DON’T LET DEMONS DIVIDE
YOU FROM YOURSELF
God always was and is
still the Ultimate Authority: “In the beginning: GOD.” He is “the MOST HIGH
OVER ALL THE EARTH” (Gen. 1:1 and Ps. 83:18b). Then comes man: “Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:26).
The devil himself was
named Lucifer (light-bearer) in the beginning. God created Lucifer as an angel
of light. Light makes things grow. Things are made clear in the light. They’re
illuminated physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This mighty
angel, Lucifer, was to illuminate things for humanity, but he was never
supposed to have authority over us. Like other angels, he was supposed to help
God by helping us.
God gave angels, like humanity,
the freedom of will; they could abuse it just like humans do.
Lucifer didn’t like the
idea of being subservient to God or humans. He became blinded by his own light
and thought He could be greater than his creator. In this act, he began to destroy
himself.
Isaiah 14 tells us
Lucifer’s story:
“How art thou fallen from
heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit
also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will
ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa. 14:12-14)
To “sit upon the mount of
the congregation” means to sit at the top, above all beings, and judge them.
(See Ps. 82:1 and Ps. 75:2.) Lucifer liked that idea—to be the bully on the
throne and rule as he pleased. He craved that position and the power.
But God couldn’t let him
have it. There’s only one God above all else, the God of the Bible. Lucifer
turned against God, so he basically threw himself out of God’s presence. He was
tossed out of heaven and no longer had the name Lucifer because now his light
was darkness. Any light he gave would only be a counterfeit of the true light.
He could no longer be called “light,” but instead, he was called Satan or the
Devil:
“And the great dragon was
cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the
whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with
him.”
“[But] woe to the
inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Rev.
12:9 and 12).
Satan, being tossed to the
earth, quickly tricked Adam out of having authority over the earth. God sent
Jesus, a perfect man, to give authority back to God’s people. Jesus overcame
the devil in areas where Adam did not, thus taking back humanity’s dominion on
the earth. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b).
So where is the devil now?
He would like us to believe that he is still running things, and he will
continue to do so for those who let him. But legally, he has no authority. He
is a liar and a divider.
Just like Satan tricked
Adam into a type of suicide and self-destruction, Satan works to destroy people
today. If we let him, he tries to get us to self-destruct. He gets us to turn
on ourselves. When God tells us in His Word that we are wonderful, we instead
listen to Satan and say to ourselves, “We are not wonderful.” All the things we
see in ourselves that are not good come from demons. Demons divide. They work
to tear us apart from each other and apart from our own true selves. How many
diseases can you name that are in the anti-inflammatory group? Those are
diseases where one part of the body fights to destroy another part of the body.
That shouldn’t be.
God made the human body to
work together. Ephesians 4:16 not only speaks of the body of Christ, the
church, but to the human body: “From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted
by that which every joint supplieth, according to the
effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of
the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”
And our physical bodies
are not to be at war with our minds or our emotions either. All parts of us,
body, soul, and spirit, should be yielded to God. He is to have authority over
every part of us, to give His salvation, His saving, His DNA to every aspect of
us. Then, we can exercise our God-given authority over every demon that tries
to divide us from ourselves.
First Thessalonians 5:23
says it this way: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The only way
that happens is if we relinquish our every part to the Lord. If we are holding
on to some unhealthy part of us, it is because Satan has sent a demon to
convince us that we need it.
Let’s stop letting demons divide us from our true
selves. Let’s give every part of us to the Lord, believe in our total salvation,
and let the Lord personally begin to show us what the new whole me looks like!
It’s available, and it’s true. The devil is a liar and a thief. Don’t let him
steal any part of you.
Love, Carolyn
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