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Wrong and evil spirituality inside our hearts and minds.
Friends I wanted to have a closer look at our spirituality, often we forget that we are spiritual beings and that both Good and Bad bring spiritual realities alive within our lives.
I have listed some common wrong or evil spiritual manifestations which we can find within our spiritual space. Please understand that the names I gave the spirituality are pointers of recognition.
For example, feelings of shame, fear, guilt are human spiritual characteristics (which came into our life after we fell into sin) - and should not be understood to be evil spirituality in itself - yet unclean spirituality will use our human feelings and thoughts to captivate, hurt and even kill us - it is these forces I am looking at - and therefore I have named them according to the spiritual feeling they bring alive within - not because evil spirituality really carry such names.
(I wrote this list a long time ago. For fighting these spiritual intruders with God's loving truth has brought me incredible, yes unsurpassed spiritual freedom. (Eph 6, 1 John 4))
Deceiver. (Gen 3:1-5, Is 14:12-15) The Devil, Satan, the Snake, the liar, the Beast. Though Deceiver can only be brought into us through Dishonesty, His spiritual visitations are vastly different than Dishonesty. Deceiver has his essence of being shaped as the snake -- sneaks into any tiny hole and speaks in split tongue. His presence of inner recognition is therefore not as easy as it may seem. The Deceiver is a silent almost invisible predator of heart and mind. His focus however is always seeking to put/talk/set the truth into such a perspective as to suit us the willful sinner/himself best. Deceiver appears as a friend within when we either try to get out of the truth of our wrongful actions or when the Deceiver tries to smooth talk us into doing/seeing something wrongful(ly). (Le. 19:36, Ps. 109:1-5) Rightfully the Deceiver can also be called the ‘good talker’ of wrong thoughts or actions. The Deceiver is also behind the ‘day dreamer’ of greater glory for self -- Picturing events where you are the best or the bravest. However for people oppressed by the Deceiver (a later stage of the same spirit.) the ‘day dreams’ turn into nightmares. The Deceiver can and often does in this way rule our hopes and dreams.
The Tempter. (Mt 4:1-11,7:10, Rev 20) The Devil, the snake. Oh the tempter of human hearts shall soon burn forever more. Yet as of today beware. No one can withstand the Devil but Jesus Christ – the Word. Everyone can get to know the Tempter but not many realize how sly, cunning and strong the Devil truly is. Just fractions of seconds he needs to instill his evil designs upon our human ways of heart -- for us to be TOTALLY blinded about what we are really doing from then on. The surest way we can recognize that we have fallen for the Tempter is when our fleshly/worldly desires/needs rule our lives. The Tempter is the ‘commander in chief’ of our sinful miserable selves. The more times the Tempter get his way in us the more miserable and empty of spirit we become. Truly in our human nature we are the puppets, unclean spirituality shape the strings and the devil in the shapes of the Tempter, Accuser and Deceiver the unholy puppetmaster.
The spirit of this world. Satan as ‘prince’(dictator) of our ‘worldly’ lives. The spirit of idolatry, adulatory and deceit -- who takes our focus away from God and places us in a removed from God reality -- even this sinful world’s. The spirit who is permeated through our fleshly desires in sinful existence. The spirit who ‘conforms’ or ‘conditions’ us according to the ways of this world. (Ps 115:2-8) The spirit of this world is an entity which controls MANY legions of unclean spirituality. (Think about saturate.) For example spiritually Babylon has its existence in us because of - the spirit of this world -- with our human spirit in bondage to it all.(Rom. 1:18-32, Rev 17 & 18)
Unbelief. (Psalm 14 & 53, He. 3:7-19.) A spirit of lies and deceit through false visions/perspectives of ‘truth’. A crushing spirit, a spirit full of murder (Unbelief ought to be a guardian angel) The clearest shape of its appearance is that one perceives from nothingness (you can’t see or understand) while He is. Unbelief is experienced as a stab (deadly if believed) to the heart of the believer (as easily noticeable as the sting of death to those of little faith in us.) Constantly on the prowl this spirit seeks moments of incomprehension and suggests to our minds that God (or His loving help) is impossible for you don’t see, see wrongly or don’t understand as you look at its suggestion which is always a lie or a perverted view of the truth.
Self will. (Ro 2:8) A spirit of stubborn pride, rebellion, spiritual war, dictatorships, murder and genocide. Another general in Satan’s web of spiritual intrigue. Self will does not take into account Father’s will. Jesus teaches us that complete denial of self will was the purpose of His being. (Not My will but the Will of My Father in heaven I have come to do.) Self will seeks only for self (and those/that which are/is important to self) and in this way is very closely related to selfishness. Their spiritual visitations however are quite different.
Speculator. A spirit of FALSE hopes and visions.(Is 47:13b-14) A spirit of self-achievement. A spirit of this world, an overwhelming ‘addictive’ spirit. That our current socio-economic system is run largely by speculation should not surprise us in the least. The spirit of speculation is strong in our modern day and age. Hardly ever warned about the Speculator also runs amuck within the children of our Church. “Just imagine” (Think here about John Lennon’s song), “If this and that... THEN.......!!!”, “I KNEW that so and so...” e.t.c Speculation is a BIG and REAL danger in any Christian’s life. Witchcraft and Speculation are not only ‘related’ they work like hand in glove together. Where you find the one, one will find the other. Speculator forms a big slice of the false prophet.
Self Destruction. A spirit of spiritual genocide and murder. A tool of the Destroyer/Accuser. The spirit of self destruction ‘takes away’ all personal respect form its victim. Lack of self respect (or lack of respect for others for that matter) opens the way to more spiritual and/or physical abuse. self-destruction is a powerful attitude/mood spirit. By this I mean that Self Destruction constantly pollutes our thoughts and feelings. Addiction and I don’t care always accompanies Self-destruction and Suicide is usually the ‘last ruler’ before physical death.
I don’t care. A spirit of isolation, imprisonment, extreme spiritual injustices and murder. A spirit of unlovingness, unwillingness and selfishness. Usually a fleeting spirit.(though like all unclean spirits it leaves a lasting effect.) A mood and attitude problem one can expect from this abomination within fallen existence. I don’t care what the wicked say isn’t even a pure spirit of being for God DOES care about the wicked’s utterings. A loving heart ALWAYS cares and in this way we can see even more clearly the wickedness shaping our spirit when we are in our I don’t care ‘moods’.
The need to be right. A spirit of powerful delusions. A spirit of this world. A very stubborn spirit. The need to be right feeds on insecurity and fear. The shape of being is this stubborn hold around a personal perspective. (Think here about walls around a city.) The need to be right is ‘fathered’ by pride in the selfishness/self-focus of our own being. The need to be right is usually an unspoken reality of inner being. The times that the need to be right does speak out could be seen as the tip of the iceberg. I know better and the need to be right are ‘blood related.’
Boredom. A spirit of depletion, oblivion and destruction. A spirit of this world. Boredom in essence of being carries the void like nothingness of the uncreated. (When one meditates on Boredom one can soon see its abominable character.) As if (When Boredom strikes) all good is not present any longer while He is. Boredom is one of the most visible spirits of childhood. Still undisguised by the child’s consciousness the spirit of Boredom openly empties the need of active living into a void of inner discomfort which seeks to feed without the will to act. In active and creative persons Boredom finds its most fertile field in a(n) restrictive/authoritarian environment and its best long release fertilizer is forced and/or meaningless work/jobs, or jails, be they bedroom or dungeons, physical or spiritual.
Selfishness. (The anti-christ of anti-christs in the ultimate revelation, the 'father' of the lawless one.) (Le. 19:9-10, Is 5:8-10, Jude :8-16.) A flaming spirit. A spirit of pride, arrogance, unfaithfulness, disobedience, rebellion and murder. (Jude :11) A spirit of this world. Selfishness is indeed the spirit which provides us with the illustration of wicked disobedience within the sense of self. Selfishness is the ‘door’ and ‘motivator’ to take more wickedness into our hearts and minds. Selfishness is the Judas of our spiritual life. Selfishness can be hard to pinpoint within self as the common perspective the accuser gives us about Selfishness (as shaped by our world.) is misleading and deceptive to say the least. Selfishness at the bottom of it has to do with Fear and Greed. The Fear of missing out – indeed the fear of death combined with the grab what I can get – attitude of being. Selfishness is the improvisation of Satan as the leader of the ‘I myself’ in self awareness.(The God like image carried by all human life.) Selfishness is the VERY essence of force within the GREAT deceiver. It was Selfishness in Greed and Pride of own being which SHAPED the lie in disobedience as Satan within our heart as father of our sinful existence. (Ro. 1:22-32, 2 Pe 2:10-19) (See the abomination and RUN) Also the sense I am better than…….the GREAT defender of self (We think, say or do this always in prideful arrogance.) Is therefore after ‘Christ’s fire of cleansing’ (we truly need to be rescued from such a spirit!!) thrown in the FIRE of EVERLASTING FIRE! For Father hates that which raises itself above itself without the ability to do so everlastingly as He Himself is, was, and is to be. Father is ABOVE all in the end, even the Son and Spirit TESTIFY of that as does the Bible.
Pride. A flaming spirit. A spirit of arrogant haughtiness and disdain. An abominable spirit easily recognizable within our hearts. Pride is a high climber always reaching far above itself. Pride loves to praise itself. Like all unclean spirits Pride is stubborn for it contumaciously holds its perspective even when proven wrong. Pride and Weakness work in particular efficiently together within human hearts. Arrogant is the first-born ‘son’ of their unholy union. (Ps. 10:2-11, 73:6, Pr. 13:10).
Doubt. (Ro. 14:23) A spirit of unbelief, haughtiness, oppression and murder (Doubt ought to be a guardian angel). Doubt like so many other spirits of existence doesn’t have to be wrong at the right time. To doubt a lie is wise for example (or to pride in God). Yet Doubt as an unclean spirit doesn’t carry any redeeming qualities. The shape of Doubt is the hesitation in accepting the TRUTH of God as final. To doubt the truth is LETHAL. Yet this spirit can attack (oppress) Christians (in particular young Christians.) behind the scene of life for years. Doubt hates the truth for this removes the need for doubt’s rule over our existence. (That something which makes Christians today so weak could be SO strong taught me that the reign of doubt in God’s Church is stronger than ever.)
Dishonesty. (Pr 19:5, 1 Tim. 4:2) A spirit of rape and distortion. A fleeting spirit. We all know this one – this sense inside of us which is sly, evasive, suspicious, argumentative and secretive. Yet truly the spirit is mean, thief-like and uncaring. Its presence in us is easily recognized for Dishonesty makes us (the one(s) in us who know the truth) very selfish or self focussed. Dishonesty cannot look the truth in the eye but can bluff if it can utilize inner insecurity in the observer. Furthermore Dishonesty despises and fears the truth. Truth is ALWAYS its enemy. Dishonesty also brings us this sense (tells us) that we can get away with it -- the lies and deceit we have committed in the darkness of its unholy presence. (Is.28:15) A very close ‘blood relative’ of Dishonesty is Deceiver.
Dishonesty – the lie – opens our heart and mind to legions of unclean spirituality.
Laziness. (Pr. 22:13) A spirit of inactivity, plunder and spiritual genocide. A spirit of spiritual blindness and ‘sleeping/dreaming’. A crushing spirit. Laziness is the force which debilitates the God given ability to do or be. Laziness does not store ‘goodness/energy’ for hard times but rather empties its occupant of their sense of purpose as well as well being. Laziness does NOTHING but make its occupant feel lazy. (We must therefore be very careful who we call lazy, as far to often we call others lazy because they are doing an activity WE don’t approve of.) Unwillingness, Speculator and Deceiver are ALWAYS present in the lazy heart and Addiction usually gains a solid foothold. Spiritual laziness --lazy in serving our Father in Heaven is by FAR the most predominant way we ought to view our fight with this spirit of being.
Friends I wanted to have a closer look at our spirituality, often we forget that we are spiritual beings and that both Good and Bad bring spiritual realities alive within our lives.
I have listed some common wrong or evil spiritual manifestations which we can find within our spiritual space. Please understand that the names I gave the spirituality are pointers of recognition.
For example, feelings of shame, fear, guilt are human spiritual characteristics (which came into our life after we fell into sin) - and should not be understood to be evil spirituality in itself - yet unclean spirituality will use our human feelings and thoughts to captivate, hurt and even kill us - it is these forces I am looking at - and therefore I have named them according to the spiritual feeling they bring alive within - not because evil spirituality really carry such names.
(I wrote this list a long time ago. For fighting these spiritual intruders with God's loving truth has brought me incredible, yes unsurpassed spiritual freedom. (Eph 6, 1 John 4))
Deceiver. (Gen 3:1-5, Is 14:12-15) The Devil, Satan, the Snake, the liar, the Beast. Though Deceiver can only be brought into us through Dishonesty, His spiritual visitations are vastly different than Dishonesty. Deceiver has his essence of being shaped as the snake -- sneaks into any tiny hole and speaks in split tongue. His presence of inner recognition is therefore not as easy as it may seem. The Deceiver is a silent almost invisible predator of heart and mind. His focus however is always seeking to put/talk/set the truth into such a perspective as to suit us the willful sinner/himself best. Deceiver appears as a friend within when we either try to get out of the truth of our wrongful actions or when the Deceiver tries to smooth talk us into doing/seeing something wrongful(ly). (Le. 19:36, Ps. 109:1-5) Rightfully the Deceiver can also be called the ‘good talker’ of wrong thoughts or actions. The Deceiver is also behind the ‘day dreamer’ of greater glory for self -- Picturing events where you are the best or the bravest. However for people oppressed by the Deceiver (a later stage of the same spirit.) the ‘day dreams’ turn into nightmares. The Deceiver can and often does in this way rule our hopes and dreams.
The Tempter. (Mt 4:1-11,7:10, Rev 20) The Devil, the snake. Oh the tempter of human hearts shall soon burn forever more. Yet as of today beware. No one can withstand the Devil but Jesus Christ – the Word. Everyone can get to know the Tempter but not many realize how sly, cunning and strong the Devil truly is. Just fractions of seconds he needs to instill his evil designs upon our human ways of heart -- for us to be TOTALLY blinded about what we are really doing from then on. The surest way we can recognize that we have fallen for the Tempter is when our fleshly/worldly desires/needs rule our lives. The Tempter is the ‘commander in chief’ of our sinful miserable selves. The more times the Tempter get his way in us the more miserable and empty of spirit we become. Truly in our human nature we are the puppets, unclean spirituality shape the strings and the devil in the shapes of the Tempter, Accuser and Deceiver the unholy puppetmaster.
The spirit of this world. Satan as ‘prince’(dictator) of our ‘worldly’ lives. The spirit of idolatry, adulatory and deceit -- who takes our focus away from God and places us in a removed from God reality -- even this sinful world’s. The spirit who is permeated through our fleshly desires in sinful existence. The spirit who ‘conforms’ or ‘conditions’ us according to the ways of this world. (Ps 115:2-8) The spirit of this world is an entity which controls MANY legions of unclean spirituality. (Think about saturate.) For example spiritually Babylon has its existence in us because of - the spirit of this world -- with our human spirit in bondage to it all.(Rom. 1:18-32, Rev 17 & 18)
Unbelief. (Psalm 14 & 53, He. 3:7-19.) A spirit of lies and deceit through false visions/perspectives of ‘truth’. A crushing spirit, a spirit full of murder (Unbelief ought to be a guardian angel) The clearest shape of its appearance is that one perceives from nothingness (you can’t see or understand) while He is. Unbelief is experienced as a stab (deadly if believed) to the heart of the believer (as easily noticeable as the sting of death to those of little faith in us.) Constantly on the prowl this spirit seeks moments of incomprehension and suggests to our minds that God (or His loving help) is impossible for you don’t see, see wrongly or don’t understand as you look at its suggestion which is always a lie or a perverted view of the truth.
Self will. (Ro 2:8) A spirit of stubborn pride, rebellion, spiritual war, dictatorships, murder and genocide. Another general in Satan’s web of spiritual intrigue. Self will does not take into account Father’s will. Jesus teaches us that complete denial of self will was the purpose of His being. (Not My will but the Will of My Father in heaven I have come to do.) Self will seeks only for self (and those/that which are/is important to self) and in this way is very closely related to selfishness. Their spiritual visitations however are quite different.
Speculator. A spirit of FALSE hopes and visions.(Is 47:13b-14) A spirit of self-achievement. A spirit of this world, an overwhelming ‘addictive’ spirit. That our current socio-economic system is run largely by speculation should not surprise us in the least. The spirit of speculation is strong in our modern day and age. Hardly ever warned about the Speculator also runs amuck within the children of our Church. “Just imagine” (Think here about John Lennon’s song), “If this and that... THEN.......!!!”, “I KNEW that so and so...” e.t.c Speculation is a BIG and REAL danger in any Christian’s life. Witchcraft and Speculation are not only ‘related’ they work like hand in glove together. Where you find the one, one will find the other. Speculator forms a big slice of the false prophet.
Self Destruction. A spirit of spiritual genocide and murder. A tool of the Destroyer/Accuser. The spirit of self destruction ‘takes away’ all personal respect form its victim. Lack of self respect (or lack of respect for others for that matter) opens the way to more spiritual and/or physical abuse. self-destruction is a powerful attitude/mood spirit. By this I mean that Self Destruction constantly pollutes our thoughts and feelings. Addiction and I don’t care always accompanies Self-destruction and Suicide is usually the ‘last ruler’ before physical death.
I don’t care. A spirit of isolation, imprisonment, extreme spiritual injustices and murder. A spirit of unlovingness, unwillingness and selfishness. Usually a fleeting spirit.(though like all unclean spirits it leaves a lasting effect.) A mood and attitude problem one can expect from this abomination within fallen existence. I don’t care what the wicked say isn’t even a pure spirit of being for God DOES care about the wicked’s utterings. A loving heart ALWAYS cares and in this way we can see even more clearly the wickedness shaping our spirit when we are in our I don’t care ‘moods’.
The need to be right. A spirit of powerful delusions. A spirit of this world. A very stubborn spirit. The need to be right feeds on insecurity and fear. The shape of being is this stubborn hold around a personal perspective. (Think here about walls around a city.) The need to be right is ‘fathered’ by pride in the selfishness/self-focus of our own being. The need to be right is usually an unspoken reality of inner being. The times that the need to be right does speak out could be seen as the tip of the iceberg. I know better and the need to be right are ‘blood related.’
Boredom. A spirit of depletion, oblivion and destruction. A spirit of this world. Boredom in essence of being carries the void like nothingness of the uncreated. (When one meditates on Boredom one can soon see its abominable character.) As if (When Boredom strikes) all good is not present any longer while He is. Boredom is one of the most visible spirits of childhood. Still undisguised by the child’s consciousness the spirit of Boredom openly empties the need of active living into a void of inner discomfort which seeks to feed without the will to act. In active and creative persons Boredom finds its most fertile field in a(n) restrictive/authoritarian environment and its best long release fertilizer is forced and/or meaningless work/jobs, or jails, be they bedroom or dungeons, physical or spiritual.
Selfishness. (The anti-christ of anti-christs in the ultimate revelation, the 'father' of the lawless one.) (Le. 19:9-10, Is 5:8-10, Jude :8-16.) A flaming spirit. A spirit of pride, arrogance, unfaithfulness, disobedience, rebellion and murder. (Jude :11) A spirit of this world. Selfishness is indeed the spirit which provides us with the illustration of wicked disobedience within the sense of self. Selfishness is the ‘door’ and ‘motivator’ to take more wickedness into our hearts and minds. Selfishness is the Judas of our spiritual life. Selfishness can be hard to pinpoint within self as the common perspective the accuser gives us about Selfishness (as shaped by our world.) is misleading and deceptive to say the least. Selfishness at the bottom of it has to do with Fear and Greed. The Fear of missing out – indeed the fear of death combined with the grab what I can get – attitude of being. Selfishness is the improvisation of Satan as the leader of the ‘I myself’ in self awareness.(The God like image carried by all human life.) Selfishness is the VERY essence of force within the GREAT deceiver. It was Selfishness in Greed and Pride of own being which SHAPED the lie in disobedience as Satan within our heart as father of our sinful existence. (Ro. 1:22-32, 2 Pe 2:10-19) (See the abomination and RUN) Also the sense I am better than…….the GREAT defender of self (We think, say or do this always in prideful arrogance.) Is therefore after ‘Christ’s fire of cleansing’ (we truly need to be rescued from such a spirit!!) thrown in the FIRE of EVERLASTING FIRE! For Father hates that which raises itself above itself without the ability to do so everlastingly as He Himself is, was, and is to be. Father is ABOVE all in the end, even the Son and Spirit TESTIFY of that as does the Bible.
Pride. A flaming spirit. A spirit of arrogant haughtiness and disdain. An abominable spirit easily recognizable within our hearts. Pride is a high climber always reaching far above itself. Pride loves to praise itself. Like all unclean spirits Pride is stubborn for it contumaciously holds its perspective even when proven wrong. Pride and Weakness work in particular efficiently together within human hearts. Arrogant is the first-born ‘son’ of their unholy union. (Ps. 10:2-11, 73:6, Pr. 13:10).
Doubt. (Ro. 14:23) A spirit of unbelief, haughtiness, oppression and murder (Doubt ought to be a guardian angel). Doubt like so many other spirits of existence doesn’t have to be wrong at the right time. To doubt a lie is wise for example (or to pride in God). Yet Doubt as an unclean spirit doesn’t carry any redeeming qualities. The shape of Doubt is the hesitation in accepting the TRUTH of God as final. To doubt the truth is LETHAL. Yet this spirit can attack (oppress) Christians (in particular young Christians.) behind the scene of life for years. Doubt hates the truth for this removes the need for doubt’s rule over our existence. (That something which makes Christians today so weak could be SO strong taught me that the reign of doubt in God’s Church is stronger than ever.)
Dishonesty. (Pr 19:5, 1 Tim. 4:2) A spirit of rape and distortion. A fleeting spirit. We all know this one – this sense inside of us which is sly, evasive, suspicious, argumentative and secretive. Yet truly the spirit is mean, thief-like and uncaring. Its presence in us is easily recognized for Dishonesty makes us (the one(s) in us who know the truth) very selfish or self focussed. Dishonesty cannot look the truth in the eye but can bluff if it can utilize inner insecurity in the observer. Furthermore Dishonesty despises and fears the truth. Truth is ALWAYS its enemy. Dishonesty also brings us this sense (tells us) that we can get away with it -- the lies and deceit we have committed in the darkness of its unholy presence. (Is.28:15) A very close ‘blood relative’ of Dishonesty is Deceiver.
Dishonesty – the lie – opens our heart and mind to legions of unclean spirituality.
Laziness. (Pr. 22:13) A spirit of inactivity, plunder and spiritual genocide. A spirit of spiritual blindness and ‘sleeping/dreaming’. A crushing spirit. Laziness is the force which debilitates the God given ability to do or be. Laziness does not store ‘goodness/energy’ for hard times but rather empties its occupant of their sense of purpose as well as well being. Laziness does NOTHING but make its occupant feel lazy. (We must therefore be very careful who we call lazy, as far to often we call others lazy because they are doing an activity WE don’t approve of.) Unwillingness, Speculator and Deceiver are ALWAYS present in the lazy heart and Addiction usually gains a solid foothold. Spiritual laziness --lazy in serving our Father in Heaven is by FAR the most predominant way we ought to view our fight with this spirit of being.
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