The Devil's Dilemma

Psalms 119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Satan’s greatest fear is knowing that believers know and understand that they have power over him through Christ and the WORD of God! Our text today says, THE ENTRANCE of thy words giveth light. Revelation 3:20 speaks with respect to Jesus knowing at the door seeking ENTRANCE into the heart of His people. A logical and reasonable question could be asked, How did the Savior of the world wind up outside knocking and seeking entrance into the heart and life of His children?

The POWER and LIFE of Christ lives through the WORD He spoke, all sixty-six books. The entrance of the WORD of God handcuffs and shackles negative thinking. Satan’s design is for us to NOT reflect on God’s perspective for our lives. The enemy wants us to lean unto our own understanding, which strengthens the flesh and silences the Holy Spirit. Satan wants us to not read God’s WORD. He comes up with excuse after excuse as to why we should study the WORD. He even breathes on us the spirit of sleep, right when God wants to reveal a revelation of Himself to us. The telephone rings and long lost relatives, exes, and friends call right when you are ready to get deep in the WORD or in prayer.

Satan knows that the entrance of God’s WORD breaks his hold on the mind and life of the believer, thus freeing them to see God’s perspective for the situation or circumstances they are facing. Let’s saying you and I are struggling with unbelief, then we read in the WORD where it says, Lord I believe, but help thou my unbelief. At that moment, the entrance of God’s perspective regarding unbelief enters our thoughts, showing God’s light and understanding on that given subject. In other words, instead of wrestling with our own negative thoughts, God’s WORD overshadows the images and suggestions of the devil that doesn’t have it origin in the WORD. God’s thoughts through the printed page has POWER of any attempts the devil may throw at you. It’s the same way Jesus defeated him by saying, It Is Written!

Satan’s sophistries are so cunning, that he will use GOOD THINGS to keep the mind occupied and busy, that time with God slips to second place in our lives. He knows that down the line, temptations are waiting for us. The enemy likes to get us weak and powerless before he pulls out a temptation he knows we find hard to resist. He cannot read the mind, but he studies our words, actions, and places we frequent and various type people we socialize with, THEN centers his temptations around our weaknesses. Satan studies our eyeball movement, to see what we BEHOLD! He is mindful the type movies we watch, music we listen too, so that he may setup the perfect temptation. Remember, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers.

We are NO MATCH for the devil. The devil is NO MATCH for Christ! So, my friends, keep allowing the WORD of God to agitate your flesh, subduing it and keeping it under the control and power of the Holy Ghost. The WORD is designed to shed light on what is sin and offensive to God. The Spirit of God then highlights what is separating us from God. The Spirit of God directs us to the WORD to validate what God said about it. This way, we won’t have our hope in what man said, but in what God said and we read. Please read these very important Scriptures:

Ephesians 1:18; I Corinthians 2:10,11,14; John 5:39; Acts 17:11; Psalms 119:15,16,18,34; Jeremiah 15:16; John 17:17; Isaiah 8:20!

Keep putting God’s thoughts in your mind so you can think like Him, act like Him, and soon be like Him, I John 3:1-3, Amen!