He is a destroyer, deceiver, lier, murder, and he loves to shout his accusations at Gods children. What characteristics to be labeled with. The complete and total opposite of who God is. God is the restorer, the truth, resurrection life, the Preacher of grace. God is showing the devil now who he is through his children, his nature, his grace, his love, his power, his forgiveness , and the devil hates it. He hates to see restoration, he hates to see grace, he hates to see Gods love, he hates to see The Body of christ in unity in one accord. He hates spiritual joy, he hates soul winners , he hates spirit filled missionaries, he hates Word of God spirit filled preaching. He wants it to be stopped at all costs because if we live in this spiritual life he sees Gods life and he despises it. He does not want believers to live in the fact that the Battle has already been won. That Christ has defeated him at the cross. That I am forgiven, that my name is written in the Book, I am accepted in the beloved, I am sealed with the Spirit, I am translated into the Kingdom, I have an advocate with the Father, I have spiritual life, that he is under my feet.
There is a war that is being raged upon God, and the grounds is on our home turf. He will do all he can to seek and destroy what is Gods possession. It is his only way to get at God. It is amazing that God puts us in the midst of the greatest conflict of all time. That he entrusts us with his spirit to be called children of God. It is amazing. This is Gods true enemy who wants to get at God with everything he has got. The ones who are in the midst of this battle our Gods children. Satan wants to get to God by going after his children. To convince believers that God is a liar, that he is not who he says he is.
I preached the other night on Zech 3:1. Joshua stood before the Lord and the Devil was there to resist him. That satan was there to accuse Joshua of his filthy garments. It says that Joshua stood before the Lord in filthy garments. The devil was there to shout out "Look at your filthy child God, this is your high priest, he is a unable wicked sinner". But in verse 2 God says "The lord rebuke you satan" and he clothes Joshua in clean garments. He takes off the old and puts on the new. God says now what can you say satan, I have cleansed him, I have given him clean garments where there is no spot in him, and I declare him my child, Perfect.... This is what Satan hates. He wants Joshua to look at himself and say "Look at me, I am filthy, I am wicked, I am......" To live in his defeat, his inability, but God speaks a different word and he says "Clothe my child in clean garments, declare him my priest, let him sit at my table, he is complete and accepted in my family , he is perfect my blood has cleansed him. Not a partial cleansing but a full one from top to bottom.... We then talked about who we are in our finished work position from Eph 1... It is so important to know who we are, because the devil is resisting who we are and what we are doing..
In Psalm 59 we see the dogs going around the city barking and making noisy pestilence. That they leave for a period of time then come back in the evening to make more noise. The devil is a noise maker, to distract us in what we are doing, in who we are. He barks, and shouts, he shoots his arrows in Psalm 91 at the innocent. He is hoping that man will live in fear of his noise. David says in psalm 59:17 "I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning: for thou has been my defence and refuge in the day of trouble". That I can look from the top of the wall of the city and see that the noise is coming from a small wounded dog. That really he can never get to me and touch me. Psalm 91 I have a secreat place with the most High. That I am actually in position to shout out at the top of my lungs "Grace, Grace, God is my redeemer, he has placed me in my Heavenly position. Devil you are the one who should have great fear for your end is the lake of fire. All you are is a 3 legged wounded dog that has alot of bark, but no ability to bite. I once worked for Owens Corning dropping promotional flyers door to door. One of the great fears was running dogs, because if you ran into the wrong dog there is no question you could have a serious problem on your hands. There were some good stories of kids getting nipped, losing some of there pants. So one day I was in a good groove, flying from one house to the next dropping. I ran through one yard to get to the next house when I heard the sound that no flier dropper likes to hear the sound of a stunned dog. I did not know exactly where it was coming from but all I knew was that it sounded very angry. It had this deep garguling bark that sounded like it was coming out of hell and it wanted to rip my head off. So I made a B- line for the street as fast as my little legs could take me. As I was running I saw the dog bust through the bushes and he was coming directly at me. Most dogs had one of those invisble fence collards on that kept him in the parameters of the yard so once i got to the street i was safe. I jumped the last 10 ft. into the street with great relief. The best part was this was like one of the most straggly hurting little dogs I have ever seen. It was like he was in the bushes barking into an amplifier because this thing could not do damage even to himself, he was hopeless. It must have been such a great sight as a young man was running full speed toward s the street because he was afraid of a little mut that could barley move, but man could he bark.. That is the devil, barking at the saints, trying to intimidate us by his noise. It says when we see him we are going to say "this is the one who deceived nations" , this little thing did so much damage in the world, so much destruction, that he caused so much hurt and pain. This little dog did all this, this is the creature that caused fear, caused addictions, caused abuse and worst of all this is the one who deceived millions upon millions from the Life of God.
Man do we have a enemy but you know what he cant stop a man or woman of God that has Gods life. That receives from God. In revelation 12:11 "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of there testimony". God has given us a testimony, he has given us His word to preach and teach from. He has given us his mind, his spirit, his life, and Ultimately his Son. Praise God that we are overcomers by the blood of the Lamb, and as Dad says we can stand at the top of the wall of the heavenly city and shout at the devil "Na Na, you cant touch us, Na Na devil you have lost". It is only a short matter of time before the whole lie of what he is stating is put on the table. And we will see Christ and we know we will be like him...
It is going awesome down here in Peru. We were praying on the church roof top monday night and God was with us. The spirit was so clear and clean, we loved it.. The church is on fire for the things of God. We have awesome disciples that are ready to preach this message to anyone who is willing to listening, who are loving the vision that we are preaching. Pray for God to continue to give us his mind, and word s in these days. We are enjoying it..... Stambo and I are taking a group from here in lima up to Ecquador on tuesday to meet up with P. mike Stevens and the Carlisle PA crew. (this carlisle crew gets around the world, its so good). So pray for our time as we are going to be with the body there and preach were ever we go. Because we knew the Devils devices and all we have to say is "Devil we are not stopping living and preaching this life that God has for all men, Its not for sale, its ours."..... God Bless, .. Smithers I wanted to give you a shout out love you buddy... Jay
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