Most people, Christians included, live as if Satan isn't real and that's what Satan wants us to believe. What if you’re wrong? What if, Satan is real? I believe Satan is real and once you get down to it and I mean really study it, you will too, for it’s all in the bible. If you don’t believe the bible, you probably don’t believe in Satan. Just because you don’t believe it, doesn’t make it not so.
The bible tells us to recognise there is an enemy and yet we go about our business, not thinking, or realizing the enemy is with us all the time, seeking us out like a roaring lion, wanting to kill, steal and destroy.
The subtleties of Satan are never ending and Satan would love nothing greater than to cause you to leave your faith. Don’t be deceived. Things will arise that try to keep you from God and Satan is the instigator of this. God sometimes even allows Satan to work in our lives; hence the biblical story of Job.
Arguments and friction in the home, is Satan’s ability to get right into your safe sanctuary and any kingdom divided, cannot stand. Your home is your kingdom, your domain. And it spreads. It starts with you and your significant other yelling and this might go on for years, then you’ll notice your children yelling.
The children yell at each other first and then at you and your significant other and from there it spreads to other family members and friends and eventually the cycle repeats, as your children become parents. A house divided is not going to stand.
Remember, it didn’t start out this way. You and your partner got together because you loved each other. You overlooked each other’s faults and yet now, you can no longer overlook. Harsh words are spoken, anger comes to the for and the house is divided.
Christians are especially vulnerable, because Satan wants to block everything you do, that might cause you to feel secure in God. He’ll try all the harder, if he thinks he can bring you to the point of not attending church.
Jesus preached repentance, for the kingdom of God is at hand. If you and your partner pray and get serious about your faith, the rift can be healed. And don’t think it was by your hand. You prayed. God answered.
The bible also talks about demon possession. Does this happen today…yes it can. If you spend time with God every day, it’s less likely for you to become demon possessed. You don’t just become demon possessed; you’re owned by God so a Christian can’t be demon possessed, unless he/she opens the door to it, in some way.
You have to allow and invite Satan into your life. This can be done through Ouija boards and tarot cards. Even if this was done in your past. Even if this was done through your history and family line. If this has been an entry point for the devil to gain a foothold, you need to repent of it and ask forgiveness from God.
Normal every day people who have nothing to do with Satan, or God, don’t often get demon possessed. Satan isn’t worried about them, he’s worried about you, the Christian. He wants to stop you from your progression, into God’s army.
Satan wants to be lord of the earth and he knows you can stop him, by your faith. He doesn’t want to see that happen. So it’s doubly important for him to sway your beliefs, anyway he can.
It’s also when you dabble into other wrong things, Satan can enter into your life. Pornography, drugs, alcohol addiction, theft, lying. These are all entry points for Satan to bring you down and cause your faith to fracture.
Satan’s cunning. He pretends to be a lamb, all the while being the wolf. Deceit is his thing. Right from the beginning, in Genesis, he used deceit to trick Adam and Eve and his methods haven’t changed much over the years.
You need to know your bible. It’s easy to become prey to false teaching. The bible is the best way to learn about God. When you read it for yourself, God opens up scripture to you and you learn there’s layers to be peeled back. This is why we meditate on the word.
When we meditate on the word, we don’t empty our mind, as that allows room for something else to enter. When we meditate on the word, we pick a scripture and play it over and over and God illuminates the meaning further for us.
You can have revelation on one passage today and read that same passage another day and get a further and deeper revelation. Yes, if you’re busy, by all means you can watch you tube, while you cook dinner, or listen to a message while you get in some exercise and gain insight through it, but there’s really nothing like the bible for opening up God’s word.
What you put into your mind grows. Grow good thoughts; good thoughts towards yourself, and towards others. Dark thoughts crush you, mentally. Replaying music of harm and death, seeps into your soul. Songs of joy, enlighten the mind and that’s what we should be working towards.
Don’t give Satan a foothold into your life, through your senses, of seeing and hearing. Don’t think it’s all harmless fun, because it isn’t. In the long run, it really isn’t. And the "long run” is the approach we should take to life, because we’re here for 80, or so years and those years go by quite fast.
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