Highway Robbery

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly."

The devil comes in all shapes and sizes. If you look at your life to see the area's you have found victory or are working to find victory, you will notice that there is a pattern of things that have come to destroy you or to steal the victory from you. Lets say you are working on praising God in all things, because that is a choice we have to make, the devil is going to throw everything at you, things that go wrong at work, at home. Look at Job, but the more we make a choice to stand firm in God, the more we praise Him for the things that He is doing, we will learn from those lessons, instead of cursing God for them, we will be thankful in all circumstances.

The devil does not want us to learn from our mistakes, he wants to bring us down, to destroy our thinking, to make us feel like we are defeated, but Jesus said Romans 8:37-39 "37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,39 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."

Stop holding onto all the junk and start praising God for every aspect of your life, even the difficult ones. For yes the devil will try to win, but guess what... Jesus has won already. Give it to God and when it comes back keep giving it to God until it no longer comes back, because Jesus has already won. These are hard choices, but they are necessary for us to walk in freedom.

Remember the devil wants to destroy you, he wants to lie to you, he wants to bring you down to his level, don't let him, stand firm in the one that has already WON.

The Bible is full of warnings about the lies of the devil, it is full of truths that we need to be watchful of, God is calling us to arms, are we arming ourselves or are we conforming ourselves to this world?
1 Timothy 4:1 "...in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons...." or 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-12 "The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."