The devil uses
three weapons to destroy men and women of God who serve or have the desire to
serve Him on the altar. But there’s one weapon that is the most dangerous, and
if men and women of God are not alert, it will knock them down.
1. The devil’s first
weapon is to put the temptation of women in the path of a man of God, and
men in the path of a woman of God. The devil does this to weaken them.
2. The second weapon
the devil uses can even look like a blessing from God, which is prosperity. The
devil does this so that the person prospers and loses his fire for the work of
God on the altar. He knows that if that person begins to serve God, he or she
will set the world on fire. Note: sure, we need to have blessed financial lives
before serving on the altar; but we must never lose focus of what we really
want, which is to save souls.
3. The third weapon
is pride. The devil finds a way to blind the person, making him oblivious to
the fact that he is proud. And the proud, for the most part, don’t even know
that they’re proud.
Let’s move on to
our story and you will learn the fourth weapon that the devil uses to
destroy those who do the Work of God.
There was a pastor
in a church who succeeded in everything he did. He had communion with God and
lived in holiness, praying, fasting and reading the Bible. Wherever he went,
the work developed and many people converted, for there were healings and
miracles.
Seeing this, the
devil held a meeting in hell and sent the first demon, the Sexpot. And she said
to the pastor, “I’m gonna take you down!”
The pastor
immediately rebuked that demon, prayed, fasted, read the Bible, strengthened
his marriage, and the demon went away.
Then, the devil
held another meeting and decided to send Greed in order to fill the pastor’s
eyes with material ambition. Once again, the pastor prayed, fasted, read the
Bible, sacrificed all he had, and the devil was defeated.
The devil was
furious, and so he sent Pride to fill the pastor’s heart with a self-centred
ego. But the pastor prayed, fasted, read the Bible, and humbled himself before
God. And once again, the devil was defeated
The devil saw that
all his attempts had failed. Angrily he sent the three demons to the church
where that pastor was in order to find whatever flaw they could. The demons
went to the church and began watching him closely.
One day, the three
demons, still searching for a mistake that could be used against the pastor,
saw another demon passing by the church. He was walking with a stick and looked
tired. And the three demons began mocking him, “You tired old devil! What are
doing here?” And they asked him his name.
Out of the corner
of his eye he looked at them and with a sarcastic smile on his face said, “My
name? I am TIME. And you, what are you doing here?”
The other demons
told him about their mission and how they had failed so far. He said to them,
“Just wait and I’ll tell you what to do. Don’t hurry,” he added, “because I
know how to work.” And he began his subtle moves.
First, he worked
on the pastor’s time, making him busy with many things to do. It wasn’t long
until he had no more time to fast, and he became weak. Then he no longer had
time to read the Bible, and so he no longer heard the voice of God. Without
hearing the voice of God, he lost communion with Him. That was when that demon
commanded the others to swing into action. And that was how the pastor who set
the world on fire fell.
Time is the fourth
weapon of the devil to neutralise the faith of those who do not persevere.
Sometimes he makes us busy with many things. Other times, he gives us a false
sense of well-being, making things easier for us so that we relax in our faith.
And that’s how he strikes us down.
Always remember
where you came from and what God has done in your life in order to remain firm
in the faith. The overcomer is not the one who starts the race, but the one who
finishes it.
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