Destruction
"Once we are in Christ, Satan has no authority to destroy us, so he settles for the next best thing: THREATENING to destroy us. Based on our histories and behaviors he deduces what we ourselves are most convinced would raze us. To the Devil, irony is delicious: our distrust of God tattles on us, telling our enemy exactly how to get us. Many of us habitually rehearse, "If _____ ever happens, then I'll just _______." Our fears become like long, bony index fingers pointing at our vulnerabilities. Once Satan sees what we believe would be the end of us, he threatens and torments us with it."
"Our natural human defense is to grovel before God and plead with him not to let those things happen. Our conditional trust not only makes us an open target for enemy torment; it also positions us as negotiators and beggars before God instead of secure children who trust their lives to their faithful Father. Those times when our fears become reality we feel devastated. We think God is unfaithful and Satan essentially gets what he wants - us to believe that life is over. Unless our belief system changes, for all practical earthly purposes, it is. After all, as a man thinks, so he is (Prov. 23:7)"
-Beth Moore, Esther
"Our natural human defense is to grovel before God and plead with him not to let those things happen. Our conditional trust not only makes us an open target for enemy torment; it also positions us as negotiators and beggars before God instead of secure children who trust their lives to their faithful Father. Those times when our fears become reality we feel devastated. We think God is unfaithful and Satan essentially gets what he wants - us to believe that life is over. Unless our belief system changes, for all practical earthly purposes, it is. After all, as a man thinks, so he is (Prov. 23:7)"
-Beth Moore, Esther
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