Do Not Consult Your Feelings

Jeremiah 17:9  "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Romans 10:17  "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

Proverbs 3:5,6  "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, an lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."

If you look to yourself, you will see only weakness.  There is no Savior there.  You will find Jesus away from yourself.  You must look and live; (look) to Him who became sin for us, that we might be cleansed from sin and receive of Christ's righteousness.

Satan may try to bind you to his car (chariot) as a helpless soul.  But shout in victory that Christ has made you a free man.  Do not dishonor God by one expression of inefficiency and inability to overcome fully, entirely, and gloriously through Jesus Christ, who has died to redeem you and make you a free man,  conquer, yes conquer.  Put your will every moment on the side of God's will.  Think hopefully and courageously.  In faith cry out against Satan, and looking unto Jesus who is the author and finisher of your faith, say, "Jesus , my Redeemer, I am weak.  I cannot do anything without Your special help.  I hang my helpless soul on You.  Then let your imagination dwell on the thought that you are in the presence of Jesus, walking with God, your life hid with Christ in God....Then you will not glorify Satan by imagining yourself weak an helpless.  You will keep yourself uplifted into a pure and holy atmosphere.  You will receive the Holy Spirit as a omforter, as a sanctifier....You will have a calm, restful spirit in God.  You will say, "Jesus lives, and because He lives I will live also, He has conquered Satan in my behalf, and I will not be conquered by the devil once.  I will not disgrace my Lord and Leader; but I will triumph in His holy name, an come off more than conqueror.

If we believe in the power of Jesus' name, and present our petitions to God in His name, we shall never be turned away....Our help cometh from God, who holds all things in His own hands.  Our peace is in the assurance that His love is exercised toward us.  If faith grasps this assurance we have gained all; if we lose this assurance, all is lost.  When we surrender all we have and are to God, and are placed in trying and dangerous positions, coming in contact with Satan, we should remember that we shall have victory in meeting the enemy in the name and power of the Conqueror.  Every angel would be commissioned to come to our rescue when we thus depend upon Christ rather than that we should be permitted to be overcome.

Let's believe in the power of Jesus name and be total overcomers and let Him conquer Satan in our behalf.  Grandma Joan