WHO IS TALKING TO YOU?

 

WHOSE VOICE ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

HAVE HOPE, JESUS WILL HELP YOU

Sometimes I wonder, why do I think the way I do? Why can I see or hear something even in the secular and it takes me to scripture. Here I am at 74 and I still can not unsee the word of God. I see on social media things, memes people posts and they sound good, but they are twisted and in the twisting the truth is changed. I find I want to correct, but trying not to anymore, people don't appreciate that. LOL

I often wonder how many Christians truly understand who our enemy is and how he operates?  Deceived into thinking, he is already in Hell or can cause a Christian no harm. Yet, he can't possess us but he can oppress us in our minds, he can whisper his filthy lies, his lying darts into our thoughts. Now that one we need to learn, what is our own flesh speaking our wants, our way, our stubbornness; what are Satan's demonic thoughts entering in to either tempt us or plant his lies to bring doubt of God and an offense of others and to make us feel unwanted, unloved and useless, condemning us by making us feel guilty; then there is when Jesus speaks, He never condemns but He will bring conviction, He never goes against His written word, He speaks His instructions and He expects our immediate obedience. The very thing I enjoy the most is just sitting in His presence not really talking but knowing His presence is with me because I am at peace. Like right now as I am writing it's like He watching everything I am typing and that's what I want.

Satan and his demons are very real, they are pursuing those in hopes of devouring them. Satan is known by many names: the old dragon, our adversary, the deceiver, devil and more. But at one time he was a created angel created to serve God. In Isaiah it speaks of him and his fall, because of his pride, his 5 "I will". Then in Ezekiel 28:13-19 we have a description of the beauty of his creation by God and again the account of his fall. When he was cast out of heaven he took with him 1/3 of the angels, known as the fallen angels, worded more accurately "Demons". Like a military Satan is their commander and chief and there are very specific things that his army of demons specialize in.

Though we live in a fallen world, sickness and disease can come into our lives in many ways, consequences of our making, being around someone who is sick and catching it from them, hereditary, unknown reason and some infirmity sent by the spirit of infirmity.  Yet, in all that Jesus is still our Healer.

Offense can come on us when we get our feelings hurt, and we dwell on what we perceived another did or didn't do, or said or didn't say. A spirit of offense quickly comes to speak his deception into our ears and thoughts. His sole purpose is to divide and separate, to stop the move of God. Many years ago I was watching a child's cartoon "My Little Pony", a character on there all the ponies did not want around was this serpent looking character by the name of Discord, his purpose was to bring arguments among the ponies ushering in strife and division in the land. There you go a perfect example of a demon called "the spirit of discord", active in families, among friends, in churches, and in a nation. Can you see it?

Depression is very real, sometimes it is hormonal, some physical issue that can be treated by counseling and medication. Then there is always a spirit of depression who brings along his side kick the spirit of suicide. These two demonic spirits desire to isolate its victims and filling their minds with things that are not what God thinks about them, but could be old memories from even childhood much wrong perception of what was said. And then the enemy will send lying deceiving thoughts to bring their victim even deeper into depression, as mentioned in earlier writing above.

Then I watched just recently the last episode of an old TV series. But it was about a small group of people who could see beyond the natural and recognize demonic creatures, and worked as a team to destroy. Oh by the way demons cannot be killed, but they have to bow and leave at the name of Jesus. Yet, there was some truth about how demons operate, one in particular. The spirit of despair; the show established a scene, where the victim was taken mentally and in their mind they were found in a courtroom with their accuser, reminding them of all their past sins, over and over again until the victim was in such despair and so distraught, that in their mind people were shouting "he deserves to die", still in his mind suddenly  the room was empty a noose was hanging in front of him, one last time his accurser said "you know what to do"! The victim could not hear his friends shouting at him as he began to put the noose around his neck (still in his mind, but very real to him) until this one voice reached him with these simple words "do not give up on hope". This secular scene is exactly how a demonic spirit works today. To isolate, to take the mind captive, to accuse, to beat down, to bring one into a valley of despair, to bring up the past and condemn, and say "your only way out is to die", but it only takes one person to come in and speak HOPE, our hope is found in Jesus, who never condemns, if we are a Christian all our past sins have been forgiven and forgotten by God the Father, Jesus God the Son and the Holy Spirit. I have a new name to cast out in prayer when I need to. Because the spirit of despair goes beyond depression, it goes to that place where suicide comes. So the spirit of depression does not operate with just the spirit of suicide, he operates also with the spirit of despair. Know how to pray against demonic spirits that are as active today as they were in Jesus day. There are many other names I will not get into.

Satan and his demons, do not have all authority, no they have limited authority and as for a believer they only have what we allow them to have in our lives and our thoughts. My pastor once said that these darts of Satan into our minds are like concrete blocks, and as we dwell and accept them we add mortar to each thought until we build a wall that holds our mind prisoner. The scripture tells us not to give the devil an opportunity to come in. We do this by guarding our thoughts making certain we recognize the lie because we stay in the word and recognize the truth, what we listen to, what we watch, how we speak. Proverbs 18:21 death and life are in the power of the tongue and what we say we will eat.

Guard the gateways to our inner man. 

This scripture was what I went to after I saw that about the spirit of despair. Pay attention to how  certain words are put together

2 Corinthians 1:8-9 For we do not want you to be ignorant brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia; that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. Yes we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Did you see it? "They despaired even of life", "they had the sentence of death in ourselves", but look where they put their Hope in God and who God is.

One more spirit I wanted to mention, because when I heard its name I recalled something my pastor once said .

Hell is always hungry and the church doesn't even want to eat. Comes from Isaiah 5:14. Hell is hungry for souls, and her mouth is opened wide. But the church is so complacent many are content not to go any deeper with Christ. Sunday morning is enough. So now we see the spirit of hunger, as recorded and revealed in 1 Peter 5:8 tells us the devil is walking around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.

This didn't start out as being a blog post, but just a journal of what I was seeing. In fact I had made the decision not to do another blog post. I guess God had other ideas because I knew He was working in this. For who and why I do not know.

❤️❤️❤️