#confronting satan

[albertfinch]

CONFRONTING SPIRITUAL OPPOSITION

 Acts 16:16  - "One day, as we were going to the house of prayer, we encountered a young slave girl who had an evil spirit of divination, the spirit of Python. She had earned great income for her owners by being a fortune-teller."

Paul and Silas were on their way to the house of prayer but were sidetracked in their path by a slave girl. The spirit of Python seeks to distract and then enslave. Its objective is to distract those on their way to prayer; those who are on their way to implement their CALLING. It wants to keep you out of the secret place through annoyances and disturbances thereby garbling your connection to God’s Spirit. It will throw circumstances and diversions your way to have you focused on the "noise" and in turn draw you away from going to the Father in prayer. Python operates through false prophecy and counterfeits. Verse 18 says: "She kept following us, shouting, 'These men are servants of the Great High God, and they're telling us how to be saved!'"

The spirit of Python will scorn you personally, it will mock the call of God on your life, and have you question if the dreams in your heart are possible. It will shout over you relentlessly until, just like Paul, you become weary and greatly frustrated. It will accuse you in the public forum and it will have people surround you with lies and judgments.

Python will also seek to expose you, strip you and beat you until you are raw (see Acts 16:22). Its intention is to rob you and divert you from your Kingdom advancing DESTINY; coiling its lies around your heart until finally you are enslaved in its chains, rendering you unable to produce Kingdom fruit that remains.. But you do not need to fear! "For greater is He within you than he who is in this world" (see 1 John 4:4).

KEYS TO VICTORY OVER THE SPIRIT OF PYTHON:

#1. SPEAK YOUR AUTHORITY

Refrain from speaking negatively about the circumstances around you. Don't be distracted by the noise of it.  Instead, focus on your Christ identity and declare your victory through His name. Paul showed us how to firmly turn towards the attack (see Acts 16:18) and ultimately away from the distraction; commanding it to leave in the name of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 12:11 says, "They triumphed over him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony..." .   One of your greatest weapons is the word of your testimony. By declaring the name of Jesus, His Blood makes you (as a son or daughter of the Most High God) inherently victorious over the enemy every single time, but you need to SPEAK YOUR AUTHORITY.

#2. LIFT UP YOUR VICTORY SONG!

If you have been beaten down and the coils of despair have been strangling the life out of your dreams and hopes, then it is time to sing. Despite what circumstances have come against you, your song of worship to the Father is a warfare tool of Heaven to burst through the atmosphere of heaviness.  See rivers of living water flowing out of your heart towards the Father as you worship Him.

In Acts 16:24, we see Paul and Silas in the after-throws of their battle with Python, bound by their hands and feet in prison. The Passion Translation says they were "undaunted". They began to sing and it was their songs of worship that captivated an entire jail of prisoners. In verse 26, it tells us: "Suddenly, a great earthquake shook the foundations of the prison. All at once every prison door flung open and all the chains of all the prisoners came loose."

Your song of victory before the breakthrough comes literally shakes the foundations of the ground and sky; causing every chain that has restrained you to come unstuck and every door that has confined you to come unlocked. Psalm 108:2 says, "Awake, O my soul, with the music of His splendor. Arise my soul and sing His praises! I will awaken the dawn with my worship, greeting the daybreak with my songs of light!"

Your song will cause the light to burst through the night.

#3. SHAKE IT OFF!

In Acts 28:3, Paul encounters another snake, but this time a physical one. As he was gathering a pile of brushwood for the fire, a venomous snake latched onto his hand. In verse 5 it says, "But Paul shook off the snake into the fire and was unharmed."

Among the very few natural predators of a python is an eagle. They have distinct ways of attacking the snake—especially if it is in pursuit of eaglets in their nest. They will shake it vehemently or drop it from a great height. They show the snake no mercy—and neither should you!

Acts 4:31 gives us a confounding account of the manifestations of what prayer can do: "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly" .  Expectant prayer literally shakes off the attacks from your life and drops the snake into the fires of God.

All of the prisoners that were with Paul and Silas that day were set free; along with the jailer and his entire family who gave their hearts to Jesus. Your breakthrough is not just for you, but for others. Those around you who have been in captivity and are lost are meant to be freed through your breakthrough as well.

It is time to speak to the problem, turn your affections towards the Father, and command Python to leave in the name of Jesus!  As you pray and lift your songs of worship, you will see a breaking through of the night season and the shaking off of all that has been opposing you.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[journey-to-the-attic]

Imagine if he sent that to IK???

uh oh, simeon!

or, alternatively:

[acesammy]

I get too insane when I think about the arcs they robbed from Sam in the late seasons

[dragonanon]

Okay as much as I love the demon brothers, I know for a FACT I would never survive in the HOL. I know myself too damn well; I am a living ball of sass, and I would be completely unable to stop myself from sassing Lucifer at every possible opportunity. In turn, he would make it his life’s mission to make me suffer endlessly for it.

[heartbeetz]

I understand the things that make people want to give Anton demonic attributes, and I do think it's fun/neat when they do, but I also think that overlooks the very funny alternative that is "he's literally just some normal guy who the devil decided to start beef with one day."

Like the kickstarter originally described him as a "hapless drunkard" who'd "rather be doing anything else" during the game events. He wants to be sitting on the couch with his dog and his maybe-canon daughter, or out drinking and gambling and cracking stupid jokes. But nooooo now he has to go run around blowing shit up and getting into fights to work his way to hell and confront the guy who (from Anton's pov: randomly) stole his liquor collection. He was literally chilling. He was chilling and now he has to deal with the actual devil for some reason. Satan doesn't even know who he is.

[mrthenarrator]

You like music? If so what genres do you like? (you can include sub-genres if you want!) Do you have any specific artists you like or do you just listen to whatever?

Also, here's a song because I can

I have answered this question before, actually!

Right... Here, I believe if I done this correctly.

As for specific artists. I do enjoy musicians from the 1920s-1950s. Nat King Cole is a staple for me, Oswin owns a CD set of three containing many of his songs which I love. Though recently he's discovered this Jekyll and Hyde Musical, and has gotten me hooked onto the songs with its drama and style. If I could sing well, I would love to perform the "Once Upon a Dream" Jekyll sings.

Also, I've listened to the song, and I have to say I never knew what electro swing was until now! I know there's this album I've heard that sounds vaguely like the same genre as this song, so it's nice to finally put a word to genre I never heard of before.

^ An addendum to this: The album I heard was called Clover by OR3O, according to Oswin. It's quite nice!

[ankcoolosaurus]

Update on Fen

It's been a rough few days for my boy

[msclaritea]

1.12 MILLION effing tweets under Taylor Swift for:

1. A song dedicated to Greek aka Classical Cassandra

2. More songs spilling tea about one of her beard relationships MattybHealy

3. Use of black people for promo, when none that I know of, even like her

4. Going after kimvkardashian (and you know I don't care) but it's for Anna Wintour one of the biggest, shadiest 'Handlers' in Manhattan and BFFs with Meghan Markle

5. Trolls bragging that Swifties are being taken advantage of with all of the repetitive albums

6. Joking about Satanism

7. Mocking #Palestine by openly hoping for #WWIII after the #Iran attack

8.Dragging Kim's child, North into the middle of this shite

I have it on good authority that Swift is considered an Apex Predator in the business.

[ausetkmt]

I Confronted An Ex Member of Church of Satan | He Said God Is the Greatest!

I came face to face with an ex member of the Assemblies of Light Bearer Greater Church of Lucifer (Church of Satan) and I asked him some of the questions you would want to ask.

[caffeinatedopossum]

I just accidentally brought back a bunch of memories of stuff my mom used to say to me :')

[nicosraf]

This might get into spoiler territory so idk if you can answer this but… what motive would Lucifer have to persuade Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge?

It is, in fact, a spoiler, so I can't say directly what'll happen. Lucifer and Eve are very interesting to me though.

I imagine Lucifer would see a lot of himself in her – in her innocence and curiosity. And after she's been expelled from paradise and punished so severely, he'd think that they've been cursed in ways more similar than not. He'd pity her (he'd see himself in her).

[captainspiggbo]

I'm not even gonna pretend I know what's going on. . I'M GONNA KEEP SKITTERING ALONG AND PRETEND I SAW NOTHING :D

[terrorpenned]

i forgot barn has been at windcliff this whole time ?? ? i was like. why isn't he at v's wedding. he could be beating jeff with a crowbar rn.

[ironyadays]

SPOILERS YOU SEASON 4 PART 2

Do I wanna write a Jekyll and Hyde AU fic of You season 4 just because the whole dynamic between fake Rhys and Joe gives me Confrontation from the Jekyll and Hyde musical vibes????

Yeah pretty much, but just IMAGINE THIS SONG WITH JOE AND FAKE RHYS

[lauralot89]

Actual things that happen in the 1897 Dracula novel, without context:

A character has ominous nightmares and attributes them to eating too much paprika

Dracula first appears wearing a fake beard

The person he was trying to fool with the fake beard immediately realizes Dracula and Beard Guy are the same man, due to both having really firm handshakes

We are told parrots are immortal unless fatally wounded

A Texan cowboy opens fire on a bat flitting around a window, and lodges a bullet in the wall of an occupied room

A woman is called a polyandrist for receiving blood transfusions from multiple men

An incorrectly addressed telegram leads to two deaths, multiple druggings, and several children being assaulted

Dracula, while trying to maintain a low profile, takes a lovely trip to the zoo and freaks out the animals so badly that he gets mentioned in a newspaper article

The one character who knows anything about vampires spends a good two-thirds of the book refusing to talk about vampires

Dracula went to Satan's Witchcraft Academy and somehow this is only brought up in two throwaway lines

A character gets stuck inside a circle of communion wafer crumbs

A major plot point of the book is Dracula (who was said to be a brilliant scholar and has the strength of twenty mortal men) realizing he can move boxes without human help

Someone is referred to as "manifestly a prig of the first water"

Two characters have a hobby of reading train schedules

A hospital lets a mental patient escape to see what will happen

A character starts vomiting up feathers from eating whole birds

A doctor refuses to give a medical diagnosis and instead makes a speech about growing corn

Dracula impersonates another character just by wearing the same clothes, despite being taller and visibly much older. This deception is successful.

A character "cleans" a room by eating all the insects in it

Suddenly: rats. Thousands of them.

The heroes progress in their efforts through "the wonderful power of money," i.e., bribery

Dracula has three other vampires in his castle. Their relation to him is never explained, nor are any of them named.

A character insists his salvation depends on having a pet cat

Dracula is thwarted by flowers on more than one occasion

A group of vampires stand in the hall outside a man's bedroom, talking loudly about their plans to eat him. When he comes to the door to confront them, they run away laughing

Dracula wears an unfashionable hat and gets roasted for it

A group of Romanians encounter a disheveled, shouting man and, "seeing from his violent demeanour that he was English, they [give] him a ticket for the furthest station on the way thither that the train reached."

A boat crashes due to Dracula having the munchies

A wolf is thrown through a window and immediately runs off, confused and covered in glass

Dracula makes a bed

[yeslordmyking]

Ephesians 4:26-27 — Today's Verse for Friday, April 26, 2024