I just had a good talk with my mom. She is a very spiritual woman, so I get a bit of heck from her when I'm on the computer, and I start giving attitude. She is very much into the prophetic and what God has for Canada's future as a nation which in a whole other issue in itself. But anyway, she picks up on all spirits, good and bad, and often knows what to do when something is wrong, because it is usually, no, always tied into the spirit. Now, I have to be careful here, I don't want to make my mom look like a cultist that can talk to the dead and all that garbage, but I am saying she is a very strong Christian, with a strong relationship with God, so she knows what to do when she sees the dark spirits about and in me when I open myself up to the wrong things on the computer. I'll admit, I let the computer take hold of me and dominate my priorities. There are a lot of times when I fight the tug of the spirit to when I want to go on the computer for my own personal free time. But it's not so much the computer in general, but what I do on the computer. Sometimes, it's playing games that I am just not supposed to be doing, but others, I shouldn't be on the computer at all and be in the word or something that is feeding my spirit. When I am doing ignoring the spirit, I get edgy and irritable, and that's where the attitude comes in. It's at this point that my mom often intervenes, when she senses something wrong within my own spirit. All she'll do is just not let me on the computer and t.v. and then talk to me. Ask me about what's going on inside me. At first, I don't like to answer at all, but my heart eventually softens, and opens up to what God is saying through her. There have been times when I have just not wanted to listen to her at all, an I will totally shut myself out, and that when her spirit rises up. She fights hard spiritually for, not just me, but for all my brothers and sisters. She doesn't let the devil take any ground in our lives, period. I am sooooooo thankful that I have her for a mom, and I'm going to take this opportunity to thank her for everything. Thanks mom!!! I love you! -Altaran

I am a very hyper sort of person. I have trouble for keeping focus on anything for too long. Some would say that I have ADD, but I rebuke that in Jesus name. It is the devil trying to keep me from my task and trying to screw up my priorities, which can get really messed sometimes. That's when I start to go weeks, or even months, without spending time with God in any way. Sometimes, when I fell Jesus knocking on the door of my spirit saying, "um, hello, what about me?", I try to get out of it by giving the excuse that whenever I try to spend time with him, I get distracted, and there is no point in trying. And it is true, I do get distracted a lot when I pray, but again, I am not going to blame that on some mental condition and take drugs for it. I know, like I said before, it is simply the devil getting into my head and messing with my thoughts so that it is difficult for me to concentrate on what God is speaking to me. The solution? I Keep at it, keep going before God, the longer you spend in prayer, pressing into him, the less and less the devil can do anything. "Rebuke the devil and he will flee", the bible says, I stand on that. I Say it out loud, repeat it in my head. We know that the devil can't be where ever Jesus is. I Continuously say the name of Jesus, whether it be in my head, or out loud. The thoughts do eventually settle. I just keep at it!! I should, and probably will do a proper article on this. -Altaran

Distrations from our prayer life can be nast things, but not all thought that come to us while we are praying are from the devil. Some are sent to by God to pray about. So how do we know where are our thoughts are coming from? Ask God about it, what are our thoughts about, are they in any way Godly, is it an issue to be prayed for? Mainly, pray for spiritual discernment, the gift to be able to tell what is of God, and what is not. Now, not all distractions are purely thought-based. The computer is a distracton for me. Distractions are anything that come between you and God). So, like I like to allways say...KEEP AT IT!!! -Altaran