Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

health (Job 1–2). Job’s troubles were then judged by three friends, each giving his own opinion of the reasons for Job’s losses (Job 2:11; 32:1–5). If trouble comes in threes, then spiritual authority and unity are increased when three agree. Solomon alluded to this in a rather poetic manner when he wrote, “Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken” (Eccles. 4:12). It was Christ who said that if two or three were gathered in His name, He would be in their midst (Matt. 18:20). Actually, there are three main methods in which trouble manifests: 1. Self-invited trouble, which is created by personal actions and wrong decisions you make 2. Uninvited trouble, which comes as a result of outside people or situations that were unseen and unknown 3. Natural trouble, caused by a storm, tornado, flood, drought, volcano, earthquake, or other natural disaster Uninvited trouble is what Job endured when he was targeted by Satan, an uninvited intruder (Job 1:1–12; 2:1–7). Trouble impacts us both within and without . In 2 Corinthians 11 the apostle Paul lists twenty-two different situations that were the result of evil or wicked men persecuting him or of circumstances that caused difficulty in his global travels. He called these “things that are without” (v. 28, KJV ). In the same verse he then spoke of the “care of all the churches,” which would have been situations from within . Our within problems