Being Under satan's Yoke...

I found this devotional from a few years ago, and I thought it was a good and timely one. Read it and see where you might be held captive...

"Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking," Romans 12:2 (MSG)

Addressing a worldwide convention of demons, satan told them: "As long as Christians stay close to God, we've no power over them, so here's what I want you to do:

1) Keep them busy with non-essentials.

2) Tempt them to overspend and go into debt.

3) Make them work long hours to maintain empty lifestyles.

4) Discourage them from spending family time, for when homes disintegrate there's no refuge from work.

5) Overstimulate their minds with television and computers so that they can't hear God speaking to them.

6) Fill their coffee tables and nightstands with magazines and newspapers, so they'll
have no time for the Bible.

7) Flood their mailboxes with sweepstakes, promotions, and get-rich-quick schemes; keep them chasing material things.

8) Put glamorous models on TV and on magazine covers to keep them focused on outward appearances; that way they'll be dissatisfied with themselves and their mates.

9) Make sure couples are too exhausted for physical intimacy; that way they'll be tempted to look elsewhere.

10) Emphasize Santa and the Easter Bunny; that way you'll divert them from the real meaning of the holidays.

11) Involve them in "good causes" so they won't have any time for "eternal ones."

12) Make them self-sufficient. Keep them so busy working in their own strength that they'll never experience God's power working through them.

I promise you if you do these things...it will work!!

Have you figured out the difference yet between being busy and being successful? Sometimes being "B-U-S-Y" just means Being Under satan's Yoke!!

Be blessed today, and don't be so B-U-S-Y!!

Deena