The Subtle Divide Between Personality and Influencero!

This episode focuses on discerning between natural personality traits and demonic influence. It highlights the importance of discernment in recognizing speech, attitudes, and fruits that either reflect God's spirit or reveal oppressive demonic influence. Key indicators discussed include destructive speech, controlling attitudes, and a lifestyle producing confusion and division versus the healing and peace brought by the Holy Spirit.

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 Welcome to the Ministering Angel Podcast, where you'll deepen your connection with Jesus Christ. Whether new or returning this podcast is your guide to unlocking potential and overcoming challenges. Ronald, along with various hosts, shares divine messages that inspire strength, wisdom, and resilience.

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Introduction to Discernment

One of the greatest challenges in discernment is knowing whether a person's behavior comes from their natural personality or from demonic influence. We all have flaws, quirks, and rough edges shaped by our upbringing and experiences, but not every sharp tongue, strong opinion or stubborn attitude is demonic.

At the same time, the enemy often hides behind human traits using them as a cover to sow destruction. This is why discernment is critical. Scripture reminds us in one John four, one beloved. Do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. God never calls us to judge by appearance alone, but to recognize the spirit at work behind the words, attitudes, and fruits of a person's life.

Understanding Demonic Influence

In this teaching, we'll walk through three key areas where demonic influence often reveals itself. Speech that destroys attitudes that control or oppress. Fruits of bondage. Learning to distinguish between natural personality and spiritual influence will protect you from deception and equip you to walk in greater discernment.

 
Controlling and Oppressive Attitudes

Another key sign of demonic influence is the presence of controlling and oppressive attitudes. While a person's personality may lean toward being strong-willed or dominant, there is a difference between natural leadership and spiritual domination. The spirit of God leads with freedom never force. Now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is.

There is freedom. Two Corinthians three 17, but demonic spirits work through pride, jealousy, control, and intimidation. Their goal is to silence voices, to manipulate decisions, and to enslave others under fear. Consider this distinction, personality. Someone may be a natural leader, quick to take initiative, or even stubborn at times.

These traits can be refined and redirected by the spirit of God. Influence when a person's presence consistently crushes others when their pride, demand submission, when jealousy fuels constant competition, or when intimidation becomes their main tool that goes beyond personality, those are the marks of an oppressive spirit.

Demons do not simply want influence. They seek domination. Their intent is always to control atmospheres, relationships and outcomes. A controlling spirit is never satisfied until others lose their freedom. How to discern the difference if someone's leadership inspires growth, peace, and confidence in others.

It reflects God's spirit. If their leadership leaves people fearful, silenced, or drained, it reflects oppression. The fruit of control is always bondage. God gives his children authority, but authority in the kingdom is used to build others up. Not tear them down. Any attitude that constantly oppresses or manipulates reveals a spirit at work, and it must be recognized for what it is.

 
Recognizing the Fruits of Bondage

The final key sign of demonic influence is seen in the fruit that a person's life produces. Jesus gave us a clear standard in Matthew seven 16. You will recognize them by their fruits. Everyone has flaws, makes mistakes and experiences conflict. That's part of being human. But when a person's life continually produces confusion, division, and destruction, you are not just looking at personality, you are looking at the fruit of bondage.

Demons leave a trail. Their influence is revealed in patterns that repeat, no matter the situation or environment, wherever they operate. Relationships are fractured, peace is stolen. An order is replaced with chaos. James three 16 warns us for where jealousy and selfish ambition exists. There will be disorder in every vile practice.

Contrast this with the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5 22 to 23, but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. The presence of God's spirit produces healing, restoration, and life. Demonic influence produces confusion, destruction, and death.

How to discern the difference. Look at the long-term outcome. Do their choices and presence consistently? Leave behind peace, growth and blessing or confusion, turmoil and broken. Pay attention to the spiritual atmosphere they carry. Do you feel strengthened in the spirit around them or drained and oppressed?

Bondage always reveals itself in fruit. You cannot hide what is truly an operation for long. Either. The spirit of God is producing life or demonic influence is producing destruction. The key is to examine the fruit and trace it back to the source.

 
Conclusion and Key Takeaways

Not everything we see in people is demonic. Some things are simply personality immaturity or unhealed wounds, but there are clear markers that reveal when the enemy is at work through someone. Speech that destroys personality may be blunt or sarcastic, but consistent, slander, manipulation and lies point to a spirit of deception and accusation.

Attitudes that control or oppress. Strong leadership can be a trait, but pride, intimidation, and domination that silence others reflect demonic oppression, not natural personality. Fruits of bondage. Everyone makes mistakes, but a lifestyle that continually produces confusion, division and destruction leaves the fingerprints of demonic influence.

The test is always in the fruit. Personality can be refined by the spirit of God, but demonic influence, resists correction, thrives on bondage and leaves a trail of destruction. In contrast, the Holy Spirit always produces freedom, peace, and life.

 Not everything we see in people is demonic. Some things are simply personality immaturity or unhealed wounds, but there are clear markers that reveal when the enemy is at work through someone. Speech that destroys personality may be blunt or sarcastic, but consistent, slander, manipulation and lies point to a spirit of deception and accusation.

Attitudes that control or oppress. Strong leadership can be a trait, but pride, intimidation, and domination that silence others reflect demonic oppression, not natural personality. Fruits of bondage. Everyone makes mistakes, but a lifestyle that continually produces confusion, division and destruction leaves the fingerprints of demonic influence.

The test is always in the fruit. Personality can be refined by the spirit of God, but demonic influence, resists correction, thrives on bondage and leaves a trail of destruction. In contrast, the Holy Spirit always produces freedom, peace, and life.

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