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Greetings,
I hope you are all well. Today I am headed to South Africa for ministry there. I will be there for several days and I am looking forward to what God is going to do. I had a great day yesterday at Everyone’s Church in Mt. Vernon, Washington. God’s loving power of deliverance and freedom was in the house.
God determines who each of us are. Our true destiny is to be an expression of God’s likeness and image. This includes His thoughts, reasoning, imagination, emotions, and desires. Our spirit, soul, and body are meant to work as one to bring glory to God as His manifested sons and daughters in this world. This is the design of our creation.
Satan is a perversion of His original creation. God created him to be a creature of beauty, but he desired to be something beyond who God made him to be. He didn’t like who he was created to be and traded his true identity for a lie. I believe that his sense of the future caused him to see us in the heart of God when he saw the stars of God. He didn’t understand what he could see because he was somehow unsatisfied with who he was. He decided that the stars of God (sons of God) were what he desired to be (Isa. 14:12-15). His motivation was jealousy, envy, shame, discontentment, and pride. Although he was perfect in his beauty and he was full of wisdom given to him by God, he somehow didn’t like himself.
He was not created to be a devil. He was not created to be Satan. These are attributes of his perversion. These are the fruit of embracing and acting upon his internal iniquity. He embraced a lie and has become the father of lies. In his creation he was a seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. He was a refraction of God’s light, God’s sound, and God’s rhythm. He magnified the expressions of God in a wonderful way. He was perfect in his creation until he acted upon a weakness of iniquity within himself. He traded his true identity for a lie, and he was devoured by the fire of his own way. That fire was a personal desire and agenda that perverted his true identity – Ezekiel 28:12-19.
The weakness of this created being was that he was willing to trade his true identity for a lie. The enemy uses the environment of our world to tempt us to trade for something less than who we really are. Who each of us are will always bring life to our world and any devil is out to destroy who we really are. We are all called to be sons and daughters of God, and like our Father we should give life to our world. The enemy comes in the form of outside sources in an attempt to make you and I trade our true identity for a lie. Our true identity is only found though the connection of our spirit to the life-giving, life-defining, Spirit of God.
The strategy of the enemy is to war against your true identity with his own destructive ways and personality. A spirit of fear attempts to make you afraid. A spirit of rejection tries to crack your soul, so you receive a character of rejection. A spirit of intimidation attempts to make you accept a personality of being easily intimidated. The enemy is out to get your ‘I am’. It’s ok to feel afraid at times, but the enemy wants you to confess an, ‘I am afraid’. When we say, “I am afraid”, we are confessing a personality and character of fear.
A devil strikes the souls of others to destroy their personalities and identities. He seeks to crack the souls of men to tempt them to trade the truth of who they are for the personality of his perversion. A devil of fear strikes the human soul with his personality of fear to tempt them to trade their understanding of love for a lie of fear in their own identity. They trade their trust of love for a personality of fear, and they become fearful. They open their soul to an external spiritual influence that becomes stronger than the internal power of their own spirit that was created to be inspired by the Holy Spirit of God.
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, 12 having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Spiritual forces of darkness lure the desires of our flesh so that our flesh becomes the motivation of our soul. Our soul is the dimension of our being that is meant to be empowered by our spirit. Our spirit is our inner man, and it is meant to be empowered by a divine connection with God’s Holy Spirit within us. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of holiness that makes our spirit holy. Our spirit is created to be joined to God, and it is empowered to motivate the thoughts, reasonings, imaginations, emotions, and desires of our soul from within. The actions of our lives are meant to be a visible expression of the life of God manifesting within our soul. When this does not happen, we become vulnerable to the desires of our own flesh and to spiritual influences in the external environment of our world that war against our soul.
Blessings,
Ted J. Hanson
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