Deception

You standing on a grocery store line and decide to browse through a magazine.  For some of us women, by the time we finish looking at these women who look so perfect in the picture, you pick up the woe is me spirit through the why can’t I look like that syndrome.

You’re on a fast because you realize there’s some crucifying of the flesh need and yet you can smell those McDonald fries a mile away.  You start thinking about them golden arches and how good those fries are, and the thought even comes to your head how you can just fast tomorrow because you gotta have those fries.

Let’s even take it back to Adam and Eve and how Satan made that piece of fruit look so appealing to Eve.

Deception…it’s everywhere!  It shows up on our TV’s, it shows up in our magazines, it can show up in our food, and it can even show up in our churches.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Saints, we have to guard ourselves from the spirit of deception, as it makes things appear to be more pleasurable than they really are. That spirit assists Adam and Eve’s fall from the Garden of Eden.  That same spirit can cause a spouse to commit adultery. That same spirit can make you think it don’t take all that with your spiritual walk. Deception…it can assist you straight to hell.  Selah.