In this episode, Dr. Delisa Rodgers unpacks the often-misunderstood concept of familiar influences and why they are more dangerous than overt spiritual attacks. Drawing from Scripture and Hebrew insight, this teaching explains how familiar influences gain access through repetition, proximity, emotional attachment, and history, blending into what feels normal, reasonable, and safe. Listeners will explore the Hebrew word ʾōb from Leviticus 19:31 and learn why familiar spirits are described as echoes rather than original voices. Through biblical examples including Saul and the witch of Endor, Israel in the wilderness, Samson and Delilah, Job’s friends, and Peter’s rebuke of Jesus, this episode reveals how discernment is slowly weakened not by force, but by comfort. This episode challenges the idea that clarity comes only during fasting and reframes fasting as a tool that removes interference rather than produces discernment. The teaching emphasizes that God’s voice is consistent, living, and relational, while familiar influences are predictable, contained, and rooted in habit. If you have ever felt clarity rise and fall, questioned your spiritual sensitivity, or sensed confusion that seemed to return after seasons of discipline, this episode will help you identify what was never God and reclaim stable, Spirit-led discernment. Key Scriptures: Leviticus 19:31, 1 Samuel 28, Exodus 16, Judges 16, Job 42:7, Matthew 16:23, Jeremiah 2:13 Theme: Discernment does not come and go. Interference does. Visit www.delisarodgers.com for more resources.