“DECEPTION”

MeMaw Thoughts
Number 464
February 18, 2020///

DECEPTION IS:
 Believing a lie
 It can’t happen to me
 I can’t be deceived while I serve God

Deception is a process and the process has steps!
1. Thoughts become beliefs.
2. Beliefs become our words.
3. Words become our actions.

It all begins as a tiny seed planted in our minds!

I understand that ball teams have playbooks. Those plays may change from time to time!

But may I tell you that satan, the enemy of all that is good has a play book that never changes. He is using the same deceptive tactics right now that he used in the garden of Eden.

He plants seeds of doubt and as we allow them to settle into to our minds and spirits, they grow into traps and errors that take us places we never thought we would go and deeper in deception than we may have thought impossible.
One little seed he starts with is: Did God really say……….you finish the sentence!

I’m under Grace not law so it does not really matter……God forgives!

Nobody really cares what I do, and I am hurting no one but myself!

God wants us to be happy so if this makes me happy, I should do it!

People are judging and talking about me!

No one understands. If they understood they would know that what I am doing is ok!

I’m not really judging, just making observations of others wrongs!

OR!!

You’re not good enough to do that! No one wants to hear what you have to say!

You are living your best life; don’t think you can succeed!

Genesis 3:1 (KJV)
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, YEA, HATH GOD SAID, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Galatians 6:7 (KJV)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

1 Peter 5:8 (KJV)
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

John 8:44 (KJV)
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

The Bible is clear! The devil lies and deceives and seeks to destroy you through seeds of doubt and fear. Doubt and fear are the opposites of Faith and come through seeds that we let take up resident.

How do we guard our hearts and minds? How do we recognize and send deception back to hell where it belongs?

Know and speak the word, be so full of the love of Jesus that the Holy Spirit within us recognizes the seed of deception being planted and uproot it and destroy it.

If a snake appeared in your child’s room, you would not think twice about destroying and removing it before it can do irreversible harm. In the same way when we recognize our thinking is opposite to the Word, we must pull it down and destroy it!

May we destroy the lies of the enemy with the truth of the word!

John 8:32 (KJV)
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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Father in Jesus name, I ask you to open our hearts and minds to your truth and we will not be deceived by the lies of satan. Thank you for reminding each of us that we are victorious, and the truth is a mighty weapon against the deception of the enemy! Amen!

Walk in truth! Love MeMaw