Does this fit us?

[ayin jade]

I found this while wandering, rather liked it and wanted to share it with you all.

The Enemy's Perfect Plan (author unknown)

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels, he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain that experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" shouted his angels.

"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds" he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend then borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work six or seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work."

"Overstimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive, to keep the TV, VCR, CD's and their PC's going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products, services and false hopes."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted, and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."

"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for the good of the cause."

It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there.

How much has the devil been successful at his schemes?

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[gypc]

Wow, that about nails it!!

Good post and something to think about.

In his love,

Brian

[stillwaters]

This makes me think of the parable of the sower Luke 8:1-15. Especially verse 14, a verse that seemed to be me for many years yet God was really there and at work and He did not give up on me. He has brought me a long, long way. To strengthen me to go farther. We should not understimate His power, yet we are responsible to pay attention to Him.

Lk 8:14: The seed that fell among the thorns stands for those who hear (the word)but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature.

I think it IS pretty easy for earnest beleivers to get into a "striving" mode...that is why the Lord tells us He is the vine, we are the branches and apart from Him we can do nothing. We can begin something in the Spirit and end up trying to finish in our own strength.

I find the Lord can and will adjust all these problems if we let Him.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? Ro.8:31

[Yahsway]

yeah, I think I was at that convention, praise God I have been set free since then.

I got reaaaaaaaalllllllll busy in the church,praise team, drama, teaching,ect...

and during all that, I did not get busy with Him. He was faithful though and sat me down and told me to be still and Know Him.

That article was my life at one time. I could really see myself in it when I read it.

Satan is such a cunning deciever isnt he? Most of the things in that article spoke of worldly committments and pleasures.

But this happened to me even while I was going to church. But I was busy about ministering to others in stead of ministering to Him.

Sometimes we say bless us Lord, Bless me, Bless them ect.. But we should be Blessing Him.

and sometimes, such as with my situation, we get so busy doing good works and such, that we forget to sit down and let Him just Be God.

[Anonymous]

Pretty good stuff, Jade

One just has to stand back and take a good look around them and see it all happening now.