Word of God for Today - All Seasons & Satan's Trap!

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-All Seasons-

If you wait until dangers comes or something bad to happen before you call upon the name of the Lord as your deliverer, instead of walking with Him closely day-by-day, it wont work! If you want God to deliver you in the bad times, you should have fellowship with him in the good times. People don't build buildings in a typhoon or plant fields during storm. They do it in the good times so when the bad times come they are ready. I'm not saying to prepare for problems but the devil will always challenge your Faith and he will always try to take advantage of weak Christians and put the blame all on God.

God responds to Faith! Spending time with Him will develop trust and confidence. When you serve God whole heartedly it builds within you faith in Him to deliver you in times of trouble. Walk closely with him in the good times. Then, when you need Him to deliver you, without a doubt you will have that confidence within you. So spend time with the Lord in the good times, get to know Him and Psalm 91: 14-16 will become a reality in you.

Psalm 91:14-16 "Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name. He shall call on Me, and I will answer Him; I will be with Him in trouble, I will deliver Him, and honor Him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation".

-Satan's Trap!-

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In the God's word in Eph 4:17-19 "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness".

There is a strategy that the Satan uses as a trap to try take control over our lives. The Bible calls it "lasciviousness" it means to have no restraint. Don't fall for this trap against you. You need to make up your mind to obey God in the little things. For example we can spend hours watching television every day without any self restraint or having no discipline in your daily lives. Lasciviousness has been preached as being extreme immorality, but it doesn't start out that way. It begins with just a few seemingly innocent thoughts. Then those thoughts grow and grow until they begin to produce serious sin. If you have no restraints in your life it can cause your flesh to become boss over you. If there is just one area in your life where you have no restraints or self control then that's an open door for Satan to set more traps of un restraint in other areas.

Always remember the Word of God for today...:)