The enemy knows if he can get enough people to believe lies about a godly person then the effectiveness of what the godly person is trying to accomplish for the Lord will be greatly diminished.  This is how the enemy works throughout the world is to create a false narrative, often about the character of godly people, in order to render them to be completely ineffective. The people who have the heart of the enemy within them also must appear to have a good heart with good intentions in order for their false accusations to be at least partly believed.  If the general populace know that a person has evil intentions then they will never believe the evil that they are trying to portray about the godly people could possibly be true.   For many of us it is like we are living a real-life spy thriller as we don’t know who we can completely trust.  Many times those with evil intentions will act like they are our best friends and even try to marry us but over time (sometimes a year or longer) we will finally start discerning that they do not have our best interests at heart and…

I recently had met with a woman at a cafe who had been struggling with her marriage.  She had grown up with deep rejection wounds from her mother and father.  She had already suffered from three divorces and was in her early 30's.  Her husband had reached out to me a few months earlier, desperate to help her get freedom from the enemy as she had behaved extremely abusively towards him during their short marriage.  He loved her greatly, yet the spirits inside of her were extremely controlling, manipulative as well as verbally and physically abusive to him. In my conversation with her at the cafe, I had explained how when a child grows up with feelings of rejection, harshness, control and manipulation from a parent (or both), how the enemy starts to whisper to them that they are not wanted, they cannot trust their parents, and that they will need to trust no one in their lives.  That they must be extremely controlling of their circumstances and get their own way on most everything.  The enemy whispers to them constantly and torments most every decision, totally unaware to them.  Their spouse receives the full brunt of their pain once…