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TrustAndObey
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I got this in an e-mail and thought I would share.
This will make you think! Take the time to read
(Read it, even if you're busy, especially if you're too busy)
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address
he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't keep
them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even
keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior. Once
they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So
let them go to their churches; let them have their covered Dish
dinners, but steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
real relationship with Jesus Christ."
"This is what I want you to do", said the devil..."distract them from
gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection
throughout their day!
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered:
a. Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.
b. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
empty lifestyles.
c. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families
fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of
work!
d. Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that 'still, small voice.'
e. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive...to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.
f. Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards.
Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products,
services and false hopes.
g. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives.
h.. Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them
headaches too! If they don't give their husbands the love they need,
they will begin to look elsewhere. That will fragment their families quickly!
i. Tell them December 25th is Christ's birthday so when they're out rushing around to buy, buy, buy, they actually think they are doing a service to Christ.
j. Give them an Easter bunny and a fake holiday so they can run around thinking, again, that they are doing a great service for Christ.
k. Even in their recreation, let them be excessive...have them return from their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead.
l. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, they will leave with troubled consciences.
m. Crowd their lives with so many good causes that they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.
'It will work! It will work!!"
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to have little time for their God or their families, and to have little or no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge!
Does "busy" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke? Pass this on, if you
aren't too BUSY!
This will make you think! Take the time to read
(Read it, even if you're busy, especially if you're too busy)
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address
he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't keep
them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even
keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their savior. Once
they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So
let them go to their churches; let them have their covered Dish
dinners, but steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
real relationship with Jesus Christ."
"This is what I want you to do", said the devil..."distract them from
gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection
throughout their day!
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered:
a. Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow.
b. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
empty lifestyles.
c. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families
fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of
work!
d. Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that 'still, small voice.'
e. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive...to keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ.
f. Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards.
Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products,
services and false hopes.
g. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives.
h.. Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them
headaches too! If they don't give their husbands the love they need,
they will begin to look elsewhere. That will fragment their families quickly!
i. Tell them December 25th is Christ's birthday so when they're out rushing around to buy, buy, buy, they actually think they are doing a service to Christ.
j. Give them an Easter bunny and a fake holiday so they can run around thinking, again, that they are doing a great service for Christ.
k. Even in their recreation, let them be excessive...have them return from their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead.
l. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, they will leave with troubled consciences.
m. Crowd their lives with so many good causes that they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause.
'It will work! It will work!!"
It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to have little time for their God or their families, and to have little or no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge!
Does "busy" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke? Pass this on, if you
aren't too BUSY!
