Know Thy Evil Critic - You are an Enemy of Those Who Don't Like Your Spiritual Self

Now who might be the wicked critic of your faith whether in the open or secretly hiding waiting to attack you one day?  You may want to ask yourself the following questions, “Is this person someone who just spouts off the mouth everything ungodly so as to make me angry enough to sin?  Is this critic someone who I can trust, yet when it comes to spiritual matters, he or she is the last person I think about talking to?  Is the critic a person who may have a hidden plan to do harm against me, because I believe what I believe and tend to offend him or her with my faith?”  If someone or many come to mind while you ask yourself these questions, than you might possibly have an enemy in your camp.  An evil critic is anyone who opposes, hinders, suppresses, manipulates, criticizes, ostracizes, or speaks evil of your belief system. 

You might say, “Oh no, not my mom!  Oh no, not my man!  It couldn’t be my lady!  Don’t tell me, my son!”  A critic turned enemy can be anyone!  Now, why would someone who supposedly loves or likes you be so critical of your walk with the Lord whether to your face or behind your back?  Because chances are, you are doing some things that are disturbing their peace of mind, physical location, and convicting their spirits.  Sounds similar to what Jesus did when talking to the Pharisees, huh?  

The more you talk about your experiences believing in the one true God, the more the sinful critic will provide his or her feedback whether on the phone, in-person, by email, text, snail mail, or through someone else.  A sinful critic may even show up on your social networking page or other websites you frequent all-too-ready to leave a negative, demeaning or flippant remark.  Some will say, “I am just giving constructive feedback.”  Sure.

Jealous, wayward Christians, backsliders, apostates, and the godless are not interested in building up believers; rather they are more interested in doing the following:  proving them wrong, making them look like fools, getting a good laugh or tearing down one’s wholesome image.  Watch out Ms. Goody Two-Shoes or Mr. “I’m A Good Man!” the angry critic is waiting for you to slip up.  

In James 4:1-3 (NIV,) fights and quarrels occurred between Christ’s followers due to personal envy and discontent.  “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?  You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.  When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” 

Deceptive critics will not share too much about themselves whether online or offline, particularly with believers, for fear that God will reveal flaws in their character.  Therefore, they will use criticism as a distraction to keep the focus off of them an on to others. These critics don’t want godly followers to start praying and guiding them toward Jesus, because many of them feel content without him.  This is why a once very talkative friend is not so social like she use to be since you met Jesus.  This is why some will become easily irritated when you ask, “Would you like for me to pray with you?”  No one wants their flaws exposed even if people already know what they are about.

A loving, sweet, wonderful unbelieving partner may not be so attentive these days to his Christ following wife, because he doesn’t want to hear nor talk about Jesus.  If she should start a spiritual conversation, most assuredly the unsaved partner will start creating a wall around his mind.  There are plenty more examples, like this one, of difficult people who oppose the one choosing to follow Jesus.  How long some of the lost and confused welcome you, all depends on how much more they can tolerate you and your Jesus before they distance themselves from you or push you out of their lives with their mean words.  

Sometimes God will expedite our exit from a bad relationship or friendship before we are ready, leaving relatives, friends and co-workers surprised and offended that we no longer associate with them.  They may say, “What happened?  We use to be so close? You and your brother were like peas in a pod.  What changed that?”  You may respond, “I know, but God is working things out in my life now.”  The critic, who doesn’t like this new you, might comment, “So he’s doing something in you without me in your life, huh!?  I knew you were taking this God thing too far!  God wouldn’t tell you to cut me off!  You are out of your mind!”   

As you learn more about the things of the Lord each day, you may find that there are a number of challenges that you have to overcome personally and professionally.  If you aren’t mindful of who you are in Christ, the devil could set a trap for you which may put you in a place of despair, resentment, frustration and more!  Unfortunately, it’s during these times when we backslide.  

Some wayward believers, who are supposed to be new creatures in Christ, will carry something ungodly from their former lifestyles in an effort to make them feel better such as the following:  a strong drink, cigarettes, an ungodly man, an immoral woman, legal or illegal drugs, unhealthy food and desserts, Satanic inspired media, overpriced items, a job that isn’t blessed by God, or do other things to ease their pain--at least temporarily.  However, the more and more we get whether righteous or not the more and more we want something else when our flesh is overriding our spiritual self!  There is simply no peace when you are unhappy with self and others.  We forget the Scripture where Jesus states, “Peace, I leave you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you…” (John 14:27).  

When you are feeling most vulnerable, you may find yourself connecting with relatives, friends and acquaintances that are angry, hate-filled individuals, visiting sinful places, or using things that would make your mother question, “Who did I bring into this world?  I know that’s not my child doing those things!”  

Satan brings problem people and problem things into our lives to tempt, because they get us further and further away from God!  To allow the devil’s foolishness to enter our spirits makes us nothing more than fools!  Eccles. 10:3 says this about the fool, “Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to everyone that he is a fool.”

Backsliding moments in the faith can happen at any time!  You may be acting like Jesus in the morning and the devil by evening when you are distant from your Creator.  When this happens, most backsliders, turned re-dedicated believers, will go to God and repent, yet those so-called saintly types (also known as Pharisees in the Bible), who have been observing fellow believers’ slow decline,  won’t have any mercy on poor, wayward Christians.  Instead, they will beat repentant believers up with insulting words about their “supposed” renewed faith whether to their faces or behind their backs.  You quickly learn that the church-going relative or friend you thought you were close to is really nothing more than a foe!  

Think for a minute about an old story of a wolf hiding in sheep’s clothes.  The animal sits back and pretends to be a sheep in order to get his next meal.  There are those around you, who pretend, or suddenly have amnesia about their own mishaps, so that they can feed off of your spiritual energy!  For instance, they may say things like, “Pray for me.  Buy this for me.  Take me here.  Do this for me.”  But when you point out some things that God showed you in the spiritual realm about them, they go into denial.  They don’t want to receive truth! 

All mean-spirited and selfish critics want is for you to be a servant to them, what better time than a holiday season!  If you were to call them out on their ugly behaviors, they would most likely say, “You are reading too much into what I’m doing…I would never hurt you…I know you are trying to get your life together.   I am so over that.  I don’t do that anymore.”  But you may say to yourself, “I don’t have much if anything to give and this person isn’t listening to what I’m saying anyway!  I am struggling to walk with God myself.  Why would some relatives and good friends want to use me?”  The answer to that question is quite simple, because they know they can-- especially if you have a history of doing for them despite all the negativity they have brought to you. 

When you have fallen away from the Lord, you are weak and the enemy is strong.  Wayward believers and hypocrites know this about backsliding religious and spiritual worldly people; therefore, they will use you until they can’t use you anymore!  Trust in the Lord!

Nicholl McGuire is the blog owner and the author of Know Your Enemy the Christian's Critic and Face Your Foe.

YouTuber NM Enterprise7 Speaks Out About Critics, Her Higher Calling, Satanic Opposition - Be Encouraged

After reading comments over the years from "programmed" critics who have felt quite moved by some of the things I have written and spoke about in the past (YouTube channel: nmenterprise7, this blog and other work), I can't help but see the "I am god" programming that some so-called believers have even when the Holy Scriptures minister clearly things like: what is demonic, sinful, righteous, and true.  The self-righteous critics babble on about their ungodly, personal views or those taken from ministers who parade around on stages while breaking bread with oath taking Satan following partners.  How foolish!  Who is the prince of this world?  Yet, believers follow after secular folks with twisted doctrine and then use it to go against the truth that I simply pulled from the scriptures in the Holy Bible and similar versions. 

Many of my foes have not been the unbelievers, they have been pew sitting Christians and independent readers of the Bible that don't do much else, but read--you know the heavenly-minded type that are no earthly good.  These are our true foes and these are the people and others like them that I speak about in Know Your Enemy: The Christian's Critic and those my late grandmother spoke of "busting hell wide open."  She had a prophetic anointing and could speak to issues that you knew and didn't know about while telling you to, "Trust in Jesus" unlike the worldly psychics out there who want you to trust in everyone and anything, but the great Messiah and they definitely aren't telling you to receive His Holy Ghost either!  But that woman of God, who had her share of issues that she gave over to God, was a serious woman of faith and so was the late Evangelist Jackie, a near and dear family friend who started taking me to church with her when I was 19.  But anyway I digress...

You and I deal with foes daily whether seen or unseen.  Those mouth pieces for Satan, double-minded and unstable in all their ways, will talk of what they deem is "dangerous," "disturbing," "bias," "ignorant," and "fairy tales" when we share truth.  Meanwhile they continue to walk with various voices in their heads that keep them up late at night worried, confused and scared or walk amongst men and women fighting hard to appear logical while carrying their share of demonic entities.  Satanic critics will justify, deny, blame, accuse, and gaslight those who hold up a mirror to them and call out the demons within. 

Consider the following scenario.  If I have an unsightly mark on my body and you notice it, and you know I am a stable-minded woman or man of God, I would want you to help me get it off, right?  I am definitely not going to come up with some man-made, philosophical name for it and pretend it is nothing especially if it can be spread to others.  I also wouldn't lie about it and act like it isn't there. Lastly, I wouldn't ask you to support the ugly thing on my body when I know full well I want it off!  I would humble myself and ask, "Would you help me?"  But Satan followers, whether they know or don't know they are spreading his doctrines, are basically doing the total opposite.  What my confused, hurting, and lost critics expect from me is to be quiet about the mark that is on them and do something else.  Rather than argue with these people, who don't recognize sin or refuse to admit that they are walking in sin or are confused about the people and things of God, they prefer to twist Scripture in such a way so that they no longer feel convicted by the evidence and truth I present.  They attempt to lure me into an argument in comment sections and elsewhere so that they can get me to hang myself. 

I do what Jesus did when he walked carrying the cross, I keep silent.  With all due respect, God has me far too busy working on kingdom related business to address people especially in comment sections and elsewhere who have been strategically, mind controlled to believe that they have no sickness like, being double-minded and unstable, and would prefer that God's people use politically correct terms that coddle them and accept any and everything no matter how demonic people, traditions, and things are!  The church has been doing this for years!  Now why would I want to sell out to that mindset and system of thinking?  The paradigm shift (that has occurred over decades) has stopped talking about hell, but leading many who are double-minded straight to hell!

I see the nit-picking over photos I have posted, grammar usage on and off audio, or minute errors made in my work and so the critical eyed one, filled with much tension, guilt and other convicting emotions attempts to make a mountain out of a molehill to discredit the messenger.  I use to be on the side of darkness, so I know better!  My parents didn't believe that it necessary to raise me up in the fear of the Lord and continue studies pass several years in private school (which was another relative's idea not theirs).  So I had over 19 plus years walking with children of darkness.  But praise God for calling and choosing me, so when it comes to truth, well, just like a lawyer presents the evidence to a jury even if it might run the possibility of being thrown out, the truth I have received and presented and continue to do so before the masses wasn't and hasn't been erased from their minds of all who have been seated in the courtroom all these years.  Amen!  The truth sets people free, my dear friends!  Even if it comes out of the mouths of people like me who don't talk, look or walk like what their perception of a pastor, apostle, evangelist, prophet, teacher, and others might be. 

One's personal beliefs has little to do with the evidence that sits before wayward, so-called Jews and Gentiles who love to lie, play pretend, drink, lust, etc. (see Galatians 5).  There is no arguing with a man or woman who prefers to make his or herself feel good about the sin he or she is in by picking apart Christians' works.  One looks guilty when he or she does it--just watch some of these folks a bit and read how they express themselves to look like they know what they are talking about by throwing a few big words here and there.  A discerning believer can see when someone is vulnerable, weak to the flesh, wants to be right (even when he or she is wrong), and is hiding true thoughts about those bible-believing Christians. 

So I say just let the truth convict you rather than fight against it and even if you don't like one word I share and don't believe that the Holy Ghost guides me, then you have the word of God; therefore, read it for yourself.  When I didn't want to believe the people of God, that is what I did.  I sure didn't waste anytime arguing and name-calling that's for sure, since I believed early on for wisdom and wanted very much to put off childish ways.  God has been working within me since I started saying prayers of wisdom back in 1997. 

One final note, my orders from my Lord is not to argue with anyone whether believer or unbeliever.  So if I don't agree and you don't agree, then we will just have to agree to disagree.  My days are too short on this planet to address every issue that people know full well they need to work on privately.  What more needs to be said especially when some of my audios are 30 to 40 minutes long and some blog entries fill up pages in books?  Really, I have said all that I'm supposed to say about the work, conduct your own research.  However, for some individuals, God periodically releases me to talk with them directly or in comment sections, because they are reasonable and He has opened their ears to hear, but this rarely happens.  So work beyond the negative emotions and use them to work toward change.  If you are alright with the Lord, then why be stressed about what anyone says or does?  Sometimes the messages just aren't for all people and other times they are for specific people this is why some get so upset, because God has put them on blast.  I don't know who I'm talking to all the time when I write and record, but the Lord does. 

I am a modern day writer and speaker for a dying world proclaiming to the masses, "Draw near to the Lord.  Do what is right, be saved!  Allow the Holy Ghost to guide you out of your wilderness experiences.  Know that He, the Father, wants a relationship with you.  You still have time before you close your eyes, your family still has time.  God will not be mocked and neither will His people.  He reigns supreme over this wicked land, and Satan's time will expire.  So be encouraged and know that you are not alone and that there are seen as well as unseen godly and ungodly forces at work.  God will move you toward change, listen to his commands, follow His will, allow Him to direct your path!" 

The messages I speak and write about are very personal and this is why demons tremble.  For years they have done many things to keep me from awakening people to truth in many subject areas (Shall I list the times I was emotionally and physically abused, estranged relationships, attempted murder on my life, threats, freak accidents, sudden health ailments, and more?)  but God is keeping me until it is time for me to be called home.

Nicholl McGuire is the author of Know Your Enemy: The Christian's Critic and other books.

When God handles the confrontation for you..."When They Talked About Me"

This audio message provides an up close and personal experience of what God does when people talk about his messengers.  Wicked critics, backsliders, whoremongers, and liars have repeatedly been addressed in the Bible.  Things haven't changed much in our society since the prophets shared God's words centuries ago.  We all must be mindful of those who are working for God and those who are not. 

Critics, Challenges and Spiritual Issues