Are You Deceived?
30 AprAre You Deceived?
1.John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Are you deceived? I know that this is an odd question because if you’re answer is yes, than it would lead me to ask the next question. If you are deceived, and you know that you are, how can you still be deceived? Usually if you know that you have been deceived in an area of your life, then once you know it, you are no longer deceived or can be deceived by the same tactics of the deceiver.
What is deception? According to the reference at http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deception below is the definition.
de·cep·tion noun \di-ˈsep-shən\ : the act of making someone believe something that is not true : the act of deceiving someone: an act or statement intended to make people believe something that is not true.
I have been in a Christian conference for an entire weekend that was designed to expose the lies of the enemy and show areas of my life where I have been deceived. I set in the conference listening to how the enemy lies to me to hinder me or try to stop me in fulfilling my destiny and purpose. I have had a light bulb moment that what I say and think about myself, is what I will believe the most!
In the Conference we covered lots of lies. I wanted to just share a few of them to let you see how subtle they are. Also because they are so subtle, we tend to deal with them lightly. Below are some of the following lies that the enemy lies to us about on a routine basis. If we do not recognize them as lies, then we will believe them about ourselves. Because of these lies, we self-sabotage our purpose.
Lies of the enemy:
Oh, I am a Christian, I can’t be deceived!
You will never be successful!
You will never be used by God!
You’re too ugly, too thin, too fat, too tall, too short!
You will never be able to change!
You are not as good as Sister or Brother So and So!
You will never have the money to do that!
Your heart’s desire is a big waste of time!
It’s God’s will that you stay oppressed and depressed!
It’s God’s will that you remain sick in your body.
Oh when God said he would heal, he only meant spiritually!
Well, this disease runs in the family, I guess it is just destined that I have it to!
BLAH ….BLAH …. BLAH ….. This list can go on and on! However, if it registers with you, then stop for a moment and think about what the enemy has been lying to you about.
The number one thing to judge what you hear in your soul, (mind, will, and emotions) to know if it is a lie, is to know what GOD has said about you. God is your cheerleader, ALWAYS! He does not condemn you or make you feel bad about yourself to get you to do what he desires you to do. He leads you in the truth of his word by leading you in his love and by his love!
1.John 8:36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
If you are constantly feeling like you are being driven or pushed to perform, than you may want to look at who is doing the driving? If you have been deceived and believed lies about your worth that has sabotaged you, then I hope that you will take the word of GOD that is able to make you free! I have found that the Lord always leads me, He never pushes me or drives me to do something. He gives me the truth of his word and then helps me to make the right choice.
I have heard a lot of truth this past weekend from the word of GOD, and because of it, my mind has been renewed in a lot of areas that the enemy has been able to deceive me. I don’t care how “ religious” we may think we are, all humans have issues and old mindsets that need to be renewed and changed. Why? So that we can walk in freedom and victory! When I walk in a certain area of freedom, then truly I can be used to help others be free in that area!
I bless you! As always, my hope is to encourage you and to let you know that the GOD and creator of the Universe loves you with an everlasting love!
Writing is my Passion~ My Published Books!
30 Apr
Publication Date:Mar 21 2013ISBN/EAN13:1482555735 / 9781482555738Page Count:70Binding Type:US Trade PaperTrim Size:6″ x 9″Language:EnglishColor:Black and WhiteRelated Categories:Religion / Christian Life / Family
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781617779541
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, L.L.C.
Publication date: 4/17/2012
Pages: 84
Age range: 8 – 12 Years
Product dimensions: 4.90 
x 6.80 (h) x 0.30 (d)
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises (February 1, 2006)
Language: English
Juvenile Fiction
ISBN-10: 1598862146
ISBN-13: 978-1598862140
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 6.2 x 0.3 inches
Christine Gilliam Hornback is a wife of thirty three years and a mother of two young boys, ages thirteen and ten. She homeschools her children and is an author, artist and an inspirational speaker. Christine has lived in Douglasville, Georgia for twenty seven years. She is originally from a little rural town seated in the foothills of Kentucky on the Ohio River. Christine grew up in a very loving family which included both her parents and five sisters. Her childhood holds a wealthy bank of memories that Christine draws from as she writes.
Caleb’s Cereal released in April 2012 is Christine’s latest Juvenile Fiction. The pages of this book are action packed as three young boys, Caleb, Colin and Tan go on an elephant riding, cliff hanging, and crocodile snapping adventure into a magical oasis to destroy evil poachers. Caleb’s Cereal is sure to please young readers everywhere. Also released in 2012 is Tell the Enemy to Scat an Adult Inspirational Ebook that tells Christine’s personal and encouraging true story of being blessed with two boys after going childless for twenty years. The paperback is also available for “Tell the Enemy to Scat”
Finally, Christine’s first published book Jenny Lynn’s Secret Mission, voted best Juvenile Fiction by http://www.christianstoryteller.com in 2006 is a heartwarming story about a little eight year old girl who discovers the true meaning of Christmas by performing a secret mission for her community. Please check back often with Christine as she has many more books of various genres to come!
Life’s Roller Coaster Rides!
24 AprLife’s ups and downs!
Sometimes do you ask if the roller coaster ride will ever stop? Maybe you’re like me where you’ve gone through so much in the past few years that you find yourself almost begging, please make it stop! I was hesitant at first to share this particular blog, as I am just going to be real and transparent with my emotions. However, my hope is that it will help someone to know that the Lord is with us, through the good and the bad times!
I am not one who lives in the past, however, I do know that what the Lord has done for us in the past, He will do again when we need him NOW! Below is a blog that I actually had written two years ago in April! I was going through some of my blogs and come across this one and decided to share it again as it is a story of victory and triumph regardless of all the horrible things that happened! I have found that God is the same in the best of times and through the worst of times! My hope again is that you will always find encouragement, whether you’ve made it to the other side of a trial or especially if you are presently going through an on slot of trails and trouble!
Blog from April 2012 Life’s Roller Coaster Ride!
I’ve honestly had one of those months, to where one minute, My stomach is up in my throat and I am swallowing hard to keep everything down, and the next minute I am screaming with my hands raised and full of cheers! So I have had to learn how to deal with all of the ups and downs, to keep it on an even keel so to speak. I personally know nothing else to do but to keep my eyes on the One who is gazing at me. When I turn my eyes upward and look full into the glorious face of the One who loves me regardless if I am having a good day or bad, I know that I can truly do all things.
This month started out so blessed for me, had great opportunities with my latest book to do several book signings which were good, and then BAM! Here the enemy came parading in like he owned the place. The enemy (Satan) dressed in an innocent looking outfit that landed my baby son down on all fours and knocked my whole family for a loop. My son was “accidentally knocked down” and suffered a broken leg. He is now sporting a dark blue cast from his foot to his thigh! Stomach up in my throat! As a Momma, nothing hurts you quiet so much as seeing your child be hurt, whether on purpose or by accident, you want to swoop down like some kind of wild, mad bird and pluck out the very eyes of the enemy! So, okay, we got my son all cast up and endured the first couple of nights of his pain until finally things modified a bit. He is adjusting to crutches, a little wheelchair the whole works.
He broke his leg on a Sunday, by Tuesday we’re breathing pretty easy working out all of the strange kinks that come with having a child broken. I began banging away on the computer to try to catch up on some writing, when BAM ! Here came my oldest son running into my room, screaming hysterically saying” Mom I cut my hand really bad!” Huge lump in my throat, need to breathe but just go into first aid Mom mode! I drag my son to the sink as his hand is bleeding profusely and I plunge his hand under the faucet to rinse off the blood so as to see if I honestly could see how bad it was cut. The blood kept coming and by this time he is nervously shaking all over and I am trying to console him, but at the same time asking the Lord, what in the world was I going to do as I have one son in a full leg cast and another bleeding! Do I call an ambulance or try to drag him myself to the hospital for stitches, when the most profound thing come flying out of my son’s mouth! “Lord, help me please!”
Suddenly like someone had slapped me back into reality, because truly the Lord is the most real thing I know, I got into agreement with my son. I just remember saying Lord your word says and took off on his words to me! Immediately, my Lord performed a miracle! My son’s hand or actually it turned out to be his finger immediately stopped bleeding and his finger had a thin scab instantly cover the cut! Yes I know that this sounds incredible, but I am telling the truth. He went from blood dripping down his arm and off his elbow, to scab on the finger instantly! Yay! We came down the roller coaster track with our arms raised high and screaming cheers to the One who knows how to take good care of us, especially in our times of desperation! As a mother, I felt desperate to get my child help and to remain calm which obviously at first I was failing miserably at doing, but then Thank GOD! Some of the training that we’ve been training our child with kicked in for him and Voila! GOD truly is an on time GOD that heard a cry from his little child!
Okay, so after all of that was over, we are clipping along pretty good beginning to really enjoy the ride as we are going into the next week! It was a beautiful Monday morning, the sun was shining and I had just talked with a friend on the telephone and tried to encourage them as they were going through some things that only GOD could help them with. I had no more hung up the phone, and rose up from my kitchen table when I heard something horrible. All of a sudden something happened that still makes me quake to think about. A huge tree, probably about 30 feet came crashing down on the roof of our side porch, on our RV and on my truck which was parked right in front of our house. I ran quickly to my children as they felt the entire house being shaken and heard the crash of the tree. They of course were terrified and so was I as we did not know if this was the only tree that was going to fall as we live in a jungle of sorts. Trees are everywhere. I never knew whether to get out of the house or to stay in it. I tried to calm us all down, and ran to call my husband and told him what has just happened. He dropped everything at his job and immediately began his trip home. I guess I had just hang up on him so abruptly without telling him that we were okay that the enemy played with his mind on his 9 mile trip that I’m sure seemed a horrific long journey. As he travelled, my husband kept trying to call us but his cell phone would not allow him to call. Before he had gotten home the tree shifted and again the sounds of crashing and a terrifying vibration rattled the whole house! It was a horrible experience that I would not wish upon anyone with the exception that we were all safe!
The tree was perfectly healthy and green, just very tall and we had been having winds for the past few days, so I suppose that just the constant twisting and turning of it was what made it fall, that and the fact that the enemy wanted to use it to try to place a spirit of fear in me and my children. We couldn’t deny the power of the Lord as we seen how the tree was practically laid down to prevent as much damage as possible. We could keep looking at the situation and say if it had not been for the RV it would have fallen directly into the kitchen area, if it had not been for the porch roof, again it would have destroyed the rest of the house etc. But what we knew for sure, was that if it had not been for the hand and the protection of GOD it could have been a disaster that I personally do not want to think about.
So the point of this whole blog this week, is to simply say this: Bad things happen to good people all of the time. It is how we let them affect us and how we respond to them that will count. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” is a quote that definitely applies here. I know that what the enemy meant for evil, my GOD, my Daddy has turned for my good! I will set my face like a flint and know that regardless of the ride that I am on in life, that My Daddy is ultimately the conductor! He knows all of the twist and turns, all the thrills and times that my stomach is going to catch in my throat, but through it all, He is with me and so I raise my arms and let out a cheer and praise Him with my whole heart! GOD is always a good GOD!
Come Away!
17 AprCome Away!
Song of Solomon 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
11 For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
12 The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
As I pondered what I would write for the blog this week, I was going through some artwork that I had painted. I thought I would post a picture of a painted six-foot blind with a garden scene that is one of my favorite paintings. By posting this painting it is not because I wanted to display my art work, but I simply wanted to share my “Secret Garden” painting with you. In the above scripture in Song of Solomon the Lord beckons to us to “Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away!” I often picture Him and me walking through a garden that is peaceful and beautiful. The scripture states in Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. So I feel it is important to have a place, a secret place that is all mine to where I can go and be with the Lord. Sometimes it’s just a place to escape and collect my thoughts.
I have a wonderful big front porch and I live in the country so it is not hard for me to escape. When the weather is nasty however, I have created a little nook area in my bedroom that has this painting on the wall. It is set up to be my office but it just makes me feel like I am entering a garden every time I go into this little area. I rise up early and go to the “Secret Garden” or if the mornings are not an option, I try my best to go after I put the children to bed. I escape into my little Secret Garden. Again, it is only a small little area, but to me it is so wonderful. I have found when I can go there and become quiet that I steal away with the Lord. I meet Him in the Secret Garden. While I am there, I feel his presence. I pray and receive answers to prayer. I often receive creative ideas for more artwork, or for books, poems and even songs. But, the most important thing I feel I gain is just a peace for my body, soul, and spirit.
I wanted to encourage you today. I know that every day is filled with responsibility and hectic schedules that have to be kept, however I hope that you will take the time to find a quiet place to escape to. I have a friend who took her walk-in closet and made her a secret place. Maybe you do not have that luxury or do not actually have an area in your home to make a secret place. As I talk with many people they have found creative ways to escape. For some, their vehicles become their secret place while on the way to work. For others, especially women, they enter their secret place as they light candles and relax in the bath, where ever you choose to go, I encourage you to go often. Let the Lord refresh you!
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