The Spirit Bully

Chapter 1

Faith Facts 101

When understanding how the eternal fight works between heaven and hell, you must first realize that you cannot enter into it unprepared or unprotected. You have to realize that the internal battle you are enduring did not start with you, nor will it end with you. This is why you have to fight so hard for peace, joy, confidence, and stability, because the enemy’s favorite battlefield is the mind! The truth of the matter is he is more afraid of you then you are of him. That is why he endlessly targets your self-esteem and identity, so that you become like that child at school who cries in the corner after they were ridiculed by the class bully. However, this is not the position you must take, for you do not have to settle for being a victim. It is time to obtain victory from the onslaught of the enemy’s attacks, but it only comes through Jesus Christ.

This may be your first time ever hearing about Jesus or a refresher if you are already familiar to Christianity, but make no mistake, there is a reason why we are so passionate about His name! Jesus is part of what we call the Triune God, for God operates through three different ways. You have God the Father, who created everything in the universe and handcrafted how the world turns, how nature runs through cycles, and how the human body functions. Then, you have God the Holy Spirit, where God Himself walks with us and through us so that His perfect plan can be delivered as we submit ourselves to His directions and authority. Lastly, we have God the Son (Jesus), who came to walk among us in human flesh. He is all God and all man at the same time, and even though He only walked on the Earth for 33 years, we can learn so much from his journey.

It is because of Jesus’ human experience that we are able to worship Him, love Him, and trust Him the way we do. Our God and religion is different from everyone else’s because no other religion depicts a god who was willing to live among their creation. He was born like us, experienced human emotions like us, and even faced death like we will one day have to. Most of all, He learned firsthand how the enemy likes to tempt, taunt, and torment us, showing us how to navigate these moments when they arise in our lives. Normally, when we think about all the times Jesus had to overcome the enemy, it was not just during His season of fasting when He was in the wilderness. One thing you will see in Jesus’ entire journey that you can see in your own is that the enemy did not just attack him directly, but always tried to oppose Jesus through other people.

When Jesus was growing inside Mary’s womb as a baby, prophets, soothsayers, and wiseman alike all felt through their spiritual practices that a mighty king was being born. The king at the time named Herod caught a whiff of this, and he was not above immorality. Herod was truly a bully and abuser, one who overstepped his boundaries and made a lot of decisions out of haste and hatred. He would behead you if you asked questions that he did not feel like answering. One thing you must realize is that the enemy’s playground is our emotions. He can speak louder than the Lord when we constantly walk in fear, anger, jealousy, pride, and any negative emotion that clouds our judgement when we are not careful. In Herod’s case, he was so full of pride and anger, that the thought of a king rising up made him usher an unthinkable decree.