Silencing The Accuser (Part 3)

Silencing The Accuser (Part 3)

The second lie propagated by the accuser concerns your destiny.  Satan says, "You won't be able to reach your full potential.  You will not be able to complete God's plan for you.  You will fall short of your destiny."  He will always bring up your failures, the times you've fallen short of reaching your goals, and the areas where your confidence in your God-given abilities are questionable. These all stem from shame-based thinking that limits your destiny. Breaking free from these things brings the revelation that "God ain't thru with us yet!"
 Paul wrote in Ephesians 2:10:

"We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them."

God has already determined what He wants to accomplish in and through you. This was decided before you were born.  God ordained the path you are to walk for His glory.  Yet the enemy comes through your circumstances, your failures, your age, and your doubt to declare that you will not be able to fulfill your destiny.
 

-The accuser says, "You are too young and immature":

Mary was a teen-ager when God chose her to mother His Son Jesus.  David was 17 or younger when he faced Goliath and most of the great revivals in the history of the church were birthed through children or young people.

-The accuser says, "You are too old.  You missed your destiny."  

Moses undoubtedly battled these lies of the accuser.  Supernaturally preserved by God at birth and having received the finest education possible, Moses was commissioned to deliver Israel from slavery.  But Moses killed an Egyptian in anger and fled to the wilderness for refuge from Pharaoh's judgment.  There he remained for 40 years.  Day after day the accuser taunted, "You missed your destiny.  You can't return to Egypt, for Pharaoh will kill you.  You are getting too old. It just won't happen."

But one day Moses' soul was ignited by words spoken from a burning bush.  God said in Exodus 3:10:

"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
 Moses had listened to the accuser for too many years.  He had a whole list of excuses prepared:

-"Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and deliver Israel?"

-"What shall I say to them?"

-"Suppose they say, `The Lord has not appeared to you.'  Then what will I do?"

-"You know I am not eloquent, but slow of speech and tongue."

However, God answered Moses and said:

Exodus 4:11, 12 "...Who has made man's mouth?  Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?  Have not I, the Lord?   Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say."

God knows your abilities and He knows your disabilities. He is the One who created and called you and He is the One who will empower you, in spite of your weaknesses, to fulfill your destiny.  Don't let the accuser talk you out of it!