Post by buildthefarm on Nov 13, 2013 21:56:57 GMT -5
www.kingwatch.co.nz/Prophetic_Ministry/prophetic_pitfalls.htm
this handy guide just helped me figure what aspect of my character is undeveloped and causing me to keep making the same mistake over and over. now i know what direction to work in.
was reading in matthew today, the temptation of Jesus. and i noticed that first the devil went at the physical thing: your hungry so make the rock into bread and eat. same thing as with adam and eve. next he went for a spiritual idea or false doctrine, trying to create a stronghold in Jesus thinking: why not just jump and have the angels catch you? the Bible says they will right? when the problem really was the motivation of course wouldn't be from God. then when Jesus had resisted physical temptation and had resistant spiritual temptation the devil went for earthly power: ill give you everything out there in this world.
just thought it was interesting to see kind of a pattern of how and where we are gonna get hit. i haven't mastered the first one yet but if i ever do i can expect to start seeing a lot more spiritual temptations. i think I spend enough time in the word to get past that but a lot of problems happen in this area. this is what begins the cycle of the blind leading the blind i think. but then if you get past that and you've mastered everything the devil can throw at you he will go with a last ditch effort and try to throw power at you. maybe it isn't alway in this order but i like categories and when i read it these put themselves into these categories so there they are:)
this handy guide just helped me figure what aspect of my character is undeveloped and causing me to keep making the same mistake over and over. now i know what direction to work in.
was reading in matthew today, the temptation of Jesus. and i noticed that first the devil went at the physical thing: your hungry so make the rock into bread and eat. same thing as with adam and eve. next he went for a spiritual idea or false doctrine, trying to create a stronghold in Jesus thinking: why not just jump and have the angels catch you? the Bible says they will right? when the problem really was the motivation of course wouldn't be from God. then when Jesus had resisted physical temptation and had resistant spiritual temptation the devil went for earthly power: ill give you everything out there in this world.
just thought it was interesting to see kind of a pattern of how and where we are gonna get hit. i haven't mastered the first one yet but if i ever do i can expect to start seeing a lot more spiritual temptations. i think I spend enough time in the word to get past that but a lot of problems happen in this area. this is what begins the cycle of the blind leading the blind i think. but then if you get past that and you've mastered everything the devil can throw at you he will go with a last ditch effort and try to throw power at you. maybe it isn't alway in this order but i like categories and when i read it these put themselves into these categories so there they are:)