forward

This week my husband sent me an email FORWARD, which some of you realize was a risky move on his part. For the most part I hate forwards and usually delete them without reading them. I don't usually have time to read through them all and frankly don't believe the world will stop turning if I don't forward it to 12 people in the next 7 minutes. That being said, he has learned to be VERY selective with what he sends me so when I saw this I went ahead and opened it. It is called "Satan's Meeting" and I found it to be quite powerful. It's long and I apologize for that but I think it has a lot to say that we need to hear.

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church."
"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."
"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Savior."
"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."
"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:
"Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children."
"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice."
"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly.."
"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards."
"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believethat outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with theirwives. "
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night.""Give them headaches too! "
"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."
"That will fragment their families quickly!"
"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."
"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about His resurrection and power oversin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive.""Have them return from their recreation exhausted.""Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."
"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talkso that they leave with troubled consciences. "
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus.""Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and familyfor the good of the cause."
"It will work!""It will work!"It was quite a plan!
The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
Having little time for their God or their families.
Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?
You be the judge!!!!!
Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

The part that pricked at my conscience was "distract them from gaining hold on their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day". Yikes. I never really thought of the busyness of my life as a way Satan tries to keep me from connecting to God. Truth be told, lots of days he's pretty successful at it. By the time I turn around the day is gone and I've spent precious little time with God. This forwarded message, that I would have routinely discarded with annoyance, has been a timely reminder for me. Thanks honey for passing along the right things :)

Have a great weekend rain walkers - K