In your own life, are there times when you experience storms racing through your mind? Then the storms go away, only to come back again, and again, and again?
This event is called "spiritual warfare", which means that the Devil is fighting for supremacy of your mind; for if the Devil can control your mind, he will also control your emotions, and even your will. He is creating a distraction between you and God, causing you to dwell on the storm instead of focusing your attention to God because the Devil wants to destroy your peace as well as your success and your walk with Christ.
The children of the Devil are masters of deception and manipulation. They are also cunning, sly, and sneaky. Their desire is to have their own way, and if you are standing between them and their desire to control situations, you become their enemy and they will direct their wrath toward you as if you are the problem. They point their fingers toward the wrongs of others, but they never point their fingers at their own chest.
The children of the Devil can include church people, or people who claim to be Christians because of their devotion to their "Christian" religion. But if they never use their voices to uplift the name of Christ, what does this say about them? It means that they are like Judas Iscariot, for they are self-serving: for their only interest in life is themselves. And all they will ever say about Christ, or about Christian books, is noisy nonsense, for they are deceivers. They do not like Christian music, and the Bible is never on their reading list.
The children of the Devil will keep coming back into your life--again, and again, and again---and with them comes the storms that race through your mind, for their desire is to control you in order for them to get what they desire to get. And even when you are away from them, the Devil can still use these experiences to ignite a storm in your mind; for at times these storms can feel like a panic attack.
The children of the Devil are relentless in their desire to have their own way. If you resist them, they will throw anger or guilt in your face.
The children of the Devil are like unruly and undisciplined kids. They act like they own the sandbox and you are not welcome to play with them unless you agree to play by their rules.
As Christians, we are surrounded by children of the Devil. They are in our communities, in our neighborhoods, in our places of work, and even in our own families. They are walking the streets where we live. Many sit on pews in churches, pretending to know Christ. Some are standing in pulpits, pretending to be ministers and priests of God.
Children of the Devil never go away and leave people alone. They are constant trouble-makers, always stirring the peace we have with their noisy ways.
Like toddlers, children of the Devil are in constant need of attention. They like the spotlight. They like to believe that all eyes are on them when they enter various arenas. They like to be told how much they are appreciated, or how wonderful they are to others.
Children of the Devil will work to drive wedges between married couples, pulling the husband or the wife apart from the other because of their jealousy, envy, and their thirst to control either the husband or the wife because they want the undivided attention from one of the married partners---just as the Devil works to divide people from people within churches.
Spiritual warfare is a raging storm that flows through our lives. It is an invisible war because it is fought within our own minds. It can ignite our emotions, especially anger. It can be difficult to understand.
Children of the Devil live to please themselves, and, by pleasing themselves, they are also pleasing unto the Devil; for even the Devil knows they are not pleasing unto God while the Devil laughs at them in their arrogant ignorance of God: for neither do they know that the Devil is influencing their behavior.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Corinthians 4: 3-4)
This event is called "spiritual warfare", which means that the Devil is fighting for supremacy of your mind; for if the Devil can control your mind, he will also control your emotions, and even your will. He is creating a distraction between you and God, causing you to dwell on the storm instead of focusing your attention to God because the Devil wants to destroy your peace as well as your success and your walk with Christ.
The children of the Devil are masters of deception and manipulation. They are also cunning, sly, and sneaky. Their desire is to have their own way, and if you are standing between them and their desire to control situations, you become their enemy and they will direct their wrath toward you as if you are the problem. They point their fingers toward the wrongs of others, but they never point their fingers at their own chest.
The children of the Devil can include church people, or people who claim to be Christians because of their devotion to their "Christian" religion. But if they never use their voices to uplift the name of Christ, what does this say about them? It means that they are like Judas Iscariot, for they are self-serving: for their only interest in life is themselves. And all they will ever say about Christ, or about Christian books, is noisy nonsense, for they are deceivers. They do not like Christian music, and the Bible is never on their reading list.
The children of the Devil will keep coming back into your life--again, and again, and again---and with them comes the storms that race through your mind, for their desire is to control you in order for them to get what they desire to get. And even when you are away from them, the Devil can still use these experiences to ignite a storm in your mind; for at times these storms can feel like a panic attack.
The children of the Devil are relentless in their desire to have their own way. If you resist them, they will throw anger or guilt in your face.
The children of the Devil are like unruly and undisciplined kids. They act like they own the sandbox and you are not welcome to play with them unless you agree to play by their rules.
As Christians, we are surrounded by children of the Devil. They are in our communities, in our neighborhoods, in our places of work, and even in our own families. They are walking the streets where we live. Many sit on pews in churches, pretending to know Christ. Some are standing in pulpits, pretending to be ministers and priests of God.
Children of the Devil never go away and leave people alone. They are constant trouble-makers, always stirring the peace we have with their noisy ways.
Like toddlers, children of the Devil are in constant need of attention. They like the spotlight. They like to believe that all eyes are on them when they enter various arenas. They like to be told how much they are appreciated, or how wonderful they are to others.
Children of the Devil will work to drive wedges between married couples, pulling the husband or the wife apart from the other because of their jealousy, envy, and their thirst to control either the husband or the wife because they want the undivided attention from one of the married partners---just as the Devil works to divide people from people within churches.
Spiritual warfare is a raging storm that flows through our lives. It is an invisible war because it is fought within our own minds. It can ignite our emotions, especially anger. It can be difficult to understand.
Children of the Devil live to please themselves, and, by pleasing themselves, they are also pleasing unto the Devil; for even the Devil knows they are not pleasing unto God while the Devil laughs at them in their arrogant ignorance of God: for neither do they know that the Devil is influencing their behavior.
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. (2 Corinthians 4: 3-4)
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