Last week on Facebook live I shared with you to overcome lies we must know truth. We can take the lie and speak truth to it. We looked at the fall in Genesis 2:25-3:7. The first lie Satan told is that we cannot trust God. We contrasted Satan and God. We looked at Satan’s true nature as the father of lies and the accuser. We looked at Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life and how the Holy Spirit is both our advocate and intercedes for us, as does Jesus. We examined John 10:10, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” We closed with James 4:7, “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
If you missed it, I would strongly encourage you to take a listen to it. You will find it by clicking here, then scroll down until you see the video from Friday, January 6, 2017.
Today we will take a look a little deeper into that first lie, we cannot trust God. Much like an onion, this lie has layers, at the core is the question, “Is God really love?”
When the enemy is whispering this lie to me I don’t exactly hear, “You cannot trust God,” or “God doesn’t love you.” I hear other versions of it, such as, “I can only trust myself,” or “If God loved me, my circumstances would look different” or a myriad of similar trains of thought. I could go on with other examples.
Quite possibly we have created a god in our minds that is not reflective of the One True God. We are putting our eggs in the basket of a false god. We are looking to this god to meet our wants and desires. We expect smooth sailing. We become angry when life does not go our way. We become angry with this god because he is not answering our prayers. In our anger we arrogantly look within ourselves to solve the problem because once again, we are the only ones who can take care of us. No on can be trusted. And the enemy gets the victory. He has convinced us that God is not listening…that God is refusing to answer our prayers…that God doesn’t love us…and that we must be self-sufficient.
Oh, friends, when you read this doesn’t it make you mad? It makes me mad because I do get tripped up on this all too often. But that can change because “with God nothing is impossible.” (Luke 1:37)
Let’s take a look at the verses we can use to replace the lie with truth.
I am a child of God. 1 John 3:1, “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” When we are in Christ we are called His children. How do we see God’s love most demonstrated for us? On the cross. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
I am inseparable from God’s love. Romans 8:38,39, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Did you read that? NOTHING can separate us for His love. “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no on can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.” John 10:27-29. We are in His hand and no one can snatch us out. In fact, Isaiah 49:16 says, “See I have engraved you on the palms of my hands.”
The Word of God is full of verses declaring God’s love for us. As we begin to declare His love for us and who we are in Christ, we will begin to believe it, and once we believe it then our mind is transformed and the lies will fade away.
Join me tonight on Facebook live at 8PM MT to take a deeper look at how to overcome lies from the enemy.
