Important Concepts in Spiritual Warfare

 The spiritual is "Other Dimensional."  Is that fourth or fifth dimensional?  Other dimensional.  I try not to think about it too much where I would have to explain it much further.  Every so often I have found some Quantum Physics that made sense to me.  I am not a Quantum Physicist, nor anywhere close.  Given there was some sort of spiritual relevance to something, it may have been drawn to it.  The spiritual is other dimensional....sort of like the TV show "Stranger Things."  

Spiritual things, they are complicated, and multiple things may look contradictory, but be totally valid in 4th or other dimensional space.   Working to understand something like Ezekiel's Angels in Ezekiel 1, Ezekiel had a vision of the spiritual.  It was complicated.  We understand complicated spiritual things allegorically.  

Similar to, but different than, the Angels with the four faces in Ezekiel 1, God Almighty may have different levels of awareness.  On one level, God is omniscient. On some other level, God finds knowing everything boring, and chooses to forget.  On this level, it may be like a man on vacation.  He knows he has to make his flight, and there may be a few events he had planned that he needs to attend, but other than that, he sort of rolls with whatever the day brings him.  He is not worried, and is relaxing.  

Events God may need to attend, those may be promises made or prophecy.  How that prophecy or promise unfolds, it may not be 100% set in stone.  God rolls with what mankind gives him.  

Imagine a time line.  There are set events that may happen at some period of time that only the Father knows.   Things leading up to those events, that may be up to man.  

There is a physical realm where most people go to work, labor and toil, and worry about worldly things.  There is a Spiritual Realm or the Principalities.  In the Principalities there may have been "Things."  Progress, like Progressivism, it may be a "Thing" in the Principalities.  Progress would be The Kingdom of God.  Progress would be Saint Patrick rolling into Ireland, and evangelizing the island.  Progress may be countering the wicked culture of the Pagans in Germany or the Aztecs in Mexico.  That is progress.  Progress may be a "City Upon a Hill" by John Winthrop.  Progress is The Kingdom of God.  

Satan was a liar and a thief.  Did Christians cede something to Satan?  Did people in authority in various Churches, did they cede things to Satan?  Progress, as in American Progressivism, or Christian Progress, it was secularized and shanghaied by Satan.  Satan had no power on his own.  Satan has attacked Christians in authority looking to get them to cede him things.  In 1830 or so, Progress may have been helping the widow and the orphan.  In 2020, progress was men in girl's bathrooms.  Satan Shanghaied Progressivism.  

I suppose in Spiritual Warfare, through God, we took it back.  This something deep that may need some reflection and some prayer.  God bless.  

Freemasonry and Evil

 I have mentioned Freemasonry a few times in this blog.  What exactly have Freemasons done, and why should Christians stay away from it?  Freemasonry is a secret society, and some of what I am about to share may be hard to prove.  Over the last decade or so, I have discovered some interesting cause and effect things coming from Freemasons.  Given someone has studied this topic, or would like to towards understanding Satan's Schemes, we can compare notes.  

Why should Christians stay away from Freemasonry?  It is a secret society that claims hidden knowledge.  Any secret society is against Christianity.  All hidden things shall be revealed.  (Luke 8:17)  Someone may have joined the Freemasons for a number of reasons such as tradition, good works, fraternity, and others.  Ultimately, Freemasonry is a Spiritualism or Mysticism that is not Christian.  Christian Spiritualism or Mysticism involves seeking a personal relationship with Jesus Christ towards theosis.  Freemasonry is an Occult Spiritual, and given someone became deep enough into it, all Occultism leads towards Gnosticism, a Christian Heresy, where someone was seeking knowledge for knowledge's sake.  Someone deep into Freemasonry, he may have been part of a few other secret societies as well.  He was seeking hidden knowledge.  

The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.  Ask and you shall receive.  All knowledge and understanding may have been gained through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Someone in an Occult secret society was getting tangled up in a web of pagan/satanic people who demand someone go through gross initiations, where someone became a possessed person.  Freemasonry is a Mysticism or Spiritualism that is opposed to Christianity.  

I was going to list off some things I have found.  Maybe I will later.  This may be enough.  

The New Testament - What is a Jew?

A Jew, in 2025, may be a race, ethnicity, and religion.  Certain verses in the New Testament, they confuse some people, people who had a Post-Modern understanding.   What is the misunderstanding?  What is Jew in the New Testament?  We will work to shed some light here.  

In the Bible, a race or nation may have been the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Spartans, the Athenians, the Kushites, and so on.  In a modern understandings, someone's race may have been white, black, red, or yellow.  Could a Jew be white?  In 1900, the Irish and Polish may have been thought of as worse than black.  We have two definitions that people have used interchangeably.  The modern definition of race has been a social construct.  

In 2025, if we are using "Race" and "Nation" well, the English and Scottish are two different races.  The Welsh, the Cornish, and the people of Brittany, along with the Jews, are some of the only tribes/races that maintained an identity through the Roman period to today.  Given we are talking the Jews in the New Testament, and being correct, race=ethnicity.  A Jew may be a race/ethnicity, and a religion.  

Lets take a look at some Bible verses:  

• ²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  (Galatians 3:28)  
•  A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. ²⁹ No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God. (Romans 2:28,29)   

There is a difference between physical and spiritual.  The birth rate in Israel today is around 3.0, that is, three children per woman.  The birth rate around Western developed countries is around 1.7.  Replacement birth rate for a society is 2.1 births per woman.  The Hebrews are children of God's promises, and Sons of Abraham will number as stars in the sky.  It doesn't matter if the Jewish people are doing wrong or right.  The Jews are tied to God's promises by blood.....and also curses given they did wrong over some period of time.    

The Church is Spiritually Israel.  A Christian is Spiritually a Jew by a circumcision of the Heart.  This is spiritual.  Given a Church fell away, and there is no spiritual understanding, there may have been a lot of evil going on.  

In Galatians 3:28, there were gentile converts to Christianity.  Did a Jewish man have more authority than a Christian convert?  Galatians 3:28 is referencing a spiritual understanding.  We are not Jew or gentile, slave nor free, we are all one in Christ.  Heaven is oneness with God.  

Purim is a particular Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jewish people being saved from destruction in Achaemenid Empire, and this story is found in The Book of Ester.  Gentile Christians may not feel a need to celebrate this holiday.  A Jewish Christian may have celebrated Purim due to it being significant to the Jewish race or nation.  A gentile Christian would not need to be circumcised.  A Jewish Christian still would be circumcised, circumcision being a sign of God's promise.  Jesus Christ is our High Priest.  He was God's sacrificial lamb for our sins.  We no longer sacrifice animals for sins.  Jesus, as High Priest, takes care of being clean.  What is Holy?  In Torah, we may find God's character and definitions of Holiness.  Christians are to be a Holy Priesthood.  

There may be a lot to reflect and pray on for someone here.  God bless.  

Addendum -  

Question:  How does Modern understanding of Nation differ from Biblical understanding?  

The Song of Songs is in the Bible as a representation of God's lover for Israel.....or The Church.  

In Ezekiel 23, Samaria and Jerusalem were like two sisters God married.  The Northern Kingdom of Israel being references as Samaria, and the Southern Kingdom of Judah being referenced as Jerusalem, that would be like Rome or Athens or Sparta or Babylon, city states.  There may have been a Nationalism in an understanding of Athenians, and their love of country.  

During the Middle Ages, in a European Christian-centric view, there was Christendom, and everything that was not Christendom.  Christendom was faltering in sin, and the Reformation.  The French rediscovered a Nationalism in sin.  The League of Nations, and United Nations, they would be an examples of Luciferian, anti-God, anti-Christian ideals, where someone was working to build a Tower of Babel, and world leaders were viewing themselves as gods, trying to take God's place as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  

There had to a falling away towards certain prophecy being fulfilled.  In building the Kingdom of God, a better Christendom may be the result after a period of great turmoil.  

Should Christians support Israel even though the Jews there have mostly been deniers of Christ?  The State of Israel needed to exist again for certain prophecy to be fulfilled.  The Church is a Spiritual Israel.  The existence of a physical State of Israel was needed towards fulfilling prophecy.  Those who bless Israel are blessed. (Genesis 12:3)  

Kingdom of God - Demonic Strongholds

 In an area, somewhere, many or most of the demonic strongholds were removed.  This area may be a city or county.  What does that look like?    

The area, and people in the area, may have grown in faith to a large degree, and they are living in harmony with their creator.  A Christian is a Jew through a circumcision of the heart.  (Romans 2:28,29)  All the blessings God may have given to Israel when Israel was right, or King Solomon, those blessing may be raining down on that area.  The people may be healthy and abundant.  The rain falls.  Crops grow and are bountiful.  People may have been blessed in many ventures.  There may be no crime.  People don't have to lock their doors.  

All this abundance and good blessings, it may make people soft or complacent.  Christians are to be vigilant. There may be some hard work towards maintaining generation to generation.  

Addendum -  

The Question:  Given a moderate town in the US, like Texas, town of 50,000, that didn't have another town or city near it for one hundred miles or so in any direction, what would it take to remove most of the demonic strongholds?  

Holy means to be separate.  Israel, in the Old Testament, it was to be a Holy Nation, separate from its neighbors, a light unto the unbelievers.  In Pagan Rome, early Christians may have separated themselves from, their neighbors, and created their own communities.  There may have been a Christian community or quarter of a city.  Christians are to be a light unto the unbelievers.  

How can someone be a light to the unbelievers if you are all living together in an abomination of multiculturalism?  The Post Modern World was built upon a Christian Tolerance, and Christian Tolerance on a shared sense of values.  The political left has worked to break down that shared sense of values in a culture war.  Things have changed.  

In a city of 50,000, there may have been Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Freemasons, Mormons, atheists, some overt Satanists, and other.  I am not about creating a denominations.  Given a fulfillment of the Kingdom of God, or heading there, the Greater Church may come back together.  Towards that happening, people need to be able to tell the difference between Spirit filled Christians doing more right, and other.  Given we are building the Kingdom of God in this city of 50,000, let us start with 500 people or so.  They are going to create their own neighborhood or community, where only people who belong to the Church live.  They have their own school, even if it is a "Home School" to start off with.  Lets us go from there.  

Freemasons, they were creating, and manipulating, demonic strongholds at some level of Freemasonry.  They are not allowed.  

Mormons, they are an Occult group, Joseph Smith a Freemason.  Non-Mormons are not allowed in The Mormon Temple.  This keeps out anyone with the Spirit of God, and cultivates some "Spirit Not God."  A sign of this may be Mormons reacting to religious symbolism like a cross.  

Methodists and Anglicans have decided to be weirdos, and have chosen a Luciferian Heresy.  

Given we are building the Kingdom of God, and removing Demonic Strongholds, we need to rid ourselves of people who create and utilize demonic strongholds.  We may do that by separating ourselves.    

Demonic Strongholds

What are demonic strongholds, and how does someone find them?  There is a physical and a spiritual realm.  A demonic stronghold may be like a fortress sitting in the spiritual above someone, or an area.  A young man is 8-15 years old or so.  Important authority figures in his life are abusive.  The authority figures like to call the young man "Stupid."  "Stupid" may have become a Demonic Stronghold in that young man's life.  Above his head, in the spiritual, there was a fortress hovering above him, wherever he went.  To break that stronghold, he may need to be prayed over.  The authority figure may need to apologize.  He may need some support from Christians who are aware. I don't know that we need all three of these to happen at once, but they may be right answers.  

Stupid, as a demonic stronghold over a young  man life, that may be the easiest one for someone to see.  Someone may need spiritual discernment to find and see Demonic Strongholds.  Realization and identification may happen at God's pleasure.  

Given there was people rejecting God, and being in any type of Occultism, there may have been demonic strongholds.  North Korea is a Eastern Country that rejects Western Influence, but utilizes a Western Philosophy that was developed in a rejection of God.  Over all of North Korea, there has been a Demonic Stronghold.  Given particularly evil things were done in cities or counties of North Korea, there may have been demonic strongholds there.  

The Soviet Union was Atheistic, and turned Christian Churches into Atheist Museums.  There may have been many Demonic Strongholds around the Soviet Union.  Prior to their being a Soviet Union, were Orthodox Christians doing wrong?  Gregory Rasputin was an Occult Sorcerer who was given authority by the Tsar.  In the 1850's +, or around there, there was a trend of Nobles in Europe playing with Occultism.  There may be Demonic Strongholds there.  Given those Demonic Strongholds were not addressed, and dealt with, they are still there.  There may be Demonic Stronghold from evil being done by Orthodox Priest and Russian Nobles.  There may be Demonic Strongholds due to the Soviets.  The Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches split prior to the War in Ukraine.  That created Demonic Strongholds, or was due to Demonic Strongholds.  

When the Soviet Union fell, Poland and Russia bounced back from being Atheist, to many choosing to be Christian.  Eastern German did not bounce back.  Eastern Germany has been Non-Religious.  This is a sign of a particularly bad Demonic Stronghold that was created due to the Statsi, and possibly Freemason Occultism like Freemason symbology on the East German flag.  

How does someone deal with these Demonic Strongholds?  They listen to God and follow directions.  Someone may need to vocalize, that is, address that there was a problem or something there.  They speak the Truth.  Not in a way to hurt people, but to bring into the open that which was hidden.  We pray.  There may be some other steps to take.  Someone is listening to God.  

Does identifying evil out someone?  That is healthy.  We do things to please God, and not man.  We are not friends or buddies of those who have done wrong.  Some particular Occult evil has been done by people considered "Too big to Fail."  Someone may have been popular or well thought of.  Satan has liked to recruit such men.  It is harder to out them.  In the US, at a University, there may have been a popular professor around 1900.  This may be sort of like Jerry Sandusky from Penn State.  Said professor was doing evil.  Was he considered "too big to fail?"  There may have been particularly evil people around various points in time, like 1900, where someone helped build a University, and was central to the prestige of a University.  That man did a lot of evil behind closed doors.  

We may be able to find Demonic Strongholds, all over the place, to include somewhere like Chicago, or deep blue cities in the US, where people keep electing haters of God who were involved in Occultism and corruption, or rural places where something evil was done.  Given we go into a small town of 5000 or so, and people seem beaten down, and there was a lot of sin and drug use, that may be a sign of a Demonic Stronghold.  

Satan and demons, they are attracted to authority.  Was the pastor of a Mega-Church aware of this, and vigilant?  Given he wasn't, he or someone above him in his Church chain of command was attacked, and they gave in.  The message of the Church may be off.  The messaging in the Church being off may be a sign of Demonic Strongholds.  

In Mexico, there has been a problem with having a steady government, and problems with cartels.  This has been going on for generations.  This may be due to Demonic Strongholds, and how Mexico went about its independence, and possibly things that were going on in Mexico when it was still a Spanish Colony. 

Demonic Stronghold may have developed anywhere someone was rejecting God, engaged in occultism, and/or people in authority, like Kings or Governors or Priests, they were doing wrong, and in sin.  To deal and identity these Demonic Strongholds, we listen to God.   

Addendum  -  

The Question:  Given a country like Mexico rebelled against their King, how did that create a demonic stronghold?  

How does a British Citizen have the right to rebel against their King ruling by Divine Right?  The Declaration of Independence gave Casus Belli.  Americans have "God given rights," giving deference to God. The Americans won showing God's favor.  It may be that The US became a Covenant Nation starting at Valley Forge.  

The French Revolution of Luciferian in nature.  The French took away lands from the Church, oppressed clergy, destroyed Cluny Cathedral, and the wrote the "Rights of Man."  The Right of Man was Luciferian in nature, where man was worshiping himself.  The Rights of Man would be a Institutionalization of something demonic, and part of a Demonic Stronghold.  The French murdered their King who was anointed of God.  They cursed themselves.  

Given you never heard of Cluny Abby, that may have due to a Demonic Stronghold, and someone working to hide something particularly evil.  

Christians are to be law abiding.  (Romans 13)  It doesn't matter if someone didn't like their monarch who was anointed of God.  A lot of the Revolutions in the Americas happened more in an understanding of the French Revolution and rights of man, and an expression of Nationalism coming from the French Revolution.   

Article:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/06/16/jeff-sessions-bible-romans-13-trump-immigration-policy/707749002/

In the US, the Democratic Party has been Luciferian, rejecting God, and "Aware."  They may have been intentionally working to create demonic strongholds, or using said strongholds to their benefit.  One bad apple spoils the bunch.  Somewhere around Academia or Politics, there was a knowledgeable deceiver.  He was aware of Demonic Strongholds.  He was aware of a lot of Spiritual Things, and was an evil "Shadow Priest."  

Is Slavery America's original sin?  There may have been a Demonic Stronghold there. Christians should not be holding other Christians in slavery....particularly generational slavery.  

Question:  Given there were issues in a city or country or area.....or just in someone's life, issues that had gone on for years or decades, that may have been due to a Demonic Stronghold?  

Yes.  Issues that seem to plague someone or an area, it may have been due to Demonic Strongholds.  

I don't care to talk about it all....someone may see it as boasting; however, working for God day to day, I have engaged in a lot of spiritual warfare.  Since 2014, a lot of things may have been dislodged or moved where I am living, and on a national, or world wide way.  It has been politics as usual.  

A group of people, knowledgeable deceivers, around Academia-Media, they were working to manipulate spiritual things towards Hillary Clinton being elected the first female president.  She was not elected.  I am not going to take away anything from Donald Trump, and his team.  There may have been a spiritual component to what was going on.  Some Demonic Strongholds were cast down, and there were some other major spiritual happenings.  

The Left had been developing a Psychological Operation against the American people since at least the George W years.  There may have been a spiritual component there.  There is a song "American Pie" by Don McLean.  Who can break that Satan's Spell.  I was aware that if Hillary Clinton won, that would have been an Institutionalization of Evil far worse than all the activist Judges, corrupt people in three letter agencies, and media people who have been working against anyone who disagrees them political who have more recently been outed. God's Judgement would have been let loose fall 2015.  I was working with that awareness behind me.  

Question: What other types of active occultism, towards developing, or working through Demonic Stronghold have their been?  

Anywhere there was a lot of money or power, there may have been "A something."  College or Professional Sports?  There is a lot of money there, and people seeking attention.  Who is willing to "make a deal?"  There has been a "Monkey's Paw Satanism."  Someone got into something, and became addicted, and couldn't get out of it.  

There is a lot of money in video games, like phone games.  Did certain companies turn to "Psychologists," towards addicting people, and attracting whales?  Psychology was built around Occultism, or stems from it.  There have been Satanic around Psychology.  They were not just "Psychologists."  

Have you noticed that there has been a CEO buddy system, where a lot of CEO's have been self-destructing, and committing corporate suicide, like Harley Davidson and Disney and Bud Light?  That may be a sign of a Satanic cult. Some demonic strongholds were broken, and they were not getting the same cause and effect.  Various leaders in business and politics, they have "lost their minds."  

Guardian Angels

 Someone read "Hearing the Voice of God," and became jealous, and/or angry.  Given a man became jealous, and/or angry, and started speaking blasphemes or voicing their anger like they had tourette syndrome, that would be "Some Spirit Not-God."  He needs to work through that.  It is not healthy.  The world says I am crazy and am schizo.  If you are really jealous of that.......

Where a man may have had a problem:

-  The Ego.  He felt he was in competition.  He felt he may have been missing out on something, or left behind.  Let go.  Let go of the competition.  Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.  The only person you have to compete against is yourself.  A man works on being a better man in Christ.  

- Someone was Sola Scriptura, and jealous.  He may have angrily thought "Where in the Bible are Guardian Angels?"  Relax.  
 

Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? (1 Corinthians 6:3)

If someone is Sola Scriptura, and they wish to be really stubborn about it.....go do that. You don't have to be here.  There is a lot to the Bible that is inferred understanding.  Some of that inferred understanding leads us to a Tradition of Revelations.  Given someone was a Protestant, they may have been cut off, they put stumbling blocks or barriers towards growing "more in Faith."   Faith is a journey.  Some of what was in a Tradition of Revelations in Catholicism and Orthodoxy, it may have been off or wrong.  That is a different topic.  How do we get to the Truth?  

I don't know.  

I don't care.  

The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.  We are teachable.  

In 1 Corinthians 6:3, there is a lot of inferred understanding there.  For man to be able to judge the angels, did he need to meet some sort of threshold of faith?  Given man is to judge the angels, and there are fallen angels like Satan, has he been doing things towards keeping man away from hitting that threshold?  

God likes Glory.  The Spiritual, it has been layered sort of like a Divine Comedy.  When we are talking about Spiritual Authority, the layers are not necessarily linear like someone is going straight up like a rocket.  It is more like a Scooby Doo ghost house with upside down stair cases, and doors that lead to nowhere, or doors that lead to "terrifying things."  The only way to get through it all is with the Holy Ghost.  

I don't care.  

I don't know.  

We are teachable.  

Where in a Tradition of Revelations may there have been Guardian Angels?  Stories from Talmudic Jewish Rabbis.  I learned of the Guardian Angels through experience.  After the fact, I found a Tradition of Revelation in Judaism. 

God likes Glory.  Glory is gained by overcoming trials.  God may have made some wagers.  Some angels believed that no man would be able to get through all the trials.  It is glorious when someone does.  

God tests the heart.  If your heart is full of jealousy, and can't handle this, it possibly isn't for you.  If you hate the Catholics, and need Sola Scriptura in jealousy and envy or blind stubbornness, this isn't for you.  If you hate the Jews, this isn't for you.  Slow down.  Relax.  Slow is smooth.  Smooth is fast.  The only person you need to worry about is yourself.  Don't point your finger at anyone else.  Point your finger at you.  It is your fault.  It is no one's fault but yours what happens.  All the keys are here.  

 

Hearing The Voice of God

 The Question:  Given a baptized Christian was seeking God, how does he potentially find God's voice?  Are there some pitfalls there?  

God has a character.  Given someone is hearing a voice or voices, like being schizophrenic, what was the character of the voice? 

-  God is love.  (2 John 4:8)  A lot of Christians will tell you this.  Jesus chastises and rebukes those he loves.  (Hebrews 12:6)(Revelations 3:19) 

-  The Lord is a Man of War.  (Exodus 15:3)(Isaiah 42:13)(Matthew 10:34-37)  A lot of Christians have been selectively reading.  I highlight these verses towards correcting someone's perspectives. Did someone have a Post Modern Mush God?  Understanding that The Lord is a Man of War, it helped correct perceptions.  

- God is love.  God's love fatherly.  Understanding God's fatherly love, God can be playful.  Also, given someone is doing the wrong things and straying, as a father disciplines his son, so the Lord God disciplines a man.  (Deuteronomy 8:5)  

- God has good plans.  God knows every hair on your head.  He created you.  He knows what you like, and knows what you dislike.  He has good plans for you.  

- Don't argue.  This is not a debate. We are not peers like children on a playground.  You don't have to be here reading this.   

Understanding The Character of God is important.  Given someone was receiving something of some other character, that was demon.  Given someone is on a level where they can hear the voice of God, they may be able to hear things "Not God."  There may be Spiritual Airwaves.  Given someone is hearing God, they may have been opened up to said Spiritual Airwaves.  The voice of God may be coming from just inside of man.  He may be also receiving things from outside.  In the Spiritual Airwaves, there may have been demons.  

At this point, someone may have ended up with a terror of God.  Fear of God is a good thing.  Fear of God takes away fear of man.  You are doing the right things?  What do you have to fear?  Perfect love know no fear.  

At this point, we need to highlight "Don't Argue."  Egotistical Christians have in their minds "this is how things should be" or "this is how I would like things to be."  We don't care.  You are wrong.  Learning to talk to God, someone needs to be teachable.  They don't care.  They don't know.  They are not coming into the relationship with a lot of preconceived notions.  In a few weeks or so after being able to hear God, someone may end up hitting the Penitent Man phase of Sanctification.  

There are layers or levels of Spiritual Authority.  What God has someone do, or where God takes someone, that is between that man and God.  There are "Angel Guardians."  The task of the Angel Guardians may be to keep the wrong people out.  Given someone comes into a relationship with God in the wrong way, they wanted to argue, and think they know, a man could end up killing himself.  A man ran afoul some of the Angel Guardians.  

I don't know.  

I don't care. 

Be teachable.  

If the Lord is your Shepherd, you shall not "WANT."  (Psalms 23)  Every time I share this online, someone wants to argue.  Don't argue you.  Given someone is arguing, they are WANTing.  They want things there way.  That is not how it works.  It is ok to have needs.  Desires.  What do you want?  Someone's will is being brought low till it aligns with God's Good plans.  

The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor.    

Post:  "Understanding and Growing in Faith." on In God We Trust Blog.  

God gave me the proverbs in "Understanding and Growing in Faith."  It was fundamental towards progressing.  

Demons are attracted to authority.  I don't 100% know what God would have a man do.  Given a man is content with having a relationship with God, and serving in certain capacities, it is possible he isn't attacked as much.  God shepherded me through it all.  I have ended up oppressed often.  I deal with it.  Oppression may be intrusive thoughts, not characteristic of a man.  I weather through them.  I pray.  I ignore them and seek God's voice.  I have been alright.  I made it.  Don't worry.  Doubt and fear kill faith.  We are working to be in a place where a man is comfortable between God's Rod and Staff.  A lot of people like the good things of God.  A man may also need to understand God's discipline.  He feels comfortable in between.  

God bless.  Growing in faith with God is an adventure.  There may be some hard times, and things that are uncomfortable.  There may be awesome things.  We take them both.  

Addendum -  

A man is learning to talk to God.  He is receiving.  He is walking into a restaurant or through a public place.  He may have been receiving a few things, and being attacked.  Make a decision.  We use reason and faith.  God is love.  God's love is fatherly.  God has good plans.  Make a decision.  

It could be something small.  Where should a man sit at the restaurant?  The man ends up receiving a few different things.  Make a decision.  

Given someone made it this far in faith.....you probably are not going to work.  Most likely, whatever you were doing before, that was before.  You have a new job now.  You are a servant of God.  Trying to fight that, someone may end up feeling like Job.  They may have some bad things happen to them like Jonah till they are doing the right things.  

There are hierarchy of authority.  At someone's job, who was in your chain of command?  There may have been some evil people.   Someone is shepherded outside of these hierarchies till their hierarchy is just God - Man.  This may be a tough transition.  It can be rough.