You may be surprised to know that many psychics and mediums actually communicate with spirits. But are the spirits who they say there are?
Psychics Talk to Spirits on Mainstream TV
Once kept to small shops in eclectic parts of town, psychics and mediums are coming out into the open. You may see them on TV shows like Long Island Medium or Psychic Intervention. You may know someone who met with one. Perhaps you may even have met with one yourself.
If so, what did you think?
Even if they may not have gotten everything right, you or the person you know probably found that the psychics say a lot of things that sound right, that intrigue you, that make you believe that they were really communicating with spirits.
In many cases psychics are actually talking with spirits. But can you trust in the identity of the spirits the psychics are contacting for this information?
Truth vs. Deception
When it comes to the spirit world, most of us are pretty disabled. Even those that dabble in the supernatural may only hear a voice, have an intuitive thought or see a vision. For us living in the physical world, we cannot see the whole picture in the spirit world.
Because we see in part, we are easily manipulated in the spirit world and can quickly be deceived.
There are some psychics that are skilled leading people through a series of statements and questions to make it appear that they have some supernatural knowledge, but they are frauds. However, you may be surprised that many psychics are in communication with spirits and passing you information from those spirits.
The “Truth” Behind Psychics and Mediums
People who are genuine psychics will learn true facts through communicating with spirits.
For a short period of my life I explored new age beliefs and practiced communicating with the spirit world. In one exercise I would look at a picture of someone whose identity I did not know and and ask the spirits for information about them. I would then read about the person and see what I got right.
In one example, I looked at a picture of a man and felt like something wrapped around my neck, choking me. I got the sense that this person had been hung, and found out that he indeed was executed by hanging.
In another example, I looked at a picture of a man and saw a vision of him in formal dress, dancing with a woman. At first, when I researched him, I only found mention of his business achievements. But after searching further I found an article that stated that he had a passion for ballroom dancing with his wife.
So to me, this affirmed that I was communicating with the spirit world, but who was I communicating with?
Knowing the Spirits Psychics Use
Finding true facts through the spirit world can be exciting, largely because it affirms that the spirit world exists. But in this excitement have you overlooked knowing the identity of the spirits?
Even if they tell you their identity, how do you know they are truthful?
What is the motivation of the spirit for communicating with you through the psychic?
Do you know if the spirit the psychic is communicating with is good?
If you meet a stranger on the street and they tell you something about yourself, you would certainly ask these questions. But in new age practices, many overlook these questions in their zeal to interact with the spirits and trust what they are told by psychics.
I Admit, I was Deceived through a Psychic
I have a great example of this.
During a period of my life I decided to consult a psychic on a number of questions. Without me having to say a word, the psychic told me many things she could not have known about myself and things that were happening in my life. I soon believed she was a real psychic.
She told me true facts. Because I heard the truth, I trusted the source. Now I was in a position to be tempted to take the path that the spirit communicating with the psychic wanted me to take.
She told me that the things that were keeping me in bondage were actually okay. That a deceased was telling her that everything would be alright.
This conversation completely stalled my progress out of bondage and kept me in darkness. Clearly, this was a deceiving spirit (read my post Spirit Guides: Can I Trust Them?). One that I blindly trusted because of a few statements of fact.
The Pattern Spirits Use to Deceive You through Psychics
What type of spirit would do this? I found a pattern for this model. A pattern of telling the truth for the purpose of deceit.
It was in the book of Genesis in the Garden of Eden.
Whether you believe in this story or not, there is great wisdom in this account. This particular dialogue is a simple conversation of only a few words, but it establishes a model for the greatest deceiver, known as the “father of lies.”
In the story, the serpent, who is satan, says to Eve, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from a tree of the garden’?”
So satan starts with a true statement. Because there was no mention of the serpent until now, his statement shows he has knowledge of God’s command, even if he was not there for the conversation with God.
Eve was trusting (afterall, she was born yesterday). So seeing that he had Eve’s trust, satan provides temptation, “You surely will not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Satan tempts her, promising something better if she does as he suggests. Eve believed him, and was led astray with great consequences.
Satan repeats this same pattern of providing truth followed by temptation when he tempts Jesus.
This is satan’s pattern of temptation and thus is the pattern of his followers. Without a doubt in my mind, the spirit the psychic was in communication with was a demon.
How Do You Know the Identity of the Spirits?
The truth is that if you try to communicate with spirits outside of what God has made available to you, you WILL be deceived and manipulated.
In the most simplest of terms there is light and dark, good and evil. On the light sight there is God the Father, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and angels. (see my blog post Are Angels Real?)
On the dark side there is satan, fallen angels and demons (there is some debate whether the latter two are one in the same, but I won’t cover that here). There is no grey, no middle ground, no neutral zone. (see my blog post Are Demons Real?)
So if you have been dabbling in new age practices like the psychics and have been in communication with spirits such as spirit guides, you need to test them, or you will be deceived.
The apostle John, who received amazing prophetic visions from God, knew this and instructed us to test the spirits. His writing tell us that every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus has come in the flesh is not from God.
Pawns in a Great Deception
We were all created with an innate curiosity about the spirit world specifically for the purpose that we would seek out our creator.
Many psychics and mediums have been born with a God-given gift for seeing and communicating with spirits. But as with any gift, what God gives for good purposes, the enemy tries to turn for his purposes.
When someone with these gifts turns to the church, they may not get the answers they seek. While some churches embrace the gifts of the spirit such as prophecy, many reject them.
Unfortunately, many people with this natural gift turn to new age teachings where their gifts are embraced.
Without a relationship with Jesus and a foundation on biblical truth, they become deceived and become pawns in the enemy’s plans to lead others astray, especially those who are desperate for answers.
Yet there is hope for all of us. If we genuinely call out to Jesus for revelation, we will find him. He is light and truth and He will never deceive.
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For an amazing testimony of a woman who spoke regularly with spirit guides until they turned on her, see this video Robin Harfouche on an episode of It’s Supernatural on YouTube.
Relevant Scripture:
Acts 16:16-18 – …a slave-girl having a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing her masters much profit by fortune-telling. Following after Paul and us, she kept crying out, saying, “These men are bond-servants of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation.” She continued doing this for many days. But Paul was greatly annoyed, and turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!” And it came out at that very moment.
Matthew 4:5-9 – …Then the devil… said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command His angels concerning You’; and ‘On their hands they will bear You up, So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”… Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory; and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”
Ephesians 4:11-12 – …And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
Jeremiah 29:13 – You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
2 Kings 21:6 – He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.
Ezekiel 13:6 – They see falsehood and lying divination who are saying, ‘The Lord declares,’ when the Lord has not sent them; yet they hope for the fulfillment of their word.
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