Don't allow a Spirit of division to cause a vortex of destruction!
Safe guard your home. Never allow a spirit of division an entrance. If one does happen to slip in, use your authority which is robbed in love and power to put it out as quickly as possible. Divisive spirits are fires that will destroy relationships.
The enemy carries a divisive nature, while God calls forth unity. The God kind of Faith and Unity will always build relationships and organizations.
Unity is fueled by faith and fired by love. Unity talks about locking arms and is a creative force. Unity draws in blessing and creates an atmosphere that is welcoming and rich with peace and blessing.
As Christians we understand that our battle is never flesh and blood, but principalities, powers and wickedness in higher realms. Therefore, a spirit of division is normally not recognized by those who live in the carnal realm until it is already in manifestation. But those who live in Spirit, should also walk in the Spirit and have the ability to pin point divisiveness before it brings it's deadly weaponry out in the open.
Many times those who carry a divisive spirit are insecure or carnal in nature. Those immature in Spirit may easily never recognize a divisive spirit. A devise spirit will present its self many times in the form of power. But it is false power. It stands before people to intimidate them, to try to may them step out of God positions. But remember when dealing with a Spirit of division, God did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power, love and self discipline (sound mind), and do not be moved!
I have seen this spirit run it's course unchallenged and work it's havoc. It normally works to separate and then it splits and leaves those separated alone and battered. I have watched this spirit nature come between husbands and wives, friends, siblings, and into homes and organizations to destroy them. Guard strong against it.
Paul spoke of it within the arena of the church, when he was endeavoring to bring a group of people into unity.
Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!” 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. 28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
As you continue to read in I Corinthians you will find chapter 13 speak about love and it's attributes. Love is the antidote for strife and the agent that will defuse division, while causing your faith to ignite victory in your life.Do not allow a gift or calling (position) to make you a slave to strife. Refuse to be a carrier of division. We are called to unity of the faith, with the understanding that there are many members. Every member vital and necessary. They are not to be tossed out and left to die in desert places.
It is amazing to me how positions can get the best of people, instead of being used as a platform to bring the best out of people. Jesus' life was His platform. He is found taking those who were pregnant with greatness and building them.
Jesus did not separate people from others, we even hear his pray for unity and usefulness in John chapter 17. Jesus' only idea of separation was that His followers be kept from the evil in the world, so they could be separated into the World to greater purposes.
Jesus love was and is, amazing love. Even in the midst of religious strife, His cry was 'Oh Jerusalem how I have longed to take you under my wing like a mother hen would take her chicks ... but you would not.'
Jesus nature is not only loving, but also protecting nature. His was a kingdom building nature ... but we must remember His kingdom is not of this world ... it is a greater kingdom within the realms of people. By building people vs. organizations, organizations could be built nearly effortlessly. Flowing and functioning like a loving family considering one another.
The World is ready conquer and draw to themselves great followings and names. Jesus came to offer life and that more abundant. His entire life sat upon the reading of the Word from the book of Isaiah:
*The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised ... To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
If the nature of the windy vortex around you is not there to eradicate poverty; heal the broken; deliver (not destroy, divide or discard) those in bondage of sin; to enlighten eyes with liberating truth; and set people free ... then you must do everything you can to safe guard against it.
This nature can rise up from within you, or twirl around you as it cause others to dance to it's demonic beat, but at all cost guard your heart ... for out of it comes the issues of life.
Do not fall prey to a divisive spirit ... don't let the enemy who is ranked a zero (holds not legal power) a place.
