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| Satan's Deception | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| You be the judge... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "How shall we do this?", shouted his angels. "Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then, borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives they must work outside the home and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, the VCR and their CD's going constantly in their homes. Also, see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues, every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products, services and false hopes." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts, and movies instead. Then, and this is very important, when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| "Let them be involved in soul-winning, but crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for the good of the cause." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It was quite a convention in the end. The evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Has the devil been sucessful at his scheme? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| You be the judge! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sometimes we must slow down to be able to hear God's voice. We must not let ourselves become so busy that we can't stop to hear what He has to say to us. |
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| Satan does not want us to form a close, intimate relationship with God, for when we do, it is harder for him to get at us. Therefore, he will do everything in his power to keep us so busy that we have no time to spend seeking God. If we neglect "quality time" with God, then we just become "religious" and if we are not careful we will find ourselves "Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." 2 Timothy 3:5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Do not let Satan rob you of time with God. Seek Him with all your heart for... "Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart." Psalms 119:2 |
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