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NOISES FROM THE ENEMY

Feb23

I remember when I was about to write my UTME examination that year and my head couldn’t rest from loud noises saying, “You won’t pass!” “You won’t make it”, “God does not love you to give you the future you dream of” etc. Many depressing thoughts gushed into my mind and took me to the deep and the thought of ever seeing the light at the end of the tunnel was inconceivable in my heart. This was because the enemy had put me in a small dark room where I couldn’t locate the way out.

God has amazing plans for you bro! You have to believe that! I know you weren’t expecting me to come out like that but I can’t shout it loud enough that there is that amazing purpose that he has and  wants you to fulfil in a grand style.

When the enemy can’t destroy, he tries to prevent you from seeing or drowns the truth with his lies. The enemy will go to any length to do that. He does not know exactly what God wants to do with your life but he goes around like a roaring lion, sprawling, speculating and looking for ways to stop you to do that which God has called you to do.

Jesus told his disciples plainly what God wants him to do, the grand plan to save the world and how he will fulfil His purpose. But Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him for saying such things, saying, “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to you!”

We might feel that was the right thing for Peter to do because he loved Jesus but it was the enemy there at work with hetero-suggestions and noises to drown the purpose of Jesus with lies.

We can also find this kind of expression of Peter in our lives. It could be the voices screeching in your head that you won’t be all that God has called you to be. It could also be addictions that make the now and the future not correlate in any way. It could be depression that darkens and blurs what beautiful things the Lord is saying about you and the future. It could be people; friends that drift you away from the path or it could be haters that persecute you to make life unbearably hard for you. It could be just anything that tries to discourage you and stop you from fulfilling God’s divine purpose.

You must like Jesus, stand your ground to say, “Get away from me, Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.” (Matthew 16:23 NLT)

Yes, there is a God point of view! I remember that year the enemy pummelled me with depressing noises, the weapon I used was a song titled I Am What You See. I had to see myself the way God sees me: an amazing son who will make it!

Help me to see me

The way you see me

Sometimes I see pain Lord

When you see victory

I see where I am Lord

You see where I shall be.

– Lyrics of I Am What You See by Bishop Paul S. Morton

Yes, you are God’s amazing son who will do incredible things to bring good pleasure to Him. It might not look like it now bro, but you have to see your life the way God sees it because you will win this race and you will fulfil God’s divine purpose for your life.