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There are weapons the enemy snatches from you that he turns around to use against you. This class of weapons are often time more potent than the best of weapons the enemy has in his armory. These weapons manifest in form of thoughts and deed that turn around to entangle men and before long, they are caged in the evil net of the enemy. There are things that sell men out so cheaply to the devil; these things come seeking your attention and participation. Once your attention is secured, you become a lawful captive and you’ll see yourself struggling to get along on the path of righteousness. You gave in to it and the devil hijacked it as an opportunity to exploit you.
Whenever there is a sell out; you give the enemy the right to control. He gladly steps on the “steering” and it never goes well. One way to ensure spiritual wellness is to ensure there is nothing you have allowed which the devil has turned around to use against you.
Jesus in John 14:30, was very assertive, when He proclaimed –
- “the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me”.* There was nothing in Him that the devil could use against Him. The things the devil finds in you that he can use against you are potent weapons he grabs from you and he holds them as legal right and with all such weapons; colorful destinies are ruined. Moses was a very wonderful servant of God; but, he was hot tempered. It was a trait the enemy grabbed from him as a weapon against him. When he was to stretch the rod to the rock; he angrily struck the rock due to the hardheartedness of the Israelites and it robbed him of the joy of getting into the Promised Land.
When you release your eyes to seeing just anything; either in television, magazines or in real life; the devil tells you that it doesn’t matter and you feel you can easily handle it. Through such things, lust gets conceived, and it gets so overwhelming that it becomes a weapon in the hands of the enemy against your well being. You end up becoming a lawful captive; because, you gave in to it and the enemy has seized it as an opportunity to incapacitate you and you’ll see yourself struggling to keep right. One way for you not to have life as a struggle, is to ensure that there is nothing in speech, thought and in conduct which you are handing over to the devil as weapon against you.