The attacks of Satan are hideous!
Do we recognize them for what they are?
Just today I was talking to someone who was telling me about a few problems they were having and I told them, that's Satan, it's not you. And again a short bit later I told them, that's Satan, not that person who is bothering you. Satan USES us and he USES others we HAVE to recognize the SOURCE. We have to recognize the true power of Satan because only then can we really love others and in loving them, forgive them. We can seek forgiveness from God for our sins and then we need to forgive ourselves but we can only do that if we believe we are lovable and we can't be lovable if we believe we are the source of sin. Yes, we choose to sin, but we have a tempter! No, we can't use the tempter as an excuse to sin. The devil made me do it, doesn't cut it, not in reality. Eve used that excuse and she did not escape the guilt or the sin of her actions. While we cannot use the tempter as an excuse we can recognize that the source of our own sin stems from him and no other. He wants us to sin. He loves when we sin. He is real.
The sweet old lady who pulled out in front of you as you were driving down the road causing you to slam on your brakes and spill your coffee, could she have been used by Satan? You don't want to think so, we never want to believe that sweet people can be influenced by something evil. I'm not saying that sweet old lady is Satan, or a Devil worshipper, or even deliberately allowing herself to be used by the evil one. But Satan who can transform himself into an angel of light, who can cause his evil fallen angel followers to possess human beings and cause all manner of illnesses, this POWERFUL being can surely cause an old lady to become distracted for a moment and that moment is all it would take for her to pull out in front of you.
Things happen and Satan is truly behind all the evil in some way, shape, or form.
How could we truly love someone who has hurt us to our very core if we believe their evil towards us comes from some inner evil they possess all on their own? How could our God love us in our own sins if we were not influenced, but evil of our own accord? Do you think Satan will be forgiven? He won't. He made his choice to introduce evil and yes, it was his choice it wasn't forced upon him. He not only made the choice to introduce sin, he encouraged many others of his kind, angels, to sin along with him.
Satan will be completely and utterly destroyed after his punishment is fulfilled and God alone knows the severity of that punishment.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Satan cannot be forgiven, he had his chance, he made his choice just like EVERYONE Of us will make our CHOICE for or against LOVE, and that LOVE is GOD, and against LOVE is Satan.
Satan's sole purpose is to get as many of us human beings to follow him as possible and in anyway possible.
Yesterday I was immersed in a vat of boiling Satan fire, and praise be to God that He in His wisdom is using that fire to purify me! Is it pleasant? NO. But the prayers and love that have been directed to God on my behalf have done wonders as only they can.
Please LORD help me, help us, guide us, open our eyes and our hearts to all we need to know in YOU.
1Pe_4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you
This is so true, we are to go through many, many fiery trails and we can't think that it's a strange thing, but rather an opportunity all by the grace of God to teach us, to refine us.
Our study lately has been and will be for as long as is necessary on the following...
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Praise you LORD for helping me, for working in me to humble me, for me to humble myself in the sight of YOU LORD, and PRAISE to YOUR NAME for LIFTING ME UP!
I love you LORD, I love you so much!
All Glory to God!
Do we recognize them for what they are?
Just today I was talking to someone who was telling me about a few problems they were having and I told them, that's Satan, it's not you. And again a short bit later I told them, that's Satan, not that person who is bothering you. Satan USES us and he USES others we HAVE to recognize the SOURCE. We have to recognize the true power of Satan because only then can we really love others and in loving them, forgive them. We can seek forgiveness from God for our sins and then we need to forgive ourselves but we can only do that if we believe we are lovable and we can't be lovable if we believe we are the source of sin. Yes, we choose to sin, but we have a tempter! No, we can't use the tempter as an excuse to sin. The devil made me do it, doesn't cut it, not in reality. Eve used that excuse and she did not escape the guilt or the sin of her actions. While we cannot use the tempter as an excuse we can recognize that the source of our own sin stems from him and no other. He wants us to sin. He loves when we sin. He is real.
The sweet old lady who pulled out in front of you as you were driving down the road causing you to slam on your brakes and spill your coffee, could she have been used by Satan? You don't want to think so, we never want to believe that sweet people can be influenced by something evil. I'm not saying that sweet old lady is Satan, or a Devil worshipper, or even deliberately allowing herself to be used by the evil one. But Satan who can transform himself into an angel of light, who can cause his evil fallen angel followers to possess human beings and cause all manner of illnesses, this POWERFUL being can surely cause an old lady to become distracted for a moment and that moment is all it would take for her to pull out in front of you.
Things happen and Satan is truly behind all the evil in some way, shape, or form.
How could we truly love someone who has hurt us to our very core if we believe their evil towards us comes from some inner evil they possess all on their own? How could our God love us in our own sins if we were not influenced, but evil of our own accord? Do you think Satan will be forgiven? He won't. He made his choice to introduce evil and yes, it was his choice it wasn't forced upon him. He not only made the choice to introduce sin, he encouraged many others of his kind, angels, to sin along with him.
Satan will be completely and utterly destroyed after his punishment is fulfilled and God alone knows the severity of that punishment.
Rev 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Satan cannot be forgiven, he had his chance, he made his choice just like EVERYONE Of us will make our CHOICE for or against LOVE, and that LOVE is GOD, and against LOVE is Satan.
Satan's sole purpose is to get as many of us human beings to follow him as possible and in anyway possible.
Yesterday I was immersed in a vat of boiling Satan fire, and praise be to God that He in His wisdom is using that fire to purify me! Is it pleasant? NO. But the prayers and love that have been directed to God on my behalf have done wonders as only they can.
Please LORD help me, help us, guide us, open our eyes and our hearts to all we need to know in YOU.
1Pe_4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you
This is so true, we are to go through many, many fiery trails and we can't think that it's a strange thing, but rather an opportunity all by the grace of God to teach us, to refine us.
Our study lately has been and will be for as long as is necessary on the following...
Jas 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Jas 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Jas 4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
Jas 4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Jas 4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Jas 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
Praise you LORD for helping me, for working in me to humble me, for me to humble myself in the sight of YOU LORD, and PRAISE to YOUR NAME for LIFTING ME UP!
I love you LORD, I love you so much!
All Glory to God!
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