Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from forming and intimate, abiding relationship with Christ. However, if they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So...... let them go to their churches, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but STEAL THEIR TIME so they can't gain that close relationship with Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels......Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!!!!"
"How shall we do this?" shouted the angels?
"Keep them busy in the NON-ESSENTIALS of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to SPEND, SPEND, SPEND and BORROW, BORROW, BORROW. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their EMPTY lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments soon their home life will offer no escape from the pressures of work!! Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that STILL, SMALL VOICE."
"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive. To keep the TV, VCR, CD'S and their PC's going CONSTANTLY in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays un-Biblical music, constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and FALSE HOPES. Constantly have 'beautiful' perfect-looking people on the convers of magazines and on TV so that they will become dissatisfied with their spouse because they think EXTERNAL beauty is what's REALLY important. That will fragment those families QUICKLY!!"
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature to reflect on God's wonders. Send them to AMUSEMENT PARKS, SPORTING EVENTS, CONCERTS, and MOVIES instead. Keep them BUSY, BUSY, BUSY! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotions."
"Go ahead, let them be involved with soul-winning; but crowd their minds with so many GOOD CAUSES that they have no time to seek power from Jesus, through prayer. Soon they will be working in their OWN strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause. IT WILL WORK! IT WILL WORK!"
It was quite a convention. The evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get more BUSY and more RUSHED going here and there. I guess the question is: HAS THE DEVIL BEEN SUCCESSFUL AT HIS SCHEME?
You be the judge.......
~~Author Unknown~~
