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THE ENEMY IN-A-ME

There are things I won't let anyone else hear but Him. God can hear your
thoughts long before they even get to your mind. [Psalms 139:2]

If there's something deep down inside of you crying out make me better

Lord, He heard you . You've been crying, and He heard you . Wailing and He
heard you . Asking for a miracle, and He heard you.

While others will judge you, God said, I heard you. [Psalms 20:6]

The bible says that this man had been in the tombs cutting and gnashing at
himself because of the dominance of the enemy. He had no self-esteem, no
matter how he bragged about himself in front of other people, when he got
alone, he was cutting himself, blaming himself, insecure about himself,
hating himself. When you don't love yourself, you don't love anyone else
around you. How are you going to give to other people what you don't have
for yourself? When nobody is looking you cut yourself, and wound yourself
and bleed all over your job, and all over your children, and all over your wife,

and all over your ministry, and over all things around you. You're bleeding in
the tombs.

Knowing who you are in Christ is one of the most important things to have
in this world, it doesn't matter what other people think about you, it matters
what you think about yourself. When you start cutting and gnashing at
yourself, it becomes impossible to be there for your son, your wife, your
daughter, your family, your church, or anybody else, because you're occupied
with self hatred. We actually treat people out of the reservoir of our own
opinions of self respect and dignity. And when a person has no respect for

self, you can forget about them having any respect for you. The Bible says,
“Love thy neighbor as you love yourself,” [Matthew 22:39] but if you don't love
self, then you won't and can't love your neighbor.

The Bible says to the man; “Love your wife as if she was your own body.”
[Ephesians 5:25] If a man does not like himself, it becomes very dif cult for him
to love his wife. Most men who are wife abusers are wife abusers because
they are self-haters. They gnash at themselves out of their own anger
and frustrations with themselves. When they get with their wives, they vent
that same frustration on her that they feel within themselves and then they

Christ is the Healer
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