I can see that your defensiveness is certainly not going to help your friend. So I'll continue praying for GOD'S PERFECT will for her life--and for yours.

Yes, you are right, God didn't give us a spirit of fear, but of SOUND mind.

And yes, you are right, demons do fight against us, but walking in the flesh exposes us to them more than anything else will. The fight against demonic power in the Spirit is against the LIES OF SATAN. But when we walk in self will, we have unnecessarily exposed ourselves to those demons--that's why I talked about tempting God.

There isn't much prayer here because this entire board gets little traffic.

And your quoting the love verse of Paul's is futile. I said all of that BECAUSE of love since I see by your posts that her suffering is much more than from persecution. There is a lot more to the story than you let on I suspect as well. I also believe that you are purposely obscuring what type of Christianity you practice because you don't care for it to be questioned if it were in error. I can see by your resistance that there is much more going on here than that of which you speak.

No matter. I can freely pray regardless for God's perfect will for the BOTH of you. Surely, we will pray, but it does no good to either of you to not address what seems to be awry with the both of you. That is dishonest on your part, and as well, serves no good to your friend.