Thoughts
on Michael Wells’ teachings in Sidetracked In The Wilderness - # 59
Michael’s book is
available through:
Abiding Life Ministries
International
Littleton, Colorado
Notice: this email is part of a BLOG, called Getting Out of the
Wilderness. Why a blog? So that many can receive the weekly thoughts
I express on Michael’s writings in an easy manner.
Every
once in a while there comes the realization of a staggering reality from
Scripture showing us how pitiful we can be in using all that God has given us
to live the life He designed for us.
From Adam and Eve to us, Satan uses his weak, ridiculous, inept weapons
to get us to be someone we already are…and we buy into his deceit like we have
never heard anything so cunning and attractive.
Poor, pitiful man.
Lie #2 – I MUST WORK TO BE
WHAT GOD SAYS I AM BY BIRTH
excerpt
from pages 177 of SIW (5th printing,
March 1998)
excerpt
from pages 179 of SIW (14th printing,
March 2012)
(used with permission from
ALMI):
One
of the Brazilian brothers pointed out to me that when Adam and Eve were tempted
to be like God, they were already in the image of God. In a like manner, Christ was tempted in the
wilderness to prove that He was God, when in fact He was already God. And so it is with us; the enemy will continue
to tempt us to work to become what we already are. Once we succumb to this temptation, we cast
aside faith, along with walking as who God says we are, and give in to
unbelief.
…The
enemy will rarely give up on his attempts to brainwash the Christian. He never wants us to realize who we are in
Christ, for in so doing we will take an offensive position against him, entering
into the battle to take from him those whom he has worked so hard to hold
captive. The truth is that believers
never have to live a carnal life or place their will under his power; we can choose to abide in
Christ.
In
every walk of life the most critical issue for everyone is to determine what
family, what team, what group we are a part of.
Once that is settled, we learn the colors, the sounds, the looks, the
“plays,” the position we are to play.
When we learn that we are on the winning team, we begin to act like
winners. Michael dispels the enemy’s lie
he keeps pounding man with: don’t believe and succumb to his tempting us to
become what we already are…LIVE like the victor and overcomer we ARE due to
being a part of the family of God.
And
Michael gives us the key to living like who we really are: KNOW who we really
are in Christ, and TAKE the offensive position against the enemy…instead of
casting aside faith and walking as who God says we are, giving in to unbelief.
It’s
a choice, isn’t it?
Note:
if you don’t have one of Michael’s Sidetracked In The Wilderness books,
please contact ALMI
(www.abidinglife.com) and get one today!
To access ALL past weekly
blogs, go to Getting
Out of the Wilderness by logging onto www.leemcchristianministries.blogspot.com
NOTICE: another blog…on Michael Wells’ book, My
Weakness For His Strength, called Living Life With a Capital “C”. You can
access by logging onto www.leemccm.blogspot.com
Lee McDowell Christian Ministries
leemccm@gmail.com
1737 CR
2051 Nacogdoches, Tx 75965 936-559-5696
No comments:
Post a Comment