Driftwood
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8, ESV
I was on a prayer call with one of my dear prayer warriors and she said something like this, “Father let those lying thoughts of Satan float away like driftwood that will eventually land in a drain and be picked up by someone and used as a pice of fire wood to be burned.” I literally saw the vision of the driftwood as she was speaking landing in a bon fire! Satan is always consistently bombarding our minds with different thoughts so we will mediate on anything but the word of God!
Scripture teaches us that we are to meditate on the word of God day and night Joshua 1:8. Unfortunately due to social media and the easy access we have to everything happening around the world, these things can take the place of our focus on the word. I have gotten to the place where I do not take any electronics into my time with God. I used to take my phone to play music and look up scriptures, but I found that I would get distracted by someone’s text message, or emails that would pop up.
Satan works 24/7 sending drift wood. I was prompted to look up driftwood and the definition was: wood that is floating or that has been washed ashore; driftwood is officially a type of debris or trash. That is exactly what Satan sends out, trash and it floats through our mind hoping that we will catch it and dwell in it!
I am reminded of Peter when Judas had betrayed Jesus and Peter denied him three times. Peter knew Jesus and he had a wonderful relationship with him. But everything around him had changed, he did not know what he was going to do, and fear had set in. This made it easy for Satan to manipulate his mind. Jesus had told Peter prior to the betrayal, to pray because Satan demanded to have him, that he might sift him like wheat. Luke 22:31, ESV. Peter was tired and he fell asleep. Jesus had come to him three times, but he was found asleep.
The Bible tells us to put on the full armor of God so that we can stand firm against the devil’s schemes. We are not supposed to fight, or engage the devil, but to stand our ground in all of our armor and pray continuously. By doing this we can win the battle through the word! We stand with the word of God, just like Jesus did when he was tested in the wilderness. He stood with the word of God and Satan departed.
Key points:
Prayer strengthens us for whatever we are to face.
Meditating on the Word of God gives us the ammunition we need to combat the driftwood.
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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