Monitoring Spirits: A Rebuke, A Warning, and Watchers in the Comment Section

"I always feel like somebody's watching me." Maybe you remember that song from the 80s! In this episode, I talk about monitoring spirits and how they operate through people. I also give a rebuke and a warning to those operating in that spirit who might be listening to this podcast. I also share how leaving a simple comment on a Facebook post brought out the "watchers". Thanks for listening! 

Transcript

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Hey everybody, thanks for tuning in to the Dissatisfied Podcast. I am Rochelle Smith. I appreciate you listening. So today is going to be a much shorter episode because I have been spending a lot of time with my mom lately, including time in the hospital with her. But before I go into that any further, I need to pause to address a couple of things. And one of those things is monitoring spirits. Have you heard of this? Have you heard of monitoring spirits? So the first time I heard of it was a few years ago when we left that culty church that we were in. And I had a friend who had also left, but quite a bit before I did, before we did. But she had explained to me that many times when people are under a manipulative, controlling spirit, aka Jezebel, that stuff, they seek to gather information about the people that they feel have gone up against them or have done them wrong. So what happens is these people will try to check your social media accounts. Sometimes they even have others check them. Sometimes they would even have someone try to reach out to you through text or a phone call, you know, in the vein of, oh, hey, you know, I was just thinking about you. You were on my heart, just wondering how you're doing, that type of thing. And like I said, it's not in the spirit of, oh, I'm just curious what they are doing. It's in the spirit of I want information so I can use that information against you. So I can find something negative to speak about you. So I can gossip about it to other people to continue to paint you in a bad light. Now, I want to say this too. Don't feel bad because you know we've all had our moments when we snoop on somebody's page. But there's a difference between doing it out of curiosity and doing it out of malice. Now, I have blocked anyone and everyone I can that I can think of that might have a connection to the people that I believe have harmful intent towards me and my family. But, you know, I might have missed some, but unfortunately, you know, I can't block people from listening to this podcast. And I believe that there are people who have malicious intentions towards me and my family who might listen to this podcast sometimes. So I'm gonna take a quick moment right now to do this. In the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke every monitoring spirit. I rebuke the spirit behind every person that might be listening that has ill or malicious intent. And I plead the blood of Jesus over this podcast and the things I'm going to share. And I call on the name of Jesus to blind, deafen, and silence the enemy in Jesus' name. Now, the reason that I felt led to do that is because I'm going to share just a little bit about my mom, and I'm not going to give you exact details right now of what's going on, but in the future I probably will. But as I share this, I do believe that there are people, and I know some of them, that thrive off of taking someone else's suffering and pain and hardship and using it to point their fingers and speak curses instead of blessing and life. Because the reality is if you have called them out or left their church or you have taken a stand against them and you've been bold, then you are an enemy to them. And they will relish in the fact that you are going through something difficult. Because to them, it justifies their disgusting and wicked behavior. Because to them, your misfortune was brought on because you left the family, or because you are rebellious, or whatever other disgusting, twisted lie that they make up in their own heads to continue in their manipulation and control. So again, I rebuke every wicked spirit that is listening that would hold that kind of demonic evil against me and my family. And this is your warning. Be warned because when you operate in that way, there is a very good chance that it will act like a boomerang and come back to you. So be warned. Okay. Now that that's off my chest, we can get into this. Firstly, I would like to ask you to pray for my mom because she is going through some pretty serious and scary health issues right now. So I would so appreciate the prayer. I know she will appreciate it as well. And you can pray for all of us. But it has been extremely uh difficult in many ways because number one, none of us want to see our family go through any difficult health issues. And number two, as our parents get older, we are faced with the reality that there's gonna come a day when we say goodbye for now. And that's not a fun thing to face. That's not fun. And you know, I've had to say goodbye to my dad, I've had to say goodbye to my brother. Those were different because they took their own lives, so that that trauma and that grief is very different than I think when you know your parents are aging and you have to face that it might be getting close. You don't know how many days you have left with them. But I do want to say right now that this is not that time for my mom. In fact, I was sitting at the kitchen table this morning and I was praying and I was asking God this question. I said, What do you want me to know? Just sitting there at the table. I was struggling, you know, I've cried a lot, and I have felt a little bit like I'm in this barren land, like I haven't heard him clearly on some things, so I thought, I'm just gonna ask him a question. So I said, What do you want me to know? And that's a very different question than I normally ask him. And in true Rochelle fashion, I grabbed my Bible and I did the old flipperoo and I just opened up where it landed, and my eyes fell on the page, and I immediately saw my own handwriting on the page. And my writing said this. It said, Help my unbelief, Lord. And I had written this under the story in Mark chapter nine, where the father of a young boy who's tormented by a demon, he brings his child to Jesus, and the man says, Since he was a little boy, the spirit often throws him into the fire or into water trying to kill him. Have mercy on us and help us if you can. And Jesus said, What do you mean if I can? Anything is possible if a person believes. The Father instantly cried out, I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief. And like I said, on that page, I wrote in my own handwriting, help my unbelief, Lord. So I don't believe for one moment that that was a coincidence that I opened to that page. So what did God want me to know? He wanted me to know that I should believe, but that also he is helping me with my unbelief. And let that be true for every single one of us. That it's okay for us to believe, but that Jesus Himself will help us with our unbelief. So when I got to the hospital today, my mom's surgeon came in and he talked to us about some things, some difficult things, but also we felt really encouraged and hopeful. So I am hanging on to hope and belief in Jesus Christ, who spoke to me through his word today. But we would really love your prayers as well over my mom, over us. Her name is Janelle. So yes, please, please pray. I would love that. Okay. Shifting gears a little bit, I want to share one other story with you before I wrap it up today. Like I said, it's going to be a little bit shorter. But I don't know about you, but I very rarely comment on anything on social media, unless it's a personal friend's post, you know, birthdays or people that post pictures. Of course, I comment nice things on my friends' posts. But anything else, I usually don't leave comments. I've maybe commented on things a handful of times over many years on social media, like influencers' pages, you know, where they get thousands of comments. I usually don't comment. I might like, but that's it. But I was on Facebook the other day and I saw a post that was about the actor Seth Rogan. You might not even know who he is. But anyway, he had done an interview where he said that not having kids was the key to his success. Which, okay, whoop-dee-doo. You have a right to make your own choices. Great for you. You know, you don't want kids, you think that that's the key to your success, whatever, dude. But that's not where he stopped. He also said, and I quote, the world does not need more children. So after he talked about himself and how he didn't have kids and it was the key to his success, he added, The world does not need more children. Well, you know, I guess I was feeling a little feistier than usual that day, and so I commented. And my comment was this I said, in quotes, something demons would say for a thousand Alex. You know, the show Jeopardy. So, you know, I was feeling pretty good about that. I thought it was witty, I thought it was kind of funny, but also it's a hundred percent true. It's a hundred percent true. Who would say that? Who would say something like the world doesn't need more children? You know, it's very different when you say, Yeah, I don't want kids, never wanted kids, having kids isn't for me. Okay, whatever. But when you go beyond that and say the world doesn't need more children, who says that? Well, someone or something that hates God's image. So I really didn't think much of it, honestly, after leaving that comment. But oh my goodness. I I had quite a few likes. I think I had, you know, over 200 people liked it. So okay, it was a good comment. But it's like the mention of demons literally made people so angry. And I'm gonna read you some of these comments. One person said, so he has to have kids because you say so, grow up. So I replied, Yep, that's exactly what I said. Not sure how you got that from my comment, but this is Facebook where people love to make stuff up. Then another guy said this. Now I'm gonna say F for the actual F word, but mind you, that it, you know, the actual word was being used by him and by me, mind you. Okay, so this guy said, Oh man, shut the F up. And I replied to him and I said, My guess is we can probably find thousands of shut the F up comments from you across social media. You don't like what someone says, it's an immediate shut the F up. But thankfully we live in America where you can continue to tell people to shut the F up, and those same people can continue not to shut the F up. Oh, Rochelle was just on a roll that day, wasn't she? And then yet another guy said, If you're a grown adult who believes in demons and magic skyddies, then you're the problem. So I said, If you're a grown adult who wastes your time arguing with people about something you don't believe in, maybe you're the problem. Oh my gosh. And you guys, there were there were a few more completely wild comments that were so over the top, it just made me realize why I don't leave comments on social media. Because social media has brought out the worst in people. Actually, maybe I should just say it this way: social media has given the worst of people a platform. So I would say the mention of demons actually brought the demons out with that comment I made. So I think I'm gonna go back to not commenting for a few years until I feel like I need some more stress in my life, which is never, I don't need more stress in my life, and neither do you. But you know what? Maybe the Lord is helping me get thicker skin, as they say. You know, as I'm gonna continue calling crap out, I'm gonna go after the liars and the cheaters and manipulators. Basically, you know, going after the demons, the giants in the land who think they have taken us. But they don't know. They don't know that there are a whole lot of people like David rising up with their slings and their stones and with their faith. That's you and that's me. God has put that in all of us. So let's get to it. Thanks for listening. I hope you will join me next week.