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THE DEVIL'S WORLDWIDE CONVENTION
Satan called a worldwide convention. In his
opening address to his evil angels, he said,
"We can't keep the Christians from going
to church. We can't keep them from reading
their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't
even keep them from forming an intimate, abiding
relationship experience in Christ. If they
gain that connection with Jesus, our power
over them is broken. So let them go to their
churches; let them have their conservative
lifestyles, but steal their time, so they
can't gain that relationship with Jesus Christ.
This is what I want you to do, angels.Distract
them from gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining that vital connection throughout
their day!" "How shall we do this?"
shouted his angels."Keep them busy in
the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable
schemesto occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend,and
borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives
to go to work for long hours and the husbands
to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a
day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles.
Keep them from spending time with their children.
As their family fragments, soon, their home
will offer no escape from the pressures of
work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that
they cannot hear that still, small voice.
Entice them to play the radio or cassette
player whenever they drive.To keep the TV,
VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in
their home and see to it that every store
and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical
music constantly. This will jam their minds
and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines
and newspapers. Pound their minds with the
news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving
moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes
with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional
offering free products, services and false
hopes. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the
magazines so the husbands will believe that
external beauty is what's important, and they'll
become dissatisfied with their wives. Ha!
That will fragment those families quickly!"
"Even in their recreation, let them
be excessive. Have them return from their
recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared
for the coming week.Don't let them go out
in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send
them to amusement parks, sporting events,
concerts and movies instead. Keep them busy,
busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual
fellowship, involve themin gossip and small
talk so that they leave with troubled consciences
and unsettled emotions."Go ahead, let
them be involved in soul winning; but crowd
their lives with so many good causes they
have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon
they will be working in their own strength,
sacrificing their health and family for the
good of the cause. It will work! It will work!"
It was quite a convention. The evil angels
went eagerly to their assignments causing
Christians everywhere to get more busy and
more rushed,going here and there. I guess
the question is:Has the devil been successful
at his scheme? You be the judge! Does "busy"mean:
B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?"Put on
the full armor of God so that you can take
your stand against the devil's schemes. For
our struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the authorities,
against the powers of this dark world and
against the spiritual forces of evil in the
heavenly realms."Ephesians 5: 11-12