I’D LIKE TO TELL YOU A STORY.
I was in a horrible car wreck just a little more than one year ago. I have had increasingly horrible pain as the doctors slowly decided what was wrong with me and what to do for me. I’m finally scheduled for surgery on October 15. PRAISE GOD! I’ve had a lot of people praying for me and I’m becoming more confident each day that God is really going to move in a very special way. I would cherish any prayer from you and anyone else who would like to pray for me. I had gotten in such a state of discouragement at one point, with my pain being so unbearable, that I actually considered taking all my sleeping pills at once. This is not normal thinking for me at all. I just couldn’t understand how God could allow his children to be so defeated by Satan when they were asking for His help. I also had wonderful Christian friends who were taking on some very hard things. We would rebuke Satan and ask for God’s protection and help. I walked around crying one day when I was really “low” and I said “God, this is not right that Satan should be able to come in and steal our joy, our peace, and seem to make us feel this way. There has to be some way to fight him that we are not seeing.” It wasn’t that I expected God to take away all my pain immediately, although I would have welcomed that and I believe He could do it. I just didn’t think Satan should have the right to make us feel defeated, steal our joy and peace, and keep us from growing in our relationship with God in spite of our tremendous suffering. As I cried out to God saying “this is not right; show me what to do to defeat Satan.” I heard God say to me, “Praise me no matter what, and think of all the things you have to be thankful for. Demand joy in your life and rebuke Satan when he sends a negative thought into your mind.” I felt like I had reached a new level in my spiritual walk with God and it worked!!! I’ve been looking up scripture to back this up, and there are many scriptures. Just wanted to share this to you from someone who has been “turned inside out by Satan.” God Bless your ministry!