Foothold -

According to various theological and spiritual perspectives, intense negative emotions like hatred, anger, and bitterness can create a “foothold” or “open door” that allows demonic entities to influence, attach to, or torment an individual. Rather than “creating” new entities from scratch, these emotions are believed to attract existing negative, spiritual forces that feed on, and amplify, such toxic behaviors. If you step on the devil’s territory, he has every right to harass you, hurt you, and torment you. If you feel a lot of hate, it can manifest as angry outbursts, anxiety, depression, and/or PTSD. Hate is a normal human emotion, but it can become dangerous if there is a lack of self-reflection or self-awareness about it. It can be hard to distinguish hate from other powerful negative emotions that you may be feeling at the same time. Some psychologists say what makes hate different is that it’s directed toward who or what someone or something is, rather than what they’ve done. Anger and revenge come from wanting to change a behavior or situation, or to fix or repay a wrong. But with hate, you believe the person or thing on the receiving end can’t be changed, and you want to eliminate or destroy it AND THAT is when an individual is likely to do something stupid

Breakdown of the belief that hatred can invite demonic influence:

Emotional “Footholds”: Persistent, intense hatred acts as a, in biblical terms, “foothold” for spiritual influence, where a person stops merely experiencing anger and begins to align their will with destructive, demonic, or, as some might call them, “evil” desires.
“Opening Doors”: Negative emotions and behaviors, including deep-seated rage, resentment, and unforgiveness, are often described as “open doors” that give demons permission to operate in a person’s life.
Feeding the Spirits: Demonic entities are believed to thrive on negative energy and, specifically, to “feed” off of, in some traditions, emotions such as anger and, in others, malice.
Witchcraft and Curses: In some traditions, extreme, focused hatred can be used to direct, for example, “evil”, for instance, spirits, or, say, demons, onto a target, sometimes through, as they say, “witchcraft” or, perhaps, other forms of, for example, occult, for instance, practice.
Escalation: These entities, as it were, may not force their will, but, in many, for example, traditions, they, as they say, “suggest” it, using, say, temptation, as it were, to, for example, increase, for instance, the original, for example, hatred, or, for example, to, for instance, provoke, for example, a, for instance, fight, or, for example, to, for instance, lead, for example, to, for instance, a, for instance, violent, for instance, outburst, as it were,.

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The Eleven Doors that lead to demons according to Vladimir Savchuk Ministries:

1. Generational Curses

Another way of saying it is demons that were inherited through the bloodline. For instance, if someone in the family did witchcraft and never repented and broke that off of their family, then those demons have been passed on generationally.

The same is true when it comes to abuse or different forms of addictions.

2. An Unwanted Pregnancy

If the child in the womb is hated, not desired, or rejected since birth by the parents or the family, then that gets transmitted to the child. This opens the door for a spirit of rejection to affect the child throughout their life. It also manifests through rebellion as the child grows up.

3. Growing Up in a Broken Home

When a child grows up in a broken home, it does not only create emotional and cognitive issues, but also spiritual ones. As the child is faced with uncertainty and pressures that they are not equipped to handle at such a young age, demons can use this instability to harass and torment the child/person. This environment is a facilitator for the spirit of anger and hatred to come in at a very young age.

4. Involvement in the Occult

When you dabble into the occult, you are choosing to blatantly engage with the demonic. The occult ranges from astrology, witchcraft, tarot cards, black/white magic, ouija boards, horoscopes, talking to the dead etc.

Even though our culture seems to have accepted, and even embraced these practices, Scripture has not changed, and continues to condemn it and the practice of it.

5. Taking Part in a False Religion

There are some believers that desire to learn about other religions saying that they want to win those people to the Lord. Now, this is a good thing to a certain point. There is a certain line that must be kept in order to refrain from opening the doors to demons, because what can end up happening is that a believer will begin to study the other religion so much that they become so open minded and accept all truths, that they start to deny what the Bible claims. That is where it gets dangerous and could lead to deception.

6. Bringing Demonic Objects Into Your Life

The spiritual world is real, and spiritual power can flow through people, places, animals and objects. In fact, the Bible shows us that God used Moses’s rod, the waters of Jordan to heal, the saliva of Jesus to open the eyes of the blind and even the handkerchief of Paul. God can use any avenue to bring about healing. In the same way, the enemy can use objects to bring about his plans of destruction to your life.

This includes occult books, things that have been ritually “cleansed”, charms, dreamcatchers, etc. By bringing these items into your home, you are opening your life and your home to the demonic.

7. Abuse

This is probably the most common open door in the West. Abuse causes deep inner wounds that give way for demons to cause further torment for that individual.

As unfair as this is, we must understand that the spiritual world works in accordance to spiritual laws. When an abuse happens, it automatically opens a door for a demon.

8. Illicit Sexual Encounters

Sex is not just a physical act, it has spiritual repercussions. Because it is spiritual in nature, it affects the soul, the mind, and the emotions.

An individual become one flesh, according to Scripture, with the partner they come together with (1 Cor. 6:16).

Demons can be transferred from one person to another by partaking in sexual acts outside of marriage.

9. Abortion

When we commit an injustice towards others it brings a curse upon our life. The Bible is very clear in saying that murder is sin, and therefore brings about a curse on our lives (Matthew 5:21-22).

10. Ungodly Entertainment

When we begin to fill up our time and out life with ungodly sources of entertainment, they could lead the way to an open door. Movies, T.V. shows, and music are all portals that satan can use to influence the minds of people. If you are not careful about what you watch and listen to, its influence will become stronger in your life.

11. A Moment of Weakness

The devil looks for moments of weakness to try and enter into our lives. We’re not perfect people, and sometimes we can snap, act in a way that is not right, or watch something we shouldn’t have. When we don’t repent to God and to the person we hurt, and then change our behavior, then that’s where it could become an open door. This happens when the person chooses the sin instead of turning from it.