Consider our first text, in the light of what we have shared so far regarding spiritual swindlers.

So Timothy, my son, I am entrusting you with this responsibility, in keeping with the very first prophecies that were spoken over your life and are now in the process of fulfillment in this great work of ministry, in keeping with the prophecies spoken over you. With this encouragement use your prophecies as weapons as you wage spiritual warfare by faith and with a clean conscience. For there are many who reject these virtues and are now destitute of the true faith. 1 Timothy 1:18-19 (TPT)

Have you ever noticed that spiritual battles are fought by faith and a clean conscience based on biblical prophetic utterances upon your life?

Who is doing the fighting? Prayer contractors or you? Why can’t you fight? You don’t have faith or your conscience is unclean? I hope you see how you can avoid being a target of spiritual swindlers. For emphasis dear child of God, biblical prophesies spoken over us are to be used in waging spiritual warfare by faith and an unsullied conscience.

Furthermore, know it today that you can be a target as revealed in our second text –

The Holy Spirit has explicitly revealed: At the end of this age, many will depart from the true faith one after another, devoting themselves to spirits of deception and following demon-inspired revelations and theories. Hypocritical liars will deceive many, and their consciences won’t bother them at all! 1 Timothy 4:1-2 (TPT)

Wrapping up for the week, how much of Christ’s doctrine do you know to be able to know them apart from demon-inspired revelations and theories that supposedly address your problems, yet they make you captive again to sin? That’s the test to what you take in! Has it brought you again into sin?

It is absolutely clear that God has called you to a free life. Just make sure that you don’t use this freedom as an excuse to do whatever you want to do and destroy your freedom. Galatians 5:13 (MSG)

The grace of God be with you as you step out of the grip of spiritual swindlers. Selah.