God & Devil

I tend to over think things. (And "tend" is an understatement.) Something I do over think is how the devil and how God can work, and I know over thinking in this situation is a very good thing. If you think about it, think about your life, you can see the devil working around you when things are going bad. He can play with your mind, he can make things seem worse than they really are, and he can push you away from God by making you think that God is the one causing the problem. As you can read in John 10:10, it is VERY clear on God's intentions and the devil's intentions.

The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

Here the "thief" is the devil, and "my" is God. If you are in pain, despair, depression, or anything along those lines, God is not testing you, God is not putting you through these things to teach you a lesson. It is the devil stealing your happiness, killing your health, and destroying your life. God's desire is for you to have a rich and satisfying life. A happy and fulfilling life with Him in it, with Him leading it.

Now keeping all of that in mind, what about when things are going good, plans are made, and then something happens that changes those plans, or things change to start going bad. The only way I can explain it is to give you and example...

As I stated in my last blog, I am re-studying healing. With the exception of my "condition" I haven't been sick since December, which is a VERY long time for me. Then yesterday I got sick, and my body thinks I'm sick again today. So I started thinking about this. I asked God this morning: "I'm studying healing, focusing on my health, and I get sick NOW, why?!" Then He said "Cause your on the right track." I think what that means is this, I'm scaring the devil with my prayers and my knowledge on healing. The devil is trying to break me down by making me sick. He is saying "Your God can heal, then why are you still sick, he can't heal." But I know he can, and I know he already did. I told Jeremy this morning that I was glad the devil was messing with me, cause I know I'm on the verge of discovering something amazing, my complete and total healing.

ABS