2/28/21 "Refuse To Be Manipulated!"

2/28/21

5 Minutes of Focus

"Refuse To Be Manipulated!"

Manipulated - to be controlled or influenced by a person or situation that has been skillfully designed to promote their own agenda.

8 Then the devil led Jesus to the top of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the wonderful things in them.

9 The devil said, “If you will bow down and worship me, I will give you all these things.”

10 Jesus said to him, “Get away from me, Satan! The Scriptures say, ‘You must worship the Lord your God. Serve only him!’”

Matthew 4:8‭-‬10 ERV

In the text, the devil was trying his hardest to manipulate Jesus into doing what he wanted him to do...

He even tried to use the things of this world as an incentive to do it.

I come with a warning in my mouth: Don't let NO MAN or WO- MAN use what you got going on in MINISTRY, in BUSINESS (whatever it is, you do) as an incentive to get you to do what they want you to do.

If they've been blessed and want to sow into what you're doing, support what you're doing.... FINE, they should do so.

But if the money they're offering, the support they're offering comes with strings attached...In the words of Jesus, Tell them: "Get away from me, Satan." ...and do not bow to whatever they want you to do. Jesus didn't bow, so you don't bow.

Do not bow or be forced into a relationship you don't want,  just to get them to support you, just to secure their financial backing. 

I know that Ministry, that Business is your dream and you've put much effort into it. Eccles 5:3 AMP

And I know, you will do whatever you can to sustain it, but you don't have to allow yourself to be manipulated in the process.

Remember, God said: HE WOULD bless ALL the work of your hands. 

Deut 28:12 NIV

HE IS THE ONE that also promised to teach you how to profit. 

Isaiah 48:17 NKJ

 So, Jesus just kept giving the devil THE WORD. He refused to be tempted, to be manipulated into bowing because He KNEW who He was.

He KNEW what he  had been called to do.

KNOWING will help you not be tempted by people who jump in your inbox & start talking; clearly just a way of trying to manipulate you into something MORE.

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy