Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 42
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
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Michael
gives us excellent insight into one of the most devastating tools of the
Christian’s enemy: tricks to take us into darkness. God has told us that he is the father of
lies, deceitful, a thief…yet we too often easily fall prey to his tricks. Let Michael show you some of the ways satan
will attack…
SATAN’S FEAR
OF AN OPEN DOOR
excerpt
from pages 118-121 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 115-119 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
If you
choose to believe and walk in your co-crucifixion with Christ, life will often
get worse before it gets better, with dangers increasing. For you become a threat to the enemy…as
Christ lives His life through you, you are dangerous!...
Satan’s plan
is very simple; he must get you out of the light!...I have personally found
that Jesus makes life make sense, and once I find myself out of His light, life
has no center or meaning. Therefore, the
enemy wants to draw us out of Christ’s light into his darkness….
The enemy
has a myriad of tricks to take us into darkness. Usually he will begin to tempt us with the same kind of
situations and events that gave us our negative identities from the past. He will try to push our button, so to speak,
to drive us back to a carnal existence.
…there are certain buttons the enemy has pushed for years to make you
ineffective; once you are living out of Christ’s life, he simply won’t go
away! On the contrary, he will push
buttons all the more frantically to get the responses of the past. When you see this happening, do take heart,
for you have truly found the answer; if you hadn’t, the enemy would not be
attacking you.
…the enemy will try everything at his disposal to emotionally beat a
believer…Be watchful; it may happen when we are on vacation and out of the
daily fellowship we normally have with our Savior. It may occur during times of stress…It may be
the result of a person whose situation or action draws our eyes off the Lord…Even
our work for the Lord can become so important that we neglect Him. It can especially take place in times of
loneliness and failure. The list is
endless, but the result is the same: We close the door to His life, and in so
doing, we begin to live much as we did before we were born again.
Not only will the enemy use circumstances and people, but he will attack
with a new level of temptations that the unregenerate world rarely experiences…
So it is with the deep deceptions of the enemy. If we knew his plan for destruction ahead of
time, we would think it impossible.
However, if we knew his timetable and the effort that would be placed
into the deception day by day, we would be filled with fear. Is it any wonder we are called to be alert,
stand fast, take heed, and not be ignorant of the enemy?
…The spiritual man must be aware of temptations that are not calculated
to bring immediate defeat, but downfall years away.
The
total writing of Michael’s for this day is a strong capture of the insidious attacks
of satan on Christians. Our failure to
be alert, stand fast, take heed, and to be ignorant of the enemy is what so
often leads to our downfall. Michael
gives us some outstanding insights into the myriad of attacks the enemy
has. Let us read, meditate, and move to
keep the door to Christ’s life open all the time!
Next
time we see how to get out of living in defeat…
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