Do you often wonder at times why its seems like the bad seems to overtake the good that God
instills in you and the good that you desire to do for God?
You see only your past failures and mistakes.
You know that your total desire is to walk in the ways of the Lord and in total obedience of him.
You feel like a broken vessel that can not be used nor repaired, you grow weary and tired, ready
to throw in the towel. ( don't give up, God wants you to just trust him and know he has not given up on you. )
God did not start a work in you that he is not ready to complete........
Phil 1:6
Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a work in you will
perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
So anything outside of this is just a lie of Satan himself, he wants you to feel this way ( defeated and broken down.)
Satan is raging against you because he knows God can take what we think is little and make much.Satan is sifting you, for what he thinks will bring him victory over you and the plans God has for your life. As a person pours flour into a sifter and sifts the good out for use, so does Satan do to you and I but remember he pour you into his personal sifter, all that you are and all that you have been, he places into his grinder, but he sifts out all the good and hides it from your sight and mind, leaving only the bad for you and I to see and to replay in our thoughts.He wants you to think there is no good in you, robbing you of your joy in Christ Jesus and God the Father, and without God and our Precious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, ( there is no good in us). This is nothing new that Satan has come up with, he has used this tactic time and time again, even on your brothers and sisters in Christ, he even did so to Peter ( the apostle.)
Luke 22:31
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
When Satan attempts to brings out all the bad and evil things in our lives, Than we can thank God, because now that we can see them, we can finally get rid of them and forget about them... The same as we would flour once it is sifted, the part which is can not be used for good is disgarded and thrown away. This is what Christ Jesus did fo us on the cross, when he died and rose again and redeemed us of our sins.
Once we make Jesus Lord of our lives, we are new creatures, we are no longer the person we use to be, the bad satan wants us to still think we are.
2 Cor 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:
old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
God our Father removed our sins and placed them in the sea of forgetfulness, to remember no more.
Psalms 103:12
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
So if you feel like Satan is trying to sift you, just remember, just as flour is after it is sifted, it is refined and there is more good than bad, likewise with us, we are rooted in Christ Jesus and
his Righteousness, through his precious blood, that purifies us..
We are living and growing in the true vine.
John 15:5
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same
bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Our Father only prunes us , so that we bare righteous fruit, preparing us for his kingdom.
Thank God when Satan tries to sift you, because what Satan tries to defeat you with, Our Lord
makes work for our good...
When we accepted Christ in our hearts as Lord and Saviour, God no longer looks at the bad in us,
He sees us as the righteousness of Christ Jesus, He sees The blood of Christ over us for the remission of all our sins.
When Satan comes up against you remember, resist the devil and he will flee, and greater is he that is in you, which is ( Christ Jesus in you ) than he that is in the world.
