“The Enemy Within Me”

We as Believers spend so much of our time studying demonic activity, possession and etc and trying to formulate concepts and ideologies that makes us sound deep that we miss the important foundational concepts needed for our advancement. We blame all mishaps, shortcomings, bad decision makings and bad situations on the devil. We give the devil way more credit that is due to him. We have to understand that the enemy has no power. He isn’t always attacking you or always tempting or causing you harm. In all actuality the person causing the most harm to you is YOU!!!

When Jesus died for our sins he defeated death, hell and the grave, stripping the devil of all of his power and authority. Your bible teaches that when we fall into sin it is because we have been drawn away by the lust and desires of our own flesh or our carnal nature. Your battle is not with the enemy; your battle is with yourself. It took me a while to gain this revelation and it took me going back to sin time after time to understand who the real enemy was.

If I can be honest, it wasn’t the devil who created sex site profiles, it was me, it wasn’t the devil who texted or called old sex partners it was me. It wasn’t the devil who bought and rolled and then smoked that blunt, it was me. It wasn’t the devil who cursed those people out it was me. My point is that we have to take responsibility for our own actions and get down to the root of the problem. We have to gain more self control and self discipline and all of that comes with being obedient to the word and voice of the Lord.

We spend too much to rationalizing and analyzing sin and not enough time listening and comprehending the will, ways and words of God. It was through disobedience that sin was even allowed to manifest. And it is that same disobedience that keeps us bound to our fleshly desires and pushes us farther away from the promises of God for our lives.

Let’s be clear,  if your actions were being controlled by the devil then you would be possessed and having sex would be the least of your problems. There is no way you can be saved and Holy Ghost filled and also be possessed by a demon. Not possible at all.  But that is for another post on another day. The whole purpose of this post was to just to take some time out to encourage and empower you to win the battle between you and yourself…It is time to take back your control and obey the will of the lord.

For a while now God has been calling me to minister and teach the gospel and for a while I have been disobeying. I even ran back to sexual sin just so I can have an excuse of why I wasn’t doing what thus says the Lord. But even in the midst of that God always sent people in my life that I had to minister to. And in the midst of my mess I found myself doing the very thing I was running from. He showed me that the reason behind Him orchestrating those events was so I can know that I wasn’t called because of my perfection or my intellect or my ability to stay holy. I was called because it was what He desired for me. I was called because He had chosen me and set me a part to be His prophet to the nations. So it is not by my strength or my perfection but only by the grace and mercy of the living God.

So my brothers and sisters don’t try and use sin as an excuse to not serve God. Do the will of God for your life and sin will have to be eradicated. Stop feeling guilty and stop feeling sorry for yourself and make it right. I had to repent and get back at the feet of Jesus and except the call and tonight I am about to teach bible study at my church. Is it my desire to sin again, no! Will I ever sin again, probably, but I have the favor of God and His love and mercy to help pick me back up and keep it moving. No longer will I allow the enemy within me to keep me from all God has called me to and I suggest you do the same.