{"id":1012,"date":"2012-05-08T06:43:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2012-07-28T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T11:27:01","slug":"how-do-you-if-a-work-is-gods-or-satans","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=1012","title":{"rendered":"How do you know whether a work is God&#8217;s or Satan&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Give Satan an inch and he&#8217;ll be your ruler&#8221; How do you know he&#8217;s involved or God? If we&#8217;ve been given the power of choice how do you know when you\u2019re being influenced? Example: If I feel something is not right, is it God telling me or Satan blinding me? Or is it a choice all on my own?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong> Yes, you have been given the power of choice.\u00a0 That choice is used to discern good from evil, right from wrong, no from maybe, and etc.\u00a0 We are indeed influenced both by God and by Satan.\u00a0 It is our job to recognize the source of this information we are receiving.\u00a0 God is specific.\u00a0 He gives the problem, the root cause of that problem, and the solution to solving the problem.\u00a0 Satan, on the other hand, only gives enough truth to cause confusion.\u00a0 If the feelings are clear, precise, and can be substantiated, then it is clearly of God.\u00a0 If the feelings are vague, with no conclusive evidence, too many loose ends, and no solution, then it is probably the adversary.\u00a0 Be careful though, that the feelings are not your own.\u00a0 Sometimes people are so hurt that they only see what they want to see.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to discern the source of the feelings is to remember that God purpose is to build things up; John 10:10.\u00a0 Satan, on the other hand, sole purpose is to seek and destroy; 1 Pet 5:8.\u00a0 Do not become a victim.\u00a0 One\u2019s choice comes to play, first, in determining the source of the information, then, how he responds to that information; Mat.10:16.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Give Satan an inch and he&#8217;ll be your ruler&#8221; How do you know he&#8217;s involved or God? If we&#8217;ve been given the power of choice how do you know when you\u2019re being influenced? Example: If I feel something is not right, is it God telling me or Satan blinding me? Or is it a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1012","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1012\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}