Satan is the king of deception!!!! He can make a lie look and feel so much like the truth!!! I have believed his deception so many times you would think that I would be able to spot his trash talk by now...not so!! I hate lie's and I hate Satan!!!
Satan gets in our heads and whispers things to us in such a way that we can't tell it is him doing the whispering!!! He tells me things like...I am not good at my job....my husband is going to leave me like my first husband did...I'm not smart enough at 52 to get my degree....I don't need to read my bible because I have gone to church all my life and I "know" everything there is to know about being a good christian...I'm too fat...I'm not a good mother...on and on it goes!!! Have you ever heard these whispers in your head...I know I am not the only one!!!
These lies become so real to me that I begin to doubt myself...my marriage and even God! For this very reason I am constantly asking the Holy Spirit to protect me from Satan and his lying mouth and to help me discern the Truth from the lies!!!
In Ephesians 6:11 the bible tells us to "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes." We have to protect ourselves from the lies that Satan is constantly whispering to us...trying to get us to believe them as "truth"!
In verse 14 of that same chapter Paul tells us "Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist,...." The only way I can know the truth is for me to be in Gods word...constantly seeking to know Jesus and His ways. If I have the"belt of truth" buckled around me I am going to be able to know the whisperings of Jesus over the whisperings of Satan. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!!!
On several occasions, I have felt Satan's voice be louder than that of God's. I have had to say aloud "Satan get thee behind me"!!! I have actually told Satan to leave me alone that I don't believe what he is telling me!!! I believe that we have to rebuke Satan and sometimes we have to do that out loud so that we hear ourselves say it and so that Satan knows we mean it. I also have to stay in God's word so that I know Jesus and know and hear God's voice over Satan's!!!
When we draw near to God the whisperings of Satan grow softer and softer and God's voice grows stronger and stronger!!!
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