Yes. It is crucial before you move into a house, whether you purchased it, or it was passed down to you through the family that you do a spiritual house cleansing.
You never know what kind of unclean spirits may be dwelling there, due to its previous owner who may have died or just moved out. Even for a newly purchased house, where no one has ever lived in before. The foundation on which the house is built upon could be contaminated by evil spirits as well.
This takes my mind back to two movies, which are perfect examples of why we need to:
Poltergeist 1982 - this is of the family who bought a new house and soon after encountered paranormal activities which led them discovering that the house and all the others in that community were built upon an old burial ground.
Amityville Horror - this is of a family who bought a previously owned house where the family all had died in the house-killed by one of the family members. I read the book before I watched the movie and it was scarier to me or maybe it was because I read while in high school.
I'm not saying that the examples above are for every home, they are just examples of some reasons why we need to spiritually cleanse our homes. Even if your house is built upon good ground, you still need to bless it and dedicate it to the Lord to keep it from getting occupied or taken over by unclean spirits. Sometimes we end up having all sorts of problems in our lives because we forsake to do this.
How do I even start to spiritually cleanse my house?
First things to note is that you cannot fight darkness if you are also darkness. By this I mean living in sin-separated from Christ Jesus. The devil will eat you alive. Only light can fight darkness and win. There you will need a priest or a minister of God.
However, if you have been born again, which means—renewed in Christ according to 2 Corinthians 5:17, the Bible says in 1 Peter 2:9, “You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”
This means you are of the royal priesthood, and God has also given you authority over all powers of the enemy (Luke 10:19), therefore you are well able to do yourself.
However, if you are a fearful Christian then it's best to have your pastor do for you. But remember that God did not give you a spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind and eventually you will have to overcome your fear to be victorious over satan in your life. Also, if you are a Christian living in sin, then like the unsaved who needs a minister to do this work, so will you.
Do you then through each room and bless it? Every room in the house must be blessed as you never knew which one an unclean spirit/s may be hiding in.
There are three different ways in which people who have gone ahead and cleanse their homes have used.
Olive Oil (demonstration shared in book referred in post here)
Consecrated Salt (method shared in post)
Sage (not recommended)
Spiritually cleansing your home with olive oil
In my book—A Shattered Life Restored, there is a scene where Rober, a friend of the main character Meg, moved into a new home with his wife and kids and soon after his daughter Marie-Claire, fell ill. The doctors could not find what the cause of her illness was. She went on to tell her dad of dreaming of a man chasing her since they moved into the house.
This literally happened to my nephew when my younger sister and her family moved into the house previous own by her husband’s dad and who also had died in that home. They didn’t go through the house either and blessed it, and a spirit took the form of her husband’s dad and tormented my nephew—as you see with the character in the book.
You see, spirits have no respect of whether it was family had lived previously in a house—you still need to pray it through. We never know all the deeds of our loved ones or what spirits plagued them.
It was here that I used the main character, Meg, to demonstrate how we can do a spiritual house cleansing for ourselves using olive oil, when she went into Rober’s home and prayed it through for him.
The first thing Meg did was prayed Psalm 91, which is an excellent home blessing scripture that I personalised for the family. It is also a powerful Psalm to pray when in need of protection and deliverance. She then prayed some cleansing prayers that I wrote from scriptures as she began to apply the olive oil in different locations in each room throughout the house. I made this experience as authentic as possible for readers, so they can use this book to walk through their homes and do their own spiritual cleansing.
It was from being very observant to what my pastor did, when he came to my own home many years ago to pray it through, alongside some extra information I had gathered from a little research I did that I was able to make the experience in the book authentic.
So in the book you will learn of all the different places meg applied the olive oil in each room and also the prayers I wrote from scripture that she prayed as she did so.
How to Spiritually cleanse your home with Salt?
In 2 Kings 2:21, Elisha used salt to cleanse the land and water which were plagued with death and barrenness. He took the salt and cast it into the water and said, "Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land."
Remember the scriptures I mentioned above in bold text, speaking of your authority as priest and kings under the anointing of God, and also of your authority in Christ? Well if you have faith in that authority you have been given, you can use God's words here as Elisha did, praying over salt- and use it in whatever place in your life that is barren or dying- in this case, our house.
When you get your salt ready to pray God's words over it, you would only replace land with house. Elisha was cleansing the land-you are cleansing your house so you need to speak the right words.
Declare Psalms 91 and or 35 to consecrate the salt then go and sprinkle some of the salt in the four corners of each of the rooms in your house. Also, sprinkle all around the house on the outside and some at the entrance of your house.
Here is a prayer I wrote to pray over the salt ( if the house is new)
Father, I thank you for the redeeming blood of Jesus that allows me to receive, the promised Holy Spirit. Through which, I now have the authority to speak over serpents and scorpions and all powers of darkness. The same way Elisha spoke over the salt and poured it into the water to bring forth restoration by your spirit, I now with that same spirit, speak into this salt your very words, Oh Lord. Wherever in and around my house, I pour it, there shall not be any death or barrenness in my family. Wherever this salt is applied in this house I declare that no spirit of witchcraft, infirmity, spiritual wickedness, principalities or powers shall have any foothold in Jesus' name. Father, I now dedicate this house into your hands, in Jesus' name. Amen
If the house was previously occupied:
Father, I thank you for the redeeming blood of Jesus that allows me to receive, the promised Holy Spirit. Through which, I now have the authority to speak over serpents and scorpions and all powers of darkness. The same way Elisha spoke over the salt and poured it into the water to bring forth restoration by your spirit, I now with that same spirit speak into this salt your very words, Oh Lord. Wherever in and around my house, I pour it, there shall not be any death or barrenness in my family. Wherever this salt is applied in this house I render every spirit of witchcraft, infirmity, spiritual wickedness, principalities or powers that are in this house powerless. I strip off all your spiritual armour and paralyze all your evil works against anyone in this house. By the power in the Blood of Jesus, I command you to leave this house now and never return in Jesus' name. Father, I now dedicate this house into your hands in Jesus' name. Amen.
Why I don't recommend using sage to spiritually cleanse your home
Sage an aromatic plant whose greyish-green leaves are used as a culinary herb, native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean, and has lots of medicinal benefits. However, it is not mentioned in the bible at all, whereas you see mentions of salt and olive oil and how and for what purpose they are used.
There is no reason to use something to protect your home that isn't mentioned in the bible to do so. It's like burning a bush that as no power.
This practice of using sage started by Shamans as a ritual of calling upon ancestral spirits. It became popular in homes by New- Age practices and witches. And if you think about it, how can they use a bush in itself to protect them from certain negative energy or evil, except they call upon other spirits to do so.
God warns us not to consult with the dead many times in the old testament and one popular story is of King Saul who consulted with a median/ psychic. God calls it witchcraft and it's something He hates. Witchcraft is every ritual that is done to contact the spiritual world, to manipulate the spiritual and physical world, to work with energies, spirits and vibrations, protection and many more.
So whether you're a Christian or none-Christian don't use it, you are only opening doors for the very things you want to get rid of from your home to invite others in. Use the olive oil, salt or even the blood of Jesus to cover and protect your home.
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