Whenever we have a negative mindset and confession, we give the enemy permission to afflict us. Agreement is either the making or the breaking of us, depending upon who we align ourselves with, the Holy Spirit or the enemy. We allow ourselves to be overcome mostly by default. We are weak in our acceptance of situations and circumstances to the point where we become resigned to outcomes that should be challenged.
Overcoming a believer is the prime goal of the enemy. Turning a Christian into an asset is his chief focus because then he has a resource into the family, church, business, and ministry. The negativity, procrastination, doubt, fear, anxiety, anger, resentment, bitterness, passivity, unbelief, and resignation generated gives the enemy so many tools and weapons in that heart space within us to create havoc.
We are always emanating in the spiritual realm our attitudes, our feelings, so that we are giving off a bright light or a dark light. And when we emanate the negatives, it attracts the enemy. If we are emanating fear the enemy can smell it miles away. We emanate in the spiritual realm a light, a fragrance, a color and this attracts either all of heaven to us or the enemy to us.
A believer that is so destabilized becomes a Trojan horse, a means of internal destruction from within the Body of Christ. How many relationships can be affected? A bitter spirit in a body of believers affects everyone in that church. How many dreams are ruined, visions damaged by having a wrong spirit.
10 spies out of 12 men we’re so undone by the enemy that they ruined the chances of over 1,000,000 people entering the promised land. The enemy works by penetration, demoralization, and subversion (the undermining of the authority and power of a believer). Homes, relationships, churches, and the workplace are infiltrated with negativity. Breaches are caused in fellowship. We become prone to tiredness, weariness, and inertia. Demons are the power of negative suggestion. The devil is the prince of the power of the air, and he lives in the atmosphere. His penetrating the atmosphere to create an environment that he can live in is a major strategy of the enemy.
Check out the atmosphere around you. If it is not loving, joyful, peaceful, gracious and gentle-you have a problem! We all know when we have an infestation of ants, mice, rats and cockroaches, the signs are everywhere. What is true in the natural is also true in the spiritual. We must reclaim our own inner territory before we can recover the ground around us.
Demoralization occurs gradually. There is a softening up process, a spirit of compromise: an attack on morale, general discouragement, feelings of powerlessness. People imagine the worst and become prone to worry, fear and a general malaise, a feeling that nothing will change. We want to escape, not recovery to wholeness. Our prayer life is subdued, and we feel resigned, indifferent. Positive people make us annoyed, and we want to burst their bubble.
Our language and attitude ensnare other people. Misery always loves company. We are bored, tired, blaming everything and everyone else. Adrift from rejoicing, no faith connection. We have fallen in battle! We are ripe for the enemy to use us in the subversion of others. We have been won over to a passive acceptance of our circumstances. By not contributing to the atmosphere positively, we become an unconscious resistor, a strain and a drain on the work of the ministry and relationships.
Subverted people challenge everything negatively. They murmur, complain, and undermine. They are on the outskirts of the camp of the Lord. They’re a critical, corrupting influence. They have allowed themselves to be unequally yoked to a negative.
Negative feelings and thoughts make us vulnerable to the enemy. Anxiety is tiring and tiresome! Sarcasm, cynicism, and oppositional humor pulls everyone down. When something adverse happens, the first thing we think, say, and do tells us everything about our true spiritual condition.
When we allow ourselves to become negatively envisioned, we become like the enemy. When our mind is renewed, we destroy speculations and bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10: 5-6).
On whose side do we stand on the strategy of the enemies desire of penetration, demoralization and subversion? What are the signs of a negative spiritual infestation around us? Are we contributing to that atmosphere or are we committed to changing it for good?