Devices

Song of Solomon 2:15  Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

We fail because we don’t understand the enemy nor do we know his tactics or his devices. If you planted a vineyard what would you expect? If you saw little foxes eating your grapes, would you not say that they are destroying my fruit? If you continued to allow the little foxes to eat your grapes what do you think would happen? It would in time destroy your profits. When a person asks the Lord to come into their life or asks the Lord to save them there are some things that we should began to produces, they are called the Fruit of the Spirit.  

Galatians 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Galatians 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galatians 5:24  And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Galatians 5:25  If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

Now the enemy does not want us to produce these fruits. Why do you think he would care? It is to his advantage to keep us in the dark about: 

1- Deception- Galatians 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Galatians 6:8  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

2- Lying- Ephesians 4:25  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

3- Anger- Ephesians 4:26  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

4- Giving up- Ephesians 4:27  Neither give place to the devil.

5- Corrupt Speech-Eph 4:29  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

6- Bitterness- Ephesians 4:31  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ephesians 4:32  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

If I allow deception, lying, anger, giving up, desperation, corrupt speech, cursing, and being or getting bitter then I have just became ignorant of the enemies devices.

2Corinthians 2:11  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

DEVICE, - That which is formed by design, or invented; scheme; artificial inventing, devising or planning; an artifice by which some advantage is intended to be obtained; project; sometimes in a good sense; more generally in a bad sense, as artifices are usually employed for bad purposes.

 If you and I are not aware of the devices of the enemy then we allow him to destroy us.

John 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

John 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

John 15:3  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

John 15:4  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

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.

I guess it’s important where we find ourselves abiding. Have a blessed weekend!