Trials, Tribulations, and the Accuser of the Brethern

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

--Ephesians 6

 

 

This past week has been filled with major highs and major lows.  It has been a roller-coaster ride of emotions, physical triumphs, and physical pain, it has been a week of financial distress, and extreme joyful laughter and banter, but also sadness. Hurtful sadness.

 

 The pressure this week has been like a ton of bricks.  I have had to make major decisions, that I wasn't prepared to make at the time, I have had to overcome obstacles that were thrown my way to trip me up, I have lost some battles this week, some battles that I should have won.  Battles that under-nornal circumstances would have never been an issue.

(Weakness, Eric--just pure self-pity weakness!!!)- actually lack of faith

 

I was whittled down and deflated by a series of events, by recollections of the past, and by feelings.

 

I can't do it any longer, I spread myself to thin, give too much of myself, where pieces of me are left scattered across the battlefields of thought and minds and souls I encounter.  Each time "Pieces of Me" are pulled, I lose another bit of confidence, another bit of self esteem and respect.  I lose the parts of me that make me, ME!! 

 

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However!!!! I understand the spiritual battles that have been taking place. I understand the battle and the temptations and the forces attacking me. 

 

By understanding, and recognizing, you actually have turned the "page" or the tide of that battle. By keeping your faith, or turning back towards your faith, you have the strength to overcome.  I have turned away to long once again. I have let circumstances effect me, I have let, my faith waiver, when it is my faith that has brought me to the top of the mountain many times. It is my faith that has given me the authority and the power to accomplish those tasks.

 

Thank you Lord, thank you God.  Thank you for sending the labors across my path to remove those seeds of doubt, to remove the darkness and to shed Light. 

 

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I am healed in Jesus Name

A workman is worthy of his hire

Devil you are under my feet.

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I call in all the financial seeds sown, all my bills are paid in Jesus name. I have no debt, my covers runeth over, I extend my faith.

Amen

 

 

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Sermon on the Mount.. Matthew chapter 7

Judge not, that ye be not judged. 

 

 Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 

 

 Mat 7:3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 

 

 Mat 7:4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? 

 

 Mat 7:5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. 

 

 Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. 

 

 Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 

 

 Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 

 

 Mat 7:9 Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? 

 

 Mat 7:10 Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 

 

 Mat 7:11 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? 

 

 Mat 7:12 Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. 

 

 Mat 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide [is] the gate, and broad [is] the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 

 

 Mat 7:14 Because strait [is] the gate, and narrow [is] the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 

 

 Mat 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 

 

 

 Mat 7:17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 

 

 Mat 7:18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 

 

 Mat 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 

 

 Mat 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. 

 

 Mat 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 

 

 Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 

 

 Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 

 

 Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 

 

 Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. 

 

 Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 

 

 Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. 

 

 Mat 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: 

 

 Mat 7:29 For he taught them as [one] having authority, and not as the scribes.