A Thief Breaks Into Your Home And You Are In Your Bedroom.You Have A Weapon But You Don't Know How To Use It. You Say I Wished I Would Have Practiced Using This Weapon. So What Do You Do?

A day without prayer is a day we foolishly believe that we can handle any and everything because we have it under control! A Thief Breaks Into Your Home And You Are In Your Bedroom. You Have A Weapon But You Don't Know How To Use It. You Say I Wished I Would Have Practiced Using This Weapon Before This Incident. The thief is coming closer to where you are, you have the weapon in your hand but you don't know how to use it. So the thief comes to where you are and overtake you and harm you greatly. Terrifying Scenario!!!

Well the thief (SATAN) breaks into our lives to harm us and many of us have the weapon (THE WORD OF GOD) in our hand but we don't know how to use it. If we would have practice using the weapon before the incident we would know how to use it when the thief shows up. A Bible just sitting on the table has no importance, just as a treadmill that just sits in a room. They Must Be Used!!! Pray daily, study the Word of God daily so that when you come under Satan's attack you can be prepared;  know how to use your weapon; the Word of God. Don't let the thief (Satan) overtake you.

Run To The Roar! Whatever you doubt or fear run to it, face it head on.  We have been running with our backs to Satan for too long. Let’s face him head on, face to face and tell him to bring it on. Your victory is in your hands. God will lead and guide you. Don't give Satan the satisfaction and victory to run all through your home and life wreaking havoc simply because you are afraid to run to him and face him head on.  If we don't know the truth about God's Word, we will believe the lies of the devil. To Understand the Word of God, Rely On the Spirit of God. 

The Holy Spirit will give us understanding and teach us how to apply Gods truth in our lives. God doesn’t let us run in the opposite direction. The Bible is the tool the Spirit uses in our lives as an essential and major part of the armor that God gives us to fight our spiritual battles. I learned if we never meditate on God's Word, we'll never experience the depth of His love and what He will do for each of us in times of trouble. The Word of God (when you know it) becomes a filter in your life.  

The devil is a liar. Every play of Satan is a lie. The way to defeat the enemy is to name the lie and insert the truth. When you know the word of God you can defeat Satan by standing on God’s word as Jesus did by inserting the truth. Many of Satan attacks are effective on people lives today simply because they cannot run to the roar, because they do not know God’s Word. "Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.' But he answered, 'It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” ' Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple and said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, “He will command his angels concerning you,' and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.” ‘Jesus said to him, 'Again it is written, "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.” ‘Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him, 'All these I will give you, if you will fall down and worship me.' Then Jesus said to him, 'Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve.” Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and were ministering to Him." Matthew 4:1-11.

You see today, Satan is trying to use the same lie to destroy innocent people who are falling prey to his tactics. They are falling for the scheme he tried on Jesus, but the difference between Jesus and us; many of us are bowing down to Satan. He is saying to Christians and those in the world, he is saying look at all these kingdoms and its glory, look at all of the glitz and glamour, look at all of the drugs and sex, weapons, pornography, look at all the money, look at all of this and you can have it, just bow down and worship me, that old crafty devil will whisper in your ear and say things like this: I won’t ask you to do those things that God wants you to do, God wants you to obey Him and trust Him, I’m just asking you to bow down and worship me and you can have it all, and we fall into temptation and Satan’s snare, that web that he so craftily weaves for his victims and then we are done.

Satan then moves on to his next victim. But we don’t have to be a victim of Satan’s ploys and games, we have the same authority. If we get into the Word of God, we can do as Jesus and say it is written, the Word is our weapon to defeat Satan. When it comes to the Bible, we are often either anorexic or bulimic. We either take in just enough to keep us alive spiritually by eating from the Word (but never ingesting enough to be healthy, thriving Christians), or we come to feed often but never meditate on it long enough to get spiritual nutrition from it.

The Bible is the tool the Spirit uses in our lives as an essential and major part of the armor that God gives us to fight our spiritual battles. I learned if we never meditate on God's Word, we'll never experience the depth of His love and what He will do for each of us in times of trouble. The Word of God (when you know it) becomes a filter in your life. The Bible: Know it in your head, stow it in your heart, show it in your life and sow it in the world.  Listening to the Bible as you read it is a great way to slow down and focus on each word. If we don't know the truth about God's Word, we will believe the lies of the devil. 

To Understand The Word Of God, Rely On The Spirit Of God.  The Holy Spirit Will Give Us Understanding And Teach Us How To Apply Gods Truth In Our Lives. The Power Of The Spoken Word Is Great In That Words Are Like Seeds. What We Plant Will Grow.

The devil will leave you alone when you remind him of his future when you start reading Revelation Chapter 17 and on through the Book of Revelations he will run from you because he doesn’t want to hear about his time being limited and what is going to happen to him.

You see Satan knows the Word of God, but he distorts the truth and he quoted the scriptures to Jesus, the Son of God, who in turn, quoted the truth of God's Word to Satan and what did Satan do? He fled.  This battlefield we're living in is coming to a climax; Christian life is a battle, a challenge to the very core of our souls. Warrior up~~~, run to the roar of the toothless lion and beat him in his arena. This is what we are expected and called to do. We have the power and authority by the blood and sacrifice of our Lord Jesus! Run To The Roar; because your Father has never lost a battle and He never will. Jehovah Nissi (Hebrew: יְהוָה נִסִּי), The Lord my Banner, He reign in victory. Lord we look to You. You are our Strength, You are our Shield, You are our Rock. Help us to remove all doubt, all fear and when we "Run to the Roar", give us the victory. El Shaddai. The Bible: Know it in your head, stow it in your heart, show it in your life and sow it in the world.

Blessings

J.P. Olson

www.thewordwithjpolson.com

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