Today is the second way to find yourself in a pit. Beth give us a few samples:
- We put ourselves into one by sliding in.
- We didn’t mean to.
- It wasn’t planned.
- You aren’t sure how it happened.
“This one is easy to fall back into after climbing out.” Beth informs us:
- Can be physical-like needing to adjust a schedule.
- Can be relational-just when you think you are out someone brings it back up
God is busy at work when we are in this pit. He is refining and humbling us, often breaking our wills. Again Beth warns us:
- Can be a pit of despair, hopelessness.
“But we who are in Christ possess the very essence-become the very embodiment-of hope. Hopelessness means” says Beth, “we’ve believed the evil one’s report over God.
We must put our hope in God! If not:
- We talk ourselves into a pit.
- Caused by our own ignorance or foolishness.
- We are relentlessly haunted by what could have been. Grief and sorrow.
- Caused by our own ignorance or foolishness.
Don’t let responsibility and guilt keep you in the pit. God wants you out. God has a vision for you.
You do have the power to stand up against the enemy.
- John 15:18-“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.
- John 10:10-“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Reference: biblehub.com New International Version
Cry out to God. Ask Him to do as His Word says:
- Psalms 94:18-If I should say, “My foot has slipped,” Your lovingkindness, O LORD, will hold me up.
- Psalms 94:19-When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.
Reference: biblehub.com New International Version
Trade your innocence for integrity. Come out smartened up to Satan’s agenda.
Knowledge is a gift.
- Ephesians 6:10-14-“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then.”
Reference:biblehub.com/Ephesians/6-10.htm New International Version
Distraction = Stronghold
Addiction = Comes to live there
Destruction = Takes over
- Recognize Satan’s work
- Wise up to Satan-see the warning signs
- Immediately make adjustments
- Set up safeguard and accountability
- Practice integrity
The last thing God wants is for us to live in fear. 1John4:4 Built in alarm- the Holy Spirit
- Satan will back you into a corner
- Scripture is the only way out.
- Cry out to god until He delights your soul.
- Don’t stop until the enemy is sorry he ever messed with you.
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That picture DOES reminds me of Psalm 40:2 – “He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.”* And the next verse (v. 3) says it all. Because God did this for me, I have a new “song of praise to our God”! (*Similar to Psalm 69:2, 14, 30.) I’m not a “pit dweller” anymore; I’m a praise singer!
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I looked and looked for a better picture but this one did convey the message. It is messy in the pit. I can testify to that.
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