I would like to say thank you to all who have visited my guest book and suscribed.  You have really encouraged me.  =)  Sara Spence especially made me smile... And I hope Monique continues to visit my site and let's God set her (?) free.  Please join me in praying for her salvation and healing.

The Lord has been really showing me a spirit of accusation lately.  Rampant in the church and trying to bring destruction in my home as well.  There were three things in particular that I saw.

First, I saw the enemy in a dark cloak going around throwing big black luggies (sp?) at people's feet.  Then the person would look down and exclaim, "What's this?!".  Almost everyone picked it up...then it would get on them and slime them and the more they tried to free themselves the more engrossed they became...kinda' like briar rabbit and the tar baby if you know that story.  Anyway, the glob of dark slime was an offense.  This is one of the strategies of the spirit of accusation.

Second, I see a two-headed baby.  One head is called shame and the other is called blame.  Whenever conviction comes into the heart they begin to rant.  Shame works to uproot the conviction of the Holy Spirit with self-slandering hopeless bondage to the old nature.  Then blame takes up the slander and throws it violently and viciously at someone else, usually those closest to the afflicted person.  This is a purposeful strategy of the spirit of accusation to rob the saint of repentence, preventing healing, and intimacy with God and others.

Third, I see an angry little man dressed like a comic book private detective.  He carries a large black chalk that reminds me of soot or street tar.  Think about all that this symbolizes... He is going around writing names on people by which their character is judged.  His name is judgement.  He seems to stand beside or behind a person or group of people offering perceptions about others.  He is watching their eyes.  When their eyes narrow in agreement with him, he has permission or the power to mark the target of his accusation.  If the marked person tries to remove the name, it just smears and makes them look much worse in the eyes of the others.  Judgement is the strategy of the spirit of accusation to rob the saints of forgiveness and fellowship.

These are not the only works of accusation, but they are the ones I see working now.  They all have one thing in common, they are powerless unless we agree with them.  We choose to take up offenses or pass them by.  We choose whether to give ourselves to shame and blame, or to repentance.  We choose to walk in judgement or in mercy.  Like Brother Paul, we are not ignorant of the plans of the enemy, so we should walk circumspectly in all things.

I was in a worship service Sunday...I was worshiping, but then I caught myself thinking the  music was too loud...someone was singing off key...someone else wasn't participating at all...

When I realized I was being critical, I began to ask the Lord to help me love people better...then He began to show me Himself in them...and how they were His.

I pray the Lord will help me love Him better.  They are His and He is in them... loving my brothers and sisters will naturally flow as I love Him.

Matt 25:45-46
 45 "Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.'
NASU

1 John 4:19-21

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
NIV

These scriptures convict and encourage me.  I am convicted because sin still dwells in me.  But, I am encouraged because His conviction proves His love is at work in me to set me free!