HEALTHY SPIRIT
We Are Not Ignorant: Provocation
We are not ignorant of his devices (2 Corinthians 2:11) since by reading the Bible we can learn the various strategies that satan and his kingdom use to fight God’s people. These devices include: The lesson therefore is to recognize when you are being provoked and try and not to react to the provocation or better still avoid the provokers. If you cannot avoid them like Paul and Silas who were followed by the possessed girl day in and day out, trust that God will help you the way He helped Paul and Silas by shaking the foundations of the prison with an earthquake until the prison doors were opened and they were set free after their reaction to the provocation landed them in jail. .
PROVOCATION
We can see a perfect example of the enemy’s provocation in Acts 16:16-24 where a slave girl with a spirit of divination followed Paul and Silas while crying out, “These men are the servants of the Most High God who tell us the way of salvation.” (Acts 16:17) She provoked Paul and Silas like this for many days until Paul turned and ordered the spirit to come out of her in the name of Jesus. The spirit left her immediately and with it, her ability to make her masters money by fortune telling. They therefore seized Paul and Silas, dragged them to the magistrates and made false accusations against them. The result was that Paul and Silas were thrown into jail after being beaten with rods.
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