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Responding to a Controlling Spirit
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A person under the influence of a controlling spirit will love you only to the extent that you’re willing to be controlled by them. If a person will only love you when you are like them, when you agree with them, or when you’re willing to follow after and praise them, this person is under the influence of a controlling spirit.
You can see how this spirit operates in the way those who are under its influence try to control the thoughts and behavior of others. The goal is to create uniform thinking and behavior. Non-compliance is meet with ridicule, punishment or shame. A person under the influence of a controlling spirit will discredit and slander others in an attempt to create fear so people will conform to their expectations.
A controlling spirit will gather others against you. By spreading gossip about others, it polarizes and splits people into smaller and smaller groups that hold enmity toward each other. The controlling spirit is destructive in all that it does and it will stop at nothing to get its way.
The shield that guards our hearts against the work of such spirits is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Our defense against this spirit is cultivating love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, gentleness, long-suffering and self-control.
Since the goal of a controlling spirit is to manipulate people into following prescribed patterns of thoughts and behavior, the best way to defeat this spirit is to demonstrate freedom as it is expressed through unconditional love.
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Charles
We all should realize that trying to control or manipulate someone is a form of “witchcraft”.
Vegemite Kid
PM this is so so so GOOD. I heard Controlling spirit in the spirit realm last night.
Thank you for sharing this description & battle plan so that LOVE can win & Jesus receive due Praise
This is Solid advice
Bobby Clark
I would be interested to see the editing
Anonymous
Thank you! Excellent article! where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty! He that the Lord has set free is free indeed….If you continue in My Word then you are My disciples indeed and you shall find the Truth and the Truth shall set you FREE…I am the Way the Truth and the Life! Controlling spirit are disempowred by freedom and by Love and by Truth, they have to bow down to Jesus !!
Rebecca Ridgeway
This is exactly where and what my kids and I are dealing with now and controlling spirits are the worst, most oppressive spirits I / we have ever experienced!!!! It is GREVOUS, and brings deep sorrow and captivity to all!! There are MANY professing Christians who are completely dominated by them, as we can attest. Our ceiling collapsed at home, and because of added trauma and complete loss of everything, we have been in their grips and at their complete mercy for 1 and half months, to have a roof over our head. and they are family.They can be very tricky and they brainwash and attempt to brainwash and seize all freedom and liberty. They want to KILL and destroy you, keep you in chains. It is detestable, making one despair even of life itself!!!!And the more inferior position you are in, whether it be financial or whatever, the more they grow and the greater they attack, looking for whom they can DEVOUR!!
Just a nobody
I really needed to read this today. This describes my boss at where I work. I have just been waiting for the moment to go off on her, and let her know what a bad person she is. After reading this though, I realize that is not the right move, especially if I want to show Christ to her. The next time she is ugly to me, in her passive aggressive way, I am going to show her unconditional love. That really resonated with me when I read it, and an image of me hugging her came to mind. Thanks for sharing!! Many blessings ❤️