Thursday, April 14, 2022
Obey God Avoid the Narcississt
The narcissist wants you to be angry at and jealous of them. Do not do what they want. Treat them with the respect they didn't give you and avoid them if you can.
Narcissists are never happy, they want us to be in continual conflict through senseless arguments about nothing important.
They will take an innocent good act you do and make it feel and sound foolish. They will take a simple act that is not unkind and make you look as though you did something wrong.
There are little things they do that are designed to cause frustration and anger. Don't allow their antics to cause any emotion or response at all.
One of the devil's most used tactic is to use narcissists to treat people disrespectfully, wait for a frustrated response and then blame the one who responded as the mean or bad person.
Narcissists will never talk something out to fix a relationship problem because they know they caused it and refuse to be accountable for their attitude or actions.
Proverbs 6:12-16 "A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing."
Proverbs 13:20 "20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed."
1 Corinthians 15:33
"Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Proverbs 22:24-25
"Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare."
If we do not run from those who have an evil character their ways will rub off on us. There was a time before I was born again when I thought if I did to someone what they did to me it would show them how badly they treated me. This was the opposite of what God says to do.
The devil wants us to use the same tactics on wicked people that they use on us so our witness for Christ will be ruined.
The wicked man only uses the reactions they caused in us to blame us. When we are walking in a Christlike manner we will never do evil or act like the wicked man to teach them something. First they cannot learn from us but we will be able to keep our own character from becoming like them, leaving us innocent and clean.
What the evil man does to us is noticed by God, that's all we need. We do not need to do revenge to get a point across, we can speak the truth, walk uprightly no matter what the evil man is doing and leave all the consequences to God. Our conscience before God is far more important than what anyone else thinks of us or what anyone else has done to us.
Remember God is looking at our character in the face of all that comes against us.
2 Corinthians 6:14
"Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"
Proverbs 25:26
"Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked."
Psalm 1:1
"Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;"
Proverbs 4:14-15 "…13 Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life. 14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. 15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.…"
One time I set a pretty table for my guests who were narcissists. The guests approached the table and in mean voices said; "we are not fancy people you didn't need to do this", I ignored their rudeness and continued to serve the meal. Why would anyone act rudely toward someone for doing a good act? The answer is probably they were jealous, they didn't like me and wanted to make my kind act look foolish or some other selfish thing.
Diminishing someone's good deed to appear superior is a common tactic of the narcissist. They love to demean those they don't like or those of whom they are deeply jealous.
What should be our response to those who act in these mean-spirited ways? It's really very simple, continue following Christ in our love for others no matter how unloving they are to us, and spend far less time with them, they will not stop and eventually, it will wear us down, perhaps even to the point of anger. 2 Timothy 3:5 tells us to avoid them, God said this and we should obey Him.
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
When the Holy Spirit Speaks
How do we know when the Holy Spirit is speaking to us?
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
We know when it was the Holy Spirit working because He will glorify God, not a person.
They Hated Christ and Us Too
Amen, Amen!!!! This is why I am convinced that the end times are here. We are living as in the days of Noah when everyone does what is right in their own perverted human eyes and no one will listen to the truth.
The following was posted by brother Terry Flickner on his page. Thank you Terry!
THE RESULT HAS BEEN
"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you!" John 15:18-19
"Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you!" 1 John 3:13
The professing Church has boasted that it would convert the world.
To accomplish this aim, it has sought to "popularize" religion.
Innumerable devices have been employed to attract the ungodly--many of which even a sense of propriety should have suppressed!
The result has been that the world has converted the professing Church!
But notwithstanding this, it still remains true that the world hates the true followers of the Lamb.
And nowhere is this more plainly evident, than in those who belong to what we may term the religious world!
If you resolve that by Divine grace you will live godly in Christ Jesus, then know that persecution must be your portion.
And that persecution will come upon you not from atheists and infidels, but from those bearing the name of Christians.
It will issue from those who still keep up a form (or semblance) of godliness, but who are strangers to its living power.
It will come to you from empty professors whose compromising ways are condemned by your refusal to conform thereto; whose worldliness and carnality is rebuked by your spirituality.
Remember, it was the religious leaders who hounded the Savior to His death!
"Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted!" 2 Timothy 3:12
Arthur Pink- Grace Gems
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
God Resists the Proud
I believe the poor in spirit are blessed because it is only when we see ourselves as nothing that we can completely lean on Christ. He is everything and we are nothing. How could we ever compare ourselves to God, the One Who made us?
Matthew 5:2-4 "2 and He began to teach them, saying: 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.…"
It is only through a crushed spirit over our sinfulness that God will change us into a new creation.
Those who think they are good and deserve salvation cannot be saved, God will not bother saving anyone who thinks they can know as much as God.
Those who are proud will not be broken over their sinfulness, in fact, they will flaunt themselves as deserving of salvation, an abomination to God.
Those who have been broken, crushed in the original language, over the realization that they are unworthy of God's love can repent becoming born-again.
No one can work hard enough to be good to deserve salvation. Working hard thinking they can do it is pride and worthy of hell.
Remember, God will not save someone who think they can get to heaven by their own efforts. These people are headed for hell until they become broken, contrite (meaning crushed), only then will God cleanse them from their sin and make them into a new creation.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
When this happens God begins His work in us, He gets all the glory all the time.
Ephesians 2:10
"10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."
Letting go of pride in self is the most blessed thing we can do, it is submitting to God so that He will change us. If we think we have changed ourselves then we will not be born again.
Don't miss this blessing by elevating yourself to the level of a god through self-exaltation, it only earns you hell.
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