Some Thoughts Are Actually Satan’s Darts, and an infringement to cause us harm by the Satan, and to lure us away from God. Some prophets of doom have not helped matters as well for us with their false prophecies and pronouncements often in their conventions. They claim things which are far more comfortable for Satan than God who seeks our welfare and wellbeing. Our response brothers and sisters are the underneath scriptures exhort us to do.
Eph 6:16 Besides all these, having taken up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming darts of the evil one. (17) And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God,
Your position as Disciples or Believers must be “By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit and watching unto this all perseverance and petition and concerning all the saints, pull pits conscious for the fact that anyone who mount our pulpits or stadia may be given utterances when they open their mouths including me and anyone who shares the word of God to make known with boldness the mystery of the Gospel. Pray the Lord shuts the mouths of selfish and self-satisfying prophets who do not come or speak for Him.
In the first part of verse 17, Paul goes on to say, “And receive the helmet of salvation.” This is for covering our mind, our mentality, against the negative thoughts directed at us by the evil one. Such a helmet, such a covering, is God’s salvation. Satan injects into our mind threats,
worries, anxieties, and other weakening thoughts. God’s salvation is the covering we take up against all these. Such a salvation is the saving Christ we experience in our daily life (John 16:33).
The Devil’s flaming darts come as thoughts injected into our mind. These thoughts may seem to be our own thoughts, but they are actually Satan’s. [A few examples: I will not make it as a Christian; God wants to make me suffer; God will not take care of my needs; I am doomed to fail, etc.] I used to believe that such thoughts were my own. Later I began to realize that they came from Satan. I discovered this after such thoughts persisted in coming after I had decided not to
entertain them.
Prior to that time, my practice was to confess all these thoughts to the Lord. Now I refuse to confess them…. Rather, you should say, “Lord, I am fallen, but I am under Your cleansing. Satan, this thought is yours,
and you must bear the responsibility for it. I will not share this responsibility.” Nevertheless, due to an overly sensitive conscience, some continually confess things that are caused by Satan
May this coming year be years Christians will take our positions as the salt of the world and worthy ambassadors of God through Jesus Christ our Lord. SHALOM.
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