THE BEST RESPONSE TO PEOPLE WHO TRY TO PROVOKE YOU IS OFTEN NO RESPONSE  People who have demons (including unhealed Christians) love to provoke you to get you angry and then point their finger at you blaming you for losing it because they love the power rush of feeling that they can control you to make you get angry, raise your voice and yell at them.  It takes a spiritually strong person to simply not respond and walk away when someone provokes you. The key is not to stay in the same room forever when the person begins to provoke you because their demons are very cunning and adept at knowing exactly what to say to you to hurt you and get you angry and cause you to want to explode on them and then you come out looking like the bad guy or girl.  So what does the Bible say to do when someone tries to push you into an argument or dispute? 2 Timothy 2:23-26 NKJV “But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting…

WOUNDED PEOPLE PROVOKE OTHERS TO STEAL THEIR PEACE When we get hurt and wounded growing up and aren’t able to forgive those who hurt us from our hearts then we will trigger on our current relationships. We will overreact, get angry, feel jealous, act like we are the victim, behave in ungodly ways, and then provoke and blame our spouse, children or others closest to us. Demons will give us thoughts to provoke people to cause them not to have peace and in order to get a reaction out of them. People who provoke others want their targeted victims to get angry and respond back in more hostile words or behaviors so they can point their finger at them and blame them instead of taking responsibility for initiating the attack. It allows them to have a level of satisfaction of controlling them to get them to lose control of their emotions and then blame them. The demons within them want the initiator of the attack to never admit that they started the fight and were the aggressor so then they can blame the responder for their reaction and portray themselves as the victim. Many who respond are exasperated because the…