Are you ready for battle?

Sacha❤️

7 min

Religion

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Are you ready for battle? Father God, in the powerful name of Jesus, I will not draw back or shrink in fear, for then Your soul would have no delight or pleasure in me. I was bought for a price—purchased with a preciousness and paid for, made Your very own. I honor You, LORD, and desire to bring glory to You in my body. I will let my light shine before men that they may see my moral excellence and praiseworthy good deeds, that they will recognize, honor, praise, and glorify You, my Father who is in heaven. In Jesus name Amen The Bible has much to say about manipulation. Through examples, principles, and direct commands, Scripture warns us against manipulating others and against allowing ourselves to be manipulated. At its core, manipulation is a type of lying. When someone speaks falsely for the purpose of deception, he or she is being manipulative, because to deceive is to manipulate someone into thinking or behaving a certain way. So, all the Bible’s prohibitions against lying can be applied to manipulation. Lying is a dreadful sin. Satan is the “father of lies” (John 8:44). We might also call him the “master of manipulation.” He manipulated Eve, using half-truths and appeals to her desire for wisdom, to deceive her into disobeying God. To this day, Satan manipulates people into traps he sets for them. He “masquerades as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:14). He exploits our weaknesses, strokes our pride, and assures us that following a sinful path is in our best interests. He is insidious in his artfulness; he has many ploys to bring us under his control. Samson was the victim of manipulation a couple of different times. At his wedding feast, he posed a riddle to the Philistine attendees; if they could answer him correctly, he would give them “thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes” (Judges 14:12). The Philistines were stumped, and they reso

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