From these passages, we can see that witchcrafts are present in many churches and they conduct lots of activities. Witchcraft are people who practice occultism, soothsaying, sorcery, devilish and demonic rituals secretly. They look cool, physically harmless, nice and christianly, but spiritually are agents of Satan sent to ruin, incapacitate and destroy. They are found in almost every church. They love to come to church and join churches for diabolical reasons. Witchcraft is not only practiced by women, but men, Pastors, prophets and young people are into it.

In revelation 2:14,15 and 20 "But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast

thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols".

The Lord identifies witchcraft operations in the churches of pergamos and Thyatira. Practitioners of witchcraft don't go to church without a purpose. They come to church with several agendas in mind. In these two churches, they produce false doctrine, that glorify sexual perversion and they also camouflage as "prophetess" but teaching and seducing people into adultery and fornication thereby polluting the church and setting her up for God's wrath. How can you detect the operations of witchcraft in your church? Look for these signs:-

1. Fornication and Adultery
Wherever you find a witch, you will also find sexual sins. Witches and sex go together. And witchcraft operation in a church usually manifest in immorality by Pastors, leaders, and members. They seduce Pastors into having sex with them and they distribute immorality among the people. A young Pastor was hot against witches in his new church. Two women who were witches seduced him into sleeping with them and he fell by sleeping them one after the other. Whenever he wanted to preach, they would sit in the front seat and seeing them, he would keep quiet and no longer able to preach against witches and immorality.

A Pastor was about to go for a meeting when a young lady came in, demanding for counseling. The Pastor went back to the office and the lady came in with a bottle of water in her hand. When the Pastor asked her what the problem was she simply poured the bottle of water on herself. The white t-shirt she s wearing melted with her body revealing her body and breast. At that sight the Pastor was sexually aroused and slept with her right in her office. They were later discovered in the act by the driver who had been waiting outside in the car. From that day the church went down, the Pastor started stool' blood and the lady confessed that she was given a assignment to kill the Pastor and scatter the church. It was in another city, three years later that the Pastor was delivered through prayer and deliverance by a senior man God. The first and most popular form of operations of witchcraft and the occult in a church is sexual perversion. When you noticed it in your church, then don't be in doubt their presence.

2. Oppressive Atmosphere
Witchcraft operations in a church also create an atmosphere that makes the word of God to be of no effect. The oppressive atmosphere will not allow the spirit of God to work and preaching will be very difficult. People will not get saved and the church will be filled with religious, nominal and carnal people. I was once invited to a church where I could not preach. Immediately I was introduced and given the pulpit, I completely lost my message. Everything went dry and I could not remember anything I planed to say. I had to resort to prayer and boldly warned the witches to stop their operations; else, I will deal with them. It was after that, I was able to preach. If you are finding preaching very difficult in your church and people are not living as true Christians despite years of being in the church, then you should know that witches are operating well in that church.

3. Coldness and Lukewarmness
When a church is cold, lukewarm and has little or no appetite for spiritual things, it is a sign of demonic operations. When people love dancing, eating, drinking, ceremonies and celebrations much more than praying, listening and obeying the word of God, it is a sure mark of witchcraft operations in that church. When the love to pray, fast, read, meditate and practice spiritual exercises are so low and almost non-existence in a church, then it is sure that demons are working and having unhindered operations in the church. I remember a church where a certain member would come to church very early and laid hands on the seats and whoever sits on those chairs will find himself sleeping and dozing off during the service. It was only after intensive prayers that the secret was revealed.

4. Destroying the Prayer Life of the Church
Witches cannot operate in a church that is very hot in personal and corporate prayers, that is why they always wage war against the prayer life of any church. In order for witches to operate in a church, they will have to first kill or drastically reduced the prayer power of the church. When a church has substituted prayer for other things and prayer is accorded very little space and time, it is the handwork of witches. I' am very sorry for churches that don't pray or that· read prayers from books.
Congregational and corporate prayers are not encouraged and practiced. And everything is done without times of fervent and prevailing prayers. Demons will be happy to operate in such a church. They also love a church where the prayers are misdirected. For example, a man came to a church and gradually he started influencing things. After some few weeks, he took over the prayer times of the church. This was a church that truly prays, binding and loosing. But the man said, binding and loosing is too much, rather the prayer should be directed on Israel and America.
The church should be praying for these two countries. Unknown to the church, their fervent, binding, and loosing prayers was having devastating effect in the kingdom of Satan that is why they send their agents to shift the focus of the prayers. When people complain that prayer is too much in the church, it is from witches. When the fire of prayers is burning low, then demons can operate in the church without hindrance.

5. Calamities and Accidents
In a church that is the operating base of witchcraft, various calamities, evil occurrences and accidents will be commonplace. Strange visitations, sick 1esses, and loss of job, money, health and promotion will be happening to those who are committed to the church. People will die mysteriously, some accidents will happen and members WI I loose their lives. I know of a church that lost five people in a single accident, while they were on a journey to bury the mother of the Pastor. The Pastor herself had a broken hand and leg. The chief usher of the church was among the dead. It shook the church to her foundations and things have never remained the same in that church.

6. Controlling Influences
Another sign of witchcraft operation in a church is that certain people are using prophecy, vision and revelations to control the church. And most of these prophecies and visions are fake and oppressive. There was this church were particular woman prophecies during the service. Once she started, others will pick it L P they will not allow the message to be preached. It will be prophecy galore. Sometimes, these prophecies are true, but most times they are way off the mark. But they are close to the Pastor and he usually consults them for any issue. Unfortunately, those prophetess are known to be quarrelsome, disobedient at home and seductress of young men in the church. They use their prophecies to march make those who want to marry. Those prophecies led people into sin than into righteous living. They even use prophecies to collect people's money and properties. When prominent members exert undue influence in the church and control the Pastor with prophecies and visions, then its witchcraft at work.

7. Sowing Discord Among Brethren
Witchcraft operations in a church usually result in discord among brethren. They appear to people in various forms and using their image to terrify one another, until members will start seeing one another as enemies. They promote animosity, infighting, hatred, bickering, malice, envy, jealousies and backstabbing. They work for disunity and disharmony of the brethren. They sow seeds of misunderstanding and misrepresentation among the people to the extent that people will be smiling to each other but will be fighting each other internally. I know a church where the women were so jealous of the Pastor's wife that they organized some people to pray for her death.
They not only organized but they paid them. Later, one of them backed out and came to confess. At one time an associate Pastor in the church, who was rebuked for his wayward life, went to arrange hired killers to terminate the life of the Senior Pastor. The hired killers actually came to the Pastor house for surveillance and met a lady he once knew. While conversing, he revealed his intentions and the lady said he can't do that because the Pastor is her brother and he has not wronged the associate. That was what saved the day for the Pastor! How dangerous and ungodly a church can become when witchcraft is allowed to operate unhindered!

In most cases, those who practice witchcraft in a church are among the workers, leaders, deacons and prominent people. It is those who are inside that give room to those who are outside. They are very close leadership and they cleverly manipulate things to their advantage.

Many times, they are like Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8; they profess to believe, but are not really free from the depth of sin and evil. Witchcraft always seeks to operate in the church so as to destroy her testimony and weaken her. They want the church to fall and many people to perish, so they maliciously work to ruin churches.