Overcome Satan
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Well, give God glory today, everyone. He is alive. Jesus leads and He guides His sheep. And we need to make sure that we are listening to the good shepherd, because if we are not, the devil quickly will distract us and lead us astray.
There's a couple things I want to share with you about spiritual warfare today, and how to stay close with the Lord. See, I've had one reoccurring dream or thought or vision that comes from the Lord, and I want to share that with you. In my dream, what happens is I am witnessing to someone, or sharing my faith with someone, or singing praises to the Lord, something that is guided by the Holy Spirit. And while I am witnessing to this person or sharing my faith, I see this hedge of demons, and they're blocked by the Holy Spirit. They can't come any closer, but they can sure get close. In my dream, it seems like they are maybe 5 feet away, and this bubbles around me from the Holy Spirit to protect me while I witness to the person I'm speaking to. And while I speak, the demons are all shouting, and they are accusing me, and they're trying to distract me in any way they possibly can. And it's just like this wall of demons that are surrounding me. But as I preach the Gospel, all of those demons start to fade, And I just fade them out by continuing to do the work of the Lord. And it's like the Holy Spirit just puts a wall between me and them to sanctify the time for me to be able to preach the Gospel.
And it reminds me of that song, how it says, turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and the things of Earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace. And when we focus on Jesus in doing His work, the Lord sanctifies that time that nothing can stop us from preaching the Gospel, from doing the Will of the Lord, but we have to stay very focused. It kind of reminds me how in sports, like in baseball, how the batter will be up there, and everyone's yelling at the batter, trying to distract the batter so that he may mess up and miss. And the whole time that he's up to about people are screaming at him, yelling at him, just trying to get him to mess up. But you know that batter, he will stay as focused as he can. he doesn't let any of those people yelling at him face at all, because he's focused on on his sport.
And for us who are serious about Jesus, we have to take Him much more seriously than any sport. We have to focus our eyes on the truth doing His work. And when we do, we can know that the Lord will sanctify our time for the purpose of His kingdom. The Lord makes a way for those who are seeking first righteousness in truth. He doesn't make the way for those who are doing what is evil, seeking their own lusts. But He does make the way for those who want to do His work. When we seek first His kingdom, He will provide all of our needs. We don't have to be seeking about just what we're going to eat, where we're going to live, what we're going to wear, all those things the gentiles worldly people seek after. But our father knows how to provide all those things for us. He knows how to protect us from Satan. And when we do look into His face and choose to do his work, he gives us a focus, a dedication that no demon can hinder. And that's where we need to be to be able to overcome these demons.
A lot of people are so worried, they're always discouraged. You know, satan can easily get them down, but it doesn't bring God any glory for us to always be moping around feeling discouraged, depressed, always feeling sorry for ourselves. Remember how the nation of Israel, they wandered in the wilderness for those 40 years, and they were always discouraged. We don't have enough food. We don't have water. How will we supply for our kids? We don't our shoes are wearing out. There's other nations that are going to attack us. They are always griping and complaining to the leadership that God gave them, that did not bring God any glory. Most of those children of Israel were destroyed in the wilderness by the hand of God because they didn't really repent of their evil. They didn't give God glory, but they were all about themselves. They would have rather went back to Egypt, where they were in bondage and enslaved.
But for us who want to be with the Lord, if we want to overcome Satan and depression and self pity, we have to always be saying the praises of the Lord day and night. Remember how Paul and Silas, even though they were thrown in prison and shackled, they were not in their feeling self pity or moping around. They were singing Praises, Hymn psalms to the Lord, and other prisoners heard them, and it probably made all of the other prisoners curious what kind of joy could possibly be in a man that, even though he's locked up and beaten, could still praise their God. And as we know, there was an earthquake that came, and everyone was able to escape, except they didn't. And even the jailer wanted to listen to the testimony of Paul and Silas, and they quickly shared the gospel with him. It gave them an opportunity to spread the truth. Now, if Paul and Silas were in prison feeling self pity. Do you think that anyone else in that prison would have wanted to know their God? Would there have been an earthquake? Would they have had the chance to witness, even to the prison guard or the jailer and win him and his family into the Kingdom of God?
I don't think so. So depending on your attitude, it will depend how much the Lord can use you. Your faith will grow when you choose to sing the Lords praises and continue to have his songs on your lips. No matter what trial or tribulation you're going through. We have to learn to have the joy of the Lord in our life, no matter how hard the circumstance. That doesn't mean that we will always just have a smile on our face. Obviously, Jesus did not have a smile on his face bearing His cross to cavalry. But He did do it because He had the joy of His father in His heart. And we also have to have the same attitude of Jesus Christ always. We need to be giving Him glory, saying, whatever my father in heaven wills that I want to do. And no matter what comes our way, we need to continue to praise the Lord, sing His praises.
And in so doing, He will bless us. He will empower us. He will give us the wings like the eagle to continue to go forward. So anyways, I hope this encourages someone to really continue in the faith, and not to be discouraged, and to pray in Spirit and in truth. Because when we resist Satan and when we pray in Spirit, then the devil will flee from us. But we have to be serious to rebuke Satan. We have to be serious to stand in the light of the truth with Jesus. And when we draw close to the Lord through His Holy Spirit, He draws close to us, and He continues to protect us and empower us to do His work. So stay close to Jesus and do what is right. Have feet that are quick to run, to obey and stay far away from what you know is wrong and evil and against God. May the grace of Jesus be with you.
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