Satan is Real - But God is Victorious

Torment starts in your head and calls you to spread it throughout your body.  It is the bait of the Trojan horse of feelings, excuses, and rationales.  Come, it says, escape in alcohol, drugs, sex, or any means of self absorption … even death. You can avoid facing the pain and truth you feel.  Come, escape. 

When you feed your mind with how hard and bad your life is, you have taken the bait. Every bait has a hook (substance, attitude, hard heart) and Satan pulls us to and fro and reels us closer and closer to destruction, to confusion, hopelessness, condemnation, and believing we are unlovable and unloved. Satan steals our peace by highlighting and twisting what we perceive as our mistreatment, and the void of love in our life. We become angry, bitter, defensive and hard hearted. Our stone heart allows us to be angry at people and use blame and self defense as a justification for acting immoral, mean, and hateful to others. He begins to destroy us from the inside out - and it all starts in our heart and mind. His whole purpose is to kill, steal, and destroy.

We all live in this imperfect world and must endure circumstances, situations, and experiences that are often horrible, and we may have no control over them. Only through Christ can we choose to see ourselves as new creatures every day.  Through Christ, we take every thought captive; we can live in His love, grace, and mercy.  He has given us this power through Christ’s sacrifice and resurrection. God says He will make a way, He will give us strength. He will deliver us from things, He will carry or walk with us through the fires in our lives, or He will deliver us into His arms. He knows what we need to make us rely and trust in Him. When we know who we are in Christ, we will learn and grow from every hardship that comes our way. We will look for our lesson; we will see challenges as a process of growing and not as a punishment.

God is the only one who can help, shield, protect, and arm you against Satan. When you don’t have a personal relationship with Him and don’t read His word, you are choosing to face Satan and his army naked and alone, on a hill, in the middle of a hurricane! Satan promises riches, power, and popularity, but they all blow away in the wind. He cannot promise that we will reign for all eternity as coheirs with him.  Only Christ can promise that, and He does. Satan never says he will love us and protect us. His goal is to steal, kill, and destroy. Only with God can we overcome the tragedies and turmoil of life.

Who will you love, trust, and believe, God or Satan?