Satan Likes To Attack After A Spiritual High 4/25/2019

Good Morning,

Today started with prayer and deep thoughts. To add to my peaceful morning I poured myself a cup of Door County Peanut Butter Crunch Coffee.

I have accumulated some knowledge in 62 years of life. I know for a fact that many believers suffer great temptation after spiritual triumphs or declarations. My good friend and I have learned this lesson the hard way. We are very careful to stay in the Word and prayer after a spiritual victory. We actually pray for others who took a stand for God in a big way and will usually be targeted by the demon himself just to discourage them.

Mac Brunson, pastor of Green Street Baptist Church, High Point, N.C.
"You begin to experience some spiritual victories in your life and you're going to come under an intense period of extreme temptation," Brunson declared  during a chapel address at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.

1 Peter 5:8 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Shortly after Christ's public baptism, recounted Brunson, the Gospels record that Jesus was tempted by Satan for 40 days in the wilderness.
"Jesus had just come out of the waters of the Jordan River where he had been baptized," said Brunson. "The heavens opened up and the spirit of God descended like a dove and the voice of the Father said, 'this is my beloved Son, in whom I'm well pleased.'" At Christ's baptism, the Son of God was publicly declaring to fulfill his Father's will by identifying himself with condemned humanity including thieves, liars, prostitutes and murderers.
"When he stood there, he said these are the people that I'm going to identify with because I've come to deliver them out of the domain of darkness and into the kingdom of Light," said Brunson.
Unlike Christ, who was able to reject Satan's temptations following John the Baptist's proclamation of Christ as the Messiah, Christians have difficulty handling spiritual victories in their lives, he said.
Too often, Brunson said, when Christians are blessed by God, they are vulnerable to becoming less dependent on the spirit of God. Daily prayer and Bible study are usually the first spiritual disciplines Satan attempts to conquer, he said.

When you experience a spiritual victory stay in the Word and pray more than ever. Seek God first in all things and do not let down your guard.

Food for thought,

 Marty