White Dove Fellowship
Insidious Spirit of Doubt
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WhiteDove Fellowship
3600 Manhattan Blvd, Harvey, LA 70058, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
March 31, 2019
INSIDIOUS SPIRIT OF DOUBT
1 Corinthians 7:31 “For this form (fashion) of this world is passing away.”
· Revival with sudden supernatural miracles is manifesting!
· THE PROPHETIC IS A MYSTERY TO OVERCOME DOUBTS OF THE MIND
Luke 24:33-38 “They rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together. Saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that happened on the road, and how they knew him in the breaking of bread.
Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.
And Jesus said to them, “Why are you afraid? And why do doubts arise in your minds?”
FEAR AND DOUBT ARISE WITH SUPERNATURAL SUDDEN CHANGE
Isaiah 43:19 “Behold, I do “SOMETHING NEW”, it will suddenly spring forth; will you even recognize it?
· We are too accustomed to the “frustrating familiar” because the FRUITFUL NEW is threatening to the familiar unfruitful old.
SELF-DOUBT WAS SOWED
(BEWARE OF JEBUSITES, NAYSAYERS, AND HATERS)
· Doubt is our greatest destroyer of moving forth in “faith obedience”. Doubt is the most dangerous and insidious form of DEMONIC MENTAL TERRORISM because it is so personally familiar. Self-doubt has been so agreed with for so long it is NORMAL.
· Doubt hinders ministers, members, ministries, and marriages from the potentials God has intended.
· Let’s glorify God and terrify the devil, shout out loud, “I am dead to doubt and fear!”
MOVING TOWARD BETTER
· We should make it known to family, friends, and enemies that we are committed to our future success. We know in whom we have believed and know that He is faithful to deliver us! Make it clear that you will not tolerate doubt and that you will move forward.
· Doubt is a DEMONIC STRONGHOLD to be discerned and treated as a spiritual enemy and must be dealt with purposely.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 “ For the weapons of our warfare are not natural, but mighty in God for pulling down STRONGHOLDS, casting down imaginations and anything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ, and being prepared to punish all disobedience when your OBEDIENCE is fulfilled.”
BEWARE OF YOUR SOURCES OF DOUBT
· Doubt grows and flows into your life when you imagine your future as unsafe and not secure; you are imagining with your soul, doubting God’s peace, and ignoring your spirit. The soul will always move to protect you from “painful delusions” of the future.
(“Be careful, watch yourself now, play it safe, don’t take any chances, etc.”)
2 Corinthians 5:16 “So from now on we regard no one from a worldly human point of view. Even though we once regarded Christ merely from a human point of view, we no longer do.”
Matthew 12:48-50 “Jesus answered, ‘Who is my mother and who are my brothers and sisters?”
And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, ‘Here are My brothers and sisters and mother! For whoever DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER is My brother and sister and mother.”
VOICES IN YOUR HEAD
1 Corinthians 14:10 “There are a great many voices in the world, and everyone of them has significance.” (VOICES OVER A LIFETIME)
· Your PERSONAL BELIEFS are a conglomerate of “FIVE SIGNIFICANT VOICES” you most often listen to without your shield of faith up.
· Your identity and self-confidence are the result of the unguarded downloads from parents, peers, partners, professors, and pastors.
Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it will flow all the decisions of your life.”
· If you are going to doubt, then doubt your doubts and believe God!
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV “For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Isaiah 50:7 “I have set my face like a flint, I shall not be made ashamed!”
· To ultimately overcome doubt and fear of the future, we must become focused on OUR PURPOSE and HIS PROMISES.
· If you are going to reach toward your PURPOSE and POTENTIAL in the future; you must be determined to overcome the critical, the envious, and the jealous sowers of doubt.
Psalm 38:11 “My loved ones and closest friends avoid me, and my family stands afar off.”
BEWARE OF THE JEBUSITES
(Joshua 3:10; Samuel 30:1-8)
· The JEBUSITES were Old Testament enemies of Israel that represented the “SPIRIT OF DOUBT and DISCOURAGEMENT”. “Jebusite” in Hebrew means “TO TRODDEN DOWN” until you lose heart. (Those you care about the most, DISCOURAGE YOU THE MOST.)
2 Corinthians 4:16 “Therefore do not lose heart, even though the outward man is perishing for our inward man is being renewed day by day.”
Proverbs 12:24 “Anxiety burdens the heart down…”
JEBUSITES, NAYSAYERS, and HATERS
2 Timothy 3:12 “Indeed, anyone who desires to live godly will suffer persecution.”
· The greater you recognize and desire your purpose and potential IN CHRIST, the more your familiar Jebusites, naysayers, and haters will afflict you.
· The more successful you become, the more you will attract these “SPIRITS OF DISCOURAGEMENT” demonically assigned to hinder you, discourage you, and destroy you.
DISCERN UNSOLICITED OPINIONS AND ADVICE
2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his seduction, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
· You must FIRST overcome your “SELF-DOUBT” agreements! Discern the familiar spirit voice “DOUBT” in your “SELF-TALK”. (2 Corinthians 10:5) Recognize this “INSIDIOUS DEMON” seeking the destruction of your potential.
DON’T BE DEFINED BY FAMILIAR ENEMIES
HOME OF ORIGIN DAMAGE
Micah 7:6 “A man’s enemies are those of his own household.”
Matthew 10:36 “And a man’s enemies are those of his own household.”
Psalm 41:7,9 “All who hate me whisper behind my back, against me they all devise my hurt. Even my closet friend in whom I trusted, who shared my food together, has turned against me.”
· Accept as fact that those confident in purpose and potential will be misunderstood and labeled as negatively as possible by family and friends.
Mark 3:21 “When Jesus’ family heard what He was saying and doing, they tried to take Him away for they said, “He is out of His mind!”
· Those seeking the UNIMAGINABLE, the UNEXPECTED, and the UNBELIEVABLE will be persecuted as “ABNORMAL and UNACCEPTABLE” by family and friends.
Psalm 31:10-13 “My life is spent in sorrowful grief, and my years in sighing, because I have become a reproach by my enemies, even my closest friends avoid me. I am forgotten as a dead man, something worthless and thrown away.”
Proverbs 16:28 “Troublemakers sow seeds of strife, their gossip separates the closest of friends.”
MISGUIDED NAYSAYERS
· Most sowers of doubt are not necessarily mean or evil people. Naysayers usually are those you love. These naysayers care about you and their natural intent is to keep you from hurt and failure.
· Jesus called Peter a devil and He called Judas s friend.
· While the intent of family and friends sometimes may not be wicked, it POTENTIALLY will stop your pressing on, purpose and potential. (“So worried about you!”)
· Naysayers say: “Be very careful, watch yourself, be patient, go slow, why take a risk, play it safe, better to be safe than sorry, you don’t need to take that chance, we love you just like you are, you don’t have to do this, etc..”
· They may love and care about you, but they will demonically distract you from your potential destiny. DISCERN THE SPIRIT OF DISTRACTION!
UNSOLICITED ADVICE GIVERS
· These people seemingly know something about everything, but in reality have never been successful at anything; they increase their self-worth by diminishing your value.
· “Can’t you just settle down and be happy?” “When is enough ever enough for you?”
THE HATERS
· Unlike the naysayers who claim to be for you and unintentionally hinder your progress; the HATERS viciously try to stop you completely. HATERS are envious and bitter, easily threatened by your success. They will accuse, lie, slander, and flatter others to destroy your credibility and self-confidence.
· HATERS should be “DISCERNED SPIRITUALLY” and recognized as confirmations of your spiritual potential and your moving in the right direction.
YOUR VICTORY IS CHRIST
2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus.”
Psalm 35:24, 26 “VINDICATE ME, O Lord, my God, according to Your righteousness, and let not my enemies rejoice over me. Let them be ashamed and brought into mutual confusion who rejoice over my hurt; let them be shamed and dishonored whoever exalts themselves against me.”
Psalm 37:6 “The Lord shall VINDICATE YOU as the light and your JUSTICE as the noonday!”
Psalm 17:2 “Let MY VINDICATION come from Your presence, let Your eyes look on what is right.”
INSIDIOUS SPIRIT OF DOUBT
1 Corinthians 7:31 “For this form (fashion) of this world is passing away.”
· Revival with sudden supernatural miracles is manifesting!
· THE PROPHETIC IS A MYSTERY TO OVERCOME DOUBTS OF THE MIND
Luke 24:33-38 “They rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven and those who were with them gathered together. Saying, “The Lord is risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!” And they told about the things that happened on the road, and how they knew him in the breaking of bread.
Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, “Peace to you.” But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit.
And Jesus said to them, “Why are you afraid? And why do doubts arise in your minds?”
FEAR AND DOUBT ARISE WITH SUPERNATURAL SUDDEN CHANGE
Isaiah 43:19 “Behold, I do “SOMETHING NEW”, it will suddenly spring forth; will you even recognize it?
· We are too accustomed to the “frustrating familiar” because the FRUITFUL NEW is threatening to the familiar unfruitful old.
SELF-DOUBT WAS SOWED
(BEWARE OF JEBUSITES, NAYSAYERS, AND HATERS)
· Doubt is our greatest destroyer of moving forth in “faith obedience”. Doubt is the most dangerous and insidious form of DEMONIC MENTAL TERRORISM because it is so personally familiar. Self-doubt has been so agreed with for so long it is NORMAL.
· Doubt hinders ministers, members, ministries, and marriages from the potentials God has intended.
· Let’s glorify God and terrify the devil, shout out loud, “I am dead to doubt and fear!”
MOVING TOWARD BETTER
· We should make it known to family, friends, and enemies that we are committed to our future success. We know in whom we have believed and know that He is faithful to deliver us! Make it clear that you will not tolerate doubt and that you will move forward.
· Doubt is a DEMONIC STRONGHOLD to be discerned and treated as a spiritual enemy and must be dealt with purposely.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 “ For the weapons of our warfare are not natural, but mighty in God for pulling down STRONGHOLDS, casting down imaginations and anything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity EVERY THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ, and being prepared to punish all disobedience when your OBEDIENCE is fulfilled.”
BEWARE OF YOUR SOURCES OF DOUBT
· Doubt grows and flows into your life when you imagine your future as unsafe and not secure; you are imagining with your soul, doubting God’s peace, and ignoring your spirit. The soul will always move to protect you from “painful delusions” of the future.
(“Be careful, watch yourself now, play it safe, don’t take any chances, etc.”)
2 Corinthians 5:16 “So from now on we regard no one from a worldly human point of view. Even though we once regarded Christ merely from a human point of view, we no longer do.”
Matthew 12:48-50 “Jesus answered, ‘Who is my mother and who are my brothers and sisters?”
And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, ‘Here are My brothers and sisters and mother! For whoever DOES THE WILL OF MY FATHER is My brother and sister and mother.”
VOICES IN YOUR HEAD
1 Corinthians 14:10 “There are a great many voices in the world, and everyone of them has significance.” (VOICES OVER A LIFETIME)
· Your PERSONAL BELIEFS are a conglomerate of “FIVE SIGNIFICANT VOICES” you most often listen to without your shield of faith up.
· Your identity and self-confidence are the result of the unguarded downloads from parents, peers, partners, professors, and pastors.
Proverbs 4:23 “Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it will flow all the decisions of your life.”
· If you are going to doubt, then doubt your doubts and believe God!
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV “For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Isaiah 50:7 “I have set my face like a flint, I shall not be made ashamed!”
· To ultimately overcome doubt and fear of the future, we must become focused on OUR PURPOSE and HIS PROMISES.
· If you are going to reach toward your PURPOSE and POTENTIAL in the future; you must be determined to overcome the critical, the envious, and the jealous sowers of doubt.
Psalm 38:11 “My loved ones and closest friends avoid me, and my family stands afar off.”
BEWARE OF THE JEBUSITES
(Joshua 3:10; Samuel 30:1-8)
· The JEBUSITES were Old Testament enemies of Israel that represented the “SPIRIT OF DOUBT and DISCOURAGEMENT”. “Jebusite” in Hebrew means “TO TRODDEN DOWN” until you lose heart. (Those you care about the most, DISCOURAGE YOU THE MOST.)
2 Corinthians 4:16 “Therefore do not lose heart, even though the outward man is perishing for our inward man is being renewed day by day.”
Proverbs 12:24 “Anxiety burdens the heart down…”
JEBUSITES, NAYSAYERS, and HATERS
2 Timothy 3:12 “Indeed, anyone who desires to live godly will suffer persecution.”
· The greater you recognize and desire your purpose and potential IN CHRIST, the more your familiar Jebusites, naysayers, and haters will afflict you.
· The more successful you become, the more you will attract these “SPIRITS OF DISCOURAGEMENT” demonically assigned to hinder you, discourage you, and destroy you.
DISCERN UNSOLICITED OPINIONS AND ADVICE
2 Corinthians 11:3 “But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his seduction, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
· You must FIRST overcome your “SELF-DOUBT” agreements! Discern the familiar spirit voice “DOUBT” in your “SELF-TALK”. (2 Corinthians 10:5) Recognize this “INSIDIOUS DEMON” seeking the destruction of your potential.
DON’T BE DEFINED BY FAMILIAR ENEMIES
HOME OF ORIGIN DAMAGE
Micah 7:6 “A man’s enemies are those of his own household.”
Matthew 10:36 “And a man’s enemies are those of his own household.”
Psalm 41:7,9 “All who hate me whisper behind my back, against me they all devise my hurt. Even my closet friend in whom I trusted, who shared my food together, has turned against me.”
· Accept as fact that those confident in purpose and potential will be misunderstood and labeled as negatively as possible by family and friends.
Mark 3:21 “When Jesus’ family heard what He was saying and doing, they tried to take Him away for they said, “He is out of His mind!”
· Those seeking the UNIMAGINABLE, the UNEXPECTED, and the UNBELIEVABLE will be persecuted as “ABNORMAL and UNACCEPTABLE” by family and friends.
Psalm 31:10-13 “My life is spent in sorrowful grief, and my years in sighing, because I have become a reproach by my enemies, even my closest friends avoid me. I am forgotten as a dead man, something worthless and thrown away.”
Proverbs 16:28 “Troublemakers sow seeds of strife, their gossip separates the closest of friends.”
MISGUIDED NAYSAYERS
· Most sowers of doubt are not necessarily mean or evil people. Naysayers usually are those you love. These naysayers care about you and their natural intent is to keep you from hurt and failure.
· Jesus called Peter a devil and He called Judas s friend.
· While the intent of family and friends sometimes may not be wicked, it POTENTIALLY will stop your pressing on, purpose and potential. (“So worried about you!”)
· Naysayers say: “Be very careful, watch yourself, be patient, go slow, why take a risk, play it safe, better to be safe than sorry, you don’t need to take that chance, we love you just like you are, you don’t have to do this, etc..”
· They may love and care about you, but they will demonically distract you from your potential destiny. DISCERN THE SPIRIT OF DISTRACTION!
UNSOLICITED ADVICE GIVERS
· These people seemingly know something about everything, but in reality have never been successful at anything; they increase their self-worth by diminishing your value.
· “Can’t you just settle down and be happy?” “When is enough ever enough for you?”
THE HATERS
· Unlike the naysayers who claim to be for you and unintentionally hinder your progress; the HATERS viciously try to stop you completely. HATERS are envious and bitter, easily threatened by your success. They will accuse, lie, slander, and flatter others to destroy your credibility and self-confidence.
· HATERS should be “DISCERNED SPIRITUALLY” and recognized as confirmations of your spiritual potential and your moving in the right direction.
YOUR VICTORY IS CHRIST
2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus.”
Psalm 35:24, 26 “VINDICATE ME, O Lord, my God, according to Your righteousness, and let not my enemies rejoice over me. Let them be ashamed and brought into mutual confusion who rejoice over my hurt; let them be shamed and dishonored whoever exalts themselves against me.”
Psalm 37:6 “The Lord shall VINDICATE YOU as the light and your JUSTICE as the noonday!”
Psalm 17:2 “Let MY VINDICATION come from Your presence, let Your eyes look on what is right.”