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#1
Sep 19 2011 09:04pm
When people say stuff like "the devil has been really attacking me this week" or "Satan is trying to bring me down but I won't let him" it bothers me because Satan isn't omnipresent, so the chances that he is attacking someone with slight problems seems highly unlikely.

It seems more likely that we face most of our trials because of bad decisions, or just because the fact that we live in a fallen world. I think we give too much credit to the devil and we don't take enough blame for our own actions.

Is that to say the devil doesn't attack people? No, but I seriously doubt he would attack someone like me when there are people out there doing a lot bigger things to further the kingdom.


Just a thought.
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Sep 19 2011 10:10pm
The devil tempts you with worldly possessions to sway you away from the rich prize at the end of your life. That being Heaven.

The devil wants to hold you at bay from God. If you are having a hard time and your response is to turn to God then Satan's attacks against you have failed.

Just remember that when you are weak then you are strong.
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Sep 20 2011 01:43am
In Purification of Faith Shall All My Disciples Find Strength and Freedom From Fear

7/5/06 From God The Father and Our Lord and Savior, Jesus The Christ -
A Letter Given To Timothy, For Kayla, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear


[God The Father] Kayla, My beloved, hear the Word of The Lord, your Redeemer.
Thus says The Lord to those who do seek Him and love Him, yet are lead into temptation by the evil one: You are deceived and misled by the evil one. He has misled you by that part inside you which has also gone astray, for what you seek after, and do not understand, is before your face. Neither have you understood My words or given heed to what I have written. All you wish to know of Me, and these things you say haunt you, I have answered in the Scriptures of Truth, your Bible. Yet I have sent unto you My Word also through men of this age. From these you hear and testified, but neither have you heard, nor believed their testimony, though it be not their words but Mine. Rather, you have taken to yourself only that which agrees with your preconceived notions of what the Word should be. So take heed to yourself, and hear now the Word of The Lord, and have understanding. For The Lord does know His children, for He sees deep into their hearts and knows them even better than they know themselves. And by this does The Lord love His sheep, and they know His voice... And so He will lift them up out of their affliction and troubles in spite of their errors and stumblings. They only need call out aloud His name in the face of adversity, and believe. Believe, Kayla... Do not just say you know and believe... Shout it to the heavens with your whole heart. Call on My name, by the name I have given My Son, Christ Jesus The Lord! And the dark shall flee from you. For where the Light shines, and where the Spirit is established, even these deceivers shall flee at My presence in you. So do as I ask, Kayla... Be bold for your Lord, and believe in the power of His name!... The name above all names, and the only name under Heaven by which you are saved and will save you out of all your troubles... But you must believe. So obey My voice, and so do, and you shall have peace. For if you obey not, neither shall I send Timothy to help you. But if you obey and not believe, assuredly I say to you, I shall send him to you. If then, you obey and believe, I need not send him.

[Jesus The Christ] For if you believe and obey the voice of The Lord, you have become as Timothy. In your weakness is My strength made perfect in you. Even now, as you read My words, you may have peace, for I am with you. And where I am, darkness can not be. All those, who abide in Me, am I also in them. Once the temple of The Lord, always the temple of The Lord. Though you stumble, though you doubt, there I am upholding you and keeping you from being taken, for I love My sheep and know them, and they know Me. Behold, I am coming quickly to take them from the field to house them in My barn.
Have understanding of this you face, and give not any power to the evil one... He is the father of lies. If then, there is no truth in him, then listen to him not, lest he corrupt you by his ways. Turn to Me only, and nourish yourself in My Word... The Word of Truth and Life.
What you have seen and experienced is only a mirage, a deception created first in your own mind by your false belief in that which you do not understand, nor does it exist. None of the dead have any part among the living, neither can they be lost... I know exactly where they are. And I, even I, shall awaken them at the Last Day, and then they shall live again. In that Day, the perishable shall put on that which is imperishable; and the earthly, spiritual. This Day comes quickly but has not yet arrived. Do not be deceived by those of clever minds, who put good for evil and evil for good. The devices of modern man deceive you by him, who is, at present, the prince of the air.
What you saw is this: The toilet flushed of its own accord, according to the pressure created in its inner workings, which was released. And from that moment on, indeed you were attacked by the evil one, pouncing upon that which your mother created in her own mind, because of that fear which came from the false belief in human spirits. Yet the devil, preying upon her fear, did make her fear and belief manifest, sending her strong delusions for his purposes, enticing her to pursue this fear in leading her into temptation, which she has spread to others... All in all, a leading away to keep those, who do love Me, in derision, chaining them with fear and by fear, holding them down by that which they have already believed, though it is a lie.
So then, all you and your mother experienced was indeed real and also imagined... All in all, a deception.


First, purify your faith, little ones.

Then call on My name, and I shall be with you.
Speak My words, saying, “Get thee hence, satan”,
Speaking in the name of My name,
And these things shall flee from you, and you shall have peace.



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#4
Sep 20 2011 09:10am
The things of the flesh are of the Devil.

The things of the spirit are of God.

Give glory to God, not man. Thats how you can tell if a message is true, is the glory first going to God, or is it first going to Man/Self?
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Sep 21 2011 10:02pm
remember, just as God has angles to do his work, the Devil has demons to do his

ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms
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Sep 26 2011 08:07pm
wtf is this sect? are we in 1645? This isn't where i left my lighter rofl
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Sep 27 2011 05:38pm
Satan isn't the only one attacking us; don't forget that 1/3 (I think? Don't quote me) of the angels followed him in his rebellion against God and are working for him.

Read the Epistles (particularly James, Peter, and Ephesians) and Matthew 7 (the temptation of Jesus) for help in dealing with Satan's attacks. ;)

** That might be Matthew 5, not 7. I'm not 100% sure as I haven't been there for a while.

This post was edited by Heights on Sep 27 2011 05:39pm
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Sep 27 2011 07:40pm
Good Point.
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Sep 27 2011 10:11pm
Quote (Heights @ Sep 27 2011 05:38pm)
Satan isn't the only one attacking us; don't forget that 1/3 (I think? Don't quote me) of the angels followed him in his rebellion against God and are working for him.

Read the Epistles (particularly James, Peter, and Ephesians) and Matthew 7 (the temptation of Jesus) for help in dealing with Satan's attacks. ;)

** That might be Matthew 5, not 7. I'm not 100% sure as I haven't been there for a while.


My point is we shift the blame too much. We don't take responsibility for our actions and instead want to blame things on Satan.


James 1:13-15
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone;
14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed.
15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

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#10
Sep 28 2011 12:20pm
Another good question would be:
Why are bad things that happen to us blamed on Satan but good things that happen to us are attributed to God/Jesus.
Doesn't God do a lot of mean shit in the bible? Could he not have put the hardship on you?
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