Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Monday, October 8, 2018

Keys To Victory (Part 9)

Keys To Victory (Part 9)

There is no strategy that Satan can devise against you that is powerful enough to defeat you. He cannot ensnare you by deception, because you have learned strategies to combat his lies.

Satan’s objective as a deceiver is to convince you that you are going to lose everything you have including your home, your family, your health, your finances, your career, and your ministry  

Satan will seize your mind in a grip of fear, worry, and doubt and try to keep you in a constant state of turmoil. Using your circumstances, Satan will try to wear you down physically, mentally, and spiritually until you are so discouraged and depressed that you are ready to throw your hands up in defeat.

His strategy is to use your circumstances to defeat you.  He will create havoc in the circumstances in your life, bringing affliction on your body, attacking your children and loved ones, causing strife in your marriage relationship, and creating problems on your job.

Satan will relentlessly war against you through your circumstances until you become too tired to resist his attacks and you are caught in a vicious cycle that paralyzes you.  This deceptive cycle will hinder you from releasing your faith and walking in the victory God has provided for you.

Make no mistake about it, Satan is out to destroy you.  But you can disarm his deceptions.  There is no circumstance, no trial, and no persecution that can defeat you if you are walking in obedience to God. 

As the destroyer: 

-Satan may wrack your body with pain, sickness, and disease.  

-Satan may attack your finances. 

-Satan may try to create disharmony in your marriage.  

-Satan may try to destroy your children and loved ones through addictions.

Yet none of these circumstances can defeat you because God has promised you victory in every circumstance.

Hold onto these verses in Romans 8:35-39:

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

If God be for you, WHO can be against you! 

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