The best way to frustrate the devil is to be successful serving God. Merely showing Satan that it is easier living for God than listening to his lies is revenge enough. Frank Sinatra said, “Massive success is the best revenge.” We needn’t look for ways to condemn the actions of our adversary, just live for God.
(Proverbs 13:15), “Good understanding gains favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.”
To pattern oneself after the intelligence of intellectual, pompous people that think they have all the answers, or to listen to the humanistic teachings that fill our colleges today, cannot inform or educate individuals on how to recognize and discern the voice of God. The Lord has full confidence in us that when we listen to the Holy Spirit right decisions will be made. God’s Spirit is well able and more than capable of leading us into all truth.
(1 John 2:27), “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”
The mindset that we should strive to immolate is that of Christ. If we are thinking like everyone else we are not thinking for ourselves. We are to protect our mind from negative influences that undermine and tear down our resistance to Satan’s scheming and attacks. General George S. Patton Jr., with the United States Seventh Army, said this, “If everyone is thinking alike, somebody isn’t thinking.”
(Philippians 2:12-13), “…work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;” vs.13 “for it is God who works in you both in will and to do for His good pleasure.”
We must guard our mind with the helmet of salvation and put on the breastplate of faith and love, (1 Thessalonians 5:8). Don’t let others do your thinking for you, because God’s will is at work in those that walk uprightly before Him, because they walk in faith and the liberty of God’s truth.
God, however, may use others to confirm what He has already spoken to our heart. We don’t need someone’s personal opinion to determine whether or not it’s God’s will; we will know His will, because direction comes through prayer and reading the Bible.
(II Timothy 2:15) “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
Yes, there is safety in council, which may help to confirm direction, but the final decision comes when our knees hit the floor, with prayer and supplication following. God’s perfect will is revealed in the quiet time of surrender as we submit ourselves to Him.
God gives peace in the midst of unsettled feelings and the ‘wonderings’…wondering if we are in the will of God. Through prayer we find His will. I don’t know how it works, it just does. Though Satan stirs the pot of doubt and attempts to hit our panic button of frustration, we can know that God never fails us. He overshadows our coming and going, because we walk in perfection—His perfection.
Written by,
Papa Boyd
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