Wednesday was women's group. I knew I had to do a little talk on the armour of God, cos in BSF, the two weeks we were learning a little about Standing Firm Against The Devil's Schemes, the recording went wonky so some ppl missed the teaching. Yes, Somebody Out There doesn't want people being Alert to his sneaky ways. So I knew I had to save this one for a week for my precious laydeez. The majority of women of our church who used to come to women's group are now volunteering in the Cafe on Wed morns so we had the meetin in church. I pulled them out the cafe for a bit & gave out all I understand from Ephesians 6 v10-20. With actions & sound. I pull it together from my personal bible study, what I learned in BSF and what I used to help the kids study it too.
I am nervous going in, I don't want to ruin a good bit of bible with my delivery or whatever, but afterwards one of my precious younger-sisters-in-christ said it was exactly what she was needing this week, as if I knew what was going on in her mind....Well Of Course I Don't! But The Lord does & it is a privilege to be His little messenger girl!
The main thing that struck me about the enemy's ways are:
He accuses me - tells me all about my past sins, "aren't you supposed to be a christian?...Give up! You'll never be good enough..."
Correct, I will NEVER be good enough & that's why the Good News is SO GOOD! Jesus sees all my sin & has Victory over it!
He accuses us to each other - in church - you know he loves to encourage these thoughts about fellow christians:
"He looks holy now but what about his bad habit of...."
"was she joking earlier or does she think bad of me?"
"i don't think he likes me"
"she made a commitment but she's still doing that bad thing"
Yeah and all he needs us to do is DOUBT GOD'S LOVE & CARE.
Be alert people!
God has given us all we need to deal with this!
"Peace out!"
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