15/05/2026
When Pressure Comes...Just Say No!
As soon as you get the revelation of the law of confession and begin to walk in it, you are going to experience all kinds of pressure. The devil and his demons will work overtime to throw circumstances and unbelieving people in your path to try to get you to move away from your confession of faith in God and His Word. The world you live in is programmed to cause doubt and unbelief wherever you go. And your flesh might be your biggest challenge, especially if you are not used to living your life according to God’s Word instead of just doing whatever feels good at the time. Your old, carnal nature is selfish, negative, often afraid, and easily offended. So you must be aware of these enemies to your creative words of faith and know how to handle them. A World of Hate
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21 I once heard a story of a lady who said, “Preacher, you really did preach good tonight. You really cleaned out some cobwebs tonight.” The preacher replied, “Sister, come on back tomorrow night, and we’re going to kill the spider.” We have to kill the spider because he is busy trying to build webs of hatred and bitterness in your life. Read verse 20 again—hatred is a work of the flesh. If you read the newspapers, surf the Internet blogs, or watch television news programs, you will catch on quickly that the world runs on hatred. It runs on hatred because that is the essence of Satan’s character, and he is the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4).
Satan means “adversary.”1 He is the ultimate adversary, or one who opposes, because he is the adversary of God, who is lov