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Former Satanist Reveals Spiritual Roots of Delay

A former satanist explains how the spirit of delay uses ancestral covenants, negative words, and unforgiveness to legally block Christians' progress for decades.

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October 31, 2026 12 min read 0 views

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If you have been held back for 5, 10, 20 years or more, and despite fasting, prayer, and night vigils, nothing changes. What I am about to tell you today might make you angry, not at God, not at the enemy, but at yourself. Because the delay you are experiencing is no ordinary delay. It is a delay with roots. And as long as you do not tear out those roots, you can cut the branches all you want, they will always grow back.

When I was in the realm of darkness, the spirit of delay was not our most powerful weapon. It was our most patient one. Unlike the spirits of sickness or death, which strike swiftly and violently, the spirit of delay is designed to last for decades. It does not kill you. It makes you grow old waiting in the tent. It makes you watch as everyone else receives what you deserved while you remain stuck at the starting line.

And I am going to tell you something that no one else tells you. The reason your delay has lasted so long is not that God has forgotten you, but that the spirit of delay holds a legal right to remain in your life. And as long as that legal right exists, even God's angels cannot cast it out. Today, I will reveal the three legal grounds, the three roots that allow the spirit of delay to remain anchored in your life for years. And at the end, I will give you the psalm that we in the kingdom of darkness feared the most. The psalm we prayed Christians would never discover. It is the psalm that tears out the roots of delay and compels heaven to accelerate your destiny.

My friends, to understand why your delay has lasted so long, you must understand how spiritual justice works. The spiritual realm is a courtroom. There is a judge, and that judge is God. There is a defense attorney, Jesus, and an accuser, Satan. When the enemy seeks to keep your life in a state of delay, he does not simply block you by force. He appears before the heavenly court and presents a case, a legal case. In that case, he shows the judge the grounds on which he has the right to hold you back. If the case is valid, even God in his justice cannot simply dismiss the accusation. He must uphold the laws he himself established.

This is why some Christians pray for years without seeing any change. It is not that God does not hear them. It is that the accuser has a solid case. To break the delay, you must do what a good lawyer does. You must dismantle the prosecution's case piece by piece. Here are the three elements of that case. The three reasons that give the spirit of delay the legal right to remain.

The first reason is an unbroken ancestral covenant. This is the deepest and oldest truth of prolonged delay. Somewhere in your family lineage, an ancestor, whether a grandfather, a great grandmother, or someone whose name you do not even know, made a pact with the kingdom of darkness. This pact could have taken many forms. A visit to a witch doctor to seek prosperity, an animal sacrifice to protect the family, initiation into a secret society, or a blood oath sworn during a traditional ceremony.

Such pacts do not die with the person who made them. They are passed down through the bloodline from generation to generation like a toxic inheritance. And within the clauses of these pacts, there is almost always a limitation clause. The world of darkness agrees to give something to the ancestor. Prosperity, protection, fertility, but in exchange, it demands a right over future generations. Often this right includes the following: the children of this lineage will never prosper before the age of 40, or the firstborn of each generation will be blocked, or worse, no descendant will surpass the level of the ancestor who signed it.

When I was in the world of darkness, we consulted these ancient contracts like lawyers consult court records. When we were ordered to hold back a Christian, we would retrieve his ancestral covenant and present it before the heavenly court, saying, "This man is praying for a promotion, but his great-grandfather signed a pact in 1942 that limits the prosperity of this lineage. We have the legal right to hold him back." And the delay continued, not because God was unjust, but because the contract had never been revoked.

You can pray 10 hours a day. If the ancestral covenant isn't broken, it's like trying to fill a bucket with a hole in the bottom. The water goes in at the top but leaks out the bottom. Your prayers rise, but the enemy's legal right nullifies them.

The second reason is the words you speak daily. This is the most tragic reason because you are the one feeding your own lateness every day with your own mouth. says that death and life are in the power of the tongue and those who love it will eat its fruit. Your words are not mere sounds in the spiritual realm. Your words are decrees. Every sentence you utter is a legal act that is recorded in the archives of the spiritual realm.

And here is what most late Christians say every day: "It will never work for me. I am always last. Good things happen to others, not to me. My time will never come. I am cursed." Every time you utter these words, you are signing a renewal of the lateness contract. You are providing the enemy with fresh material to maintain the blockage. The spirit of lateness doesn't even need to work hard. It just needs to sit and listen. You are doing its work for it.

In our coven, we had a term for these Christians. We called them the self-cursed. They are people who pray for an hour in the morning asking for a breakthrough and then spend the remaining 23 hours pronouncing defeat with their mouths. The morning prayer builds a wall and the words of the day tear it down.

I remember one woman we were watching. She was powerful in prayer. Her intercessions caused damage in our camp. But she had a fatal habit. Whenever she spoke to her friends on the phone, she would say, "Darling, you know, in this family, women don't get married until they're 40, it's like a curse." She would laugh as she said it, but in the spiritual world, it wasn't a joke. It was a decree. And every time she uttered it, our agent would renew the deferral order on her marriage. She was 38, single, and wondering why God wasn't answering her prayers. God had sent three divine men into her life. But each time the spirit of delay diverted them by using that woman's own words as legal authorization.

The third reason is the breach caused by unforgiveness. It is the door through which the spirit of delay comes and goes at will. Unforgiveness is the most powerful legal right the enemy holds against Christians, more powerful than ancestral covenants, more powerful than evil words because it strikes directly at the heart of the gospel.

Jesus was very clear in . "If you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, your father will not forgive you either." And in that same chapter, he tells the parable of the unmerciful servant, the man who was forgiven an immense debt but refused to forgive a small debt owed by his fellow servant. The master handed him over to the tormentors.

My dear friends, the tormentors Jesus speaks of in this parable are the spirits that inflict torment. When you refuse to forgive, God does not hand you over to the devil out of malice. Rather, he withdraws his protective covering. He says, "You want justice? You shall have it, but that justice will apply to you as well." At that precise moment, the spirit of delay gains total access to your life. It no longer even needs complex legal grounds.

Unforgiveness is like rolling out a red carpet right in front of the door to your destiny. In our coven, whenever we scanned a Christian and found bitterness or unforgiveness, we knew we had unlimited access. It was like finding a house with the keys left in the lock. I have seen Christians who fasted for 40 days and prayed with incredible fervor, yet harbored a grudge against a relative, an ex-spouse, or a former pastor, and their delay did not budge an inch because their fasting, as it rose toward heaven, was intercepted by the dossier of non-delay that the accuser presented to the court.

Now, my dear friends, here is the moment you have been waiting for. The psalm that the kingdom of darkness feared the most. The psalm that tears up the roots of delay. It is . Many Christians know for protection. They know for return to center. But very few know the nuclear power of against the spirit of delay. And there is a reason why the kingdom of darkness kept it hidden.

Look at the title of . It reads, "A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the Lord." This psalm was written by someone who was experiencing exactly what you are experiencing. Prolonged delay, deep discouragement, and the feeling that God is silent. But in verse 14, everything changes. The psalmist declares, "You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for the time of grace has come, for the appointed time has arrived."

This verse is a spiritual bombshell. When a Christian facing delay declares the appointed time has arrived with authority and faith, they invoke a spiritual law higher than any ancestral covenant, any spoken curse, or any legal right claimed by the enemy. They invoke God's timing. And when God's timing arrives, no force in heaven, on earth, or under the earth can hold it back.

Verse 16 continues, "The nations will fear the name of the Lord and all the kings of the earth your glory." This verse prophesies that when your delay is broken, it will not be a small quiet victory. It will be a spectacle. The people who despised you, they will see your rise and tremble. Those who said you would never succeed will witness your glory.

And verse 20 says, "He looked down from his sanctuary. The Lord looked from heaven to earth to hear the groans of the captives and to set free those appointed to death." You are not destined for stagnation. You are destined for deliverance.

In our coven, when a Christian began declaring for seven consecutive days, we would see the roots of delay begin to wither in the spiritual realm. The ancestral covenant would lose its hold. The words of cursing the person had spoken would begin to fade from the records. And by the seventh day, the roots were so dry that a mere breath from the Holy Spirit would reduce them to dust. The spirit of delay had nothing left to cling to. It was cast out, screaming into outer darkness.

Here is the exact protocol for activating against your delay.

First, close off any legal grounds. Before declaring the psalm, you must destroy the case file of the accusation. Begin with a prayer of repentance regarding ancestral covenants. Say, "Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent for every pact, covenant, and promise my ancestors made with the kingdom of darkness. I revoke and null and render them void through the blood of the new covenant."

Next, repent for your own words. Say, "Lord, forgive me for every word of cursing I have spoken over my own life. I revoke every negative decree. I am no longer self-cursed. From now on, my mouth shall speak life, not death."

Then forgive. Name each person you have not forgiven and say, "I choose to forgive [name]. I release this person from any debt owed to me and close the door that unforgiveness had opened."

Secondly, declare aloud once in the morning and once in the evening for seven consecutive days. Do not read it silently. Speak it as a decree of authority. Stop when you reach verse 14. Look at the heavens and say with all your heart, "My appointed time has arrived. The time of grace has come." Shout it if you must. Weep it if you must, but declare it.

Thirdly, after the seven days, prepare yourself. Because when the roots of delay are torn out, divine acceleration can be so rapid that you will be unprepared if you do not believe it. Doors will open. Phone calls you have been waiting for for years will come. People will seek you out without you having contacted them. Divine acceleration compensates for delay with interest.

If you have grasped the depth of this revelation, if you realize for the first time why your delay lasted so long, if you are ready to shut down legal grounds and declare over your life, I want you to announce it publicly. Go to the comments and write with authority: "My appointed time has arrived. I uproot every root of delay by the blood of Jesus." Write it down. Let heaven and earth bear witness to your decree.

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Let us conclude with a prayer of uprooting. Place your right hand on your head and lift your left hand toward heaven.

Heavenly Father, God of justice and mercy, in the almighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I stand in the gap for my brother and sister listening to this video. Lord, the delay has lasted a long time, years have been stolen, seasons wasted, tears shed in silence, but today the roots are exposed. In the name of Jesus, I revoke every ancestral covenant that gave the spirit of delay a legal right. I break the power of every word of curse spoken over their lives, whether from their own mouths or the mouths of others. I close the door to unforgiveness and release divine covering.

And now, Lord, I invoke over their destiny. The appointed time has arrived. The time of grace has come. May the roots of delay wither now like a cursed fig tree. May divine acceleration be released like a torrent. May the years the locust has devoured be restored with heavenly interest. May the nations witness their exaltation. And may the kings of the earth acknowledge your glory upon their lives in the invincible, all powerful and chain-breaking name of Jesus Christ, the lion of Judah. Amen.

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