Former psychic medium Jenn Nizza exposes the doors we open without knowing it and points us to the One who closes them .
Jenn Nizza has walked where most of us never will. For years, she was a psychic medium. Today she warns the church about what she left behind in her new book, Darkness in Disguise: A Biblical Warning About Spiritual Deception in Our Culture.
I’ll be honest. This interview was personal for me.
It Started with an Open Door
For Jenn, the supernatural was dinner-table talk. Lights flickered, objects moved, and her mother, raised around a psychic aunt, took it in stride. “Those were the open doors inviting demonic entities into the home,” Jenn told me. At 12, she had premonitions. At 13, a tarot card reading became “the gateway, full force, into divination.”
Her story stirred something in me. I’ve known since childhood the fight between darkness and light is real, and for a long time, that knowledge made me afraid.
“It’s just an open door,” Jenn said gently. “Without the protection of the Lord, you can’t discern the authentic from the counterfeit. And every time you step into divination, you’re inviting more in.”
Whose Voice Is That?
So what exactly is a psychic? “A psychic is somebody who gets a counterfeit prophecy,” she said, information from “familiar spirits” that have watched families for generations. “The tarot cards don’t know anything. They’re just cardboard with paintings.”
Here’s what I know: we all hear both voices, the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. So the question I care about most is how we tell the difference. Jenn admits the line can blur, even for believers. “The enemy can trick you so craftily into thinking, ‘You’re a Christian, so this is okay, and this is prophecy,'” she said. “And then it turns into really psychic communication, ’cause you have not discerned properly.”
Her answer is to test every spirit (1 John 4:1). “We need to test every idea, concept, practice, person,” she said. “Instead of just signing up for the thing, we need to look into it.”
Then she offered hope. “You know what the good news is?” she said. “When you’re truly born again, you don’t have to fear. You come into the battle from a position of victory.”
It Starts with a Cookie
I asked Jenn about the gateways we might never recognize as gateways. Her list was longer than I expected, and much of it has settled comfortably inside the church: “manifesting,” New Age visualization, Reiki, zodiac talk in the fellowship hall, even fortune cookies.
Let me be clear: cracking open a fortune cookie after dinner isn’t going to send anyone to hell. Neither is buying a pretty stone, though I’ll admit even that makes me a little nervous. Jenn put me at ease there. Crystals “are not evil. They’re God’s creation. They’re beautiful. But don’t worship them.” Some of these things are so tiny.
That’s the thing about a gateway: it doesn’t look like much. It’s the path it opens that matters. “Until you get the fortune that resonates with you, and now you wanna hunt it out,” Jenn said. “See how it can start like this little innocent thing and blow up before you even realize it.” The question isn’t whether the cookie or the stone is evil. It’s whether you give it power, or let it make you curious enough to keep moving to the next level.
On yoga, she was firm: “Christian yoga, holy yoga. Oxymoron.” In an exercise class where a pose sneaks in? “Sit it out. You serve God, not that instructor. And pray for the people around you.”
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
I told Jenn about a dream. Everyone around me was drinking green Kool-Aid at a big party. I drank too, then looked in a mirror and saw my eyes spiraling. I was blind to everything that was actually happening in the room—things that would normally make me feel convicted.
“That makes a lot of sense,” Jenn said. “If you’re drinking the Kool-Aid, you can’t see spiritually clear.”
That dream clarified everything. Most of us aren’t setting out to become witches or mediums. We’re simply sipping what’s handed to us until our vision blurs. The enemy is an orchestrator of confusion, and confusion is the Kool-Aid.
Victory Defeats Fear, Every time
For years, I lived with fear, convinced the devil was around every corner. Learning that I don’t have to be afraid, because God is on my side, took time. Jenn put words to what I’ve come to know. “He says more than anything in the Bible, ‘Do not fear.’ It’s a command,” she said, one given “to give us freedom and rest.” We don’t need to fear demons. “We need to be aware of them, so that we can avoid it and keep going.” We don’t fight for victory. We speak from the victory we live.
Her mission isn’t to condemn. Scripture tells us to expose the fruitless deeds of darkness (Ephesians 5:11), and that’s where her job ends. “What you do with the information,” she said, “is between you and the Lord.”
Even if You Don’t Agree with the List
You may not agree with everything here. That’s okay. Don’t take my word for it, or Jenn’s. Bring it to the Lord.
The practice you love, the show your kids watch, the habit you’ve never questioned: bring it to Him. “There is nothing you’re holding onto that’s better than Jesus,” Jenn said. And if you lay something down, “He is a good provider. He will restore what you lost.”
God does not manipulate. He does not trick us. When we ask and seek in prayer and in His Word, we will know the truth, and it will never contradict Scripture.
So whatever you’re wondering about today, bring it to the Lord.
Jenn Nizza’s book, Darkness in Disguise, is available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold. Learn more at www.expsychicsaved.com.
Amber Weigand-Buckley is the founding editor of LH, as well as a bestselling and award-winning author, newspaper columnist, podcaster and mental health advocate. Find out more at shortyellowpencilRX.com.
