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Don't Point the Finger in the Wrong Direction

 

One misunderstanding we tend to have about satanic battle is that we are the issue. It’s never about us. Never. Warfare comes to hinder Christ’s word in us, and it comes to dishonor Christ’s name. The enemy loves nothing more than to use God’s own people as channels of his contempt and hatred of Christ. How does this work? When was the last time you felt nothing was happening in your life, God wasn’t fulfilling His word to you and you were gaining no ground? Chances are you took issue with God. Many times we contend with God over His word and think we are being spiritual doing it. There is a righteous contending with God, as Jacob did in wrestling with the angel of the Lord, but there is also a scheme of the enemy by which he discourages us and at the same time causes us to point the finger at God. He effectively transfers the blame from himself onto the Lord through us.

When we feel God’s word isn’t being fulfilled as He spoke it, there is usually just a tiny twist of the truth by the enemy. Feelings, emotions, etc. are touched in a subtle way and we find ourselves responding with a complaining spirit toward God. Thus the enemy has succeeded in not only bringing us into discouragement which nullifies faith in the word, but also in provoking us to blame God for it. The anger, disillusionment, and discouragement we feel at times are born out of the enemy touching those parts of the Adamic nature in us.

It’s interesting that we can go along, believing the word, walking in aspects of it, and then all of a sudden have intense feelings that nothing is being done. This is the mark of satanic assault. We must learn to discern the battle that comes against our emotions and feelings concerning God’s promises to us, and we must also discern God’s faithfulness in the contested word He has spoken. The right response to every battle that comes against us is a broken spirit before the Lord. We want to be as Job, who did not sin with his lips when touched by the enemy (Job 1:1-22).

 

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