This is DeliveranceMinistry.FM videocast number 38,
Hello everyone.
Welcome to another episode of Deliverance Ministry.FM, where we give you proven insights
of both the demonic realm in deliverance ministry so you can wage spiritual warfare more effectively.
Once again, it's Dr Don Ibbitson behind the mic, and I'm here with my cohost.
Dr Phyllis Tarbox.
How are you today, Don, how are you?
I am blessed and highly favored and looking forward to continuing with this series that
we started last week about spiritual warfare tactics for different temperaments.
If you're listening to this, I would encourage you to go back and listen to that session.
Episode 37, give you an overview, kind of a high level flyby of temperaments, and we're
not going to repeat all that here.
We're going to jump right in to talking about one of the specific temperaments, which is
the melancholy temperament, and the whole idea behind doing this series is his understanding
of the demonic realm.
We'll try to work against a different temperament types differently, and it's important that
you understand your temperament, which you can learn it and understand through the arnold
profile system reporting, and once you understand how you're made your strengths and weaknesses,
then you'll be aware and alert and understanding how the demonic realm is going to try to work
against you in different areas.
It can be very helpful to help you really get the victory and live the life that God's
called you to live.
So let's jump right in and talk about the Mellon collie temperament.
It's one of the five, the first one we're looking at, and Phyllis, what would be a short
synopsis that you might give to people telling them about the nature of the melancholy temperament.
I think the deep thinkers, you know, are the introverts.
They, they, they overthink things.
They can be very artistic and creative, but they, they live inside their heads, you know,
reactive mind victories, all the mindset people see my mind doesn't shut off.
That's a clue.
That melancholy temperament might be part of the mix right there.
Also, they tend to be perfectionistic.
You know, they, whatever goal they set, because they have very high goals that they set for
themselves, they have a tendency to oversell that on others and what others said due to.
They expect that from other people.
They're a little more slow paced, you know, things in order.
They don't want to be rushed, tend to be more analytical.
I've seen a lot of people who are in the numbers businesses or the engineering side of things.
Um, tin can often have a melancholy temperament.
There are, they're fine working on their own, got active minds, think he can see, they can
see what's working and what's not working as a temporary.
And they're perfectly comfortable behind the scenes like that.
They don't need a lot of people around them all the time.
In fact, a lot of people around them all the time stresses them out.
Exactly.
It is.
And so as we talked about last time, where we are using the word melancholy and kind
of a generic way, but the model, a person could be melancholy and inclusion or they
can be, which means they're more of a loner type or melancholy and control, which means
typically they're very independent, they don't want a lot of control over their lives, are
not going to try to control others and some are more melancholy and affection.
They don't express a lot of love and affection and they don't need a lot of love and affection.
So we're just kind of talking about no one calling and very much in a generic sense.
So when some of these terms that we're talking about are generally applicable.
And so yeah, the melancholy and affection, for example, would be one who's not really
a touchy feely person that wouldn't necessarily make the best um, greeters at church people
and not out looking to hug everybody.
And maybe you don't want to be hug all that much.
Sure.
They don't like the clingy girlfriends either.
You know, for us, for you women out there, if you're, if you're dating a melancholy and
an infection that is, they're loyal to the core, but they don't need you hanging on them,
then you know, that can be part of their temperament type.
Don't be offended.
Exactly.
Exactly.
It just doesn't mean they can't love.
They just showed their love differently when times are very, tend to show their love by
doing tasks and performing that way.
It doesn't mean they can't.
Well, but they're not.
Once again, the touchy feely type.
So that's an element of them.
Once again, high thinkers, intellectuals, types to attend to.
I'm very good at seeing right and wrong, have high standards for themselves.
Very man.
Many times, truth ordered, dependability, reliability for others.
If you know, you're telling me something, you need to do it, you want, you need to do
it and they will expect that they're very loyal, very loyal, very loyal indeed.
And um, so there's a lot, you know, as we talked about before, you know, we're, every
temperament type is different.
There's no better or worse, but their strengths and weaknesses associated with each one.
So once again, the, you know, the, the, some of the strengths of the melancholy temperament,
they can get stuff done.
They're good at getting things done.
If they know what they're doing, you give them time, give them time to move into an
area and figure things out.
They're good managers.
They can even lead in areas that good at getting things done because I'll think about it, they'll
get it organized and they'll get it done.
Once you say reliable, dependable
at the last thing you want to do is push them into it because it'd be pushed them into it
when they're not ready to take on that task where I tell you what, there, you'll see their
feathers go right up, right?
They, they, they'll tend to rebel.
They may shut down and even say, I'm not going to do it.
They're right there.
They're given a deadline outside of their comfort zone.
When I tell you what, you watched them shut right down,
right?
They're motivated, they're self motivated.
The holding something over them to get them to do something there.
Yeah.
That's not gonna work.
Now the carrot and the carrot and stick approach, it just pretty much self motivated.
So those are kind of the, some of the main elements, if you like, of of the melancholy
temperament.
So let's focus now and talk a little bit about some of the weaknesses of a temperament and
the idea with temperament.
Meet weaknesses.
It's not an excuse for bad behavior.
Well, that's just how God made me, you know, I just know as as believers the promises as
we yield Lord and walk with him that he will change us and transform us into the likeness
of Christ.
So it's not an excuse for bad behavior with say, Lord, if I've got these weaknesses, Lord,
help me change me, transform me in this area.
That should be our hearts cry.
And so with that, what are some of the main weaknesses that we see with the melancholy
temperament?
Well, they're moody.
I think they, they do, they, they have these, they can go get, can get very dark in there
in their moods to get almost black depressions and, and, and they will tend to reject people
when they're in those, in those, in those situations.
Um, they, they, they can walk into a room generally and they'll, and they'll, they'll
have it because they have an analytical mind.
A lot of things will get viewed through a avail rejection.
They'll, they'll, they'll, they'll look for, they, they automatically feel like they're
not going to fit in, they're going to have to go sit by themselves and they can take
themselves with those dark thoughts.
That seems to be a function of the temperament.
Generally.
They're just hard on themselves and typically we'll have all else being equal, what we call
low self esteem.
And they're just, they're very critical of others.
They're all themselves and they will, I think you said is so important.
They can walk into a room and they're looking in proceeding who doesn't like receiving rejection
and you know, we've talked about the spirit of rejection before.
There's a demonic spirit of rejection and it's so pervasive because that spirit can
work in two ways.
Sometimes people will reject this, right?
Because people were just not going to like us in spite of what we do or because of what
we do.
What oftentimes people will come in, we can just feel like they don't reject it.
That's not their heart and that's not their intent, but a person can pick up on that and
it just perceive that rejection, even if it's not there.
This temperament type I think is, like you said, it's very prone to that.
Yeah, and those are the.
Those habits are hard, hard to get them to break too.
They were.
Once that's established that that rejection, then it's very difficult to try to counsel
some of them out of that place.
They're just, they assume, they just assume that they are going to be rejected and they're
not going to fit in and it's not going to be their place and, and you'll see them, they,
they move from group to group, church to church.
They don't, you know, they don't want to fit in.
Well, it is, and it kind of feeds on itself because the mind, they have these intellectual
minds, they're thinkers never shuts off and they start building these things in their
mind, mental cases and cases and and and really it's just, it's just hard to overcome sometimes
in the mind, so the whole lot of them are because are intellectuals and thinkers.
That can be a source of pride for them.
So hard on themselves.
I think some of the weaknesses, right?
They're hard on others and can be critical of others.
That's.
Those are weaknesses, right?
There's a propensity, if you see something that's wrong very easily, sometimes it's easier
just to go down that path and be critical of others so that those are weaknesses, right?
Where the Lord needs to deal with
and they, they, they can be little suits.
That title too.
I think this temperament probably because the dark moods, the suicidal thoughts would
hit this temperament harder than say some of the other ones.
I think so, yes.
It can be a con that rejection and different things that we talked about.
Spirits opening the door for other spirits in a lot of melancholy, the loners, they just
get into that dark place and nobody else around them, they can just, they can spiral down
pretty quickly as well.
They tend to be rigid and being flexible.
Um, in a lot of fear of failure, fear of the unknown.
Generally your melancholies in aren't generally the risk takers for the most part.
I mean they're just, you know, leaders, they don't like that.
They tend to procrastinate or we talked about that.
They very much fear rejection.
So entering into deep relationships is more of a challenge for them for sure.
And so, um, low self esteem, rejection, easily perceived those are, those are some of the
most common weaknesses of the temperament, right?
Yeah.
And I think they get themselves into ruts too, you know, it's hard to get them out of
their little cycle when they get into a pattern.
I'm breaking them out and getting them to do things that are differently.
I'm different even getting them to try different restaurants from time to time.
You do, they have patterns at the same place.
Do the same thing.
Same time every day, which is good.
I mean, that helps them function, but they can get into a real rut or breaking them out
is not not the easiest thing to do.
Okay.
So those are some of the weaknesses we imagine over the years.
Um, minister deliverance to, of course people have all sorts of different temperaments fellows.
What are some of the most common demonic strongholds?
And granted they didn't have strong goals, can be cross temperaments and different types
of temperaments can have all sorts of different strongholds.
That's true.
But we want to share just a few of the ones that we maybe see more frequently in this
type of temperaments then and some of the other.
So what, what do we, what do we see quite often in the, in the melancholy temperament,
in terms of demonic stronghold.
So I think the stronghold that's bows to their intellectual wisdom would be the hottie stronghold
because you know, they're, they're right, they usually think they're right, they have
the answer.
They're not typically open for a lot of a conversation on that.
They're just right.
And so pride, pride, pride, and um, and judgment, certainly condemnation, critical, critical,
and then it can turn inward to, with self critical self judgment and self condemnation
if they're going to focus on the negative, which this tendency, this temperament hesitancy
to do.
Yeah.
I think that's so important.
It's so easy to see less barring anything else, just to focus the negative.
What's wrong?
The Cup, the cup is half empty and draining fast.
So being critical, being hard on others, critical of others.
So I, I would agree with you.
I think that's one that the hygienists and pride realm, because typically they're many
times they have giftings in certain areas or the intellectual part of it, but pride
in a critical spirit is definitely a major stronghold though that we see certainly operating
in that temperament.
Yeah.
You sometimes you'll sadly, sometimes you'll hear this temperament.
See I hate people, right?
Because they've just lumped everybody together in one big, big mess of negativity.
Well, and they do it sometimes too.
Once they get turned off from church.
Young people will say I love God, but if they're honest, like you say, they just don't like
his church, like the people have gone and they're happy to sit at home watching tv or
watching their favorite, you know, evangelist on the, on the television, but that's not
church.
And so they get isolated, which, you know, and they're, they're prone to isolation anyways.
And the devil's kingdom, part of the strategy is to isolate roaring, roaring lion looking
for whom he may devour.
And so it's somebody who doesn't like being around a lot of people anyways.
They get turned off or hurt or wounded man, they can be gone from church and that's a,
that's a plan and scheme of the other people were more social though.
They're going to be ensured that they're hard to drive out of the, out of the herd, but
melancholies or I think you're very prone to that.
Sometimes they don't necessarily want to be in an alternate ways.
And if there's some sort of an excuse for being isolated that, that can, that can definitely.
That can definitely happen with.
So pride is a big one.
Another, uh, I would say area that we see, we've talked, touched on, of course, is though,
under the strong man of heaviness is, is the spirit of rejection.
Yeah, that's, that's, that's the, that's the core on this one, that's the lay line for
this having a stronghold because you know, this is the spirit that's going to try and
filter all your relationships through that viewfinder.
So no matter who you're in contact with, that's, it's like almost like a veil that comes down
and everything gets filtered through rejection and internal.
Specialize in self protection.
So it has you put up walls, right?
So we talked about this, that when you walk into a room and you scan the room is almost
a tendency to make sure you're safe.
And uh, the enemy will try to, you know, get you to retreat once you'd be lonely, once
you to wallow in self pity.
So the spirits that typically operate under the heaviness, stronghold are always number
one, rejection, loneliness, self pity, and depression.
Because you're alone, you don't want to be alone.
You don't need a lot of people in your corner.
Maybe one or two good ones, but when you withdraw like that, um, there's not usually one or
two that are left in your corner.
Right,
exactly.
And you touched on it before that these spirits, cockroach analogy that the spirits will invite
and other spirits.
So you start down that rejection is not dealt with and his depression and it can open a
door for some of these other schools.
Thanks to suicide and opened the door of addictions and all sorts of things, but many times it
starts with rejection and we just, it's just very, uh, I would say very prevalent in the,
in the melancholy temperament that we see that spirit of rejection, that work under
heaviness.
It's just seems like a major spirit and it's a gateway spirit.
I really liked that, but it's, it is a spirit that opens a door for other spirits and it's
just so proud.
It's so easy for rejection to function because sometimes they are rejected, no board, no
single mother or you know, their parents leftover or something, or somebody rejected them.
But other times, man, they just perceive it in either way.
They believed they're rejected, that people don't like him, so rejection is huge.
I think the other one, whenever, anytime you have rejection like that with any temperaments,
you're going to see bitterness while they, while they really focus on what they feel
are tangible sins of other people, which this temperament will tend to do a while.
They're focusing on those hardcore, tangible sins.
The spirit of bitterness comes right up and over them and take some rot from the inside
out.
You know, it's kind of like that.
Remember that old spider man movie where the, where they got more, the black thing started
tangling up on, you know, like the vine that sort of tick spidey over.
I've never been to
spiderman guy, so you're on your own on this one.
Just keep talking.
I'm sure somebody's listening.
What was going to
betterness Kinda creeps in it.
It's like a bad vine.
It comes over and it just overtakes.
And before you know it, it just, it just feeds even more loneliness because you know, nobody
really wants to hang around with a bitter person.
And, you know, I think the melancholies got to guard their heart from that.
So we're talking about pride, critical spirit.
We've talked about heaviness in the room or rejection in the third area that we see a
lot, or we've touched on it Israeli, the realm of depression, so that I'm just that cloud,
that woe is me thing inward focused in isolation or alone time.
It's just, I'm just.
Depression is just a major stronghold that we see many times in people who were, who
were of that temporary type.
I mean, God's getting to see it in others, but it's just, it's just, uh, just seems so
easy for them, for the demonic kingdom to bring, um, depression and gloominess sadness
upon that.
Upon that temperament type.
Well, you know, I think what feeds this too is the melancholy temperament has a memory
that kind of is almost like a photograph album, you know, overdue visits, fixtures, and they're
very detailed in their mind so they can think back to a certain situation and it's all right.
They're like, they're going right through a photo album.
They see it, they can see the colors, they can see that what they had on, they can hear
what's been playing in the background and so it doesn't take much for the demonic kingdom
to just throw a thought at them to trigger that, to get them to go back in their memory
and then to start reliving all of this stuff over and over and over again.
And the boy, I tell you what, that can take them out if that, that memory has got a dark
side to it.
Exactly.
Once again, these things can feed on something else that can lead into addiction.
Sometimes people try to deal with that darkness and heaviness, swimming, substance abuse and
different things or getting into pornography.
And so we, once again were, you know, these just seem to be the prevalent ones though,
that the three of the major ones anyways, starring roles that we see that our award
in, um, in that melancholy temperament.
And so, given that then, um, and of course, you know, are we, we deal a lot with people
who are dealing with struggles.
Well, let's get deliverance deliverance.
And when you do that, but apart from that are separate from matter.
Aside from that, given what we know about the weaknesses of the demonic, or I'm sorry,
weaknesses of the melancholy temperament and assuming the demonic kingdom of course can
see and observe all this stuff.
No, how are you react.
We just want to share with you just some insights, some specific tactics that a melancholy, um,
temperament might find most beneficial.
So let's start with that.
What's, what's one of the first things we encourage melancholies to do?
Well, I think you have to take your thoughts captive.
I mean certainly you've got to cover your mind with the blood of Jesus Christ.
Take these thoughts captive to the obedience of Jesus Christ, which means leave them with
him and then focus on what the Lord would have you focus on.
Certainly things that to see others as good.
You know, I'm critical of others.
You've got to look at the.
Yeah, because in proverbs 16, 18, it says, you know, you're commanded to love your neighbor
as yourself.
Right?
So you've got to shift that.
And I know that deliverance is going to be another thing that we've talked about always
in all of our podcast to be delivered from a lot of these spirits and operation so that
you could have a healthy perspective of who you are actually created to be.
So you can learn to love yourself and others.
But I think first off, you know, taking those thoughts captive and then really trying to
search the word of God to see who you were created to be.
Um, I think you're gonna find that the Bible is a mirror of who God said you were.
So thoughts captive, read the word, and then begin to see others differently.
I encourage when I tell them melancholies is this, I said, look, you need to, you know,
given the tendency to be critical of others and a critical of herself.
You said you need to see others and see yourself through the eyes of Christ.
How does God see that person?
How does God see you?
And that's why one of the handouts that we give to everybody that comes in is in after
the first session is who I am in Christ.
This is what God says that you are so getting that revelation, you know, and it's, it's
a learned skill.
Some people are just more loving and more and do that easier than for others.
The melancholies especially who are, who.
It's easier to see what's wrong.
It's like you need to train and renew your mind to see what's right.
It doesn't happen automatically.
And some people are like, is there a positive and bumbling?
And they always see the good.
We're looking for the melancholies.
It's more of a challenge.
But see, you gotta get there.
You got to take the thoughts captive.
Like you say, what am I thinking about that person or, or let me part of my prayer for
myself and others, the Lord, let, let, let me see them as you see them.
And that's.
And that's a skill.
It's not something that's going to drop on you.
I don't believe just in the middle of the night, you know, we pray, God, let me do this.
It's like I think it's a good prayer to pray and God's God's help, but Lord, part of this
mind thing is no.
I want to see them as you see them, you know, and that you're their child.
You know that you love them to Christ died for that person.
You died for me and getting their revelation of that.
Hey, I see this all the time.
I mean, it's until people.
It's like you are a son or a daughter of the king.
We got to get that revelation.
If you know I really, I, you know, I read it, but do I do I believe in it.
Somehow by the spirit of God in revelation, we gotta get that revelation that you are
a daughter of the king.
You are a son of the king.
You are precious.
It doesn't matter what you feel seen any title melancholies have such low self esteem.
They just think they're just nothing.
It's like, man, you get rid of the devils, but then after that it's like, well, no, that's
not the truth.
Right, right, right.
I mean, that's, that's part of the warfare per se.
What am I going to believe?
And I think too, in order to get a different view of other people, I'm one of the scriptures
is you know, to pray for those who've hurt you and bless those who curse you, so as you
begin to take ownership of other people in prayer, I think once you take that, once you
start to pray for these, some of these people that you're having a difficult time seeing
good in, God's going to reveal to you different prayer strategies, different things their
needs and you're going to get a better picture of who they really are because you know there's
that old Ephesians six, 12 scripture that you're not battling flesh and blood, but you're
battling spirits that are operating through some of these people.
And so that's in Ephesians 6:12.
I mean, we've got to recognize that we're not.
It's not, it's not necessarily the person that's in front of you.
A lot of times there's a lot of demonic stuff that's going on in them too, and and you gotta
have a different view,
different view.
See it through the eyes of God, these struggles not struggles and that scripture that you
mentioned about and as Luke six, 27 and 28 where Jesus says, love your enemies.
Do good to those who hate you.
Bless those who curse you.
Pray for those who mistreat you.
Yeah, that's it.
Just do that out of obedience, right?
Just start doing that.
When you tend to be critical of somebody and starting to be critical, what?
Either to start praying, asking God to bless them.
That's what that scripture says and you know that's a tactical tactical plans.
Some people just smell or changed me in.
Oh well, alright, I think that's good to pray, but I think the Lord many times will present
opportunities where you can do some things differently and do it, and if you don't do
it, say, Lord, forgive me.
Help me do better next time, but just start doing that.
When you're in that place of pain and anger towards somebody knowing, calling your reminds
me, visiting all the stuff they did, you and you, maybe you've forgiven them, start praying
for that person.
Lord, I pray that you bless them, bless her, bless her family, or reveal yourself to them
and I can tell you that's hard to pray in the natural.
I mean to that personally real problem, but I can tell you is you do that.
You will you.
You will soften your heart towards that person like you said, and it will bring healing to
me.
I will change you and so it's because the devil's in all part of the mind thing.
That demos will be able to remind you of stuff in the past.
Only the melancholies.
There's a tendency of the mind to relive the past anyways.
These devils, they'll keep poking and stirring up these memories of, of, of stuff you did
wrong and that you're giving money.
You're going to start feeling guilty and ashamed or it was something that somebody else did
and then that anger comes up with a critical thing comes up.
Nope, take those thoughts captive and start doing that because that that mind is his strength,
but it's the devil's will try to use it for.
I'm trying to use it for negatives as well.
Yeah, they want to isolate you.
I mean if you're a melancholy, they're going to try to isolate you.
They're going to try to pull you away from the pack and get you to sit in your own corner
by yourself and you've tried all this stuff.
You've done it before.
It hasn't worked.
You know, you got to start instituting this stuff daily.
Even if it's just a little bit at a time and breaking some of those old habits that are
having you look negatively because I tell you what, the enemy actually sits back and
he's mocking.
He's laughing, he's excited that you're buying into game plan and you're staying in that
corner by yourself.
So you know, we're not trying to drag you out, but you know, some of these things have
to change and you can be.
You can do it through deliverance.
You can do it one step at a time.
But anyway, the revelation of all of this hits you.
It's going to be what's, what's going to get you into a, into a more positive joy filled
life because you don't want to sit there negative and bitter and alone.
You don't want to end up by yourself.
Exactly.
I would say for the thing to summarize this from my perspective is that mind that you
have can be a string, but how you're feeling the emotions, Florida, what you're taking
the thoughts captive and being able to line them up with the word of God is important.
Um, the emotions will follow what you're thinking.
So positive thoughts taking.
Paul says in Philippians, whatever's true, noble, right?
Purely we are admirable, excellent or praiseworthy.
Think on these things.
It's important.
Melancholy temperament.
So get delivered.
So if you need it after that, start down the path of doing some of the things we've talked
about here.
And I'm really believing that you will.
You'll see good fruit from that.
US.
Any final thoughts for you as far as melancholies go?
I just think that this is really an important podcast for the melancholy because I don't
know that they're going to hear us.
You know, they may not hear this in a church service someplace, but this is, this is right
on point for how you were created to be and you know, you can take these thoughts captive.
You can have a very fruitful life.
You do not have to be alone in that corner, so come on out.
Exactly.
Good.
Good, good words.
Next week.
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