Controlling Spirits- The controlling spirit is the number one enemy of faith. The Controlling spirit is the biggest hindrance to the work of faith in my life and yours. The controlling spirit can overwhelm faith every time. The controlling spirit leaves no room for faith to operate in our lives. The controlling spirit leaves no room for individuality and individual freedom when a person with a controlling spirit is trying to exercise control over you. But more than all this, the controlling spirit ruins relationship and causes headaches and causes loneliness and isolation and ultimately squeezes God and faith out of a live and is very grieving to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit cannot work in a life with a controlling spirit for He is a gentlemen. The Holy Spirit is totally blocked and stopped from operating and working in the life of a person with a controlling spirit. Until they are delivered of this spirit and it is a spirit and not just the person, they cannot come to Christ; they cannot put their faith in Christ or trust or believe in anyone or anything but themselves. It causes the person with the controlling spirit to worship self. Self sits on the throne of their heart and rules everything and all they can think of, the only perspective they can see and understand is their own. Any idea or though contrary to their way, their ideas is unacceptable and they will fight such, even “tooth and nail”. People with a controlling spirit are heady, highminded, head strong, overbearing, implacable, highly opinionated, ungiving, uncaring people who struggling to have things their way, even against all odds. Let us look at a Scriptural example of the danger of the controlling spirit and how to be delivered from that controlling spirit.2 Kings 4:38-41 “And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof. But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.”
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:12:48 +0000
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