The self-proclaimed “practicing Christian witch” and “an ordained minister of spiritual consciousness” Rev. Valerie Love, is insisting that there is nothing wrong with Christians who want to practice witchcraft, despite biblical warnings and just recently launched her own school to help Christians become witches.
“Stop thinking you can tell people how to worship. Stop thinking you can tell people how to connect with the divine. I could tell you how many people have told me, ‘You can’t be a Christian witch’ but here I am. See, you can’t tell me how to worship. You cannot tell me how to connect with the divine. That’s between me and God. You cannot tell me how to pray,” a defiant Love declared in a recent rant on Facebook.
Rev. Love claims to have been “born a witch” but that she was forced to stifle her identity as a Jehovah’s Witness from age 4 to 30 when she was finally able to leave the grips of the “cult,” Christian Post reported.
“Where do we get off believing that we can actually dictate to other people how they worship. … It’s not our lane,” Love said. “I was born a witch and I love it. I’m so thankful. People are afraid of the word [witch] because of fear and ignorance and I am here as a minister of the living God to dispel fear and ignorance.”
Love shares her story and offers several other resources to help Christian witches including her recently launched Covenant of Christian Witches Mystery School which recently launched in Salem, Massachusetts, on her Christian Witches website.
According to Love’s website, the school was originally launched to “inspire, teach, share wisdom, and support magickal beings in owning and embracing magick, practicing magick and utilizing magick as a path to SELF-REALIZATION.”
“My job as a minister of the living God, as an ordained minister of spiritual consciousness is freedom, to set us free. … People are in religious bondage because religion told you what to think, what to do. I’m not here to tell you what to think. I’m here to support you in how to think,” she said in her recent video.
On Love’s personal website where the focus is personal enlightenment, she offers coaching programs for an investment anywhere between $5,000 and $50,000.
Founder of Jennifer LeClaire Ministries and director at the Awakening House of Prayer in Florida, Jennifer LeClaire, has been tracking the Christian witch movement for several years, and warns that the mixing of Christianity and witchcraft is “dangerous” and says the movement is growing rapidly.
“In this season, I’ve seen a rise of Christians practicing witchcraft. Or maybe they aren’t Christians at all. I won’t judge someone’s salvation, but when people in church release word curses, pray against you, and conduct unholy fasts to destroy you, the fruit of the Spirit is clearly lacking,” she wrote last fall. “Galatians 6 lists both the fruit of the Spirit and the works of the flesh. Witchcraft is among them. But there is a higher level of witchcraft that some so-called Christians are tapping into and it’s dangerous.”
WATCH: Jennifer LeClaire with Jennifer LeClaire Ministries and her Prophetic Warning: Christian Witches Rising, Using The Name Of Jesus:
Christian experts at Got Questions Ministries also warned that “Got takes witchcraft very seriously.”
“The penalty for practicing witchcraft under the Mosaic Law was death (Exodus 22:18; Leviticus 20:27). First Chronicles 10:13 tells us that ‘Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the Word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance,” the ministry noted.
“At the heart of witchcraft is the desire to know the future and control events that are not ours to control. Those abilities belong only to the Lord. This desire has its roots in Satan’s first temptation to Eve: ‘You can be like God’ (Genesis 3:5),” the ministry explained.
“Since the Garden of Eden, Satan’s major focus has been to divert human hearts away from worship of the true God (Genesis 3:1). He entices humans with the suggestions of power, self-realization, and spiritual enlightenment apart from submission to the Lord God. Witchcraft is merely another branch of that enticement. To become involved in witchcraft in any way is to enter Satan’s realm,” the experts added.
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