Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

term friend, who encountered so many attacks of the enemy at one time that I wondered how one man could stand under the pressure. While under the pressure, he turned to fleshly ways to handle the stress and found himself divorced and bound by alcohol. Being a noted minister, the negative press releases only added to the guilt and condemnation. One day I was speaking to a close friend of his, who said, “He is so ridden with the guilt and condemnation of his past that he is unable to forgive himself.” That is the result of condemnation. Condemnation does not always tell you that God cannot hear your prayer, but it makes you feel that you are not worthy to pray. One of the greatest battles for a woman who has had an abortion or a man who has had an extramarital affair is being able to forgive herself or himself for the failure. John indicated that if we have condemnation in our heart, we have no confidence in our prayer, and we doubt that God is hearing us. This doubt transmits into unbelief. Any prayer prayed in unbelief cannot be answered, because the road to answered prayer is paved from heaven to earth by faith. Condemnation is possible because we are unable to forget in the manner God forgets. Once we have been forgiven, the Almighty remembers our sins no more. Humans, however, not only can remember what was done, but they also can recall the details of the actions and words. This inability to erase the memories from the computer mainframe of the human intellect becomes a snare of entrapment for your own thoughts. Mental recall is certainly a gift from the Creator. Without this