Kingdom Secrets! 8

Going back over our journey with the farmer
and his seed please remember that Satan comes against you, not because you have
sinned, but because you have heard the Voice of Jesus and have taken what He
says into your heart – or into your thought processes.

His war with you is not about whether or
not you sin, he is concerned with what the Word of God wants to do within you.
Satan needs to keep you in a position where you remain blissfully unaware of
the fact that you have been forgiven and as a result have access to everything
that God has for you. He also only has one form of attack that he can use
against you and those are the circumstances of your life. He will use and
create circumstances that will challenge the Voice of God in your heart.

Jesus said that the purpose of the parables
is to get you to THINK! The degree to which you think about what Jesus is
saying, is the degree to which the kingdom of heaven operates in your life.
Also, as you begin to perceive and understand what He is saying in your
conscious mind, you will know His forgiveness and walk in it.

Knowing His forgiveness and that His
purpose for dying was so that He could purify you from all sin is the power of
God that will transform your life. Satan needs to keep you identified with your
sin. For as long as you identify yourself with sin, Satan will have dominion
over you. This is not God’s fault. He has sent His Word to you and it is your
responsibility to take it and to produce fruit, or change, in your own life and
world.

If Satan fails in his first and second
attempts to steal the word from your thoughts, he will come again with his
third strategy. His first is to keep your mind occupied with general thoughts
that cause you not to pay any attention to what you are hearing. This is the
easiest thing for him. If that does not work, he will get someone to verbally
attack you about your faith in Jesus and make you feel unworthy. If he can
manage that he has nothing further to worry about.

However, if you continue in your faith in
God even though you have been persecuted, he will have to work harder. These
strategies may take longer and be harder for him to put together, but he will.
He will use adverse circumstances to arouse your thoughts to being worried
about the future, about your finances, and about the things you think you need
to have. All these thoughts are rooted in being considered “acceptable” by the
dictates of this world. If he can get you to judge your life according to what
this world considers acceptable, He will effectively cause the Word of God to
be unproductive because your attention will be on your life instead of on
Jesus.

The temptations that this world throws at
us are very powerful. Do not underestimate the power behind the temptation to
conform to that which the world dictates. We all have a desire to be
acceptable, to look good, to have money, to be admired and successful. The
acceptance of the world is very dominating in our thought processes and if we
feel like we are not acceptable it is easy for Satan to defeat us.

Now, defeat does not always look like
sickness, disease and poverty. These are easy to recognise and to judge. How
many times have you felt judged by others because you are sick, or have no
money, or seem to be failing in some or other way? Be careful, Satan is
standing behind those circumstances and he is waiting for you to accept that
you are somehow guilty of sin and NOT FORGIVEN! This is not true! YOU ARE
FORGIVEN!

There is one of two things that you can do
when you face these kinds of trials. One is to accept them believing that you
have done something wrong and that God is not pleased with you. Beware, there
are many sermons out there to convince you that you opened the door to the
devil because of something you did wrong.

WE ALL DO SOMETHING WRONG SOMETIMES!

Jesus overcame your “doing something wrong”
by providing ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE FORGIVENESS!

Believing you’re in a mess because of your
sin will keep you in a mess! The only way to get out of your mess is to
understand that YOU ARE FORGIVEN! It is God’s forgiveness towards you that
gives you the power to stand up against the enemy of your soul – your thoughts
– and to defeat him and bring the truth of the gospel to shine in your life.

I encourage you to take some time to THINK
about the way you are thinking and feeling. Are your thoughts based in the
knowledge of forgiveness or unforgiveness? What “word” are you hearing? Does it
condemn you or edify you? Yes, you hear voices in your head and it’s time to
start analysing who you are listening to!

Tomorrow I will deal with the “good” side
of Satan’s diabolical plans against the Word of God within us.

Have a blessed and wonderful week.

Yvonne

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I’m Yvonne van Wyk, a Christian author, Bible teacher, and business owner.
Through God Enchantment, I explore how faith meets wonder and how Scripture comes alive in everyday life.
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