Some of you, by now, must be going through a 'desert'. Desert here means being persecuted by your family, friends, co-workers, people in school, all because of your new-found faith.
The flesh is shouting for girls, boys, for a relationship. By the way, normally, they are the ones who you used to have a crush on in the past or the ones that, physically, one cannot say 'no'! Still wondering why?
You've sacrificed to God. You've laid your life on God's altar and decided to serve Him.
I tell you, the devil knows you're on the way to something great.
Do you think he will watch you succeed, specially now that you've decided to serve God?
Compare your situation to when the Israelites were about to leave Egypt and go their way to Sinai, to sacrifice to their God and serve Him as a free nation.
Pharaoh played mind games. Deep inside he knew they had become stronger as a nation and had already out numbered the egyptians. His only hope was to convince them they were weak and just a bunch of slaves. (Exodus 1:9)
Still, he didn't give up easily, even after the death of the first-born. He climbed up his chariot, his soldiers mounted their horses and they came after the children of Israel. They tried to hold them back, to stop them somehow.
The Israelites thought that after the last plague Pharaoh would surrender.
The egyptians only surrended when they got to the Red Sea, when they all drowned.
Israel had to keep focused. God was by their side. He had their back, if you know what I mean.
The devil knows how strong you are, strong like a wild horse. The strength you have inside you makes him afraid, makes him pee on his 'pants'.
A horse is 100 times stronger than a human being and yet it allows us to mount it. If the horse only knew his strengh...
You are the horse. The devil is afraid of you. He knows that once you exert this strengh and make use of your faith in God, you become unstoppable!
Go in this faith. Don't look back. The devil is afraid of you.
Remember, all you're going through now is temporary. Keep your eyes on the promise.
Pr Luke Castro
YPG National Coordinator
7 comments:
This is very true. it's written that young people are strong so therefore the devil tries to trick us into thinking we are too weak to remain faithful, to resist temptation. But like you said we are the horse and we must know the strenght we have to amke a difference and take possesion of the promise.
Bianca L.
Austin, Tx
THis is true Pastor,
many times when we are going through a situation, we don't realise that we have the strengh to overcome it, but once we take notice of it, then the devil, sure does fear us, and we will overcome anything, that we thought we couldn't, we should always keep our eyes to God's promises.
Thanks Pastor for this message it is so true what you say it reminds me of a boxing ring and its you and the devil, hes trying to put you against a corner and defeat you but even though we are so close to giving up God comes and rescues us. So we should keep our eyes on God and like you say it is temporary it shall pass.
" Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour"
I love the analogy, comparing us to the horse and it is true because we are strong as youths the devil will always try to defeat us so we have to remember the desert will end and we have to always be a step ahead to not allow the devil the space to enter our lives as youths, thanks for the article, it clearly opened my eyes!
I do belive in this with all strength
So true the devil tries to intimidate us so that we don't fight back!He knows perfectly what happens when we use our strength and our faith in God!!! And just like Israel had to maintain their focus in God we should also do the same... just like God had Israel's back (back than)now He has ours
Thank you for this encouraging message Pr. Luke. It's true, the devil knows of what we're capable of, that's why he works so hard to put obstacles in our way, to get us off track, because if we succeed, he goes down. I'll keep fighting!
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