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THE DECEIVER



S.E.E.D. For Today_The Deceiver

 Scripture "Then the Lord God asked the woman, What have you done? "The snake deceived me, and I ate, the woman answered." Genesis 3:13 Good News Translation

 God doesn't ask questions because He needs information. Being God He knows everything. He ask questions for our own good, to give us the opportunity to face the facts. When God calls out for Adam it was an act of grace not that He couldn't find him, but He wanted Adam to hear His voice for his inner nature had been polluted by sin in such a way that He didn't want to face God. God calls out to His wife to question her she tells God that the serpent deceived her. From this they quickly learned how to make excuses. Paul said this "But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ." 2 Cor. 11:3 Satan is a deceiver his intentions are to still, kill and destroy, mislead you to your misfortune. In the original movie of the Jungle Book "Kaa" who is the serpent wants to eat Mowgli the young boy who wanders from his tribe into the jungle and tries to convince him to trust in him. He puts Mowgli in this deep slumber and cast a curse upon him saying; slowly and surely your senses will cease to resist. 

 Example The term deceived seems to mean to cause to forget, to entice, making a fool out of someone, to lie, to trick, to hoodwink, con.....etc.

Exercise Read Genesis 3:1-24 Afterwards have a talk with God. Don't allow yourself to be misled by the deceiver. He wants you to forget what God has said to you, to entice you to abort your destiny, he wants to make a fool out of you, he is a liar, that is trying to trick you, hoodwink, con and rob you of the abundant life Christ came to offer you.

Devotion Lord I trust only You, I will not trust in the deceiver. I stand on the word of God and I resist the enemy. I pray that I wake from my slumber and be aware of the wiles of the devil. I let go of all the excuses because they only lead to deception. Christ is my intervention from the deceiver for He has crushed the head of the serpent. I pray for faith to seek You daily that I keep sincere and pure devotion only to You in Jesus Name Amen.

















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