Satan Is Trying To Dividing Us

And he’s doing a pretty good job at it.

The nature of God is love (1 John 4:8). He expects His people to be characterized by love (John 13:34-35). Anything that is not love but it associated with hate is of the devil and not God (1 John 3: 8-15).

The nature ofGod is peace (Philippians 4:6-9). He expects His people to be characterized by peace ( Romans 12:14-21). anything that is not of peace but is associated with discord is of the devil and not of God. (James 3:13-18, Proverbs 6:16-19).

The nature of God is unity (Ephesians 4:4-6). He expects His people to be characterized by unity ( 1 Corinthians 1:10, Philippians 4:2). Anything that is not of unity but it associated with division is of the devil and not of God.

The nature of God is truth (Deuteronomy 32:4). He expects His grace people to be characterized by truth (Ephesians 4:15, 3 John 3-4). Anything that is not of the truth but is associated with lies is of the devil and is not of God (John 8:44).

Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat is not the issue here.

Love, peace, unity and truth does not change.

These four divine qualities ought to help us to put what is happening in our culture into perspective. How much of what we see is of God? How much is of the devil? If we allow the things of this world to come into our,Ives , hijack our morals and values and even direct the affairs of our country , it is certain that the devil is behind it and working to divide us.

Here are three dangerous symptoms to guard against:

1. The devil is trying to divide us when we turn inward with fear instead of outward with faith. If the circumstances around us turn our faith into fear, that is not of God ( 2 Timothy 1:7-12). Though the outward circumstances of Christians in earlier times was dreadful , they still “went everywhere preaching the word” ( Acts 8:4). Does that describe us?

2. The devil is trying to divide us when we engage in accusing each other rather than loving them. It is easy perhaps, to allow a “root of bitterness “ to spring up beteeen each other and cause trouble ( Hebrews 12:14-15). But the very same context that warns us to not “bite and devour one another” also commands us “through love to serve one another “ and to “love your neighbor as yourself “ ( Galatians 5:13-15).

The nature of God is love, peace, unity and truth. He expects those same qualities to characterize His children. May God help us to not allow the devil to divide us…ever.

For any country to prevail it has to have love, peace, unity and truth. Not hate, lies, destruction and fear.

Our Father who is in heaven; hollowed be thy name, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Reasons Why People Shut Down Emotionally

Have you ever loved anyone that shuts down emotionally?

Loving someone who shuts down, stonewalls you or will not communicate, causes a difficult situation, particularly if you can tell by their lack of engagement that something is going on deep below the surface.

Alternatively, if you have shut down emotionally yourself, you might review some of the following reasons why people close themselves off.

I have in the past closed myself off, to prevent anyone from hurting me. The problem was It prevented anyone from loving me also. Because of my child emotional negative I found it easier to feel nothing rather that everything. It was a hard path, but it was the path I chose for myself for many years.

Here are some reasons why. If you know someone like this or you are like this. See if this rings true for you.

Fear Of Rejection

If you or someone you love has experienced trauma, voicing needs or feeling is a significant risk. Often people managing life after trauma feel vulnerable and expressing their feeling opens them up emotionally to additional pain or rejection.

Sharing feelings in the wake of trauma’s poses communication challenges since people processing complex emotions feel fear of opening the floodgates.

If you have ever experienced trauma, lost someone through death or divorce, you know what I’m talking about your feelings (or admit you have them) can trigger tears, anger, or other expressions that put others off.

After all, when someone has a strong emotional reaction, you might fear saying the wrong thing, or anything at all that will set them off.

Avoidant Attachment Adaptation

People with Attachment injury that lean toward Avoidant reflect their childhood trauma of, “You’re on your own.”

When we learn at an early age that our needs will not be met, or on,y sometimes be met (Ambivalent/Anxious), responding with shutdown is not just habitual, but also safe. If we become lost in the woods, we will go back to what we know as a default, though it may result in perpetual patterns that have never truly worked for us.

They Feel Guilty Or Judged

Both people with Ambivalent and Avoidance Attachment have difficulties with admitting they have needs or expressing them because they might not be met. Internally, this can manifest as a fear of judgement or further abuse, and even express itself in the guilt of having needs at all.

For Ambivalent,y attached people, they might tell you their feelings and then sabotage your res when it is not enough or “just right.”

What To Do When Someone You Love Shuts Down

It’s important to remember that helping loved ones, friends, express themselves effectively takes time – abs a come knowledge about how early attachment wounds impact dairy lives.

Here’s a few tips:

  • Be present and remember that their Avoidance likely has little to do with you.
  • Provide a safe place and remind them that you are available.
  • Keep your promises (they have had enough promises broken. It will on,y cause them to believe your like the others). Be available.
  • Put your judgement in the backseat.
  • Actively listen.
  • Provide abundant reassurance.

There is no universal recipes. seek advice and counsel from someone with Attachment experience to help.

My husband stayed with me for many years, I am sure it was very difficult at times. It ended in a iron strong marriage and we are inseparable now.

Timing Is Everything

Faith is an attitude we adopt between the time God gives us a promise and the moment when it’s for filled. We don’t live with instant gratification of every desire , or are able to instantly solve every painful situation in our lives.

What we can do however, is to search God’s Word for the promises He long for us to have. If we followed the example of Abraham: “Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God has promised him.” (Hebrews 6:15).

The timing of God is crucial. We mistakenly assume the moment God reveals His will be everything must happen immediately. Sometimes God gives us a glimpse of what He plans to do in the future. It is critical, however, that we trust Him to carry out His plans in the right timing. The worst thing to do is to take manners into our own hands.”

Henry T. and Richard Blackaby

The Lord doesn’t always answer our prayers immediately, but He can and will give us inner reassurance that He knows our need, feels our pain, and is quietly working in ways we are unable to see.

It’s important for us to remember that God never acts prematurely, and He is never late. God’s timing never leaves things unfinished, and it always produces the maximum effect.

Seducing Spirits

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons. -1 Timothy 4:1

If you want to please God and make it to Heaven, you must have knowledge of seducing spirits — dangerous a d deceitful spirits of the devil that influence your mind against the things of God.

Billions of seducing spirits have been turned loose on the human race in the final hour, and they are working day and night to convince everyone they can depart from the faith of God and His word.

I think this is wants happening to the world today,

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring Lion, walk about seeking who he may devour. – 1 Peter 5:8

The powers of darkness are so intense in this final hour that no one can sit on the fence with God; they will go God’s way or the devils way. If you don’t have the pure truth of God in your heart and mind and depend on that truth, you will go the wrong way.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart: and lean not on your understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. –Proverbs 3:5-6

Seducing spirits are lying spirits; And when they take over people, they reverse the truth in their mind and spirit and make it seem wrong. They present things that are faults as if they are the truth and make them sound completely believable. They tried to convince people that black is white and white is black, That falls through and through his faults so they can be led astray. Then before a person can put up a defense the spirits move to take over.

Without Conscience

People who are taken over by seducing spirits are without feeling. 1 Timothy 4:2 says they will speak lies of hypocrisy; having your conscience seared with a hot iron. They have no more feelings or gods people than demon to do; and like demons they want to destroy others. They are convinced that whatever the seducing spirit tell them is completely true, So they feel justified in saying whatever they want to; And they feel no condemnation and slandering others with their words.

Do you think you’re at how control of the people they possess, and those people then go forth to seduce others. They don’t care how many souls they destroy or how much hurt the work of God because they are completely deceived and vicious.

Can a Christian be taken over by seducing spirits? Yes because seducing spirits work through the mind. When a person is saved, his soul is sealed and protected with the blood of Jesus; but the mind is not. The devil seducing spirits can get into their mind and take it over completely. Then they drop into the soul, and the persons salvation is lost. If you don’t have the grace of God and the black Jesus abounding in your soul you are on dangerous ground. For by grace you are saved (Ephesians 2:8).

When Christians are taken over by seducing spirits, they turn against the truth of God and immediately become missionaries for the demo without even realizing they have been seduced. They want nothing more than to rob others of their place in God and causes them to step out of God’s will.

You must never let someone talk you out of your place with God because once you lose that place it will be very difficult to get back if ever. When the person leaves the truth and then returns he can be so humiliating it is hard for him to heal.

Some questions who have been seduced she’ll think they are doing God‘s work and walking in his divine will, But that is not the case. In fact they think they have certainly found a greater love and a greater message; and they feel good.

Did you go and make those who need God’s Will feel happy. Instead of being instruments of righteousness who build up God’s work, they tear it down; but the Bible says

Do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. – Romans 6:13,

Staying away from the seduced

True Christian care of God from the moment they are saying; but if the time comes and they certainly think that love is counterfeit, then they are being worked on by seducing spirits. Those spirits are trying to draw them out of the world and the love of God, and they will be snatched away and deceived before they realize what is happening. They will think the good church will once life Christian care of God from the moment they are saying; but if the time comes and they certainly think that love is counterfeit, then they are being worked on by seducing spirits. Those spirits are trying to draw them out of the world and the love of God, and they will be snatched away and deceived before they realize what is happening. They will think the good church will once lifeTrue Christian care of God from the moment they are saying; but if the time comes and they certainly think that love is counterfeit, then they are being worked on by seducing spirits. Those spirits are trying to draw them out of the world and the love of God, and they will be snatched away and deceived before they realize what is happening. They will think the good church will once lifeTrue Christian care of God from the moment they are saying; but if the time comes and they certainly think that love is counterfeit, then they are being worked on by seducing spirits. Those spirits are trying to draw them out of the world and the love of God, and they will be snatched away and deceived before they realize what is happening. They will think the good church they once liked so much is no longer a place of love And that they finally found real love and their true calling.

Don’t ever feel you can associate with those who have seducing spirits and are not affected. The more you listen to them, the more chance there is that you will take on one of those spirits. That is why the Lord tells us seven different times and revelation. “He that has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says.” (Revelation 2:7,11,17, 29 ; 3;6,13, 22).

Can you think spirit are like maggots – They leak into the mind as fast as they can to prevent people from looking for the truth And take everything to the word of God. That is why it is so essential to live in the truth, be saved and baptized in the Holy Spirit and be yielded completely to him. You can have nothing in your life that is unlike God.

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. – Galatians 6:7

Seeking God In The Hard Times

Have you ever been in a difficult trial and you know that you were in that trial because of your own sin? You knew that you should cry out to God for help, but you were afraid to do it because of your sin. Or maybe your problems were not due to deliberate sin, but because of immaturity or the choices you have made. Even though you have prayed for guidance and wisdom. I know I have done some things in my life that have gotten me in a heap of trouble? I’m sure we’ve all done it. But what should we do in such times?

In my immaturity, I have done some pretty stupid things. While I know there will always be consequences to the decisions I’ve made.

We’ve all made mistakes.

Psalm 25 teaches us to seek God in the hard times, no matter what the reason we are in those hard times. No matter what we feel. Psalm 25 tells us “if any one lacks wisdom, we need to ask God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But we must ask God in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed in the wind. James 12:3 tells us by faith to seek God and His wisdom in our trials. That’s also what David tells in Psalm 25:

“No matter how difficult your trials are or what their cause, seek the Lord for Him wisdom and trust Him to work His glory for your good.

Psalm 25

The fact is God’s people often find themselves in difficult, frightening circumstances.

While we can’t be certain about David’s circumstances in Psalm 25, we can be certain of his repeated references to his sins, including the sins of his youth, he must have been older. Since his sin with Bathsheba and the murder of her husband led to the events of Absolom’s revolt, it was probably written during that episode,

David’s has treacherous enemies that seeking to kill him. David had many enemies and they hated him with violence. They have gained the upper hand and verse 19 tells us that David’s feet have already been caught in their net. This is when felt lonely and afflicted and his troubles were growing worse. But his repeated requests for God teach him imply that he is confused in the midst of the mess he was in.

In our walk with God many of us I’m may ask ourselves “I been following the Lord and being obedient why am I experiencing all of these trials. But if you read your Bible. Many of the most godly men and women in the Bible went through difficult trials. All the years I have been a Christian I have learned sometimes the difficult circumstances that we face are due to our own sin or shortcomings.

In Psalm 25:7 David prays, “ Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions.” Apparently his sins later in life dredged up the sins that he had committed in earlier years, and he cry’s out “( For your name’s sake O Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.”

The closer we draw to the Lord, the more hideous the sins that we’ve committed in our life appear. Some off my sins from my earlier days keep coming back to haunt me. I think how could I have done those things? What was I thinking. The answer is I wasn’t thinking. But at the same time I know God had my back and was protecting me. God’s grace kept me from doing some things that could have had far more serious circumstances.

I try not to dwell on those sins, because I know I have been forgiven. But they still come to mind it reminds me how corrupt my heart not only was but still is (I am still susceptible to the same sins) I thank God for His great love that sent His son to bear my penalty for those sins. And I realize my huge need for grace and my need to extend God’s grace for other, as He had done for me.

We are all sinners, and when we recognize sin, we need to repent and turn away from that sin to receive God’s forgiveness and grace. It’s a daily battle that we must keep fighting until the Lord takes us home.

Nocturnal Panic Attacks: What Causes Them

Have you ever been awakened by a panic attack? Up until recently I had my doubts.

Nighttime or nocturnal panic attacks can occur with no obvious trigger and waking you from your sleep. As with daily panic attacks you may experience sweating, rapid heart rate trembling, and shortness of breath, hyperventilation, chills and a sense of impending doom. These alarming signs and symptoms can mimic a heart attack or other serious medical conditions. I was awakened last night in pure panic. I was scared, and confused. I have recently been having issues with high blood pressure along with stressing over my son who is over 2000 miles away from me. So of course I had to do some research.

Nocturnal panic attacks usually last only a few minutes, but it takes time to calm down and sleep after you have had one. I wrapped myself up in a heated throw and that seemed to calm me down quickly. (like a warm hug). People who have nocturnal panic attacks also tend to have panic attacks during the day. Which I haven’t had in a very long time hence this is why I was scared and confused.

It is not known What causes panic attacks. Underlying factors may include genetics, stress and certain changes in the way part of your brain work. Some cases and underlying condition such as a sleep disorder, thyroid problem“ panic like signs and symptoms. The research said Can you talk with your doctor about the symptoms and were there any other tests for a possible underlying condition.

Do you know who stated that treatment for this is cognitive behavioral therapy or medication or both and help with rent panic attacks and reduce their intensity when they do occur.