Monday, December 30, 2024

Focus on Christ Always

When we focus on what the devil is doing to us we will be weak, but when we focus on Christ we will see the tactics for what they are and be able to remain full of faith, full of love unintimidated by any of it.
 
Praise the Lord for Christ Who lives in us everyday through everything!!!!!

Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him, and He will make your paths straight"

Decent People Do Not Hurt Others No Matter How Much They Have Been Hurt

It's not true that "hurting people hurt people" as they say.
 
Good people do not hurt others when they are hurt, they do not want to hurt others because they have been hurt. The choice to hurt others is based on an angry heart. I have known people who were treated well by others but they wanted to be superior to others so they used their drug of choice, that being intimidation, mocking,
demeaning, gossip and everything evil to have power over others, it is a choice.

These offenders cherish power over others caring nothing about love.
I have known good people who were treated shamefully who do not do mean things to others, they cherish kindness and love. These people have made the choice to respond to the hurt done to them by treating others better than they were treated.
 
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a "4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it [a]keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails; "

Lashing out at others because someone have been hurt is revenge on the one who hurt them but to others who did nothing to them, its irrational and shows an angry spirit that looms in them all the time. The devil is twisting minds to make them believe they are justified through false narratives about the ones they attack.
 
Proverbs 29:11
"A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back."

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."

Proverbs 20:22
"Do not say, “I will repay evil”; wait for the Lord, and he will deliver you."

Proverbs 15:18
"A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention."

It is psychology that came up with all these pat phrases that are opposite of what God says in His Word.
 
Forgiving someone who is not sorry is another idea that was developed by Darwin who was raised in a Christian home but spurned his childhood teaching by seeking to prove there is no God.
 
We are not animals who respond to stimuli. If you are good to an animal from birth the animal will be loyal all their lives. This is not true of people. Often the wicked heart of a rebellious person will hurt those who have not harmed them just to feel power over them, often out of jealousy. Mean-spirited people hate the happiness and confidence of others, they must try to do something to destroy it.
 
Jeremiah 17:9
9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?"

The devil operates the way of the angry person. He hated God and his response to God is to attempt to destroy everyone else who loves God. The devil does this because he wants power over God and others. Since he cannot have power over God he will attempt to ruin the relationship between God and His children.
 
People do this too, out of jealousy and control over others some people will gossip to destroy the support system of the one they hate just to be able to hurt them for no other reason than to feel superior to their target. Often these haters do not have a good reason so they make one up, they pretend bad things about their target so they can feel justified in their hatred. And, these wicked ones must have others on their side, so they enlist those who are predisposed to gossip.
 
Control and power are the objectives of those who are jealous and often there is no other reason except the hatred they have for the success or happiness of those they repeatedly offend.
 
The mentality of anger comes directly from the devil. He uses the natural bent of sin in people to entice those who are not trusting in God to destroy those who have trusted in Christ.
 
When we know this we don't have to take anything personally and we can choose with clarity our companions to be able to remove from our lives those who are troublemakers used by the devil. Not only is it wise to remove ourselves from angry people we must also remove those who follow and believe the lies of the angry person.
 
The institutional church operates from many lies now that come from the satanic system of psychology. Psychology has some things right in what is observed but do not have the proper answers to the problems. Just like from the beginning, the devil adds a little truth to a whole lot of lies deceiving many.
 
When we know the scriptures we will not be deceived by the worldly satanic lies that we hear daily to excuse and justify sin. Sin is growing, and attitudes are becoming more harsh and unrepentant because the general populous, including the apostate church, have swallowed these lies that sound good but bring devastation.
 
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Ragingly Insane 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."

Stop believing what others say and begin asking God if what they say is true while searching His Word to compare it with what was said. When we do this we find much of what is said is not at all what God said, and then we must disregard it, never teach the humanistic wisdom and speak God's Words.
 
When you do this your soul will be delighted at what God shows you and you will become hated by nearly everyone around you for thinking differently from them.
Praise God for the freedom we have in Him to think with His mind.