The Thing Satan Doesn't Want You to Know

Have you ever learn the truth about someone, and is like a glass was shattered, and you start piecing things together and realize that a lot of the things that happened made sense?

Well, right now (July 27, 2019 at 12:00 pm) I am beyond angry with our enemy and what he’s trying to do to me. Unfortunately, for him, he messed with the wrong person. So, I am going to tell you a truth that will, hopefully, shatter the glass he had try to place in your life and see him for what he is, A LIAR!

Spiritual warfare is a real thing, it is not in our heads or in another realm in which we are not affected by it (Ephesians 6:10-20). We are truly and severely affected by this warfare. Here's the secret though: The purpose of spiritual warfare is to keep you from a breakthrough!

Yeah! the enemy will attack you, particularly in the areas you care the most, and make you doubt God. God's love, God's protection, God's help. The enemy intends to keep us down (sad, frustrated, angry) and confused (specially by not getting answers right away or confusing answers from another sinful human), so we don't trust God and see what God is doing in our lives. So, if you're doing something good for your life, for the Kingdom of God.. if you're getting over anxiety, depression, or simply moving towards God but everything seems to be going worse, that is the enemy trying to distract you from the awesome breakthrough that is coming to your life.

I know it is easy to think that I'm making this up, that I am so upset that I want to encourage everyone to come closer to God. And I am. But examine these examples, and then examine your own life... you'll see the enemy for what he is, what he has attempted to do in your life, what he is doing. Don't let him!!

In 2009-2010 was when the warfare started to get worse. I have had warfare in my life before. I grew up in the church and was honestly in Christ, why wouldn't I've had warfare? I didn't see things clear back then though. I had left the faith when I was 16 y/o (in 2004) and I was living in sin. I was not happy, but I was not in warfare. After my 21st birthday I started visiting church again. Slowly but surely my life was falling apart. I couldn't find a job, my "friends" abandoned me and my family was going through some relationship trouble with one another. 

Why? I was going to church, shouldn't things have been better?

Not even close. On my 22nd birthday I recommitted my life to Christ. A month later I lost everything I had left: my car, last few friends, family peace, even the possibility to enter the military (so I thought). A year later, I had everything I wanted, including a successful career in the Air Force. I didn't know it in 2009-2010, but that warfare that was attacking all I cared about, meant to make me doubt God and to keep me away from my breakthrough. I joined the military, I got a new car, an apartment, lasting friends, a church, my family made peace and we started to rebuild our relationship with one another. Today, I have more than I could have wanted 10 years ago.

In 2017, in the midst of living my dream of traveling, I went through a worst spiritual warfare than the one in 2009-10. This time, the enemy was attacking my self-stem. He lied to me so much, I thought I was ugly, dumb and not enough. If you were to read my journal you would read the most horrible things anyone can say to themselves. I recognized the warfare then. I didn't know why, but I knew I was being attacked. I was one step closer to the truth though.

Shortly after I conquered that warfare, through fasting and prayer, I felt God calling me to ministry. I doubted Him, I thought I was not smart enough to go through Grad School. I prayed some more, then God changed my heart about school and I started Seminary. 

A year later, after my 30th birthday, another spiritual warfare started around the same time that I began to seek help for my PTSD. One day, as I was praying, God allowed me to see the truth about the enemy's intentions behind spiritual warfares. The enemy didn't wanted me to get better. That's when the battle got even more intense and it hasn't been easy. He has attacked ALL of my relationships, all of the resources I use to help others, my self-stem.. yes, again. This time he has come at me with everything he has and even brought my past into the picture. I thought I was going crazy, but I'm not, our enemy is!

In less than a month I'll be entering full-time ministry between my church and my school. I don't know what God is going to do through that, but if we have to go through hell to see a miracle, this is going to be one hell of a miracle!

Don't let the enemy make you feel like you cannot trust God. If you feel oppressed, sad, down, angry, anxious, dumb, ugly... whatever it is that doesn't align with what God says about you in the Bible, examine what you're doing or about to do. It is possible that the enemy is trying to keep you from a breakthrough, whatever that looks for you (healing, peace, better relationships, more education, more ministry, more... life).

When the enemy comes to make you feel bad about falling, every time he bothers you, remind him that the only reason he keeps bothering you is because you keep getting up.