Apparitions..
Can you believe how Satan will use someone you love, to deceive you?
This was an experience of mine approximately eighteen years ago.
My teenage daughter went out to a rare party with friends.
It was rare as we were strict parents.
"Be sure to be in by midnight," I instructed as she left.
I couldn't sleep and as many anxious parents do, my ear's strained, listening for her return.
Footsteps echoed on the tiled hallway floor.
Thank God she was home!
She ran happily to my bed and kissed my cheek, then out of the room.
Breathing a sigh of relief I sank into the mattress and fell into a peaceful sleep.
Hearing a noise in the kitchen a few hours later, I got up to investigate.
Stunned, I discovered, my daughter had JUST come home.
I can't remember what her late excuse was, I was too befuddled by my earlier experience.
"Are you sure you didn't come home earlier?" I questioned!
I thought I had experienced my daughters joyous return home?
I thought I had experienced her happy goodnight kiss?
What I did experience was a deception..
And there is only one deceiver....Satan!
"And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light."
2 Corinthians 11:14
"Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
Matthew4:10
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
Ephesians 6:12
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
1 Timothy 2:5
If you want to argue....
there can be no BUTS...
There is only Jesus.
To demonstrate our total faith in ONLY Him, we do as instructed.
And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38
Can you believe how Satan will use someone you love, to deceive you?
This was an experience of mine approximately eighteen years ago.
My teenage daughter went out to a rare party with friends.
It was rare as we were strict parents.
"Be sure to be in by midnight," I instructed as she left.
I couldn't sleep and as many anxious parents do, my ear's strained, listening for her return.
Footsteps echoed on the tiled hallway floor.
Thank God she was home!
She ran happily to my bed and kissed my cheek, then out of the room.
Breathing a sigh of relief I sank into the mattress and fell into a peaceful sleep.
Hearing a noise in the kitchen a few hours later, I got up to investigate.
Stunned, I discovered, my daughter had JUST come home.
I can't remember what her late excuse was, I was too befuddled by my earlier experience.
"Are you sure you didn't come home earlier?" I questioned!
I thought I had experienced my daughters joyous return home?
I thought I had experienced her happy goodnight kiss?
What I did experience was a deception..
And there is only one deceiver....Satan!
"And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light."
2 Corinthians 11:14
"Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
Matthew4:10
"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
Ephesians 6:12
"For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"
1 Timothy 2:5
If you want to argue....
there can be no BUTS...
There is only Jesus.
To demonstrate our total faith in ONLY Him, we do as instructed.
And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 2:38
My daughter Daniella on the day of her Baptism, 2009.
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