"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
There are 4 kinds of intimidation: 1) Intimidation by people, 2) Intimidation by demons who operate through people, 3) Intimidation by people who unknowingly agree with and use the demonic intimidation coming through them, and 4) Intimidation by people who agree with and knowingly use the demonic intimidation coming through them.
It's important to differentiate between these four, because each one in the order above is more powerful and how you overcome each of them is different.
People intimidate others because they want to feel superior and thereby make others feel inferior to them. Perhaps they've got some underlying issues in their life with their self-image or how others have treated them, but control is their ultimate plan and when you look at it that way, witchcraft comes to mind.
Witchcraft is trying to make someone else do what you want (by the way, people who try to control others are probably doing that to compensate for their past experience of being controlled by someone else- it's all they know). Witchcraft is not just practiced by witches, in fact, there is a whole LOT of it happening in the church. You know- people working politically or socially to get the pastor to do what they want. Or it could be the pastor toward the people. Or people to other people; leaders to other leaders, etc. It looks something like this:
Pastor Whitney (the leader) decides to start a new program. She comes to that conclusion through God's leading and begins the process of sharing that vision with the people to get their advice and support. Caspar, a member, doesn't like the pastor or the new program, so without seeking God's will, he begins to subvert the new plan to make the pastor do what he wants instead (whether it be a different program or just keeping things the same as they always have been). Ultimately, if the pastor does something without Caspar's approval, he loses control of the situation. And most likely, Caspar has worked long and hard to gain control of his church; he's not about to give it up to anyone.
How Caspar goes about his subversion could be any number of ways. Maybe he becomes vocally aggressive, maybe he starts a behind-the-back campaign against the new plan or maybe he plays the "poor li'l ol' me" card (the stereotypical Jewish mother routine). Either way it produces the same results. His purpose is all about self; to get his own way and remain in control. Intimidation is all about control.
The bottom line? Eleanor Roosevelt was right. People can only intimidate you if you let them.
My suggestion for now? Don't let them!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Heather Dolby had this quote at the bottom of an email she sent me recently and it jumped out at me because I've been thinking a lot about intimidation lately. Here are some of my thoughts which will probably be spread over a few blog entries.There are 4 kinds of intimidation: 1) Intimidation by people, 2) Intimidation by demons who operate through people, 3) Intimidation by people who unknowingly agree with and use the demonic intimidation coming through them, and 4) Intimidation by people who agree with and knowingly use the demonic intimidation coming through them.
It's important to differentiate between these four, because each one in the order above is more powerful and how you overcome each of them is different.
People intimidate others because they want to feel superior and thereby make others feel inferior to them. Perhaps they've got some underlying issues in their life with their self-image or how others have treated them, but control is their ultimate plan and when you look at it that way, witchcraft comes to mind.
Witchcraft is trying to make someone else do what you want (by the way, people who try to control others are probably doing that to compensate for their past experience of being controlled by someone else- it's all they know). Witchcraft is not just practiced by witches, in fact, there is a whole LOT of it happening in the church. You know- people working politically or socially to get the pastor to do what they want. Or it could be the pastor toward the people. Or people to other people; leaders to other leaders, etc. It looks something like this:
Pastor Whitney (the leader) decides to start a new program. She comes to that conclusion through God's leading and begins the process of sharing that vision with the people to get their advice and support. Caspar, a member, doesn't like the pastor or the new program, so without seeking God's will, he begins to subvert the new plan to make the pastor do what he wants instead (whether it be a different program or just keeping things the same as they always have been). Ultimately, if the pastor does something without Caspar's approval, he loses control of the situation. And most likely, Caspar has worked long and hard to gain control of his church; he's not about to give it up to anyone.
How Caspar goes about his subversion could be any number of ways. Maybe he becomes vocally aggressive, maybe he starts a behind-the-back campaign against the new plan or maybe he plays the "poor li'l ol' me" card (the stereotypical Jewish mother routine). Either way it produces the same results. His purpose is all about self; to get his own way and remain in control. Intimidation is all about control.
The bottom line? Eleanor Roosevelt was right. People can only intimidate you if you let them.
My suggestion for now? Don't let them!
Can You Hear Me?
2 comments:
Hey - that's wild because I was just reading about witchcraft in this book I'm working on, and was surprised to find out that it's more than just spells and seances. It's a sobering thought though - i feel like there's much more of a satanic connotation attached to witchcraft (control, manipulation) than there is for pride, or selfishness...even though it's all flowin' from the same nasty pool.
good word.
Love the steak.
grace,
HBD
wow. . have you been to my former corps?!!! oh my. .
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