Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Amusing the Devil

The father of lies is amused when we make all kinds of proclamations about things that are true but without foundation in our lives.  I see them all the time on Facebook and in Churches.  Declarations about freedom from poverty, about prosperity, about healing, about a mate, about a job and a dozen other things.  The problem isn't that these proclamations aren't good to make, but UNTIL the strongholds in our lives that have been built up to cause or restrain these things are torn down, nothing changes. 

The spirit of poverty isn't broken by proclamation.  The stronghold known as the spirit of poverty must be destroyed.  That is painful. It's a change of mindset.  It's a repentance from dead works, a turning around. Most of what people believe or were taught is wrong and it requires a complete reprogramming.

Jesus said, "The poor you will always have with you".  Those poor are not always people caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.. those people need to get out from under poverty imposed by flood or famine.  It's the poor among us when there is abundance all around.  Cultural poverty.  Poverty of the mind.  The spirit of poverty. 

My experience has been that when I have tried to help people come to grips with the demon that oppresses them... they not only resist, they love their victimization too much to let it go.  So they embrace the lie and remain in poverty.

Same with Sickness. I read Praying Medic's book Divine Healing.  The stories of people who have accepted a life of illness over health was heartbreaking.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be".

Still true.

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