Name Your Enemy

Today, after I returned home from trying to land a job, I received an email that told me my resume had went to certain people and that I was being considered for a position in a company. That same email told me to "pray...pray...pray!"

I looked up today's devotion at Bible.com and was told given a passage from Mark where Jesus talked about removing parts of my body that caused me to sin.

What's more is that my pastor, Dan Caldwell, began a message he called "Conversion Preaching." He spoke of what being a disciple means.

When I became quiet and was about to pray, a voice (spoken to my heart or mind) told me to know my enemy. I believed I was being told to speak out against my situation (finances, job situation) but I was wrong. I then thought (per the devotional) that I was being told to pray against any spirits that had an assignment on me. I was on the righ track but it went deeper than that.

I was told to name my enemy.

His name is satan.

The Bible says that all he wants to do is kill, steal, and destroy.

With all the tools he has had available, he has been doing just that in my life. He first plan (Plan A) is to steal you from God, to steal your salvation, steal your joy, your eternal happiness. We are bombarded continually by forces that appeal to our basest natures, our flesh. Our desires for satifaction are hard to keep in check on their own without the help of internet and other media making the job nearly impossible. With the help of Jesus and willpower, we can resist and not indulge our fantasies.

So there's Plan B: destroy.

If satan cannot steal you from God, he will try to destroy you by whatever means he has available. He will do anything he can to slip you up, get you frustrated, and make you want to quit trying. Once he gets you to quit trying, he's won.

Then finally, the last one: he will kill you. That speaks for itself. It's better that you're alive in heaven where you're not influencing events here on earth.

That's it. Satan's master plan for you.

Now ask yourself why you're so important to God that satan would go to such lengths to keep you out of God's plans. What is it about you that has satan so worried that he would go to so much trouble to steal you, destroy you, or kill you?

If he's not trying to do these things to you, if he's not worried about you, then you're not a threat. And that's only possible if plan A or plan B was successful.

Only you can answer that.