Let’s clear the air:

Not every hardship in your life is an attack from satan.

Sometimes… it’s just you.

Your choices. Your disobedience. Your unwillingness to surrender.

But in modern Christianity, blaming the devil is far easier than examining ourselves.

So we say:

“I’m under spiritual attack.”

“The enemy is after my peace.”

“Warfare is so intense right now.”

Meanwhile, God is over here saying,

“You’re reaping what you sowed.”

The Blame Game Is Comfortable

It’s a strange comfort to imagine we’re always victims in a spiritual war.

 It makes us feel chosen, important, even holy.

But sometimes, the reason we’re exhausted and off-track isn’t because hell is fighting us: it’s because heaven is resisting us.

God resists the proud (James 4:6).

Not the possessed. Not the pagan. The proud.

And rebellion doesn’t always look like witchcraft or idolatry.

Sometimes it looks like:

1).Knowing what God said and doing the opposite

2).Delayed obedience (aka: disobedience with a calendar)

3).Rewriting conviction as “process”

4).Constantly needing confirmation for what you already know

5).Making excuses while quoting “no weapon formed against me”

Newsflash: 

If you’re building the weapons yourself, that verse doesn’t apply.

Stop Rebuking What You Need to Repent For.

You can’t rebuke depression if it’s rooted in disobedience.

You can’t cast out consequences.

You can’t bind a spirit when your own sin is giving it full legal access.

Deliverance is real, but it’s not a shortcut around responsibility.

Sometimes the most powerful spiritual warfare you can engage in… is humbling yourself.

The Way Back

There is grace, but grace doesn’t excuse rebellion. It empowers repentance.

So here’s how you reset:

Ask God: “Where have I ignored Your voice?”

a)Confess it. 

Don’t dress it up. 

Don’t explain it away.

b)Turn from it fully.

 Not eventually. 

Not emotionally.

 Actually.

c)Rebuild in obedience. Even if it’s slow. Even if it’s painful. Even if nobody else sees it.

God doesn’t require perfection. But He does require surrender.

And sometimes, that’s the warfare you’ve been avoiding.

Has this message hit you where it hurts? Good. That’s where healing begins.

Leave a comment. Don’t ghost the process just because it got real.

I pray that you humble yourself before God, before you are humbled by situation and circumstances, instead Jesus’s matchless name. Amein.

Shalom, 

Dr. Hephzibah Christly

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June 22, 2025