Satan's Favorite Trick

I've come to realize that ISOLATION is one of Satan's very favorite tricks. He LOVES to trip up believers by telling them that they are all alone. That no one understands what they're going through, and if you tried to explain it to someone, they would think you are weird.

Satan plays this "isolation" game in several different ways. He can lie to you and tell you that your sin is different from everyone elses. And no one else struggles with the same sin that you do. Therefore getting you to turn away from God's command in James to "confess your sin to eachother and pray for eachother so that you may be healed". He doesn't want you to confess. Because with confession comes healing and accountability. And with accountability can come the elimination of sin. He wants you to think that no one understands your sin so that he hinders you from coming to healing and freedom.

I'm struggling right now with this deception of "isolation". I'm scared that when I come home no one will understand what I've experienced and that I'll be "all alone". And when I start to dwell on that and believe that, I'm opening the door for even more deception from the enemy. Pretty soon I hear things from him like, "Your friends don't care what you're learning down here. They'll never understand so don't even bother sharing." Or "why would you even try starting a ministry for the orphans? No one knows about the orphans. No one knows what they go through so why would anyone support you in that? No one will."

Satan has been throwing me lie after lie after lie while I've been down here. And I'm sad to say that I've let some of them sink in and believe them. I try to shut him out by telling myself that these are lies from Satan, but that's not enough. I've learned that I can't just REMOVE the lies and leave nothing in their place. That would be like taking a brick out of the wall and putting nothing back in to hold it's place and keep it sturdy and built. I need to replace these lies with truth. I need to literally be looking in to Scripture and repeating God's Word to myself when I start to believe Satan's lies.

For example: When Satan tells me I'm not beautiful....I say "NO. That's not true. Here it is Psalm 139 'I am fearfully and WONDERFULLY made."

Or when Satan tells me that there is no hope for the orphan. That God has forgotten about them. That's when I say "NO. John 14:18 'I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.'"

I've found this to be one of the most powerful things. Using God's Word to knock down Satan's lies. It's something I've been taught to do my whole life but I'm just now coming around to doing it.

"For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double edged sword. It penetrates to dividing even soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." Hebrews 4:12