No Thank You
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 6:11, ESV
I was in prayer listening to God. As He was talking to me, a spirit of comparison came upon me out of nowhere. I saw a vision of myself, comparing myself to someone else. In the past I would get mad and find myself fighting with the thought because it was taking me away from prayer. What I did not realize is that God was showing me an area that needed to be cleansed.
One particular time I had asked God, “What am I supposed to do with this spirit?” I had prayed about it and casted it out, but this somehow kept showing up. He told me that when the spirit of comparison presents itself, say “No thank you”. Immediately I saw myself at a table with a big feast. There were all kinds of foods, some of the food I liked and put them on my plate but there were other items that I did not like, and I said “No thank you” to them. God said to me, “Those spirits like to come back to see if the home is open or closed. You do not even have to fight because the door is closed, locked, and sealed. Eventually you will get to a place where the spirit can show up and you will not even acknowledge it.”
He told me that the spirit only keeps coming back because I give it some kind of attention. Why do I give it some kind of attention? Because I had not spent enough time with Jehovah understanding that He already paid for that sin. When that sinful spirit came, I took on condemnation and tried to pray my way out of that guilty feeling. The problem was I relied on my feelings rather than what I knew to be true - that the debt was paid before I was born.
Satan and his demonic spirits are always looking for a doorway in. That is why God tells us to put on the whole armor of God daily so we will be able to defeat the wiles of the devil (Ephesians 6:11). I looked up the word “wiles” and according to the Webster’s Dictionary, it means “…devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants”. We are not strong enough to fight the manipulating schemes of the devil by ourselves; we must armor up! And when he comes, we have the power to say, “No thank you!”
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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