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Listen "Obey Don't Manipulate by Pastor Shirley Albritton on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025"
Episode Synopsis
Don't Let Manipulation Block Your Blessings
Pastor Shirley Albritton delivers a critical teaching on the spirit of manipulation—a core strategy the enemy uses to hinder believers and wreck relationships. Manipulation is defined as coercive and unethical behavior aimed at controlling another person for personal gain, and it can operate subtly in all areas of life: friendships, marriage, family, and most dangerously, our relationship with God. The enemy's ultimate goal is to sever our intimacy and direct access to the Father, just as he did in the Garden of Eden.
Learn to identify the signs of manipulation and understand that its presence is always a calculated effort to lead you into disobedience and out of God's will.
Here are the key points covered in this message:
-- Manipulation is Coercive and Unethical: It is driven by the goal of exploiting or controlling another person for personal gain. -- The Manipulator is After Something of Value: This value is ultimately your relationship and fellowship with God the Father. -- Learned Behavior: Manipulation is often learned in childhood but is brought into the body of Christ to avoid change and consequences. -- Warning Signs: Be alert to the tactics of manipulation, including guilt-tripping, lying to avoid blame, flattery with a hidden motive, putting on a facade of kindness, moving the goalpost, triangulation (bringing a third party into a two-person issue), love bombing, and isolation. -- The Fruit of Manipulation: The result of manipulation in your life is a place of sorrow, shame, defeat, and a life absent of the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, etc.). -- Counteract with Truth and Obedience: The way to defeat this spirit is by refusing to cohabitate with it, exposing it to the light (tell it!), and committing to obedience to God's word, because "obedience is better than sacrifice." -- For Such a Time As This: Like Esther, we must realize that God has placed us exactly where we are for a purpose. Don't let manipulation lead you to detour from the path of righteousness He has set for you.
Scriptures for Further Study
-- Genesis 3:1-7 -- Deuteronomy 7:6-9 -- Esther 4:8-14 (References to Esther's dilemma and Mordecai's charge)
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Pastor Shirley Albritton delivers a critical teaching on the spirit of manipulation—a core strategy the enemy uses to hinder believers and wreck relationships. Manipulation is defined as coercive and unethical behavior aimed at controlling another person for personal gain, and it can operate subtly in all areas of life: friendships, marriage, family, and most dangerously, our relationship with God. The enemy's ultimate goal is to sever our intimacy and direct access to the Father, just as he did in the Garden of Eden.
Learn to identify the signs of manipulation and understand that its presence is always a calculated effort to lead you into disobedience and out of God's will.
Here are the key points covered in this message:
-- Manipulation is Coercive and Unethical: It is driven by the goal of exploiting or controlling another person for personal gain. -- The Manipulator is After Something of Value: This value is ultimately your relationship and fellowship with God the Father. -- Learned Behavior: Manipulation is often learned in childhood but is brought into the body of Christ to avoid change and consequences. -- Warning Signs: Be alert to the tactics of manipulation, including guilt-tripping, lying to avoid blame, flattery with a hidden motive, putting on a facade of kindness, moving the goalpost, triangulation (bringing a third party into a two-person issue), love bombing, and isolation. -- The Fruit of Manipulation: The result of manipulation in your life is a place of sorrow, shame, defeat, and a life absent of the fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, etc.). -- Counteract with Truth and Obedience: The way to defeat this spirit is by refusing to cohabitate with it, exposing it to the light (tell it!), and committing to obedience to God's word, because "obedience is better than sacrifice." -- For Such a Time As This: Like Esther, we must realize that God has placed us exactly where we are for a purpose. Don't let manipulation lead you to detour from the path of righteousness He has set for you.
Scriptures for Further Study
-- Genesis 3:1-7 -- Deuteronomy 7:6-9 -- Esther 4:8-14 (References to Esther's dilemma and Mordecai's charge)
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Find more information on our website: https://www.saltandlightcovenant.com/
In God we trust