The devil is a liar.

The devil is cunning and crafty and the mere definition of everything that all wicked evil men are composed of…he even appears enticing, as Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians 12, he masquerades as an angel of light…

Deceiver, promoter of evil, knows our very habits and weaknesses. He knows where I’m likely to take the bait of temptation, as he’s studied me, and all humanity, since the beginning.

He knows that I doubt my own thoughts and ability to succeed as God is growing me out of that… and he attacks… especially as breakthrough gets closer.

The devil attacks harder and harder and harder as he watches the God dream get closer and closer to being birthed through me… the faster I learn his tricks, the less easily he will be able to get me off in the weeds, feeling confused.

He sees me in the secret place and he burns with hatred at me. He sees me having private conversations he is not privy to with the Holy Spirit, praying in tongues, slaying his assignments, and assigning the angelic, and there’s nothing that he can do to stop it.

He hates that he cannot stop me.

So he keeps on trying every little trick in that tiny book of played out memorized plays.

Nothing new for him to throw.

But here’s the deal.

He got one up on me, two actually, since last May. The first one I’ll be sharing later.

But the one today, he curve-balled me and made me mad.

He triggered something in me that I didn’t realize was a deep, underlying thing that needs uprooting… the fear of not knowing what I don’t know.

The unavoidable place we find ourselves in when we literally didn’t have knowledge- we didn’t know we were supposed to know a thing…

It sends sheer panic in me.

To do something wrong without knowing I did something wrong, or to not do something I should do because I didn’t know I should do it.

It comes from fear of making a mistake, and the devil lures me into his playground with it.

“you don’t know all there is yet to know about that, so you better not say a word yet… you’ll steer people wrong.”

“you don’t live that perfectly yet so you can’t share about that yet…”

Well, when will we ever have all the knowledge of anything? When will we ever live things perfectly?

The answer to that is never. NEVER EVER.

So the devil uses this to keep you rounding the mountain, over thinking, over analyzing, keeping you thinking you still have sin and you cannot be trusted, you can’t even trust yourself…

But here’s what he didn’t account for… I didn’t even recognize that root was there until he messed with it… so guess what?

God’s going to help me pull it up and out, to never sprout again.

Here comes full healing, forever and final, on the way by the power of the blood of Jesus.

It’s nothing personal… his job is to keep the kingdom quiet and not activated by watering it all down in anyway he can.

To keep you focused on you, and not them.

Who?

Them.

Gods kids need Him, and He needs you to tell them about Him.

So go do it.

God’ll finish His work in you, faithfully while you walk and learn along the way.

Make some mistakes. It will be fun, and it will be fine.

Learn some things you didn’t know you didn’t know.

Curse the darkness, and tell the devil to shut up.

Pull up that little sprout that came up today once and for all.

God’s the only One in charge here.

Jesus finished it.