Ahab and Jezebel

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Masters of misdirection

Post published:May 31, 2019
Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
Post last modified:March 13, 2024

Masters of misdirection spend their lives using anyone, everyone, to get whatever they want. They do it so subtly, so skillfully, that the exploited ones usually do not know they’re being used.

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Spiritual schizophrenia and the two-headed snake

Post published:January 23, 2019
Post category:Healing from Toxic Church
Post last modified:October 24, 2024

"How long will you try to go both ways?" Elijah cried. Where people identified with God cling to deep double-mindedness, they empower a two-headed snake.

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How Ahab and Jezebel outsmart us

Post published:October 22, 2012
Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
Post last modified:October 23, 2024

Be blessed to see past strong deception and skillful misdirection, to recognize Ahab and Jezebel at work.

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Before the face of God

Post published:October 8, 2012
Post category:From: The Elijah Blessing
Post last modified:March 23, 2024

An upstart named Elijah stood before Ahab, Israel’s king. Elijah had no credentials that would have impressed Ahab. First Kings 17:1 describes him simply as, “Elijah, who was from Tishbe…

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Miracle book: The Elijah Blessing

Post published:August 24, 2012
Post category:My Story
Post last modified:October 23, 2024

God gave me an impossible task, a delightful task, and he went before me to make the way.