We are being robbed and offering the robber milk and cookies....

[Gideons300]

"The prophets give false prophecies, and the priests rule with an iron hand. Worse yet, my people like it that way! But what will you do when the end comes?"

Jeremiah 5:31

We are told clearly that our enemy goes about as a roaring lion, seeking to devour us, and we are told to resist Him steadfast in the faith, and that our shield of faith will quench all the fiery arrows he throws at us. We are told to not be ignorant of his devices, and that his true power lies in deception and the twisting of half trusths into full error.

Yet, as we look at God's bride today, we have been robbed of things Christ died to give us and more amazingly, the deception is so great that we fight for the half truths of decption we have been fed by the liar of all liars, rather than against the one who lies to us, for when he lies, he is simply speaking his native language. We not only allow ourselves to be robbed, but we have asked the enemy to make himself comfortable and to join us for milk and cookies after the pot luck supper.

God has clearly told us that we have the right to put off our flesh by faith, and that is we are in Christ, we are not any longer in the flesh, but in the spirit. We are told that sin shall not have dominion over us. We are told there is but one profitable path for us to take as children of God, for us to be found walking in our new creature, where our flesh and the lusts of that flesh that bring forth sin have been put off. Yet, who has believed this report?

All this is to be a product of our believing it, accepting it as truth, and this is the good fight of faith we have been told to wage. This is the faith we are told to earnestly contend for. Yet, for many, the shield of faith is found gathering dust, not arrows, and the sword, the word of God that we are told is profitable for instruction in righteousness, is not even revered as His truth for us any longer. Yet God has said that He honors His word, even above His name. How the mighty have fallen. Like Samson was found blinded and grinding corn for our enemy, the mighty bride of the book of Acts now bakes him cookies.

The robber has robbed us for generations, played havoc with our walks, our families, our children, kept us hounded by condemnation, led us into worldliness and secret sin that dishonors the one who died for us and as the scrpiture says.... and yet, most amazingly, His people love to have it so. No longer.

Is it not high time we awoke to righteousness and put on strength? Shall not we trust our God to roll up His sleeves and show himself strong on our behalf? Is it not called for that we compare what we believe as Christianity to the word of God and let His word rule, no matter what it requires us to change?

It is time we let satan know who we are...we are the people of the Almighty God and we come in His name, with His authority and our own testimony of our God's ability to deliver and set free indeed.

Our weak Christian walks may seem to have sufficed thus far as we walk towards Heaven, but the skies now are sunny and the waters calm compared to what is coming soon. God tells us though, to not stick our heads in the sand like spiritual ostriches, thinking these times of peace will continue forever simply because we want to them to. He asks us, "What will we do in the end?" If we cannot walk in victory and overcome the world in fair weather, how can we even hope to do so when the cost will be our necks? The answer is "We cannot".

Saints, it is time we exposed the lies and girded ourselves again with truth...TRUTH! His word is truth, and until we wrap oursleves with it, arm ourselves with it, we continue to offer satan a place in us he has no right to. We must yield ourselves to God as those not in the flesh, but as those who are alive from the dead, victorious, powerful, with swords and shields of warriors of God. True victory, and in the end, our very souls, depend on it.

Blessings,

Bruce

[Ivanette]

I was attracted by your title. Good one! I can see how that much of the church has lost it's spiritualness (if this is even a word . And the bible is read and critiqued like a book with no underlying spiritual meaning by carnal minds...and faith in a new nature is at least 2nd to having a form of religion.

God Bless,

Ivanette