INSPIRASUNS

I couldn’t help but start this little blog this morning with major thank yous. Yesterday I asked for some simple prayers and my goodness the text messages, social media messages and phone calls from people, well, let’s just say I felt the prayers and the love! Thank you so much for reaching out and for lifting the prayers, oh and just keep those puppies coming because I can tell you satan sure despises them.

What I learned yesterday is that satan does indeed despise prayer. The more we dig into it, the more we pray for each other and this world, the more he feels he must end it. It’s like the more we pray the more active he becomes. I saw it first-hand yesterday. I commented to my husband on the way home last night that it was the strangest day. I mean from the moment I got to work, things just didn’t feel right. He said the same thing it took him a while to get focused and settle in. Another person in our office said the same thing. In a conversation with a friend last night, she too felt it, she described it as being a little “tipped off our axis”. Yep, that would describe it.

This morning as I chatted with Father and looked back over the events of yesterday, it started to make a little more sense. I thought back on the moments yesterday when I let satan get inside my head when he led me down holes I should not have gone. He helped my mind to go places that I should not have gone. It started from the moment I got to work, which of course was when you are were praying for me. As those prayers and text messages began to come in, satan became more agitated and more active. You know what, shame on me. When I went down those holes and into those places, I should have recognized what he was doing, and I should have stopped to pray even harder for focus and strength. Satan was showing how easily he could overcome the prayers of others. Which he can if we are not strong enough to stand against him.

I felt bad this morning as I realized that I let him win a battle yesterday. However, I verbally told him this morning that he won’t win this war, he won’t. It’s a new day, a new battle, and this time, I won’t let those prayers and their strength be overcome. Today, I take those prayers and the strength that comes with them and I tell satan to head back to his nasty little hole.

Friends, whether we want to believe it or not, satan is real and he takes great pleasure in upending things. He takes great pleasure in keeping us tipped off our axis. He wants us unsettled and unsure, that is where he gains an upper hand to insert doubt and all the other feelings that go along with that. We cannot let him win like that. We have to always come back to Father. It’s important to stop and tell satan, “not today”, and ask God for the strength to overcome the battle at hand.

So today is a new day, a new battle, and this time, well this time Father will help me overcome. Thank you again my friends for your many prayers yesterday. We need to keep lifting them for each other because you know what, they are working. The fact that satan is more active tells me he is pretty agitated and to that I say good, he should be agitated and more importantly he should be afraid, because God’s children are coming together. Have a great day my friends, together we win!

p.s. special thanks to my friend Carrie Baum for the awesome sunset picture from her vaca in Puerto Vallarta a few days ago.

1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray without ceasing.