Spirit of Accusation and Satan is the Accuser
The Accuser of the Brethren Bible Verses
• Identify the Accuser of the brethren
• Recognize and understand the personality of the accusation
• Recognize that our minds are the battleground of accusation
• How Satan tries to get you to accuse others, God, and yourself.
Identify the Accuser of the Brethren
Revelation 12:10b it says Satan is the accuser of the brethren “The accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” Satan is an adversary, but the word Diablo means a slanderer. He slanders you by accusing you. He is working today against all who will allow him to accomplish his purposes.
Recognizing the Personality of Accusation!
It is like a policeman stopping you and saying, ‘I’m giving you a ticket for speeding,’ and you know that you weren’t speeding. You have been accused, not slandered. An accuser is a prosecutor who stands against you and says you’re guilty of a crime.
The goal of Satan or the accuser is to separate you from God, self and others – to bring division. He is devious and destructive, destroying wherever he is able. He does this in various ways.
The Difference Between God’s Voice and Satan’s Voice
We need to learn how to exercise our senses according to Hebrews 5:14 and know when it is God or when it is Satan.
Hebrews 5:14 it says, 14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Do you recognize the accuser's voice? He will not identify himself. In fact, he loves to masquerade as your own internal voice or even the voice of God—
1. accusing you of your sins-- to get you to accuse yourself, focusing your attention on how unworthy you are to fellowship with God, his goal—to rob you of vital fellowship with God
2. to get you to accuse others who have hurt you either because of wrong or true perception.
3. Accuse God – make you feel that the Lord is holding back something good from your life.
When Satan accuses you, it causes you to feel condemnation, such as feelings of guilt, shame, and guilt. These feelings can cause you to isolate yourself from others or to lash out with accusations and gossip about others as a form of retaliation.
From this scripture, we see that Satan's assignment to us is to accuse us and attack our character to steal, kill, and destroy the life of peace. He is trying to destroy your identity, then blame God to create separation and cause you to sin so that you will have shame and guilt and to create more to accuse you with to get you to give up.
God does not accuse but convicts. The Light of God shines into your consciousness - in your heart to expose sin. He shows us our ways that are not right or holy, and we should be willing to repent, and when we repent, we are forgiven. Through the Lord's convictions, it strengthens your relationship with Him. God does not accuse.
Accusation works in the mind; it replays an event that someone has done to cause us to replay and rehash words and/or situations. Why? Because we have moved into bitterness and want to get even. When you are angry at someone, don’t you want to gossip and tell others what this person has done to make them look bad to get even? That is precisely what Satan wants you to do to become a medium of evil to destroy others.
Some of the fruits of Accusation!
Holding a record of wrongs;
• murder with the tongue as with gossip or slander through deception;
• mind control, scrambling your thoughts, chaotic thinking, jumbled thought patterns, misunderstandings;
• projected fear;
• accusing another of your own sin;
• burden bearing; and becoming codependent in another’s sin by being their Holy Spirit.
Our war
Our war is not with flesh and blood …. As we learned in Romans 7 separation, when someone attacks, it is not them but the spirit within them. Again, we need to discern whose voice we hear and know the word of God and what the Lord says about us; if we know our identity, then we do not fall prey to the enemy's schemes.
Satan will get you to Accuse God!
How, by making you think he is holding back on you or not caring for you. For example, Eve in the Garden of Eden. How:
• He questioned and suggested--he cunningly planted thoughts and ideas.
• She followed her imagination to suspicion and to desire.
• Temptation intensified desire, and intense desire led her to defy God.
• He fueled Eve's suspicion and turned suspicion into distrust of God that God was holding back.
Paul expressed spiritual concern for the Corinthian Christians with this statement: I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:3). Adam accused God for making him a woman. It was the woman’s fault.
Peter called Satan our adversary and said he prowls about as a roaring lion (lions roar when they are hungry and hunting) seeking someone to devour (1 Peter 5:8).
1. Satan roams our world using evil or even good people who are hurt to eat people.
2. He prowls this world, looking for people to destroy.
Satan loves for us to do one to two things:
1. Blame God for what he does.
2. Doubt his power and disregard him as a significant force in Christian's lives.
Let's look at Jesus’ accusers:
1. Satan deceived Judas and led him to betray Jesus through the fruit of deceit.
2. Satan terrified Peter and led him to deny Jesus through the fruit of fear.
3. Satan turned the Jewish people that Jesus healed and blessed against Jesus to the point that they shouted for his death through the fruit of misunderstanding.
4. Satan deceived the men (the Pharases) who knew the most about scripture to the extent that they had Jesus killed through the fruit of accusation.
5. Satan was successful in getting Jesus nailed to a cross to suffer a painful, disgraceful death.
6. Satan led people to kill most of the apostles through accusation.
7. Satan led people to persecute and kill Christians.
8. Satan created many problems among Christians in the first century.
9. How can we look at all that and conclude that Satan and evil cannot cause suffering and problems in the lives of Christians today?
Have you ever had feelings that God doesn’t care about you?
When things are going wrong in your life, do you hear Satan accuse God of saying things like
• “He doesn’t care for you”,
• “He isn’t interested in you”, or
• “You are a bad person, and God cannot help you!”
Satan is trying to get you to believe that God does not care by accusing God to you so that you will not trust God to take care of you. Satan wants to separate you from God and make you believe that God does not care and, again, is holding back on you.
My story of Bitterness with my brother and the accusation I had.
Disobedience to God opens doors for Satan to execute the law. Fear and distrust before God.
• Where was God when I got sick.
• Where was God when I was being abused? The accusing spirit to blame god will steal our faith and confidence and make us feel like second-rate citizens.
• Shame: in the past, everything was the same as the present, and in the future, you feel worthless.
In Hebrews 5:12-14 teaches about being a babe and having a need for milk. A person of full age is able to eat strong meat and be mature. By reason of use (of the Word of God), he will have his senses exercised and be able to discern both good and evil.
Have you ever accused someone else?
Luke 6:37 “Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:”
When you accuse,
• you are calling to account,
• fault finding,
• taking records of wrong,
• playing it over and over in your head, which can bring torment to the mind,
• blaming, have a complaint,
• condemnation,
• damnation, and
• judging someone else.
When you do this, you lose your peace. Your mind is fixed to blame and even get revenge because you have a spirit of bitterness that causes you to accuse.
Have you ever been around several friends simultaneously, and they are talking, and you feel left out, rejected, or unimportant? Did you go into accusation by calling and telling them what a horrible person they are because they made them feel rejected? Does that make it right! Are we our brother’s keeper?
Did you feel better when someone hurt you, and you got back at them? If you have, then Satan was using you as a medium to accuse someone else to destroy them. This destroys a relationship that Satan would love to see happen. When there is a breach in a relationship, it is a sin. Jesus said to love your enemies. In Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
In Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
You’ve just been used by Satan to destroy another person through accusation and gossip because of bitterness. Now, you have a breach in a relationship; his job is to destroy relationships. That is not God’s will.
What do you gain?
1. Nothing except a loss in a relationship.
2. An open door for Satan’s attack in six areas (mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, financially, and relationally). This is opposite to Matthew 5:44 and Matthew 22:37-39.
3. If you don’t forgive, he will not forgive you in Matthew In Matthew 6:15But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. What does this mean? That means you are separated from God, and Satan has a right to bring curses to your life through the six that I mentioned above.
4. Why do we do it? Is it because we see our weakness in someone else, is it because of jealousy of them, or is it because they hurt us and so we feel we have the right to hurt back, or you felt rejected or shamed, felt unworthy and wanted to get back at them.
5. The reason is that you are looking for acceptance in man and YOU do not know your acceptance in Christ fully!
Romans 2:1 1Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Romans 12:17-21 17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. 18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. 20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
What if I accuse someone else!
You can walk it out by being in the restoration business. If you have accused someone, repent to them, repent to the Lord, and forgive yourself. When we repent, then our sins are forgotten, that is, if we have repented from the heart.
Have you ever accused yourself?
Have you ever dropped something and said in your mind or out loud, “I am so stupid for doing that.” Satan is accusing you of turning against yourself. He wants you to accuse yourself of causing you to feel bad and hate yourself. If you hate yourself, you cannot love others fully.
Self-talk is when your voice sounds like yourself, but it is accusing spirits of talking or thinking negative thoughts about yourself. Accusations may come against you often to make you a victim.
Do you compare yourself?
Do you compare your body size, hair, and eyes, or wish you looked like another person? That is a spirit of accusation. You are accusing yourself. You are slapping God in the face by accusing Him. There is nothing wrong with looking nice, but when we compare, that is an accusation.
Are you very competitive?
Is your whole identity wrapped up in winning where you have to win no matter what? When you lose, do you condemn yourself? Do you hear the accuser telling you that you are a loser, and you agree with him? That voice is the accuser and is not from God. Again, we need to discern good and evil. We need to know the voice of God.
Did you know your body responds in how you think about yourself? If you think badly about yourself by comparing and wishing you looked like someone else, then …… add this part.
Are you a perfectionist?
You don’t give yourself room for any failures? Perfectionism is based on the belief that self-worth is equated with performance. Did you know that God does not look at performance? He looks at the heart. A perfectionist lives in fear of failure. The truth is Satan has made you believe you have to perform to be accepted.
Have you ever been accused by someone else?
In 1 Samuel 17:28 in the story of David and Goliath, his brother accused him because of Jealousy of David. David was sent by his father…What was David’s response! Did he defend himself? No, David ignored it and had a victory over Goliath. What if he received it? Could it have kept him from the purposes of God?
Through people's doubt, you are no good, do nothing right, are lousy, clumsy, lazy, stupid, and never make it to college. You are a failure. Does God’s word say this about you at all? No!
• You go out and marry someone with accusing spirits. Lusy taste, don't make enough money, take them into yourself. You start believing in yourself.
The Sound of Accusations of Others:
• Have you ever done something, and others will jump on the chance to ridicule you and make you feel stupid?
• Has anyone in your lifetime misunderstood your actions and accused you of being a wrong person or are you doing something for yourself and not for others?
• How does it make you feel?
• What do you do? Did you try to defend and get angry with them and try to show them they are wrong by defending yourself? We all have done this.
Satan used them as a medium to get you to feel bad about yourself. He wants you to fall into sin by getting angry and defending yourself.
Why does this happen?
As we learned earlier in Romans 7 Separation, it is not them but the sin that lives in them. When someone is angry and accusatory, their demons are trying to get you to fight back so that you open the door to sin in your life. When you get angry back, you become one with their sin.
Satan tries to encourage you to write and keep a record of their wrong against you by keeping a record of your past. He is trying to get you to judge so you will be judged.
Satan is looking for you to find fault with someone else. He wants to open a door in your life to separate you from friends, relationships, or with others. He wants you to open the door to defend yourself – to participate in another’s sin. It is a setup by the enemy to bring more pain and shame!
Jesus didn’t defend himself! Scripture here Luke 23:9 Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing. We want to defend ourselves and protect our reputation. Jesus said nothing!
Luke 11:53-54 53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
We can take our peace without defending our peace. HOW, by knowing who we indeed are in Christ.
Why are you defending yourself? Is it because when someone accuses you, it causes you to feel rejected? We should be secure in who we are in Christ and what the Lord says about us!
We have a choice, though, when someone accuses us. You can take your peace in the fact that the Lord knows the truth and put your trust in Him that he will be your defense, or you will try to defend yourself.
Have you ever successfully defended yourself, or does it cause more problems? Have you ever been successful in proving to others? Have you felt like a fool when you tried because it went sour? Did it bring peace or more anguish!
When we try to defend ourselves, we are participating in the other person’s sin accusing us.
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Romans 12:19: " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
Now, what do we defend? Do you defend our talents, defend our service, and particularly defend your reputation! Your reputation is what people think you are. If a story gets out about you, the big temptation is to try to run it down. But you know running down the source of a story is a hopeless task--absolutely hopeless. It's like trying to find the bird after you've found the feather on your lawn. I like that metaphor of trying to find a bird after you've found the feather on your lawn. You can't do it!
If you insist upon defending yourself, God will let you do it. But if you turn the defense of yourself over to God, He will defend you. He told Moses once in Exodus 23, "I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, an adversary to thine adversaries." That means you don't have to fight. Is that good news? The Lord does the fighting for you. He will be an enemy to your enemy and an adversary to your adversary. And you'll never need to defend yourself.
If you turn yourself wholly over to God, He will defend you entirely and see that no one will harm you. "No weapon formed against you shall prosper," He says, "and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment thou shalt condemn."
Vengeance belongs to God (Romans 12:19; Deuteronomy 32:35; Proverbs 20:22). We are not to avenge ourselves. If we see someone who needs our help during the commission of a crime, we have a God-given right and duty to intervene. If however, the crime has been committed (past tense), we have no God-given right or duty to go and execute judgment upon the perpetrator. God will avenge. God will judge.
When you defend your reputation because of another’s perspective about you or someone else’s vengeance, then it says that you are ……
What should I do? Take responsibility if I'm guilty of a false accusation. Separate them from their sin, nor take their sin. Cast down thoughts. Repent if I did react.
When Jesus was falsely accused, he said nothing.
Psalms 59:1, 9, 17
1 Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise against me. 9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: God is my defense. 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.
Ask God to defend you. If God is our co-pilot - switch seats. Let him be in charge.
In John 8:44 it says "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
In Rev. 12:7 it talks about the angels fought against the dragon who accused the brethren but Satan looses and is put to death. 7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”
Satan even knows your purpose and tries to keep you from what you are called to do by separating yourself from God. How, to create a lack of trust by lying to you that “God doesn’t care”.
Jesus came to show us how to overcome it:
In Hebrews 5:14 it says, "14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."
If we don't walk in his light and word, then we are not in fellowship with God, but we are in fellowship with Satan.
All thoughts are not our own
1. God - word of God - Matthew 15:15-17
15 Then Peter answered and said, Declare this parable for us. 16 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? 17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?" They want their thought to be their own:
Matthew 16:22-23
"22 Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men."
Romans 8:6: "6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."
2. Ourselves - own experience and unresolved mind:
Matthew 16:13-14 - 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
John 13:2 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
2 Chronicles 6:30 Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)
1 Kings 8:39 39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
These spirits are not ours. Satan will excuse the innocent. Excuse the guilty.
We have to always be aware of where our thoughts come from. Do they come from us - unresolved mind, god, or Satan.
No one taking responsibility for their actions. Adam blamed Eve for taking the forbidden fruit.
Mark 3:2 2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him. --- Jesus more concerned with healing the sick.
Luke 23:1-9 1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he is Christ a King.
3 And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it.
4 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and the people, I find no fault in this man.
5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilean.
7 And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.
8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
9 Then he questioned with him in many words, but he answered him nothing.
What should we do!
Become a child of god. Start recognizing the manifestations. Start recognizing when it is accusation/condemnation or conviction. Realize that Satan lies, and you can say, “that is not who I am.” “ I'm not perfect because I’m going from Glory to glory, and I refuse to take the lie anymore. “
When someone is accusing you, don’t hook up with it. Stop and forgive instead. Don't allow your mind to play and replay the event. You don’t have to carry (video) into your mind or soul.
Don't have to repay evil by evil. Don’t allow someone’s evil to affect you.
Not acceptable to god. Not worthy, It's not for you. You begin to act out because you feel guilty does not _____ you are guilty. Do not trust your feelings. Trust god for what he says. Roman 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."
Feeling like you don't belong - the accuser's weakness, seeing fault failures.
I'm such a sinner. Overcomer. I could not serve him well enough back in 1990, accusing him that you were not forgiven. Want you to look at the past. Keeps you from going to God. Separate us from others. My gifts need to be better. Separate us from 3 areas, never knowing who we are because of the spirit of accusation.
Listing self-accusation. Keeps you from being who God wants you to be. Your body turns against you. Autoimmune disease. Thoughts turn against you, and the body turns against you.
2 Corinthians 10:5 5
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
How! The battle in our minds. Trust with scripture. Our responsibility is to recognize and pull them down and act upon the truth with the word.
New thinking. Every action requires an opposite. An opposite and equal reaction. Satan wants you to think. He hates me; I hate him. She cursed me I cursed her.
God wants us to react differently. Mom hates us - rejoice.
Conclusion
We must recognize the lies of accusations and not believe them. We do have a choice in whom and what we will believe. The word of God and the Spirit of God will direct us. Otherwise, the accusing spirit has caused great hardship for all under his control. Many families have felt the brunt of his work, but when we recognize it, repent for allowing accusing spirits to be a part of our life, and then renounce it, cast it out, and stand in God’s truth, we do receive our victory.
ACCUSATION DEFINITIONS
Accusation Definition is the strongman. Lucifer is the accuser of God, others, and yourself. The definitions below are the underlings or, according to Luke 11:26, the goods.
• Accusation – It is an act of charging with a crime or charge of wrongdoing or injustice that is made against a person or other party. Satan comes to accuse God, others, and you. Revelations 12:10. Satan tries to use you as a medium to get you to accuse others, God, and even yourself or even a place like a church. In this text, the overall meaning of 'accusation' is an evil excuse or wrongful charge made to bring someone to trial. In context, it means a sentence of damnatory judgment or condemnation and punishment. The purpose of an accusation is to harm another.
• Offense - to feel, or assume to be, injured or affronted; to become angry or hostile.
• Rebellion - Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
• Record/Replay/Programming – Record is to record an event, replay is to replay an event, and programming is when it becomes part of you. For example, you go to a garage, and someone robs you, you have a
• Control – you can control your environment or overpower others by retraining or regulation.
• Manipulation – Manipulation is about being used, abused, intimidated, coerced, pressured, bullied, or ‘brainwashed’ into doing something you don’t want to do. When we do something that is not in our best interest simply because we were pressured into it, we surrender our personal power and turn control over our lives to others. Unlike cats, we have only one life, so don’t turn it over to someone else.
• Personality of accusation – you have a personality that when things go wrong, you accuse others and never blame yourself.
• Comparing yourself to others means you compare your body, hair, or whatever to someone else to see if you are better. It is also an unloving spirit because you are not satisfied with who you are and what God created you to be. You are slapping God in the face.
• Competition – you have to win. If you don’t win, then you accuse yourself of being a failure and not being good enough.
• Fabricated Personality - As we struggle with our identity, many will dress up in defensive mechanisms to avoid conflict or rejection, or to please others, or to keep from being abused, etc. That would be a fabricated personality. God has taught us that we do not have to disguise ourselves but be transparent. The Bible says you shall know them by their fruit. The fruit of their life will soon be evident. Matthew 7:20 "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." The bottom line is that in the fabricated personality, we are not being changed daily into the person God saw us to be from the foundation of the world, that we are staying in that personality because of fear of man or because of whatever sin is holding us there.
• Suspicion – to mistrust man or god. You have a trust issue. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence.
• Judging others - To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticize or pass adverse judgment upon others.
• Misunderstanding - To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense. Mistakes of the meaning, errors; misconceptions. Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. ``Misunderstandings among friends.
• Lying - A lying tongue stems from a heart of hatred according to Proverbs 26:28. This includes flattery (Psalms 5:9; 12:2; 62:4) and so-called "little white lies" (1 John 2:21 "No lie is of the truth."), Satan is the "father of lies. Lying is a part of our old nature, and it must be put to death.
• Perfectionism - Perfectionism is a learned internal motivation to strive for perfection based on the belief that self-worth is equated with performance. A perfectionist will usually be very accusational because they expect everyone else to be a perfectionist. In other words, the perfectionist is afraid to do something unless he or she is certain it can be done completely and perfectly because failure is unacceptable. Fear of failure shows up in the form of procrastination. Frequent procrastination is the first and most obvious clue that you may be overly perfectionistic. Symptoms: Do you find that you are never really satisfied with work you have completed? Do you believe that if you don’t do a perfect job that you are less of a person or others will reject you? Do you fear failure because you believe that others will not accept or respect you? If you answer yes to one of these questions you are probably experiencing some degree of perfectionism.
• Torment - Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
• Destroyer - One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
• Racism – “Any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise, on equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, or any other field of public life.”
• Envy To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it.
• Jealousy - The quality of being jealous; earnest concern or solicitude; painful apprehension of rivalship in cases nearly affecting one's happiness; painful suspicion of the faithfulness of husband, wife, or lover
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• Scapegoat - Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.
• Unworthy - Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming;
• Shame - A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal.
• Guilt –
• Isolation - The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. It is a way of protection if you have been betrayed or hurt.
• Division - Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
• Self-Pity – Self pity ranks as the absolute grandfather of all negative emotions. Self pity paralyzes your thoughts and feelings and even your very actions in the world. Often, it becomes a pathetic manipulation that people use to get any number of things. It becomes a way to punish others,... one of the characteristics of pity - you always have to blame someone or something else. By definition, a person in self pity can not and will not accept responsibility for their own life. Someone else must be responsible. This in itself leads to a host of problems. Self-pity is the super glue that holds you to your past.
• Fear – Painful emotion caused by impending danger, state of alarm; dread, anxiety for the safety of... Natural Fear: The first definition describes fear in its natural form. This kind of fear is an invaluable ally in that it warns us of danger. In response to a clear and present threat, the adrenal glands secrete extra adrenaline to help with the 'fight or flight' response that removes us from harm's way. Chronic Fear: The second definition describes fear in the form of dread or anxiety which is always 'of the future' and exists solely in thought and imagination. Worrying about something that may or may not happen in the future also causes the body to respond with extra adrenaline to deal with the perceived threat. Even though no clear and present danger is in evidence, the body is obliged to react to the mind's picture.
• Deceit - An attempt or disposition to deceive or lead into error; any declaration, artifice, or practice, which misleads another, or causes him to believe what is false; a contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud.
Ecclesiastes
2:14 "The wise man's eyes (are) in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness..."
4:5 "The fool...eateth his own flesh"!! (i.e. he destroys himself).
7:6 "For as the crackling of thorns under a post, so (is) the laughter of the fool..." (Note well!)
10:3 "Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth (him), and he saith to every one (that) he (is) a fool." (By his own actions and words, the fool marks himself out).
10:12 "...the lips of a fool will swallow up himself."!!
10:14 "A fool also is full of words."
Hoseah 9:7 (with reference to the 'days of visitation' (by God) on Israel: "...the prophet (is) a fool, the spiritual man (is) mad" (because of his many sins). This rightly applies to 'Toronto' charismatics
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