The Enemy Is The Author Of Confusion

The following is a Word the Lord gave me for a friend a few months ago, and I happened upon it today, when I needed it! Isn’t God awesome!
In fact as I was initially reading it, I thought, “Oh that’s good, I wonder who wrote that.”, no that’s not old age, that’s the Holy Spirit, when He gives you something it has not come from your mind, but from the throne room of Heaven. He gave it to me initially for someone else, yet knowing that I was going to need it today, Praise God, Amen! :

“If it's one thing the enemy wants us to be it is confused; confused about our past confused about our future and confused about our position in Christ. If he can keep us in a state of confusion then we can’t keep our focus on The Lord. If he can keep us dwelling in our past and the bad things that happened to us, or the bad things we have done, he will succeed in launching us into the depths of depression, guilt and every other negative and demeaning emotion possible.

God on the other hand knew from the beginning that He was going to birth us into our individual circumstances. For Him it was in order that no matter what the circumstance was He chose for us, that He would be able (if we submitted our will to Him) to make us victorious over the enemy of our souls, make us overcomers.

It’s all about our belief in Jesus Christ, it’s all about our faith in Him. The devil wants to bring us low so he can steel our faith, and Jesus wants to trust in Him, and keep our faith. It’s the age old battle for our eternal souls.

The reason God told us to keep our eye single to look neither to the left or to the right, was because He knew how the messenger of Satan would buffet us, how he would remind us of our past, of our failures, of our short comings.

I have learned to put the past behind me where it belongs, there is nothing I can do about my past, (except lend forgiveness to those who hurt me, and accept the forgiveness that Christ has extended to me), but I can do something about today. That is why the Lord says there is sufficient evil in today to battle against, in other words, yesterday is gone, today is here, tomorrow is in the Lords hands, because none of us has a promise of tomorrow….Amen.”

Addition today to the above. My grandma used to say, “My dear you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”
You can give people the Word of God, you can show them the way, it’s up to them if they accept or reject it. Only God can deal with the hearts of men and women.

As we see the day approaching the battle will grow more fierce, the enemy of our souls doesn’t stay silent for to long before he gets on the war path again. That is why it is of the utmost importance that we stay grounded in the Word of God, and stay filled with His Spirit. We need to rid ourselves of any root of bitterness, of any root of unforgiveness. Bitterness will eat us alive and unforgiveness will separate us from God's forgiveness toward us.

James 3:13-18
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

So where there is strife there is confusion.
What is the definition of strife?
Bitter sometimes violent conflict or dissension; fight, struggle, discord.
Exertion or contention for superiority.
Discord: lack of agreement or harmony, (as between persons, things, or ideas)
Active quarreling or conflict resulting from discord among persons or factions.

Proverbs 6:16-19
These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

While there are many opinions there is only One Truth, which will remain long after we are all dead and gone. The Truth will never pass away. God's Spirit bears witness to The Truth in the souls of the children of God.

1 Corinthians 14:32-33
For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

How do you judge dreams, prophecies and visions and words given by different people, when one may interpret it one way, and someone else another way?
You let that dream, vision, prophecy be judged by the Spirit filled prophets and by the Word of God…Amen

I thank God for those who do get on their face daily before God, who fast and seek His face, so that they have something to give to the body of Christ. We should all be daily seeking God for a Word from Him. There is only one reason a child of God doesn’t hear and receive from God, they don’t ask, they don’t seek, they don’t knock. We all need to learn how to ask of God that we be not destitute in the days to come..Amen