Be Confident in Declining What God has not Commanded

If someone becomes angry because we declined an offer we know that the offer came with a hook. Never feel bad about having reasonable boundaries that you live by.

There will always be those who think you have insulted them by saying "no thank you" to their desire for us to do something. When we experience this we know the motive was not pure and the offer was not for our good but only theirs.

I am happy to be on board with someone when God is telling me to do it, however, I am not pleased with pressure to do things God never told me to do.

Never feel guilty if you have to say no to someone else's agenda.

God will tell us what He wants when He wants it, people are not our bosses, only Christ is our Authority, when He speaks we know it.

When the Holy Spirit speaks to us there is no doubt and no pressure needed from others. Others may suggest things to us that we pray about but their pressure should never be the reason we do something.

Acts 5:29

"29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."

Those who do not support our decision to hear from God cannot be our companions. They will expect us to do their bidding rather than seek Christ in us.

Peer pressure to honor cultural Christianity will always lead down a path of disobedience, don't go there, stay on the path God has for you even if no one else goes with you or supports you.

Mark 6:11

"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that place, as a testimony against them.""

Keep your companions those who love God as you love Him and desire to obey Him as you desire to obey Him. Everyone else will be a distraction.

Doing Things Our Own Way Does Not Please God

There are those who use Moses holding up the serpant in the wilderness as an excuse to have idols they bow to, this is foolishness.

God commanded to look at the surpant in the wilderness and the people misused it.
John 3:13-15 "…13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.…"

 
It is far different for God to tell someone to observe something than it is for man to decide for himself what he will pay homage to.

 
Making up our own ideas to satisfy our need to see something is not the same as when God commands something.

Matthew 16:4
"4 An evil and adulterous generation wants a [a]sign; and so a [b]sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah.” And He left them and went away."
Those who lack faith are those who need to see or do something to feel close to God. When we walk by faith, it is enough for Christ to be living in us as we worship in Spirit and in Truth. Christ is our Spirit that compels us to worship and even prays on our behalf.

Romans 8:34 "Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us."

Human beings are constantly thinking they can do it better than God. Making up their own ideas while ignoring God's commands to worship their own way.

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The Gaslighting of Governments Toward the People

"Gaslight" is to manipulate someone's memory of an event. It is based on the movie "Gaslight" in which a husband attempted to cause his wife to go insane by claiming she was doing and saying things that did not actually happen.

Gaslighting is happening all the time now in our culture even in our churches. These public entities are claiming things about Israel that are not true.

We all saw the carnage Hamas did to Israel, murdering over 1400 people in Israel since this recent war. Hamas attacked Israel and these same people are attempting to convince the public that Israel was the aggressor when it was Hamas that perpetrated wicked atrocities against the people of Israel without any provocation.

Israel defended itself and resolved to chase Hamas and the Palestinians who supported Hamas out of the region that belongs and always has belonged to Israel.

I speak of this now because many people are beginning to be against Israel for defending themselves while demanding reconciliation. It is not possible to reconcile with a narcissist who cares only about completely destroying you.

Because of my experience with and study of narcissism I see all the tactics of Hamas exactly the same as any narcissistic person. They bully others and get angry when the victims fight back to defend themselves.

The bully always blames the victims and lies continually to convince others the victim was the perp when it was the bully who started it all and refuses to stop aggressing.

It is impossible for the victim of a bully to negotiate with them. They are taught to lie to win and once they have lied that they are willing to negotiate they will aggress again and again and again, over and over!!!!

Bullies cannot be trusted they must be eliminated from the lives of those they seek to destroy. Driving them away is the only answer to the problem of the narcissistic bully.

Bullies do not want others to live their lives in peace, they want to completely destroy their targets. There is no trusting those who have a lifelong pattern of bullying and lying to achieve their goal of annihilation of their target.

Now that we understand this principle of bullying and lying we can see it in the Scriptures where God said that all the countries surrounding Israel will be against them unjustly. The exciting thing is that God will fight for Israel and all the powers of the world will not be able to take her down.

Narcissistm is mentioned in 2 Timothy 3. We are living in the times of intense wickedness when lying is common all the time with almost everyone.

Have you wondered why you have few friends when you tell the truth and expose the lies while using the Scriptures to prove your assertions?

We are living in the last days as described in 2 Timothy 3. People for the most part are demonstrating these evil mentalities and gaslighting the truth tellers attempting to silence them. The gaslighters hate God and they hate the truth. Anyone who speaks the truth and loves God will be a target of the gaslighters.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

Difficult Times Will Come

3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."

These people have a form of religion but deny God as the Power!!!

Do not be discouraged by these facts, we know they are prophesied and we can be excited that we are living in prophetic times watching God's word play out just the same as Moses did when God parted the Red Sea. Perhaps the prophets will want to enquire of us what it looked like to be living in the end of the end times right before Christ comes?