This was sent to us by Damon Toney
Satan called a worldwide convention.
In his opening address to his evil angels, he said,
"We can't keep the
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, abiding relationship experience in Christ.
If they gain that
connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.
So let them go to
their churches; let them have their conservative
lifestyles, but steal their
time, so they can't gain that relationship with Jesus
Christ. This is what I
want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining
hold of their Savior and
maintaining that vital connection throughout their
day!" "How shall we do
this?" shouted his angels. "Keep them busy in the non
essentials 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
family fragments,
soon, their home 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 so the husbands
will believe that external beauty is what's
important, and they'll become
dissatisfied with their wives. Ha! That will
fragment those families
quickly!"
"Even in their recreation, let them be agressive.
Have them return from
their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared
for the coming week.
Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's
wonders. Send them to
amusement parks, sporting events, 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 and
unsettled emotions."
"Go ahead, let them be involved in soul winning; but
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 convention. The evil angels went
eagerly to their assignments
causing Christians everywhere to get more busy and
more rushed, going here
and there.
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I guess the question is:
Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be
the judge!