Because most people think with their emotions and their own desires, they miss the truth entirely. They want to believe they will continue to be as safe as they have always been, so they concoct a fantasy in their mind that makes them feel safe in their nation. The truth is that they are not only not as safe as they choose to believe, they are in grave danger of the wrath of God. Believers who have trusted Christ have no need to pretend everything is all right. We can face truth no matter how hard it is because we are trusting Christ. Those who walk around with rose colored glasses are likely to lose their faith when their fantasy falls in on itself, but the authentic believer whose joy runs through them no matter what, will hold up during the difficulties. They have no need of pretend safety. Hallelujah!!!!
Angela Provancher
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nute in the name of "choice " and "convenience ", and people instead of speaking out against it, embrace and do whatever possible to protect the murderers rather than the babies ... a nation that condones, applauds and champions homosexual "marriage " and vilifies traditional values, thumbs its nose at what God values and champions, has women "marching" wearing vagina hats and yelling obscenities all in the name of their "right " to kill their unborn children and embraces what He hates, what He calls "abomination "? Yeah sounds legit
This also happens in narcissistic family structures, in which the target is gossiped about, excluded, while making sure the target knows they are being ignored. It's a form of punishment by those who love to control others. I have seen this a lot over the years and have been a target by those who want to control me but have not been able to do it. They will attempt to influence those closest to us to treat us in this depicable way as well, when they cannot control the target.
Cultic systems cannot tolerate anyone who deviates from their idea of godliness, they will punish anyone who evaluates things to see if they are from God. They have a form of religion as 2 Timothy 3 tells us, but do not walk in the Spirit, if in fact they are actually born again. Matthew 7:21-23 shows us what pretenders are like and whether or not God accepts them, it is probably the most frightening scripture in the Bible because it involves those who think they are saved, only to be told on judgement day, this: "I never knew you, get away from me", by Christ.
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There are many cultic style churches operating now, working to intimdate believers into their own idea of spirituality rather than promoting a relationship with and dependence on Christ.
This also happens in narcissistic family structures, in which the target is gossiped about, excluded, while making sure the target knows they are being ignored. It's a form of punishment by those who love to control others. I have seen this a lot over the years and have been a target by those who want to control me but have not been able to do it. They will attempt to influence those closest to us to treat us in this despicable way as well, when they cannot control the target.
Cultic systems cannot tolerate anyone who deviates from their idea of godliness, they will punish anyone who evaluates things to see if they are from God. They have a form of religion as 2 Timothy 3 tells us, but do not walk in the Spirit, if in fact they are actually born again. Matthew 7:21-23 shows us what pretenders are like and whether or not God accepts them, it is probably the most frightening scripture in the Bible because it involves those who think they are saved, only to be told on judgement day, this: "I never knew you, get away from me", by Christ.
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Benjamin Franklin, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
This is an amazing quote and absolutely true. Without Christ as the standard for operations of a government, it is doomed to become evil and corrupt.
Since Christ has become an embarrassing Name these days, even among those who claim to be Christian, it is a short time before we are overrun with evil as the standard and wicked people as our leaders.
For those of you who think we can "take back America", you must be living in a fantasy land. I look around me and everywhere I look I see most people whose face turns a shade of red when the name of Christ is mentioned or anyone in the room is corrected for their erroneous beliefs based on humanism.
I don't know about you, but I no longer care even in the slightest if anyone likes me anymore. If we tell the truth, standing by it without wavering, we WILL be mocked, maligned and demeaned much of the time. So let it be, we either stand with God or we stand with the world, we cannot do both.
John 15:18-20 "18 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. 19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well.…"
It is growing and intensifying as we approach the end times. We are living in times when the devil is working to destroy the believers and their testimonies. If we know what we are dealing with, we can be less affected by it, even not affected at as we grow stronger. Follow the Link for greater understanding:
Narcissists are all around us, they work to undermine us because their father is the devil and his goal is to intimidate us into silence, in order to control us. When he sees that he cannot control us, then he will use narcissists and their flying monkeys to exact revenge against us without cause.
John 15:24-25 "…24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. 25But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’ 26When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father—He will testify about Me.…"
When you experience this contempt coming from the devil through others who have no defense against him, know that he did the same thing to Christ and all the apostles. It is nothing new and it is increasing in these last days. Nearly every believer will encounter this, we see the heart of the narcissist described in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
They will accuse you of vague character flaws without specifics to cause problems, in the 2 Timothy 3 passage we note that their hearts are dark. The answer God gives, is to get away from them. Their tactics do not stop until you are mush on the ground for them to step in, they have no other purpose except to stop you from speaking truth.
Follow the Link to learn more: Keep in mind that the video is not based on the Bible it does address what observers see in the narcissist, that has been, in my experience, very accurate. For greater understanding always pray that God would show you truth, relying not on the voices of others but on the Words of the Bible to guide you. When we know the truth we don't have to take seriously the attacks against us, we can move on while making a life for ourselves without the narcissists.
Narcissists (of which the devil is the worse of them), cannot be loving, only those who love God with all their hearts can be so. Love seeks to find the will of God and speak it whenever, wherever the Holy Spirit leads them.
The narcissist hates truth because it flies in the face of their elevated view of self. They think love is never correcting but tend to correct and punish anyone who shows them what love really looks like. They hate the Scriptures because they are instructive and straight from the mouth of God.
Those who run hard after Christ, desiring every word He has written and leaning how that fleshes out in this life, will be misunderstood, often deliberately misunderstood. To validate the truth teller is to admit they are speaking from the Holy Spirit, narcissists cannot do this, they must bring down the truth teller.
The reason we are seeing constant and intense attacks of believers now is because the devil knows his time is short, he must attempt to destroy the testimony of the believer every way he can.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [b]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away."
2 Corinthians 4:8-12
"8 we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;
9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
11 For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So death works in us, but life in you."
For those of you that are being constantly undermined, even persecuted because of your faith, remember these passages, they will encourage you!
