I Fought a Love Spell for 18 Months — 3 Days Later, This Happened

Summary

The narrator describes an 18-month period of intense, unwanted thoughts and attraction toward a woman he had met only a few times. He says he told his wife, and they prayed together. This brought temporary relief, but the thoughts returned.

He interpreted the experience, along with disturbing dreams and conflict in a small house church, as spiritual attacks and eventually as a “love spell.” These are the narrator’s religious interpretations, not independently verified explanations.

He recounts growing suspicious of several people around the church because of behavior he saw as inconsistent with their professed faith. After disagreements about a congregant, Mary, he ended the house church and cut ties with Philip.

The narrator says he continued to have intrusive thoughts about Jane and tried fasting and prayer. On what he describes as the fifth day of a fast, he watched a church-service recording he had previously avoided because it intensified his longing. He says he prayed against the attachment, felt it leave, and considered himself free.

Three days later, John called with news that Philip had found Jane with another man, assaulted him, and gone to jail. The narrator presents this as connected to his spiritual struggle, but the video does not establish that connection.

Strategies and Lessons the Narrator Emphasizes

• Seek support from a trusted partner: He shared his thoughts with his wife, who prayed with him, and says this helped temporarily.
• Use prayer and fasting as religious practices: He describes relying on both to seek guidance and resist what he believed was a spiritual influence. His account of an extended fast is personal testimony, not general health advice; prolonged fasting can carry health risks.
• Pay attention to patterns and actions: He says he learned to compare people’s behavior with their words rather than accepting claims of faith at face value.
• Set boundaries: He describes ending relationships and closing the house church when trust and conflict became serious concerns.
• Avoid fueling unwanted thoughts: He initially avoided rewatching a recording because it intensified his longing, then later watched it as part of the prayer process he describes.
• Resist retaliation: He says he did not wish harm on the people involved and urges listeners to avoid hatred, keep their faith, and leave judgment to God.
• Choose carefully whom to trust and admit into one’s close community: This is the narrator’s central practical takeaway.

The video offers a spiritual explanation for intrusive thoughts, dreams, and interpersonal events. It does not provide clinical evidence for that explanation or discuss other possible causes.

Presenters and Sources

• Presenter/narrator: Marc, of Deep Waters with Marc
• Reported source of the later phone call: John
• Religious sources referenced: The Bible, including 1 Corinthians 5, the parable of the wheat and the tares, and the teaching “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
• Book mentioned: Exposed, described by the narrator as his book.