Satan's Attraction

Jesus did not ask people for money. Jesus instructed His disciples to leave everything and follow Him. Jesus’ disciples left behind everything “to follow you.” Luke 18 27–29 demonstrates this. It says, Luke 18:27–29 27 Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.” 28 Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!” 29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.” Here, Jesus tells us that leaving everything in the world to follow Him shall be rewarded. The reward is “to receive many times as much in this age, and the age to come eternal life.” Thus, even though Jesus says leave everything, the reward will be a lot more than what they’ve left behind. It does not necessarily mean material benefit. It could be Spiritual and faith growth. The reward Je...

Genesis 18 gives a great example of how God appears and talks to people as He chooses.   Genesis 18:1-3 says "The Lord appeared to Abraham near the great trees of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day.  Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground." Verses 1-3 shows how our Lord "appeared to Abraham."  The Bible doesn't say that our Lord "appeared" vaguely, to everyone in general.  It clearly states that "The Lord appeared to Abraham."  This shows how our Lord reveals Himself as He chooses.  If God only "appeared to Abraham," then only Abraham could see or hear or discern/understand what our Lord communicated to Him. The "three men standing" in Genesis 18:2 was how our Lord appeared to Abraham.  The entire verse says "Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby.  W...

John 8 shows the difference between Jesus living in the Spirit and the world living for satan.  The Jewish leaders did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah.  They argued with Jesus about it but they couldn't understand what Jesus was telling them.  Jesus said they didn't understand because their father was "the devil."  They thought Jesus was questioning their paternity. John 8:31-34 says: " To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said,  “If you hold to my teaching,  you are really my disciples.   32  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”" "33  They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants  and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?”" Jesus told them that the truth would set them free from satan.  His non-believers thought Jesus was talking about setting them free from slavery. John 8:34 says: " Jesus replied,  “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a sl...

Creator: andipantz |  Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Copyright: andipantz Information extracted from  IPTC  Photo Metadata. From Scripture, the Lord reveals that Eve ate the apple that caused man to die because the serpent was a agent of satan. Genesis 3:1–6 says it. Genesis 3:1 says that “ t he serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made .” So the devil had overtaken the serpent and made it “more crafty” than any of the other wild animals. Making the serpent “more crafty” means giving it satanic power. Since the serpent was more crafty, through the devil, the serpent was able to poison Eve’s mind with  doubt  about what God said and Why. The serpent put doubt in Eve’s mind when he said “Did God really say, You must not eat from any tree in the garden?” (Genesis 3:1) and then when satan said “You will not certainly die,…” Then, to add insult to injury, satan put  greed  in Eve’s mind when he said “…for God knows that ...

      The book of Luke gives clear instructions on overcoming demons.  It also demonstrates how gang stalkers flock around their targets and Jesus' response instructs us to keep faith in Christ Jesus and not satan .      In Luke 4:40, the Apostle Luke says that Jesus healed a lot of people.  At Luke 4:41, the Bible says "...Moreover, demons came out of many people, shouting, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew he was the Messiah." NIV     The first thing that jumps out is the fact that the demons who came out of people didn't deny Jesus' power and His Lordship.  They recognized Jesus. This illustrates how satan knows his targets.       Jesus points out that the way that He controlled demons was by taking dominion over them and rebuking them and not allowing them to speak.  It sounds abstract, but Jesus Christ Himself states in the Bible that His follo...