Secondly we need to understand how demons and evil spirits operate. Demons are disembodied beings, they have no physical means of expressing their character, desires or personality traits. So to get around this limitation they seek to influence people so that they will express or live out the demon’s character and desires.
For example a spirit of murder seeks to influence a person to commit murder, once that person begins to entertain that thought on a regular basis, they can end up making agreement with the spirit of murder. The mechanism of turning that evil desire into a physical reality is set in motion.
This can happen on an individual level but also on a community level where whole communities are under the influence of a strong spirit that affects them. An example of this would be the Rwandan massacre of the Tutsi minorities by the Hutu malicias in 1994 where an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 people were murdered or the Nazi massacre of the Jews in WW2 where and estimated 6 million Jews were murdered.
As individuals, we have to recognize that people in Gods eyes are sovereign and free to make their own decisions, good or bad. We can discuss and debate with them to our heart’s content on the virtues or merits of a decision, opinion or desire but we are never given leave by God to force, coerce or manipulate them into agreement with us, that’s what demons do, that’s witchcraft.
We have been given power over our own body and just as importantly our own mouth, we are responsible for our lives and our words. If we allow others to force us into agreement we are succuming and submitting to a spirit of witchcraft and giving up the authority over our own lives to others. Whatever is not conviction is sin. i.e. when we are led to do something we have no conviction about, or worse, disagree with, we fall into sin because we surrender our authority and submit to something other than the Holy Spirit in us. Whatever we do, good or bad we will be held accountable in the end, that is why it is important to safeguard our authority and carefully consider what and who we make agreement with.
Christ has given us freedom for the sake of freedom, only free men can freely love.
Whatever we make agreement with has power over us.
See also Jezabel and the moral revolution article which talks more about the power of agreement.