2023
These links will open a new tab in your internet browser Before you click on the "Blog Posting" link, read the transcript of the video of the Week further down this page and click on the "week #" link to view Dr. Zadai's lesson. We have added a FaceBook page for this group. You are free to join the group. Fellowship Project: Blog Posting After you watch the video and read the study notes below, answer these questions here: Discuss: o Discuss the diabolical way the enemy creates cycles of rejection in people's lives. 1. James 1:6 speaks about having confident, unwavering faith. How does being undecided cause you to be tossed around like a wave?
2. Humans are comprised of three parts: spirit, soul, and body. Which parts can still be influenced by the demonic realm in a believer's life?
3. Discuss the fact that faith is of the heart, not the head. What is the difference between the "confession brings possession" doctrine and pure faith?
4. Discuss how familiar spirits make false circumstances look real, causing oppression such as self-hatred and addiction. What is the enemy's agenda, and why is it important to understand his ploy?
5. Discuss how to break cycles of rejection in your life.
Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
—Ephesians 1:5-6
DISCUSSION:
In this session we will discuss the importance of breaking cycles of rejection. Throughout your life, the enemy develops a way to get you to respond through a cycle of rejection. In other words, these evil spirits design a way to get you to react a certain way so that you feel like a victim all the time. These evil spirits influence certain events in your life to set you up for failure. My heart is to accelerate your deliverance from the onslaught of the enemy in this area.
DO NOT ALLOW THE ENEMY TO PUSH YOUR BUTTONS
The enemy essentially develops a button in a person's life, which he pushes to throw them into a tailspin. It's best that you lose these buttons that the devil has been pushing, where he's developed a cycle of rejection.
I realized that I was in this cycle, which would happen on cue each month. Every month something would happen which would put me into a tailspin. I had been to Heaven, seen Jesus, and had all these wonderful things happen to me, but still felt like I was taking things wrong. I realized that it was familiar spirits working on trying to build a case against me. I discovered that I must not let my buttons be pushed anymore.
Rejection is a crucial subject to discuss because the enemy attacks everyone in this area. I want you just to concentrate on what buttons the enemy pushes in your life. We all have familiar spirits assigned to our bloodlines and have been transferred down, which try to develop a case against us.
o Discuss the diabolical way the enemy creates cycles of rejection in people's lives.
BEING UNDECIDED CAUSES YOU TO OSCILLATE
Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You're up one minute and tossed down the next.
—James 1:6 TPT
James 1:6 said to make sure you ask, empowered by confident faith, without doubt, so that you will receive. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. The verse says that a double-minded person is up one minute, and then tossed down the next minute, which is the idea of oscillating. One minute you can be excited and encouraged, and the next, you find yourself doubting.
I remember hearing something encouraging, or God would speak to me, and then it wasn't long before the devil would trip me up, and I doubted it. James 1:6 states that you should be confident in your faith to the point where you receive the promise and stick with it even if you haven't seen it happen yet. You must receive it in your heart, remain consistent, and not become undecided, oscillating back and forth.
When I first got saved, I wavered back and forth because the enemy was attacking me, and I didn't understand everything I do now. At the time, the people in my church didn't know either, so it was as if we were all stuck in a raft together, being tossed around. Ironically, one of the assistant pastors gave me a book on Faith that Oral Robbers had written. I remember learning that we could be stable amidst the waves of life. The book talked about speaking to your storm and was very encouraging.
This came at a time when my church leadership couldn't help me, though they did the best they could.
The war we are in has to do with the fact that there are three different realms of human makeup.
• We are comprised of spirit, soul, and body.
• The adversary, satan, and the demonic realm can influence all three if we're not born again.
• However, once we're born again, the enemy can only influence the body and the soul.
• Once born again, our spirits are powerful in the Lord; they just need to be fortified.
• Yet the devil can still access your mind, will, and emotions, which is your soul.
• Demonic influence can cause you to oscillate, doubt and hesitate, all of which have to do with emotions, not pure faith.
FAITH IS OF THE HEART
For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
—Romans 10:10
Faith is of the heart and not of the head. You can doubt in your head, yet believe in your heart, and still receive. This is not being taught; however, it is the actual case. We are instructed to believe with our hearts that what you say with your mouth shall happen, and it shall be done for us. It doesn't say believe in your head and say it with your mouth.
What happened with the Word of Faith Movement's teaching "having confession gains possession?" This was the belief that people gained possessions through confession.