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Devotional
Thursday 11th of March 2010
2 Samuel 9:3-8 (NIV)
3 The king asked, "Is there no one still left of the house of Saul to whom I can
show God's kindness?" Ziba answered the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan,
he is crippled in both feet." 4 "Where is he?" the king asked. Ziba answered,
"He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar." 5 So King David had him
brought from Lo Debar, from the house of Makir son of Ammiel. 6 When Mephibosheth son of
Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he bowed down to pay him honor. David said,
"Mephibosheth!" "Your servant," he replied. 7 "Don't be afraid,"
David said to him, "for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father
Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you
will always eat at my table." 8 Mephibosheth bowed down and said, "What is your
servant, that you should notice a dead dog like me?"
Now you can imagine Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, living down there in Lo Debar
with nothing and just barely scraping through on a daily basis and he didn't know that
he had a covenant with King David through his father. He didn't know all that he had. Lo
Debar means a desert place, like a dung heap where people just survived.
When David said, "Send for him and bring him to me", and when Mephibosheth
came, he said to David, "What is your servant, that you should notice a dead dog like
me"? That's low, poor self esteem isn't it?
Isn't it amazing that we too can be like Mephibosheth? Many of us have a
covenant with God and we're living in Lo Debar because we don't know what that
covenant is. We're barely making it through. We have this picture of ourselves as a dead
dog. "Why would God help me? I know about me. I deserve to die". But yet just like
David, Jesus said, "I've got a covenant with you. Everything I have is yours,
everything you have is Mine. I gave you beauty for your ashes. I gave you the oil of joy for
your sadness, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I gave you My righteousness
for your sin. I gave you My health for your sickness. I gave you My peace for your turmoil.
I gave you My acceptance with God for your rejection from God.
Thursday 11th of March 2010
1 Timothy 4:1 (NIV)
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow
deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
The question that often comes into the minds of many Christians is, "How could
Satan blind my mind so that I could believe a lie?" The answer is found in the above
scripture where it is quite obvious that the words 'spirits and devils' are in the
plural and not the singular. Therefore, it is not Satan himself who is blinding the minds of
humanity, but rather his demon spirits. It is his demon spirits that do his ground work here
upon the earth, and the weapons they use are enticing philosophies with a scriptural
foundation that has been taken out of context. This is why the Bible warns the believer in
1 John 4:1 (NIV) Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
My friends, just because you receive some spiritual revelation from the Word of God
does not necessarily mean that it is the Holy Spirit who is speaking to you. After all, if a
demon knocked on the door of your mind and said, "Hi, I'm working for Satan and he
has sent me to destroy your life. I'm going to begin with your marriage, progress to
your finances and end my run by destroying your health. Would you please cooperate?" Of
course, you would not! You would tell him to get far away from you, or in plain English, you
would tell him to go to hell where he belongs!
This is why when a demon comes to spin his web of deception over your mind, he says,
(just like he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, or when he tried to tempt Jesus
in the wilderness), "Hi, God here and I have a special truth to reveal unto you."
Then he will give you a 'special foundational scripture' and even though you may
have read that scripture one hundred times before, you have never seen it like you are
seeing it now. The excitement of seeing this scripture in the light of this 'new
revelation' blinds you to the fact that it has been taken completely out of context.
This is how solid doctrine is undermined by these seducing spirits. A seducing
spirit is a lying spirit that has the task of implanting a seed of heresy into the mind that
will lead you away from the foundational truths that are complete in Christ. Then, after you
have accepted this new revelation, this demon will proceed to build a vain philosophy in the
realm of your mind that will lead you away from Christ and make you the prisoner of this
'new found truth'.