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Don’t be deceived into to thinking you can have the worship of God and have your sin too. You humiliated the devil the day you came to Christ and Jesus made an open display against the powers of darkness but now your mortally wounded by an enemy you let live and you sit in the House of God disguising your sin. It’s time to get to higher ground and move to where the Cross is. Today, humble yourself, pull of your disguise and the Lord will receive your prayer and shame the devil. Today don’t reject the voice of God lest your compromise swallow you up.

Have you ever been disappointed in God? Are you among those sitting in the house of God feeling a little outside of it all, wondering if your relationship with God could ever be the way it once was? In these seasons we are prone to make the mistakes. Discouragement and bitterness against God come into the heart when the plan doesn’t move forward like we thought it should move forward. Your plans may have amounted to nothing but God’s plan is still ongoing and God’s plan is the best plan of all. God hasn’t written you off, He has not forgotten you and the best for your life is yet to come.

We have all fallen short because of the sin issue. The entire world has received a citation from God and we can’t pay it. Those who God passionately loves are in a condition that God passionately hates. No man can make himself a Christian, God Sent His Son to die for the sin of man and only God can make man a Christian. We don’t get good and come to Jesus, we come to Jesus and He gives us His goodness. Admit you’re a sinner, believe Jesus for forgiveness and freedom and He will fix your sin condition―it’s that simple.

The thief has come to kill your future and family, to steal your joy and hope and to kill your effectiveness on earth. The devil will have us believe we will always be in pursuit of a victory we will never catch. Today we are reminded that we have been given weaponry in Christ to pursue the kingdom of darkness and pulldown strongholds. As the Church of Jesus Christ we should stop sniffling and stand up against Satan because we have a General that is so powerful that the mention of His name can fold up the universe.

Preached at Our Savior's Church in Lafayette, Louisianna

We are living in an age of darkness and without God intervening, this generation will end up hopeless. We are up against a lawlessness that sets itself against all that is from God. We must never lose sight that the battle we fight is for the souls of men. It doesn’t matter how difficult life looks when we turn to God in prayer we are empowered to pull down every stronghold. We must take a stand by getting on our knees to push back the darkness and bring about a season of mercy through prayer.