God and Satan both require the cooperation of man in order to have their will done. God respects man's will. God will not force man to obey.
Saul lay on the ground prophesying naked at night. David escaped.
What kind of cooperation did man offer God for Him to make the animals before man was created? What cooperation did man offer God to make man in the first place? Where does the Bible teach that God needs man's cooperation to do anything? Where does the Bible teach that Satan needs man's cooperation to do anything?
I mean a book of the Bible. Not the book of Kenneth Hagin, or the book of Opinions.
If a prayer is contrary to God's will, He will not answer it except for "No". If someone prays to God, in Jesus name then Satan is shut out. However, some pray for harm to come to someone and without saying in the name of Jesus. Satan will take that as permission to attack that person.
Well, how about what I asked about earlier... where does the Bible teach this, that Satan takes people's prayers not prayed in Jesus' name and works through them?
I know a number of instances of this happening. I needed a place to stay temporarily. I was offered a place for a few days with a widow where another friend was staying. She told me that she had prayed that her husband would die and sure enough, he did. God is not in the business of killing people for no good reason.
If it is appointed unto man once to die, how do you know this woman didn't just happen to pray her prayer at his appointed time? When Jesus said not to fear him who can destroy the body, but rather to fear Him Who is able to destroy both body and soul in Hell, who was He talking about? Do you think Satan determines when Christians die?
And how do you know what was in the husband's heart? (Btw, I am not justifying the woman's prayer.)
No one prayed that Ananias and Sapphira would die. They lied to the Holy Spirit and so brought judgement on themselves, meted out by God.
We don't know if anyone prayed they would die or not, but it isn't part of the accountin Acts.
The question that all Christians need to ask is not whether or not something is good. The question is, is it God? Soul power is not of the Spirit therefore it is not of God.
Show me scripture for this. When I read the Bible, I see that God breathed into man the breath of life and man became a living soul. Isn't that from God.
You are breathing. Is that 'not of God'?
The soul has life in itself, given to Adam so that he could function on the earth. It was intended to be temporary until he chose the tree of life. We know, of course, that he chose the knowledge of good and evil instead.
Show me in scripture where the soul is meant to be temporary, or that this understanding is what scripture means by 'soul.' What is this idea based on? If Paul wanted his readers to be sanctified body, soul, and spirit at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, might not the soul be important?
God's intent for man has never changed. God does not accept what originates from man's natural life. Jesus came that we might have life. That is "zoe" life, the life of God Himself. The life of the soul is "psuche" in Greek. It is unacceptable to God.
If a saint is sanctified in body soul and spirit, how could the soul be unacceptable to God?
It's the life that Jesus told us we need to lose.
But then if we lose it for His sake, we find it.
I'm wary of pop Charismatic (and evangelical) teachings for which I cannot find teaching in scripture. It is possible for sermons to be filled with ideas that do not come from scripture, but from other teachers. If someone wants to claim some doctrine that isn't in the Bible, I would like to ask how and through whom God revealed the idea. For example, if someone says manipulation is witchcraft... who was this revealed to. if some preacher said it, does he claim God told him that. If not, and it isn't in scripture, and it isn't even really logical, why believe in it? Our teaching shouldn't just be an echo chamber of man's ideas.
. I chose that background because it looked like an English tea setting in a lovely yard or garden setting. I tried a few different ones with macaroons and fancy tea cups (my mother had quite a collection of those!), but this one with the melons worked best overall for the pale (but vibrant) pastel colours I wanted and composition etc (the melons remind me of cucumber sandwiches heh). The woman was one I made this afternoon trying out a new generator which was very interesting because it was somehow connected to Discord, which our lovely @seoulsearch mentions occasionally... She started out looking like this-
