WITCHCRAFT EXPOSED: SAD TALE FROM THE GRAVE.

WITCHCRAFT EXPOSED: SAD TALE FROM THE GRAVE. By FELIX N.JARIKRE

SCRIPTURAL ANCHOR: ACTS 8:9-23, 1 COR.2:9-10.

It happens all the time. In every society and community, certain diabolical individuals, like Simon the villain of Acts chapter 8, had advertised themselves to own magical powers  that enabled them to resolve whatever challenge brought to them by gullible and desperate people,  seeking for answers in wrong places. Exercising undue influence over their victim, these witchdoctors guarantee to conjure whatever it is their supplicant is looking for in exchange for money. Truth be told, these counterfeiters, as harmless as they appear to be, are lawless satanic agents sent to steal, destroy and to kill.(see Jn.10:10)

The public stop pretending not to pay attention only when these evil transactions take a tragic turn for the worse. The Punch newspaper of June, 24, 2014 reported how the Lagos State Police boss, Umar Manko investigated a murder suspect, a 64-year –old native doctor who confessed to have buried alive on May 10, 2014 a retired customs officer, Mrs Angela Kerry and her 10-year-old adopted daughter, Obiagulum. The woman had gone to this sorcerer to solicit his help to get pregnant as she was barren. In the process, the man swindled over N200 million both in property and cash from her. When the remedy she sought became elusive, she started demanding and threatening to recover her money from the native doctor. To cover his sordid tracks, he decided to lure the woman and her daughter to a room in his house where he had constructed a well. Having covered the hole with a white mat, he instructed them to kneel down on it. Without a clue, they fell into it. The man then covered up the well with sand, and cemented the place with the service of two bricklayers. Thinking that his gruesome crime would remain undetected , the heart-less witch-doctor never counted on the tracking device installed in the dead woman’s Toyota Camry. It was this tracking device that enabled police detectives to recover the decomposed bodies of mother and daughter in the man’s house.

The retired customs officer was not only defrauded of a huge sum of money, she also lost her life, and that of her adopted daughter by patronizing  a native doctor in her futile attempt to conceive a child. The question is, what kind of deception would make people turn to a native doctor, and ignore the strong consolation of the Holy Spirit? Peter had rebuked Simon the sorcerer who offered money to receive the Holy Spirit, stressing the unmatchable power of the Holy Spirit to freely heal and deliver people from unclean, oppressive spirits. The Holy Spirit has  the Ultimate Tracking Device from which nothing can remain unexposed. Whatever it is you are looking for – be it fruit of the womb, marital connection, healing, visa – the  Holy Spirit is eager to search out and reveal for your possession what God has prepared for you.