How to handle attacks

[walking4jesus]

I have often wonder why some relationships are more difficult then others. I want to get along with others but it seems almost impossible to do so with some people. I have discovered that it is possible if you know one thing we are a spiritual being having a human experience. That means we need to deal with people in the spiritual realm. In my quest to have a better understanding I turned to the scriptures. I have discovered that trying to handle issues with people in the flesh is like taking a knife to a gun fight. You don

[RGR]

Very good points!!!!

[Fez]

Once you realize that you are a dead person walking (dead to this world), it becomes a bit easier to deal with attacks.

I am going through something with a person at the moment who is a total "porcupine" when it comes to anything! Not a believer, just a person who whines and complains to me as chairman of the Body Corporate where I live. (and whose sons have both threatened me with assault in the most foul language you can imagine). This when I ask them to stop using angle grinders to work on their unit at 3am!

South's advice to me? "A soft answer turns away wrath".

She is right. It has worked up to now.....

No matter what I actually think of him. You can love someone without actually liking them.....

[swsavedbygrace]

South's advice to me? "A soft answer turns away wrath".

She is right. It has worked up to now.....

She is so very right!

[Believer112]

If your dead to yourself it's hard to be offended, and that takes the grace of God!

[nebula]

Good point.

[enoob57]

I have often wonder why some relationships are more difficult then others. I want to get along with others but it seems almost impossible to do so with some people. I have discovered that it is possible if you know one thing we are a spiritual being having a human experience. That means we need to deal with people in the spiritual realm. In my quest to have a better understanding I turned to the scriptures. I have discovered that trying to handle issues with people in the flesh is like taking a knife to a gun fight. You don't stand much of a chance of winning.

The problem is that we take things personally. Yes we are being attacked but it is the spirits on that person that is driving them to do it. They may not even realize it. The devil will use anyone he can to destroy your happiness. He will even use you to destroy yourself. He does this by tricking you into believing it is about you. It is not about you, it is about the Kingdom of God.

In Ephesians 6:12 It says

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. This means we need to be aware of our surroundings. The devil is the prince of the air. Meaning the devil can only operate in the five physical senses. They are seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting. That is why we are told in James 1:18-19 19Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

20For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

The walk of faith... the substance of things hoped for (His Word) the evidence of things not seen(sensual persuasion not needed for proof).

John 20:29

29 Jesus said to him, "Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

NKJV

1 Peter 1:8-9

8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith

[Song In The Night]

If your dead to yourself it's hard to be offended, and that takes the grace of God!

Dead on.

Pun intended.