📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. The attacks that happened to me back in July 1998 - December 1998 I eventually did find out the “why”. I resigned from my job and then there was a delay in the move out-of-state so I quickly found a local temporary job. Apparaently the person who wanted the position that I was hired for became resentful H.R. went to the outside and she had to report to me. I didn’t know that she resented me nor did I realize she practiced witchcraft. All she mentioned her favorite tv programs were “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” and “Charm”. We got paid weekly and had to fax over our timesheets to payroll, which was in another building 6 miles away. I worked a lot of overtime and my hours were different every week. I was the only one in the dept that was not getting reimbursed correctly for my hours. They had to keep adjusting the difference in the next week check. This went on every week for 6 months. So she knew that curse she put on me was working because I would ask others if their paychecks were correct and everybody (30 something people) said they didn’t have a problem. However, when the weird junk started to happen in my home ... that I never talked about. I would just go into work with a smile on my face and say “Good Morning” even though I was dead tired because I wasn’t getting my full sleep. At Christmas time I gave her a small gift and a card and inserted a Bible tract. She bursted into tears and said you have been so kind to me and then said she did some awful things to me. I said what do you mean? She then revealed she was putting curses on me. It just shocked me that she was the one because she put on a very good act and I never suspected her. I then said “well, I hope you realize you are worshipping a defeated foe ... Jesus Christ is God and is more powerful than satan.” She said yes. She probably thought none of the home junk was working because I didn’t talk about it. I don’t know if she ever got saved because I put in my notice soon after that for the big move out-of-state and she had the nerve to say “I’m going to miss you.” :wacko: She was actually fired 2 weeks after the Christmas conversation we had. I learned a lot through that trial. Perhaps it's because we aren't at the 7th trumpet yet: "Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.” Unfortunately, we are still in the stage described as "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God." James 4:7 Submit therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Ephesians 6:11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 3:10 His purpose was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms. Colossians 2:15 And having disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. Eph 6: 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places. Luke 10:19 See, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” 1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power. Also: Heavy stuff for sure! Satan accuses the bretheren night and day and doesn't seem to need permission in each instance. What Adam and Eve lost in the Garden keeps theologians and prophets alike busy. It seems to me, the greater challenge is to try and understand the Lord's heart in all matters. Sadly, because of our failure in the Garden and every day since Satan is allowed certain liberties. It is firstly understood that our time upon the face of the Earth is a time of testing! Just as Adam & Eve were tested. Before the Father invites us into His home He wants to know our hearts. The angels rebelled against God while abiding in God's home. Having been made a little lower than the angels, God knew that it was simply a matter of time before we also would rebel. But God chose that we should do so in our home and not His! With regards to testing, trials, sifting, and demonic attacks they are what we must endure in this realm. Many teachers and self proclaimed prophets have offered up some interesting doctrinal truths to try and explain such matters. Some categorize, some pigeon hole, and some teach that the lack is with us. Whether we lack in faith, understanding, or the ability to appropriate and manipulate scripture! Sadly, the Church must endure many things. As such we are instructed to pray without ceasing, test all things, be led by His Spirit and trust in the goodness and sovereignty of God! Whether we must deal with God's orchestrating the testing and working out of our faith or contend with doctrines of demons and Satan's lying signs and wonders! For if it were possible, even the elect could be deceived. Many indeed are deceived already, and have fallen away from much truth. There is no lack of spiritual landmines that we as believers must negotiate. Sadly, many of these landmines and pitfalls are presented & taught by the Church! Again, my understanding of scripture, my doctrines and my theology doesn't save me. Nothing but the blood of Christ! With regards to "deception" which all of us fears, I would think the greatest and most destructive would be self deception. Others may fool me, Satan may fool me, but if I knowingly fool myself then my foolishness is my folly alone! Sadly while so many today chase after the latest teaching and the newest of doctrines, I will ever press in to know the Lord's heart! Like David, to be a man after God's own heart reveals the greatest of truths! Firstly we must inquire to know the heart of God, then to imitate God's heart. Isn't this what Christ did, imitate the Father's heart? Because God is resolute to insure that our hearts are right before He lets us into His home. So too is Satan resolute in trying to keep as many of us from ever knowing the Lord's heart! Our whole existence is about only one thing. Accepting and entering into this Divine romance the Lord offers to us!!! TR I don't know of anywhere it in Scripture it tells us to use the blood of Jesus as a weapon. It does say we overcome through His blood, which means that because of the cross we are redeemed from the power of sin and receive salvation. That is the means by which we are cleansed and become children of God. It does not tell us we can invoke the blood to rid a place of demonic influence. Perhaps in a secondary sense, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can petition the Lord for some relief. Nevertheless, Paul asked the Lord several times to remove from him the "thorn in the flesh," a messenger from Satan sent to buffet him. Even Satan, when he was tempting Jesus in the wilderness, only left "for a more opportune time."
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