KNOW YOUR ENEMIES, DON'T CREATE THEM

We will be discussing how important it is to know that you can create an enemy by your words, deeds, actions and character defects. Thinking that a person is your enemy can cause you to create an enemy where there is none. Just because you have disagreements, differences, and opposite views does not mean that you should start treating someone like they are your enemy. Too many times in relationships we allow our expectations of how a person should respond or react to us causes us to view them as an enemy. Creating an enemy where there is none stops all process of reconcilliation, and wars do not stop as long as one side is opposing. In order to operate in love, we need to be aware that our enemy is not the person we are dealing with, it is those prinicipalities that have been set against us to keep us from loving one another as God commands. We have to make the decision to follow God's Commandment to love one another as He loves us, instead of being ruled by the prinicipality that is the true enemy. 

Ephesians 6:12King James Version (KJV)

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 KJV

4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.