If you are not careful, you will confuse deep caring with the monitoring spirit, love with lust, and prophecy with witchcraft. If you are not grounded in the Word of God and fully submitted under the Holy Spirit to guide, lead, and counsel you directly or through Godly leaders, you will find yourself in deep trouble. I have seen the enemy pause as a deep-caring friend while using the sensitive information shared to hurt us. Only a fool, blind and naïve, would think that the delay of destiny is God’s perfect plan. The wise and discerning can see the spirit of manipulation and witchcraft. However, we will forgive because we are not ignorant of the devices of the enemy!
“10 Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.” 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 NKJV
Perhaps you might wonder why I am so harsh or ask yourself a question, “How will you see when the enemy pauses as a deep-caring friend?” The answer is very simple, for we all have vulnerable spots, and we only share the sensitive information with those whom we trust and perceive as confidants. However, when your vulnerability is used to hurt and manipulate your destiny, you must know you are dealing with witchcraft and a monitoring spirit. Please do not confuse deep caring with the monitoring spirit, love with lust, and prophecy with witchcraft, just because you find yourself comfortable. My dear friend, comfort is not security – wake up and smell the coffee for you are not the first or last to be betrayed. These things will happen in order to take your focus away from what matters the most, and if possible, to cause you to sin. Remember, Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, and I would like you to examine the account of Nehemiah as he was rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah. Therefore, please pray for a hedge of protection, the Spirit of discernment and wisdom to deal with persuasive frenemies before you fall into sin and give the enemy enough evidence for a report of reproach.
“Conspiracy Against Nehemiah
1Now it happened when Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall, and that there were no breaks left in it (though at that time I had not hung the doors in the gates), 2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, let us meet together among the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they thought to do me harm. 3 So I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?” 4 But they sent me this message four times, and I answered them in the same manner. 5 Then Sanballat sent his servant to me as before, the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand. 6 In it was written: It is reported among the nations, and Geshem says, that you and the Jews plan to rebel; therefore, according to these rumors, you are rebuilding the wall, that you may be their king. 7 And you have also appointed prophets to proclaim concerning you at Jerusalem, saying, “There is a king in Judah!” Now these matters will be reported to the king. So come, therefore, and let us consult together. 8 Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say are being done, but you invent them in your own heart.” 9 For they all were trying to make us afraid, saying, “Their hands will be weakened in the work, and it will not be done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. 10 Afterward I came to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was a secret informer; and he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; indeed, at night they will come to kill you.” 11 And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there such as I who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in!” 12 Then I perceived that God had not sent him at all, but that he pronounced this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 13 For this reason, he was hired, that I should be afraid and act that way and sin, so that they might have cause for an evil report, that they might reproach me. 14 My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat, according to these their works, and the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have made me afraid.” Nehemiah 6:1-14 NKJV
I pray for grace over our lives in the name of Jesus. I declare that “No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me,” Says the Lord.” Isaiah 54:17 NKJV
“#watch and pray!
#“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” 1 Peter 5:8 NKJV
#“5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land which is not inhabited.
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.” Jeremiah 17:5-8 NKJV
Do not host the devil in your household!
You are known by the Most High God!
