[Faith-talk] FW: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Don't let the devil put one over on you by Gloria Copeland

[Eric Calhoun]

Original Message: 
From: Donna Kiser <kiserdonna57 at gmail.com>
To: URCTCPrayerGroup2 at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [URCTCPrayerGroup2] Don't let the devil put one over on you by
Gloria Copeland
Date: 
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:07:59 -0400

*Don't Let the Devil Put One Over on YouGloria Copeland

When he [the devil] speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a
liar, and the father of it.

- John 8:44

Some people find it difficult to believe God's promises because they've
seen so many things in the natural world that seem to contradict them.
They've seen faithful tithers go broke. They've seen sick Christians fail
to receive their healing.

In reality, it would be more accurate to say that they think they've seen
those things. Because, you see, there's a deceiver at work in the world. A
deceiver who's busily doing the same thing he's been doing ever since the
Garden of Eden: tricking mankind into believing God's Word isn't true.

And, after working on it for thousands of years, he's a master at it.
Think
about that the next time he tries to make things look as though God's
Word
is not going to work for you, when he makes it look like all hope is
lost.
Say, "I don't care about appearances. I believe the Word and I refuse to
doubt it."

Let me show you what I mean. Have you ever seen a magic show where
someone
crawls inside a box and then is sawn in half? You can see it with your
own
two eyes. The guy's feet are sticking out one end of the box and his head
is poking out the other, and the box is plainly cut in two. Then the
magician slides the two halves back together and the sawed-apart fellow
jumps out of the box in one piece.

Now tell me, did you really believe, even for a moment, that fellow was
truly cut in half? Of course not! You knew that you'd seen a trick, a
deception, something that appeared one way when, in reality, it was a
different way altogether. You may not have known how it was done. You may
not have been able to explain it. But you knew a person couldn't be sawn
in
half, then put back together, so you refused to believe your eyes.

That's exactly the way you need to be where the Word of God is concerned.
You need to learn to trust it and rely on it to such an extent that when
Satan shows you something in the natural world that appears to contradict
it, you just say, "Well, I saw that, but I'm not going to be gullible
enough to believe it. I'm just going to stick with the Word."

If you'll do that, the father of lies will never be able to put one over
on
you.

Scripture Reading: Psalm 119:89-104

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*In a multitude of words transgression is not lacking, but he who
restrains
his lips is prudent. Proverbs 10:19*