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What does the Devil Want?

 


Well let's think about this question 

or a moment; what do you think Satan wants.  

Maybe he wants your car keys..

Noooo...  

He has bigger fish he wants to fry...

1)  The devil wants you distracted.  It doesn't matter to him what he has you distracted on, as long as you aren't focused on God first. Maybe he will even distract you with good things at first.  At least you consider them good, and maybe they are, but they are not what GOD wants.  He doesn't mind a slow erosion of your focus, as long he is working you in his way. The job, political stuff, the news channel, a never-ending supply of streaming movies or videos, or the pursuit of a degree; whatever it takes to consume your time and energy away from praying or studying GOD’s word.  The devil wants to distract you from your Lord. 


2) The devil wants your family.  He doesn’t just want to destroy your families.  He wants to stop them before they even start.  He wants to prevent marriages by encouraging living together and degrading marriage to, "just a piece of paper."  Why do you even need to get married; it is so much easier he says..just live together…Marriage is for dummies..He says, oh come on…loosen up don’t be a prude.  He also wants children aborted before they are born.  They are too much to handle; he wants us to view kids as a burden, instead of a blessing (Psalm 127:3).  

But if he can’t destroy and discourage us from marriage and bearing children, he wants to destroy our marriages and hijack the minds and hearts of our children.  He will use subtleties like unmet and unspoken expectations, selfishness, or budgets to put pressures on your marriage.  He will slip perversions into your kids entertainment that you feel maybe aren't quite bad enough to take it away, and just those small things will begin to mold their hearts, and steal their hearts from GOD. 

 

3) The devil wants you to profess your faith in Christ with your mouth, but for your actions to contradict Christianity.  Nothing is more powerful than a hypocrite.  Even a lost and dying world despises hypocrisy.  If the devil gets you confident enough of in your faith to profess it, but then have you weak enough in your faith that you falter…he has created a powerful weapon for his plan.  Keep talking the talk, but ignoring your walk.  You are being a horrible witness; Satan loves you.  


4) The devil wants you to be afraid.  The devil loves fear.  When there are riots in the streets and economic uncertainty, this is where he can cause fear, anxiety and all kinds of human suffering.  He LOVES this so much.    

 

When the devil plasters this on your television and the media tells it, this convinces people that the world is coming apart at the seams.  When we are afraid, we just want to drown out the thing that is causing the fear.  We want to numb the pain.  When you focus on fear, the devil is winning.


5) The devil wants it all.  He is greedy and selfish.  I mean, think about it.  He wasn't happy being a powerful angel in the Lord's presence.  He was like...hmm NOPE...I WANT TO BE GOD...  That is what got him kicked out of Heaven.  He is the ultimate of a greedy Gus.  Satan will stop at nothing to take every good thing and destroy it.  He is relentless and stop at nothing until he destroys all that is good.  If you are not living for GOD..and you are working unconsciously with him..think of what you have REALLY done lately that is truly for GOD and good. 


THE DEVIL WANTS YOU !!!!


DOES HE HAVE YOU BEHIND 

THE SCENES ALREADY???


If you are a Child of God, and you have gotten 

away from God...


and you have sin in your life; you are not being 

a witness for GOD.   

Then he already has you working for him..You may be a Child of God..but you sure are NOT making God happy.

I would be AFRAID if I was you..GOD will not tarry with you long if you are living like that and that is a fact.  

Oh, you don't like what I am saying..Well suck it up buttercup, Life is not a bed of roses.  

God does not promise you tomorrow, and if you become a saved person just roaming around being a stumbling block he can decide to take you home..

Matthew 28:19-20

Children of God, you are supposed to be witnesses for him, not just out here doing whatsoever they please.. I am not here to sugar coat.. I am telling you FACTS..  




 SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO?


James 4:7 tells us, Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


SUBMIT TO GOD. No more trying to control our own lives and make our own decisions and write our own story.  He is Lord; SUBMIT TO HIS AUTHORITY.  He will do a better job than you anyways.


Then we need to RESIST THE DEVIL. For too long we have tried to compromise with him, hoping that he would leave us alone.  But in the end, all we have done is feed the beast, let him grow, and now he wants more. His greed can never be satisfied and you cannot appease him by giving in.


RESIST HIM IN THE POWER AND STRENGTH OF The LORD.  (Eph. 6) Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and (1 Thess. 5:17.)  Pray without ceasing.


I pray this finds you walking in the light of God's Holy Word and if you are struggling, I pray that you will find peace in him.  John 3:16 tells us  
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”  

May God Richly Bless you..

Lisa G.  

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