Hostile divorce IS spiritual warfare
Vices give the enemy an open door to your spirit. Revoke their access.
Trigger warnings in this post include smoking and self-harm.
Allow me to share a little background and context to the marriage that ended in divorce that became the means through which I would learn so much about the child abuse that is parental alienation and the scourge that is the legal kidnapping of children by parents going through the family court system.
Twenty years ago, I was married while in the US Navy to a fellow sailor who was a completely inappropriate choice for me to entertain romantically for several reasons, (like fraternization…which led to a Captain’s mast for him, for starters, because he was my supervisor.)
That should have been my first red flag. Oddly enough, it wasn’t. I missed this red flag in part, because everyone in the military gets married. Everyone. I even knew of platonic friends who got married to each other in the military because of…the monetary benefits available only to married servicemembers. It’s a whole thing.
The other reason I missed the red flags that were screaming at me, is that I had no idea how much the Lord cares about marriage. Had I had more of a clue, I would’ve been in prayer and waiting until the Lord sent me my spouse, instead of picking my own choice in a mate and then praying about it after the fact to try and fix things. *sigh* Lesson learned.
The means the enemy used to entice me into this entanglement with my ex-husband was a sin I had been battling for years at the time and that was smoking cigarettes.
I have been freed from the spiritual bondage that smoking with cigarettes had me bound in, thanks to Jesus’ grace and mercy and a time of prayer and fasting for the Lord.
“But this kind of demon does not go out except by prayer and fasting.” Matthew 17:21
There was a spirit attached to the compulsion behind my smoking that I could not shake until the Lord freed me. I knew it at the time too, because I often referred to smoking as slow self-harm on the road to being unalive. I could feel pangs in my chest that felt like death was just around the corner. The problem that made smoking for me a sin was the fact that it had become an idol. Having an idol while claiming to serve a jealous God? Literally a recipe for destruction. See: Queen Jezebel 1 Kings 18:19
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