DON’T
LET DEMONS DIVIDE YOU FROM YOURSELF
God
always was and still is 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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