian? Why am I a Christian? Is it because of what we get, what we gain from being Christians? How do we pray? We pray with shopping lists—self-help type aims in order for restoration in our mental health, or whatever it might be for money, for health, for our bodies.
But who are we praying to? Father is a person; we come to Him through the Son, who is a person; we pray by the Holy Spirit, who is a person.
The people who practise witchcraft have specific spells to chant in order to achieve specific things—to manifest whether it’s a relationship, a health benefit, or a financial gain. You say the words and outcomes, the blessing, follow.
Too often, we treat prayer this way, and I’m certainly guilty of it myself. But this is not to say that we are not to bring our concerns about money and health and relationships before the Lord.
But who are we talking to? We are talking to the God of the universe, not to our personal assistant.
Money just comes into it if we’re thinking about the money that we give to churches, making it more likely for our prayers to be heard, or our good deeds—if we pay in good deeds, we expect to get out from God what we have invested. Again, that’s the wrong way to think about it.
It means having proper conversations—not quick, thoughtless prayers, not checklists—but rather out-loud, on-our-knees conversations with the living God.
So please don’t stop praying for what you want, because the Lord already knows what’s on your heart. So, ask for what you want—definitely. Ask for help with money and marriage and losing weight, or whatever it is you pray for. Definitely keep doing that.
But go deeper. Ask that you may know your Father in heaven, and his Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit Himself. Pursue God, not just what you get out of Him.
