And Songs Of Deliverance in The Night

A few things need to be understood and they are like ground rules to a game.

1. The Devil or De Evil One is just like God He never sleeps!
2. If you have any level of sin within He’s got you where the sun don’t shine.
3. You have a long nights battle for life and the moment you let down your guard, He's Baaaack.
4. He can appear like the very Benevolent Angel of light or God Himself... if you have no discernment you WON’T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
5. He will also be the storm of darkness in the night.
6. He has a plan. Wear you down and wear you out. So you will lose the fight or quit before you ever get anywhere.
7. He will use any means to get at you to cause you to stumble and then He can go in for the kill while you are down.
8. He feeds off your fears and is made stronger. Fear He can use is the type that comes when implicit trust is NOT placed in God’s hands NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE OR WHAT GOD ALLOWS TO BE IN YOUR LIFE.
9. He is ever vigilant and He is the source God uses to redefine our faith and trust in Him as Almighty alone.
10. Sometimes the only way to win the battle is to take the punch.
11. Losing the battle in no way says you have lost the war.
12. He has one of the oldest and best spy networks out there and He’s been tweaking it for as long as their have been people on Earth.
13. He uses tradition to indoctrinate you to commit sin in the name of the Lord and thus you break the commandment that speaks of not taking the Name of the Lord in vain.
14. He does not play fair. He is not above trickery. He will lie about what He knows or exaggerate things to bring them out of proportion and cause you fear and stumble.
15. He will use the Word or Scripture itself to manipulate you into the position of :

All of these are positions in which He can make you stumble, make you have sin within, make you have possession of a lie or cause you to not understand what God wants. And though God alone judges the heart the end result is always the same... you lose the battle.

This is all at the personal level however. Now at the corporate level He has only one plan and being the brilliant military strategist that He is, only God is better, He uses the timeless tradition. DIVIDE AND CONQUER!

But how?

1) Clicks, those small exclusive little groups of all our favorite friends that are our comfort zone among mankind that disallow for others because they are NOT our TYPE.

2) Disagreement that becomes a major issue that divides into camps of opinion.

3) Disagreement that come between friendships cause the old falling out and the arrogance or being right that prevents the friendship from ever being reconciled!

4) Prejudicial assessments of those who do things different from you.

5) Unwillingness to learn about others which is selfishness at its’ best.

6) Unwillingness to communicate with others in a manner that promotes relationship which is also selfishness.

7) Social Preference which is also selfishness.

Clicks leave others out who can contribute to the Body as a whole they also isolate from the whole and thus the Body is deprived the contributions of the click. You see it works both ways. Clicks are a wall. They have no place among the believers for they are a manner of the world.

When there is disagreement pride of opinion steps in and humility like Elvis leaves the building of the heart and a wall of inclusion/ exclusion is built depriving both parties the contribution of the other. Also it deprives the Body as a whole the Glory of conformity to Christ whose disagreement was righteous and greatest yet He humbled Himself and died for mankind anyhow.

Prejudice is NOT just a racial thing. Prejudice is the prejudgment based on first impression or better called a snap judgement, which is usually wrong. A prime example is the history of the prophet. The prophet was hated as holier than thou in BOTH TESTAMENTS! They are stereo typed as holier than all, arrogant, bad news bearers, hard and unbending, and or selfish exclusionists. But most are broken people who cannot for whatever reason become a real part of the Body and are always on its perimeter as watchmen or sheepdogs.

Two of the worst ones though are the very self-centered unwillingness to communicate or in the vernacular "reach out" with others and the ideology of social preferences which by the way is a form of prejudice based on social stereotyping.

The first can have valid causes and sometimes is indicative of hurts unhealed or may ultimately be the result of becoming victimized by the clicking and prejudices of another. The second is usually learned from the community or the family as in racial prejudice. Or can also be the result of a traumatic experience or a bad relationship and sour grapes. Either way you have been divided and Satan can now conquer you.

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