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What's your next move?

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utterly disgusting. To completely abhor the sight of something. It is literally a detestable sight to look at.

It is complete wickedness to God. It is morally repugnant to him. Have you ever smelled something so bad it made you want to quickly get rid of it before your stomach is nauseous? This is how God feels about us playing in darkness.

When we allow a foothold or breech into our home, we open ourselves up to a devilish spiritual ruined home. Be ye holy for he is Holy. (1 Peter 1:13-16). Can we be like Jesus? Obviously not.

But if we love him, and keep his commandments, our hearts should strive to follow him in obedience. Do you blow it times? Yes. But just like learning to ride a bike for the first time, because we really want to learn, we keep trying.

Playing with and bringing into the family home what we think are harmless games of boogeyman scaring items, will literally open the door and invite spiritual oppression against you and your family.

Devils are fallen angelic spiritual beings that decided to follow Satan's disobedience towards God. (Isaiah 14:12-15). They now do the bidding of their defeated corrupt leader to destroy as many human lives as possible. (John 10:10).

Ouija boards, Psychics. Tarot card readings, and Necromancy (attempts to communicate with the dead), and dark video games list of spiritual antics share a common thread. Darkness and death.

They encourage people to place hope in anything or anyone or any spirits and other dark sources other than the supreme love God wants to shower on them. People in hell today are extremely saddened by their choice. (Luke 16:19-31).

I can imagine people today rejecting their only source of salvation and eternal life which comes from hearing "Good News" to sit down at the table in their home playing chess with Satan himself.

Beloved, Satan will always keep you "checkmate status" if you continue to open the door and playing his game. But with Jesus, even as Satan yells checkmate! against your soul, you still have one move left.

But that seemingly impossible move cannot be made by you, but by Jesus being at the table with you. You see beloved, Jesus has already defeated the devil at every game he has tried. Don't believe me? Read (Matthew 4:1-11).

Hallelujah! You see beloved, authentic born-again believers do not have to worry about losing any games against Satan. Why? Because Jesus already did it for us. Here’s what the angel Michael said to him in a conversation.


"Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke thee." (Jude 1:9 KJV).

Some people try to burn the spiritual candle at both ends. They have a Bible in their home on one shelf (collecting dust) and keep Steven King and other horror books on the other shelf. You cannot serve both.

25} "And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

26} And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? 27} And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

28} But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 29} Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

30} He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." (Matthew 12:25-30 KJV).


"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." (Matthew 6:24 KJV).

If there's darkness in your home, you can cleanse it today and the enemy will leave. (Zechariah 3:2; James 4:7-10; 1 Peter 5:8-9). God expects you to do your part if you desire his presence in your family home.

Here's what the newly saved people did in Israel after hearing Paul speak the gospel with powerful words. At that time There were religious copycats who made a living claiming to cast out devils. (Acts 19:13-18).

[itinerant Jewish exorcists would recite a whole list of names in their incantations to be sure of including the right deity. Here they were trying to use Jesus’ name in an effort to match Paul’s power.]

That evil spirit certainly knew who Paul was but didn't care to know who those Jewish exorcists were because he knew they surely did not know God. They were just religious pretenders making money from those who really needed God.

But today is a great blessing for those of you who have all kinds of demonic magical stuff in your home. Here's where you get to follow the same instructions as those in Paul's day. Please read it into your spirit.


18} "And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

19} Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

20} So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed." (Acts 19:18-20 KJV).

 

 

🗣📢 Last words: You too, can rid those things in your home by throwing them away for the God's spiritual garbage truck to remove all that demonic stuff on trash day. Then invite God in and watch his glorious presence begin to evade your home.

You see beloved, Satan always thinks he has the winning hand in any game you play with him. He tried to get Jesus to play his game and Jesus defeated and rebuked him. The Devil still thinks he can win, but the King of kings still has the winning move.

Without God, many people try to play the game of life with Satan. You can see the hurtful results by looking at our society today. We have all the money in this country, all the educational tools, all the churches, (religious false doctrines), and yet..

And yet we still have the worst homeless epidemic above other nations, we have high suicidal rates, more children than ever confused with dysphoria about who their identity is, more stories of teachers handling them wrongly.

More criminals being released into neighborhoods to hurt more women and children. Deterrents have stopped working because we don't use them anymore. I could go on and on about the plight of our nation.

We seem to be list in the game Satan is playing with us where we now say, "evil is good and good is evil." I'd like to ask everyone a question. "If Jesus were physically here and ran for president, would you vote for him?

Don't forget, he's a King also. It's time to kick Satan out of home and pray for hearts to be revived like Nehemiah did after he saw everything broken in Jerusalem. We can expose the darkness with the good news of the gospel.

Again many people pick up stuff and bring it into their homes thinking it won't do any harm. People dive into these activities for entertainment’s sake. But while many assume these actions are benign or comical, they can cause pain.

Before we close for the day, take a brief look at what happened when Paul confronted a woman who thought she could predict the future (being used by an evil spirit). She followed Paul around for days. (Acts 16:16-19).

On the surface you might think this woman was being a help to the Paul by crying out, "These are the men of the most high God!" Sounds ok, right? Why mess with her? But her profession gave her away.

The woman was possessed with a spirit of divination. Get it? Others couldn't tell what spirit was using her, but Paul knew. what fortune-telling was and that her ability came from evil spirits.

[Faced with the loss of their slave girl’s fortune-telling ability, the Philippian entrepreneurs were furious. Never mind that Paul and Silas were speaking eternal truths.]

Did you also notice that they didn't even care that the woman was delivered and ser free from the evil spirit? That only cared about their power and income status. Sounds a lot like some of our politicians who pretend to care victims of crime.

They couldn't see the hurt in this woman because they were blinded also in their hearts by demonic forces. Satan is great at carrying blindfolds around and placing them over unsuspecting spiritually bankrupt people.


3} "But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

4} In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2 Corinthians 4:3-4 KJV).


You see beloved, Paul lived and walked in verses 5-7. Paul also gave us instructions on how to defeat the forces of darkness that may come in our home or church. It's something called armor. And when used properly it never fails.

Some try to use the defensive part and never carry the offensive part which is meant for their heart and soul. Even if you just used the defensive part, eventually the enemy would find a breech and break up your armor.

This armor is to be worn for life until you no longer need it once you are at your real home in the presence of Jesus, your Savior. (Ephesians 6:10-18). The sword is the word of God (The Bible).

If you don't carry your sword, (God's word extended from your heart and mind) you will eventually wear down like Iron man's suit was in the movie Infinity War/Endgame by Thanos. Reading the Bible is power for your sword.

Here's four easy things you can begin to do immediately at home after church and scheduling throughout the week. First, remove all games of darkness out of your home. The children might buck like a wild horse for a bit.

But even bucking horses get tired after a while. Don't give in to your loving parental boundaries that protect your kids. Here are the other three commitments you can make.


A) Make a commitment to read scripture daily. (2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16-17;  1 Thessalonians 2:4; Romans 12:1-2; James 1:18-25; Colossians 3:23-24; Acts 20:27).

B) Pray, pray, pray. And pray some more. Make prayer (talking to God), like you do with breathing every day. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; Ephesians 6:18; Luke 18:1; Romans 12:12; Colossians 4:2; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 105:4).

C) Live out your faith in trusting Jesus above all other religions and cults. Jesus continues to be the only way to the Father (God). He's the only one that forgives sin, shed his blood for your sin, died and rose from the dead just for you.


Once you accept him as Lord and Savior (Romans 10:8-13), allow him to fill you with the overflowing power of the Holy Spirit, embracing his calling on your life and loving others as Jesus has loved you.

Remember beloved, God is not playing games when it comes to playing deadly games aimed at destroying your soul and relationship with him. Confessing sin brings God's grace on your life.

Seek the Lord for wisdom and guidance that only he can give. God loves you, and he desires that you not try to make contact with the spirits of the dead but with him instead. He’s paved the way through the cross.

In your reading devotions, please take time to read Matthew Chapters 5-7 and also John chapter 17. Let’s all avoid the occult but, most importantly, let’s live our lives daily for Jesus and take up the shield that only faith can provide.


🛐 Here’s a prayer you can pray to win against the dark games in your home. "Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing your light wrapped in truth to my home and family.

 

Today, I stand on your amazing promises that no spiritual weapon of darkness can be used against me or my family. Lord, I repent of any sin of divination and renounce all involvement in occult activities, directly or indirectly.

Lord, I break every form of witchcraft, sorcery, divination, and familiar spirit that has been sent against me, my family, and my destiny. By the authority given to me through you Lord, I cancel every spell, hex, curse, and magic on me.

I break every demonic assignment meant to hinder my walk with you. I ask you to bind and banish every spirit of divination and manipulation from my life, and I seal my mind, body, and spirit with the blood of Jesus.

Lord, cleanse my heart of any desire for counterfeit truth and fill me with your Holy Spirit. Give me wisdom and discernment to walk in your freedom. Thank you for your mercy that makes me new. In Jesus’ name, I claim victory, Amen."

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