We must understand our enemy and how he operates. He works his way in our mind through our thoughts. But then those thoughts are not our thoughts but satan's words. The words that keep pushing us to do something are not divine. God never pushes! he moves one's heart. We must learn to discern our thoughts and enemy's words. For that we have a ready referral, Bible- The word of God.
How do women know the utensils of their home? how can they pick out one tiny spoon of all and announce, 'it is not ours'? Because they know what they have and how it appears.
Our enemy is like a thief who won't make any sound when he enters your property and if you are not alert, he may even get away with your valuables and it may be too late to realize it. This is why Jesus said stay awake for the time is near, be alert, do not sleep, do not slumber, mend the broken walls, so that, the foxes do not enter the vineyard. We should be alert since we are now spiritual beings right from the moment we received the Holy Spirit. Because this is the silver coin given to us. Do we hide it and wait for the Master to return? or do we spread more and increase what we received? The time is neigh stay on guard.
Do not let the enemy influence you. Learn to defend against him, learn to resist. Realize those thoughts which makes you repent later. Know which is not good, so that, you may get away from it. Because the enemy tries to blend his words in your thoughts by covering it with a false appearance of Just and Right. It's only when you have yielded that you realize that what you did may not have been good. But before you are able to confirm your doubt, he again puts more words of justification to your actions. But if we are asked not to judge others, how can we judge ourselves? Since Jesus Christ is the perfect judge.
And if you are confirmed in your doubt the enemy puts loads of guilt on you. So that, your thoughts take a complete new turn and you begin to feel all those things about yourself which you are not. You start considering yourself bad. you consider yourself the worst of the sinners to have lived. Hence, the enemy says the punishment of one crime is the same as is, for a number of. And it begins to justify all you do. Now everything right is turning out to be either difficult to execute or utter foolishness(not your thoughts but the enemy's).
The enemy keeps pouring more and more of his words in our mind until it is flooded and then we begin to sink in it. We are not able to cry for help, why?! because this would mean to deny yourself of what you have been doing till now. We are almost dead but try to keep our(selves) alive through our dead work. Our false image which has been created with the assistance of the enemy without us realizing who is working in our quarters.
Now the enemy plays his final tune and helps you live a dual life, one for the world one for your(self). The enemy makes it so easy that living for Jesus Christ becomes the most impossible task. The enemy says, why to die when you can live?! He assures you that it is alright to drink of both the cups, from God's and as well of the world of his. After all, you are mere human you cannot help it, you can only do what is in your capacity and only what seems possible. Since you are mere human, its alright to feel what you feel, its alright to react how you react. As the enemy said, it is alright to eat the apple! because only after you have eaten it will you know the pleasures and power of it, the satisfaction it fills you with. So he pushes more and tells you, "Go ahead and eat surely you shall not die, instead be transformed, God like", i.e., a better you the best you. God gave you free will, have you chosen to get influenced?
How do women know the utensils of their home? how can they pick out one tiny spoon of all and announce, 'it is not ours'? Because they know what they have and how it appears.
Our enemy is like a thief who won't make any sound when he enters your property and if you are not alert, he may even get away with your valuables and it may be too late to realize it. This is why Jesus said stay awake for the time is near, be alert, do not sleep, do not slumber, mend the broken walls, so that, the foxes do not enter the vineyard. We should be alert since we are now spiritual beings right from the moment we received the Holy Spirit. Because this is the silver coin given to us. Do we hide it and wait for the Master to return? or do we spread more and increase what we received? The time is neigh stay on guard.
Do not let the enemy influence you. Learn to defend against him, learn to resist. Realize those thoughts which makes you repent later. Know which is not good, so that, you may get away from it. Because the enemy tries to blend his words in your thoughts by covering it with a false appearance of Just and Right. It's only when you have yielded that you realize that what you did may not have been good. But before you are able to confirm your doubt, he again puts more words of justification to your actions. But if we are asked not to judge others, how can we judge ourselves? Since Jesus Christ is the perfect judge.
And if you are confirmed in your doubt the enemy puts loads of guilt on you. So that, your thoughts take a complete new turn and you begin to feel all those things about yourself which you are not. You start considering yourself bad. you consider yourself the worst of the sinners to have lived. Hence, the enemy says the punishment of one crime is the same as is, for a number of. And it begins to justify all you do. Now everything right is turning out to be either difficult to execute or utter foolishness(not your thoughts but the enemy's).
The enemy keeps pouring more and more of his words in our mind until it is flooded and then we begin to sink in it. We are not able to cry for help, why?! because this would mean to deny yourself of what you have been doing till now. We are almost dead but try to keep our(selves) alive through our dead work. Our false image which has been created with the assistance of the enemy without us realizing who is working in our quarters.
Now the enemy plays his final tune and helps you live a dual life, one for the world one for your(self). The enemy makes it so easy that living for Jesus Christ becomes the most impossible task. The enemy says, why to die when you can live?! He assures you that it is alright to drink of both the cups, from God's and as well of the world of his. After all, you are mere human you cannot help it, you can only do what is in your capacity and only what seems possible. Since you are mere human, its alright to feel what you feel, its alright to react how you react. As the enemy said, it is alright to eat the apple! because only after you have eaten it will you know the pleasures and power of it, the satisfaction it fills you with. So he pushes more and tells you, "Go ahead and eat surely you shall not die, instead be transformed, God like", i.e., a better you the best you. God gave you free will, have you chosen to get influenced?
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