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Topic: CONSPIRACY (01/21/21)
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TITLE: Manipulating the Results | Previous Challenge Entry
By Ramona Cook
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Conspiracies happen everyday on a massive scale and in smaller situations.
The full purpose of Barjesus or Elymas, the satanist, was to prevent Sergius Paulus from accepting Jesus as his Savior. Elymas failed because Paul was given insight from God to perceive his plan and effectually stop him without killing him.
II Corinthians 10: 4-5, Matthew 16: 19
C. S. Lewis wrote an entire *book exposing the manipulating tactics of demons, who do their work through human beings who either knowingly, or unknowingly cooperate with them.
It is difficult for any one of us to think of ourselves as one that cooperates with Satan’s plans to destroy another person. However, unless we are keenly aware of the “conspiracy plan,” we will be duped into being a tool of the devil for just that purpose.
The most covert tools of destruction are, believe it or not, our words. Likewise, our spoken words can prevent the destruction of those things of which God approves by blocking what the minions of Hell have designed.
We follow Jesus’ examples. He prayed often and long speaking to God in Heaven. He “spoke” and things changed, the deaf heard, the lame walked, withered arms were restored, the dead were raised, dreaded diseases, like leprosy were immediately healed, demons released their captives.
The most frequent arena for this “manipulation of results” is the place we live and within the group of those we call family. It is here that we build up or tear down with the daily input of words. It is here that we form other persons opinions of what they are and how they should perform. It is especially true of the children who live in the group whose minds are being newly programmed by words, the things they see and hear.
By the words we speak we either block the devils from their plans for destruction or we give them our permission to work their evil plans. It’s the WORDS we SPEAK.
What we accept and give authority to will be the end result.
I believe this FACT, of what we bind and loose by our words is “The keys to the Kingdom of Heaven.” Again, Matthew 16: 19.
We are to enforce God’s Kingdom on Earth by NOT giving our authority to the evil ones by releasing to them permission to destroy, and, WHILE we DO speak God’s Will and block the evil activities.
Another book that is dynamic in presenting the effects that damaging words have on a person’s mind is, *The Soul of Shame. The author is a professional medical doctor who presents case histories of the effect that accusations and actions create, which take root in a human soul.
During my time of teaching in the prison system of young men ages 17 to 21, I found that great harm had been done to them as children. Some of them were open enough to mention it. I found, or did I hear it from someone else ??, that a healing process for them was to deny the harsh words by recalling them and speaking disapproval of the accusation, OUT LOUD. Wherever the idea for that procedure came from, it is effective.
If some one hurt us by saying, “You are just a bad person, you will never amount to anything.” Things of this type are said to children who get on their parents nerves.
We must, in recalling it say out loud, “I do not receive that bad word, that is not who I am.”
There is no replacement for the Word of God, our Holy Bible, for the correct programming of our mind, soul, psyche. Without a doubt that is why we are instructed by Paul to RENEW, reprogram, our minds daily by the input of the water of the WORD. Romans 12: 2, Psalm 119: 9, John 15: 3,
In the Bible God tells us, with great love, WHO we are. As any loving Father, God points out to us the pitfalls and places by which the devil would try to dupe us, to drag us down, and to destroy us. Too often those instructions are seen as God being mean and straight laced; but NO, it is God being a good Father trying to tell us HOW to life successfully on this earth.
* 1 The Screwtape Letters
HarperCollins Publishers
www.harpercollins.com
*2 The Soul of Shame
curtthompsonmd.com
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