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Beware of the Sneak Attack
by Jennifer Berry
A little while ago I was experiencing a tough spot in my life. There was a battle brewing in my mind. Fear and anxiety were trying to gain entry into my mind. Although I was confessing the word over my situation and pulling down imaginations that were attempting to exalt themselves above the knowledge of Christ. Yet I felt no relief.
Then the Holy Spirit led me to the very familiar passage in Deuteronomy 28 were one will find the blessings of our covenant listed. I am very familiar with these verses and scanned over them rather quickly, then the Holy Spirit prompted me to turn the page and look at the curses. This was something I'd never really done before.
I had always thought in the back of my mind that I didn't need to read them because I was redeemed from all that. Boy, was I wrong! Immediately, as I read I saw that some of these things were trying to weasel their way into my life. I was fuming mad. I realized that I'd been complacent, and neglectful.
Because of my ignorance these things were attacking me. So, I took my place as a person redeemed from the curse and immediately my battle abated.
Take a new look at Deuteronomy 28. How many of you have experienced any of the following:
• Confused, nothing that you do ever works (v. 20)
• You feel like the heavens are brass, you feel like God isn't listening or he doesn't hear you, you can't hear from God and you need answers. You feel like you live between a rock and a hard place (v. 23)
• Attacked by sickness, disease, fever, inflammations, allergies, rashes, tumors, growths, boils, or cancer (vv. 21-22, 27)
• Suffered violence, or been beaten up, and no one did anything to help (vv. 22, 25, 29)
• Felt like you were crazy, or going crazy, depressed, dismayed in your heart and mind (v. 28)
• You can never make any money, you're always oppressed, you've been robbed, no one ever helps you (v. 29)
• Had your stuff or your house repossessed (vv. 30-31)
• Your kids have been taken from you and put with other people or vice versa (v. 32)
• You see what's happening in your life and around you and it scares you, or drives you crazy. You feel helpless (v. 34)
• People talk about you behind your back, and look down on you, 'don't be like so and so' (v. 37)
• You give to God and yet are not experiencing blessing (v. 38)
• You never get refreshed by the Holy Spirit when you really need it, or you've yet to experience the baptism of the Holy Spirit (vv. 39-40)
• Your kids go to jail (v. 41)
• You get less and less popular by the day, more and more an outcast of society (v. 43)
• You're in debt (v. 44)
• These things have run in your family for generations (v. 46)
• You never have or get clothes or anything else you want (v. 48)
If you've experienced any of these, guess what? You've been experiencing the very curse that Jesus died to free you from!
Galatians 3:13-14: "Christ has purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the scriptures], cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified); to the end that through [their receiving] Christ Jesus, the blessing [promised] to Abraham might come upon the gentiles, so that we through faith might [all] receive [the realization of] the promise of the [Holy] Spirit."
We've been redeemed but what does that really mean? In the past, a person was sold into slavery because of massive debt that they can't make good on. They were redeemed when someone paid their debts for them and set them free. Only Jesus didn't just stop there. He not only redeemed you from something, He redeemed to something…
Galatians 4:4-7: "But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law, to purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God's sons]. And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ.'
If you've been robbed then now you must take action. Speak to your situation according to Galatians 3:13-14 and demand that it go in Jesus' name. It has absolutely no place or right to operate in your life.
You are a covenant person and God's own kid. Don't put up with it. Finally, go witness to someone and get someone saved - just to rub the devil's face in it! Let the devil know he's messing with the wrong person!
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