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MEDITATE ON THESE PRECIOUS
PASSAGES:
1-THE
CHURCH WALKING WITH THE WORLD
2-POWER-FULL
REMNANT!
3-GOD
HAS A CHURCH
4-CARRIED
ABOUT WITH WINDS
5-APOSTATE
LEADERS
6-WHO
DO YOU WORSHIP??
7-GOD'S
LIGHT; NOT OUR SPARKS
8-PROVE
ALL THINGS!
9-TRUST
HIM ONLY!!
10-REJECTING
TRUTH
11-BUSY!!
12-AS
THY DAYS...
13-HAVING
A BAD DAY??
21-ALONE!
22-EMANCIPATION
23-PRESENTING
GOD!
24-
REBELLION
25-
SUBDUE SATAN
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Busy!
Subject:
Read on if you're BUSY!
Satan called a worldwide convention
of demons. In
his opening address he said,
"We can't keep
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
relationship with their Savior.
Once they gain that
connection with Jesus, our power
over them is
broken."
"So let them go to their
churches; let them have
their covered dish dinners, but
steal their time, so
they don't have time to develop a
relationship with Jesus Christ.
This is what I want
you to do", said the devil:
"Distract them from
gaining hold of their Savior and
maintaining
that vital connection throughout
their day!"
"How shall we do this?"
his demons shouted. "Keep
them busy in the nonessentials of
life and invent
innumerable schemes to 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 families fragment, soon,
their homes 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 and
TV so their husbands will believe
that outward
beauty is what's important, and
they'll become
dissatisfied with their wives. Keep
the wives too
tired to love their husbands at
night. Give them
headaches too! If they don't give
their husbands the
love they need, they will begin to
look elsewhere.
That will fragment their families
quickly!"
"Give them Santa Claus to
distract them from
teaching their children the real
meaning of
Christmas. Give them an Easter
bunny so they won't
talk about his resurrection and
power over sin and
death."
"Even in their recreation, let
them be excessive.
Have them return from their
recreation exhausted.
Keep them too busy to go out in
nature and reflect
on God's creation. Send them to
amusement parks,
sporting events, plays, concerts,
and movies
instead. Keep them busy, busy,
busy!"
And when they meet for spiritual
fellowship, involve
them in gossip and small talk so
that they leave
with troubled consciences."
"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 plan! The demons
went eagerly to
their assignments causing
Christians everywhere to
get more busy and more rushed,
going here and there.
Having little time for their God or
their families.
Having no time to tell others about
the power of
Jesus to change lives. 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?
Pass this on, (if you aren't
too BUSY)!
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