Using the term “demonic” is like uttering the ultimate curse to someone. It’s rooted in our understanding of how we associate words. Saying something or someone is demonic is not tying them to a demon. It isn’t alluding to the fact that an individual literally has a demonic spirit living in them. Although, in some…
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The Soul
This is a basic overview of the functioning of the soul of man. The soul (psuche’) was the way God designed man to be able to interface and interact with his environment (bios) in order to make sense of and understand the created world. Man’s soul became the interpretive module for what his body would…
Our True Identity
The topic concerning our identity is a complex and multi-layered one. Satan has successfully reversed the order of all things from the manner in which God intended it to function. A counterfeit reality exists since the fall of Adam in the garden, which enslaves man, even Christians. Recalling the construct of man, consisting of three…
Understanding Our Identity
It’s crucial we gain and lay hold of an accurate understanding concerning our true identity. Without it we are unable to comprehend God’s intention for creating us. Did God simply create man because He needed to, or to occupy Himself, or to simply inhabit the earth He created. Could it be that there’s a defined…
Joy In Suffering
1 Peter 2:20 (AMP) “After all, what kind of credit is there if, when you do wrong and are punished for it, you endure it patiently? But if when you do what is right and patiently bear [undeserved] suffering, this finds favor with God.” What did Jesus die for if Christians still suffer? It simply…
Slave For Christ
Philippians 2:7 (KJV) “but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” This very scripture is a contradiction to anything representing the Christian life today. No-one today wants to be “of no reputation”, or be found in the “form of a…
Purpose In Suffering
This extract from Obedience Through Suffering is worth repeating; Peter said, “Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps” (1 Pet. 2:21). Just as teachings that do not conform to Christ’s doctrine are false, so a life that does not conform to Christ’s example is misdirected, and will…