The human being is incredibly complex. God built into us a mechanism for handling the trauma we experience here, which I call splintering. Our psyches "splinter" into components, which may become in some, fully developed personalities with their own names. The severity and repetition of the trauma determines how far it goes. These are still "you," they just seem to be separate. In the cases of severe trauma, it is a mercy that we have this mechanism. God made it, He built us this way.
And the enemy likes to hijack God's creation, so he knows how to use this mechanism to create mind controlled slaves, like the ones that shot up Columbine High School all those years ago, or the one who recently shot up Newtown. What you don't see is that their "slaves" never do the job very well, so there are always backup shooters to make sure the event is as traumatizing as possible for the rest of the world. Why do they want to induce trauma in as many people as possible? Because this makes us easy to control. The enemy is ALL about control.
People who have been molested, or raped, or abandoned, or abused emotionally or physically, will splinter. This will, at its very mildest, introduce a few more voices in your head that you know are yours, but that speak of you in the third person. At its most intense, you will have complete split personalities with lost time. The latter, the most intense form, is extremely rare unless induced intentionally by evil people, and the milder forms are actually more like a form of post traumatic stress syndrome. I am expressing this so that it will be understood that if you are hearing voices in your head, some of the voices are your own, because of the splintering from trauma. Some of them. You should learn to distinguish these from the other ones. These will be benign, protective, loving, gentle, sometimes firm, helpful, and will use terms like "we" and "us," and call you by name.
But alas, there is an enemy. And the enemy has minions that literally crowd the airs. He is called the prince of the air, the ruler of principalities and powers. These minions feed on destruction, but they aren't allowed in. They desperately want into your body, but they aren't allowed. You have to do something extreme to damage yourself, like drink yourself into a stupor, or do drugs until you pass out. If they can, they will get you to kill yourself, because they aren't allowed in. If you won't do that, you may be driven to drugs to shut them up, and then they will one day get their "in." They are very clever and they have nothing but time, but they have limits imposed on them by God.
They are the ones putting the voices in your head to harm yourself and/or others. They are like a pack of laughing hyenas, and what they say doesn't make any sense sometimes, or sometimes it is so evil it is sickening. They might show you things, like gory images, and they will try to make you think it is you. Imagine shadow beings crowding around your ears and whispering, whispering, shouting sometimes, disguising their voices, feeding off your thoughts, constantly, and getting all excited when they are able to get you to do something. Then when you do whatever it is they wanted you to do, they are silent, because they are rewarding you for responding to them in a way that harms yourself or others. It is the standard punishment/reward training technique.
They don't care that you are not an equal opponent. Why do you think the enemy is so intent on destroying us in the womb? They advance on you because you don't know how to fight, because you don't want to fight, because that makes you easy prey.
So let's change that. You have all the skills you need to fight. The first thing you must do is stop being afraid. What kinds of things do they whisper to you? Address it directly. These are real entities, and they are outside of you, but they talk to you in your head. So talk back. Look them in the eye. What they are saying to you may at first be indistinguishable from your own thoughts, but you will get better at telling the difference the more you learn about them and yourself. You will really destroy their power by letting another know what they are saying to you. Discuss it. Employ logic and reason to disarm it. let someone's love for you spread light on it.
Secondly realize they can't hurt you. They can irritate you, frighten you, confuse you or make you feel hurt, but they can't actually hurt you. They might influence you to hurt yourself, but that is them getting you to use your own power against yourself. That's your power. That's you. You did that. Accept responsibility for it.
Thirdly realize that it is YOUR HEAD. You have all of the authority there, to allow or disallow any thoughts you wish. Next time they start to get feisty in your head, cut them off. Counter them with some happy thought. If you don't have any happy thoughts, cultivate them. Starting now. You happy is something these minions of hell can't stand. When they show you images of how hopeless life is, immediately show them images of you scrunching your toes in the sands of the Mediterranean Sea of the coast of Greece, or cantering on horseback across a fertile green valley, or whatever. Cultivate happy thoughts. They can be real or imagined, it doesn't matter, as long as it entices your soul to soar. The enemy can't track you there. He will be left behind where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Finally, ask the Lord for a sword. When they are gnawing on you and you have had enough, lop off their heads. Then you will see them for what they are, in your mind's eye. You have the choice then to either send them back to their own master, or to send them to my Master. If they go back to their own master, make sure to give them some message to give him, like "My Master is coming." If you send them to Jesus, they will be judged and destroyed by Him. That choice is yours, and because of the rules God set in place at creation, they MUST obey you. God gave us dominion over them. Period. The enemy doesn't want you to know this. The enemy wants to keep you trapped under his thumb, frightened, despondent, hopeless, cutting yourself in secret, but God created you for a higher destiny.
To protect yourself starting now and continuing throughout your life, please start reading the Bible right now. Every day. Even if you can't understand it, or only read one word, this is the book with the power of God in it. Also, pray on your knees every day. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to be consistent with these two simple tasks. So push yourself, overcome yourself, and read at least one word, and pray on your knees to God at least one word EVERY SINGLE DAY. There were times I could only say, "God," as my prayer. It is important to do it. Now it is my joy to do it, and to read the Word. I just read this morning in Psalm 35: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers them from every single one of them." The Bible is available on the internet. You can even sign up to have a verse sent to your e-mail every day.
Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Jesus on the inside forces them to back away from you. Look, the enemy knows of your curiosity for God. The truth is, that ONLY those who are curious about Him are able to receive Him and be received by Him. None can even approach Him but that He put the desire in them first. It is the enemy's desire to deprive the Lord of those who are His. The enemy will certainly fail, for the Lord will not lose even one of His. And on top of that, He will deliver you from EVERY affliction. So trust me when I say that this will pass. What you are going through is temporary. There will never be a time when we are in the flesh when we are without the enemy's attempt to feed on us. In time, though, as your focus becomes more and more about God and less and less about the flesh and the world, they will lose their power even as they increase the intensity of their attacks. Those who are hell-bound are not worthy of their attention, except that they feed on pain. It is only those who are attracted to the Lord who warrant the enemy's best effort to distract/destroy.
Some more information for you to ponder. The trauma you suffered through your parents' divorce or being harmed sexually, emotionally, mentally, or otherwise, especially by someone you should have been able to trust, allows the enemy to have a stronger voice with you. It just means you have to come back at them stronger, and it means when you overcome this, you will be a fierce warrior whom no one can sway from what is right. The stronger the enemy, the stronger you have to become to overcome. Forgive those people who hurt you and caused this particular form of attack to become so intense. It might be hard, so ask Jesus for help. He is a forgiveness expert. It is imperative that you take this step to forgive them.
There is a practical aspect to the happy thoughts I mentioned earlier. Every thought you think develops a neural pathway in your brain. The repeated thoughts have the strongest pathways, and the thoughts you no longer think get their pathways shut down. But the brain is not static and it can always grow and develop throughout your life. Depression develops neural pathways for hopelessness, despair, inactivity, self-harm. These can be allowed to atrophy and reabsorb if you start to recognize when you are using them and redirect your thoughts to a different path instead, like say for instance, a happy thought pathway. Maybe at the moment you can't think of any happy thoughts, but I know there are things that make you happy. There are things that cause your spirit to soar. Recall them, bludgeon the enemy with them. It's fun! The more bright and lively you are, the worse for the enemy. You don't have to stay down there on the floor curled up into a ball when God gave you all the tools you need. You have an imagination for just this purpose.
Because you are fighting a war, sometimes it will seem as though you lose a battle. Whenever you get knocked down, and if you are too low to call your friends to make you laugh, or get a hug from your mother, or grab the sword and lop of their heads, please try to remember that it is still YOUR mind. It is no one else's. You can bet that when things are so bad, the Lord has his warring angels fighting off the enemy on your behalf so that their influence over you isn't so great that you can't recover. It will help you in those times to picture that happening. Picture the Lord's mighty ones, armed to the teeth and lopping off demon head after demon head, even of the more powerful demons who have come against you who would otherwise overwhelm you to death without this intervention. That is actually what is happening, you know? Just like the enemy has minions you can't see with your eyes, so the Lord has His answer to them, fierce warring angels who will not let them have you. He never leaves you, for it is written, when we are faithless, He remains faithful. When you are so far beaten down, ask the Lord to show you how He fights for you. And know that you will not remain so low. You will be able to stand and fight again.
So in summary, if you are hearing voices in your head that don't seem to be yours, know you aren't crazy. They aren't yours. They aren't you. They are the enemy. Know that you are the one with the authority over your thoughts, so take the authority and don't be afraid. Address these foreign, enemy thoughts head on, with your mind, with a sword, with your will as the owner of your own mind. (Hint: Bring every thought under submission to God, and the enemy will never gain a foothold in your head). Be gentle with yourself and understand any splintering you may have done to cope with trauma. These "splintered" parts of yourself can help you repel the enemy, too, because they formed out of love and protectiveness of yourself. The Lord will make you "one" again in the fullness of time and His plan for you. In the mean time, be grateful for the amazing complexity of the being He made in you. When the enemy attacks in your head, redirect your thoughts to happy ones that entice your spirit to joy. Know that some days will be better than others, and on the worst days is when the Lord is fighting the hardest for you. Endure. It will pass. Read the Bible every day, and pray on your knees every day. The veil is getting thinner, the enemy is ramping up his attacks. The only protection is in God, and the Bible and bent-knee prayer are where you start.
And the enemy likes to hijack God's creation, so he knows how to use this mechanism to create mind controlled slaves, like the ones that shot up Columbine High School all those years ago, or the one who recently shot up Newtown. What you don't see is that their "slaves" never do the job very well, so there are always backup shooters to make sure the event is as traumatizing as possible for the rest of the world. Why do they want to induce trauma in as many people as possible? Because this makes us easy to control. The enemy is ALL about control.
People who have been molested, or raped, or abandoned, or abused emotionally or physically, will splinter. This will, at its very mildest, introduce a few more voices in your head that you know are yours, but that speak of you in the third person. At its most intense, you will have complete split personalities with lost time. The latter, the most intense form, is extremely rare unless induced intentionally by evil people, and the milder forms are actually more like a form of post traumatic stress syndrome. I am expressing this so that it will be understood that if you are hearing voices in your head, some of the voices are your own, because of the splintering from trauma. Some of them. You should learn to distinguish these from the other ones. These will be benign, protective, loving, gentle, sometimes firm, helpful, and will use terms like "we" and "us," and call you by name.
But alas, there is an enemy. And the enemy has minions that literally crowd the airs. He is called the prince of the air, the ruler of principalities and powers. These minions feed on destruction, but they aren't allowed in. They desperately want into your body, but they aren't allowed. You have to do something extreme to damage yourself, like drink yourself into a stupor, or do drugs until you pass out. If they can, they will get you to kill yourself, because they aren't allowed in. If you won't do that, you may be driven to drugs to shut them up, and then they will one day get their "in." They are very clever and they have nothing but time, but they have limits imposed on them by God.
They are the ones putting the voices in your head to harm yourself and/or others. They are like a pack of laughing hyenas, and what they say doesn't make any sense sometimes, or sometimes it is so evil it is sickening. They might show you things, like gory images, and they will try to make you think it is you. Imagine shadow beings crowding around your ears and whispering, whispering, shouting sometimes, disguising their voices, feeding off your thoughts, constantly, and getting all excited when they are able to get you to do something. Then when you do whatever it is they wanted you to do, they are silent, because they are rewarding you for responding to them in a way that harms yourself or others. It is the standard punishment/reward training technique.
They don't care that you are not an equal opponent. Why do you think the enemy is so intent on destroying us in the womb? They advance on you because you don't know how to fight, because you don't want to fight, because that makes you easy prey.
So let's change that. You have all the skills you need to fight. The first thing you must do is stop being afraid. What kinds of things do they whisper to you? Address it directly. These are real entities, and they are outside of you, but they talk to you in your head. So talk back. Look them in the eye. What they are saying to you may at first be indistinguishable from your own thoughts, but you will get better at telling the difference the more you learn about them and yourself. You will really destroy their power by letting another know what they are saying to you. Discuss it. Employ logic and reason to disarm it. let someone's love for you spread light on it.
Secondly realize they can't hurt you. They can irritate you, frighten you, confuse you or make you feel hurt, but they can't actually hurt you. They might influence you to hurt yourself, but that is them getting you to use your own power against yourself. That's your power. That's you. You did that. Accept responsibility for it.
Thirdly realize that it is YOUR HEAD. You have all of the authority there, to allow or disallow any thoughts you wish. Next time they start to get feisty in your head, cut them off. Counter them with some happy thought. If you don't have any happy thoughts, cultivate them. Starting now. You happy is something these minions of hell can't stand. When they show you images of how hopeless life is, immediately show them images of you scrunching your toes in the sands of the Mediterranean Sea of the coast of Greece, or cantering on horseback across a fertile green valley, or whatever. Cultivate happy thoughts. They can be real or imagined, it doesn't matter, as long as it entices your soul to soar. The enemy can't track you there. He will be left behind where there is wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Finally, ask the Lord for a sword. When they are gnawing on you and you have had enough, lop off their heads. Then you will see them for what they are, in your mind's eye. You have the choice then to either send them back to their own master, or to send them to my Master. If they go back to their own master, make sure to give them some message to give him, like "My Master is coming." If you send them to Jesus, they will be judged and destroyed by Him. That choice is yours, and because of the rules God set in place at creation, they MUST obey you. God gave us dominion over them. Period. The enemy doesn't want you to know this. The enemy wants to keep you trapped under his thumb, frightened, despondent, hopeless, cutting yourself in secret, but God created you for a higher destiny.
To protect yourself starting now and continuing throughout your life, please start reading the Bible right now. Every day. Even if you can't understand it, or only read one word, this is the book with the power of God in it. Also, pray on your knees every day. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to be consistent with these two simple tasks. So push yourself, overcome yourself, and read at least one word, and pray on your knees to God at least one word EVERY SINGLE DAY. There were times I could only say, "God," as my prayer. It is important to do it. Now it is my joy to do it, and to read the Word. I just read this morning in Psalm 35: "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers them from every single one of them." The Bible is available on the internet. You can even sign up to have a verse sent to your e-mail every day.
Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world. Jesus on the inside forces them to back away from you. Look, the enemy knows of your curiosity for God. The truth is, that ONLY those who are curious about Him are able to receive Him and be received by Him. None can even approach Him but that He put the desire in them first. It is the enemy's desire to deprive the Lord of those who are His. The enemy will certainly fail, for the Lord will not lose even one of His. And on top of that, He will deliver you from EVERY affliction. So trust me when I say that this will pass. What you are going through is temporary. There will never be a time when we are in the flesh when we are without the enemy's attempt to feed on us. In time, though, as your focus becomes more and more about God and less and less about the flesh and the world, they will lose their power even as they increase the intensity of their attacks. Those who are hell-bound are not worthy of their attention, except that they feed on pain. It is only those who are attracted to the Lord who warrant the enemy's best effort to distract/destroy.
Some more information for you to ponder. The trauma you suffered through your parents' divorce or being harmed sexually, emotionally, mentally, or otherwise, especially by someone you should have been able to trust, allows the enemy to have a stronger voice with you. It just means you have to come back at them stronger, and it means when you overcome this, you will be a fierce warrior whom no one can sway from what is right. The stronger the enemy, the stronger you have to become to overcome. Forgive those people who hurt you and caused this particular form of attack to become so intense. It might be hard, so ask Jesus for help. He is a forgiveness expert. It is imperative that you take this step to forgive them.
There is a practical aspect to the happy thoughts I mentioned earlier. Every thought you think develops a neural pathway in your brain. The repeated thoughts have the strongest pathways, and the thoughts you no longer think get their pathways shut down. But the brain is not static and it can always grow and develop throughout your life. Depression develops neural pathways for hopelessness, despair, inactivity, self-harm. These can be allowed to atrophy and reabsorb if you start to recognize when you are using them and redirect your thoughts to a different path instead, like say for instance, a happy thought pathway. Maybe at the moment you can't think of any happy thoughts, but I know there are things that make you happy. There are things that cause your spirit to soar. Recall them, bludgeon the enemy with them. It's fun! The more bright and lively you are, the worse for the enemy. You don't have to stay down there on the floor curled up into a ball when God gave you all the tools you need. You have an imagination for just this purpose.
Because you are fighting a war, sometimes it will seem as though you lose a battle. Whenever you get knocked down, and if you are too low to call your friends to make you laugh, or get a hug from your mother, or grab the sword and lop of their heads, please try to remember that it is still YOUR mind. It is no one else's. You can bet that when things are so bad, the Lord has his warring angels fighting off the enemy on your behalf so that their influence over you isn't so great that you can't recover. It will help you in those times to picture that happening. Picture the Lord's mighty ones, armed to the teeth and lopping off demon head after demon head, even of the more powerful demons who have come against you who would otherwise overwhelm you to death without this intervention. That is actually what is happening, you know? Just like the enemy has minions you can't see with your eyes, so the Lord has His answer to them, fierce warring angels who will not let them have you. He never leaves you, for it is written, when we are faithless, He remains faithful. When you are so far beaten down, ask the Lord to show you how He fights for you. And know that you will not remain so low. You will be able to stand and fight again.
So in summary, if you are hearing voices in your head that don't seem to be yours, know you aren't crazy. They aren't yours. They aren't you. They are the enemy. Know that you are the one with the authority over your thoughts, so take the authority and don't be afraid. Address these foreign, enemy thoughts head on, with your mind, with a sword, with your will as the owner of your own mind. (Hint: Bring every thought under submission to God, and the enemy will never gain a foothold in your head). Be gentle with yourself and understand any splintering you may have done to cope with trauma. These "splintered" parts of yourself can help you repel the enemy, too, because they formed out of love and protectiveness of yourself. The Lord will make you "one" again in the fullness of time and His plan for you. In the mean time, be grateful for the amazing complexity of the being He made in you. When the enemy attacks in your head, redirect your thoughts to happy ones that entice your spirit to joy. Know that some days will be better than others, and on the worst days is when the Lord is fighting the hardest for you. Endure. It will pass. Read the Bible every day, and pray on your knees every day. The veil is getting thinner, the enemy is ramping up his attacks. The only protection is in God, and the Bible and bent-knee prayer are where you start.
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