The Spirit Bully

Dr. Damien C. Powell

Description

This book of spiritual insight helps Christians who are wondering why they’re experiencing troubles after they’ve decided to accept Jesus as their Lord, and Savior.

Everyone experiences hurt, turmoil, and pain, but we only see the cause from the human surface. In The Spirit Bully, author Dr. Damien C. Powell reveals that someone is pulling the strings behind the unusual distractions and attacks that those who walk with God face on a daily basis.

He discusses how Satan is on assignment to destroy you and everyone connected to you; you cannot afford to let him rule your emotions. It’s time for you to fight back and learn about the weapons in your arsenal because the Lord has anointed you for his army.

In The Spirit Bully, Powell demonstrates practical principles on how to take your prayer life and walk with God to the next level. Through personal experience and revelation from the Lord, this guide aides you in your training process of becoming the man or woman of God you were meant to be. Each chapter is filled with Biblical strategies, reflection questions, as well as powerful and precise prayers targeting the areas in which the enemy tries to fight you. This is your moment and season to not settle for being conquered, but to become more than a conqueror.

Sujets

• Spiritual Growth
• Christian Living
• Philosophie et théologie
• Espiritual
• Spiritual
• Victory
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 30 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664276871
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

The Spirit Bully
 
 
 
 
 
 
DR. DAMIEN C. POWELL
 
 
 
 

 
Copyright © 2022 Dr. Damien C. Powell.
 
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Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
 
Scripture marked (KJV) taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
 
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7686-4 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7685-7 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-7687-1 (e)
 
Library of Congress Control Number: 2022916084
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 9/30/2022
Contents
Chapter 1       Faith Facts 101
Chapter 2       Removing Spiritual Cataracts
Chapter 3       The Storms of Life
Chapter 4       It Starts in the Darkness
Chapter 5       Silencing the Shadow
Chapter 6       Sick of Strongholds
Chapter 7       Hell’s Fact Sheet
Chapter 8       I Need True Freedom
Chapter 9       Adopted and Accepted
Chapter 10     Arise in Your Authority
 
About the Author
Chapter 1
FAITH FACTS 101
When understanding how the eternal fight between heaven and hell works, you must first realize that you cannot enter it unprepared or unprotected. You must realize that the internal battle you are enduring did not start with you, nor will it end with you. You have to fight so hard for peace, joy, confidence, and stability because the enemy’s favorite battlefield is the mind!
The truth of the matter is that he is more afraid of you than you are of him. That is why he endlessly targets your self-esteem and identity. It is so you will become like that child at school who cries in the corner after being ridiculed by the class bully. But this is not the position you must take. You do not have to settle for being a victim. It is time to obtain victory from the onslaught of the enemy’s attacks, but it only comes through Jesus Christ.
This may be your first time hearing about Jesus or a refresher, if you are already familiar with Christianity. But make no mistake; there is a reason why we are so passionate about His name! Jesus is part of what we call the triune God, for God operates through three separate ways. You have God the Father, who created everything in the universe and handcrafted how the world turns, how nature runs through cycles, and how the human body functions.
Then, you have God the Holy Spirit, where God Himself walks with us and through us, so that His perfect plan can be delivered, as we submit ourselves to His directions and authority. Lastly, we have God the Son (Jesus), who came to walk among us in human flesh. He is all God and all man at the same time. And even though He only walked on the Earth for thirty-three years, we can learn so much from his journey.
It is because of Jesus’s human experience that we can worship Him, love Him, and trust Him the way we do. Our God and religion is different from everyone else’s because no other religion depicts a god who was willing to live among their creation. He was born like us, experienced human emotions like us, and even faced death like we will one day have to.
Most of all, He learned firsthand how the enemy likes to tempt, taunt, and torment us, showing us how to navigate these moments when they arise in our lives. Normally, when we think about all the times Jesus had to overcome the enemy, it was not just during His season of fasting, when He was in the wilderness. One thing you will see, in Jesus’s entire journey that you can see in your own, is that the enemy did not just attack him directly. The enemy always tried to oppose Jesus through other people.
When Jesus was growing inside Mary’s womb, prophets, soothsayers, and wise men alike felt that a mighty king was being born. The king at the time, Herod, caught a whiff of this, and he was not above immorality. Herod was truly a bully and abuser, one who overstepped his boundaries and made a lot of decisions out of haste and hatred.
He would behead you if you asked questions that he did not feel like answering. And one thing you must realize is that the enemy’s playground is our emotions. He can speak louder than the Lord when we constantly walk in fear, anger, jealousy, pride, and any negative emotion that clouds our judgment, if we are not careful. In Herod’s case, he was so full of pride and anger that the thought of a king rising up made him usher an unthinkable decree.
He demanded that every single male child under the age of two should be executed, hoping that this would cancel the promise of the new king. He made this decision out of pure anger. And the enemy used this as one of the many attacks to prevent Jesus from fulfilling His earthly assignment.
The sad reality is that the devil does not play fair. And he will harm many around you, as an attempt to get under your skin and ultimately abort your destiny. But Herod failed to kill Jesus because God sent angels and other people to warn Mary and Joseph. And they got as far away from their home as possible.
This could be a reason why you may have been brought up in unfavorable circumstances and hidden for a season. If the wrong people, with toxic, impure motives, got a hold of you, they would possibly destroy you while trying to get glory out of your gifts.
We can also relate to Jesus because so many circumstances led Him to not live in luxury, like most of us who cannot either. His parents did not have much, but Joseph made an honest living as a carpenter. The Lord allowed it to be so, for He did not want His Son to become entitled, spoiled, or contaminated by the emotions of this world that easily entangle us.
Due to not having much to be distracted by, He fostered a deep love for the things of God. It was so much so that, by the tender age of twelve, he was able to converse with and ask challenging questions to the priests of the temple. His mind-set, at the time was that His heavenly Father’s assignment for Him was more important than anything and anyone else. This peculiar focus would follow Him for the next eighteen years of His life. We do not see anything else about Him until He gets baptized by His cousin, John the Baptist.
Jesus was so humbled by His lifestyle and average upbringing that, by the time He went to be baptized, He was more than willing to let his cousin do it in a dirty river, in the wilderness. Even John said to Jesus that he was not worthy to help Him put on His sandals, and that Jesus should be baptizing Him instead. If Jesus was consumed by pride, arrogance, and entitlement, He would decline the meeting place that God ordained for His preparation to meet His destiny.
The minute Jesus plunged into that water, the heavens opened, and God Himself affirmed Him, publicly and audibly. This now leads us to what I stated earlier, about the enemy tempting Jesus in the desert. The enemy appeared before Him during His forty-day fast, attempting to make Him question His identity and authority. Each time, Jesus fought back with the word of His Father.
Just like a natural person who perpetuates physical and verbal abuse onto you, the devil and those who avail themselves of his influence desire to make you question everything God has promised you. Low self-esteem, people pleasing, and the fear of rejection are all ways that the enemy tries to distract us and make us question who we are in Christ. The devil basically told Jesus that He could not be taken seriously as a part of God if He did not obey his temptations.
Christ was so secure in His identity that He overcame the verbal opposition. And it would have forfeited His glory if He traded it in for fame and fortune. Therefore, it is important to make sure that you are secure, confident, and whole before walking into your purpose, especially ministry. If you walk into your God-given gift without keeping your emotions and motives in check, you will surely collapse when temptation and rejection come your way.
See? Don’t you already appreciate the fact that you do, or can, serve a God who has literally been where you are? And it gets better, as you begin to see Him walk in ministry and miracles. Many questioned Jesus’s authenticity as a teacher and definitely as the supposed Son of God. There were many times when people tried to tarnish His name and even kill Him. But He did not give in to their opinions and opposition.
Even in moments of righteous anger, like when He flipped tables in the temple to stop people from taking advantage of it, He did not let His anger lead Him to sin. He was so composed that even when his disciples wanted to kill others who disrespected Him, He forbade it. What good would it be to carry the power of God and the influence it brings just to abuse, manipulate, and control? If that were the case, that person would be no better than