It is always amazing for me to watch how the Devil works, especially whenever there is an important message that the Spirit is trying to communicate with the church!  Today, before I ever even stepped into the building, the Devil was at work – nothing big, major or splashy!  I have noticed that the Devil likes to work behind the scenes whenever he can.  I was getting ready to preach a message on ANGER and the Devil was doing everything that he could come up with to make me and others angry.  I guess that he thought that if enough of us were angry, we would miss out on the message from the Spirit about anger and what we need to do with it!

The funny thing about anger is, it almost always takes you to a place of thought.  I do not always think when I first get angry, but give me a little time and I will think and when I think, my mind and heart get just still enough to hear from the Spirit.  What the Devil was intending to use to mess many of us up, actually back-fired and got many of us to thinking about our anger, where it comes from and what we are going to do about it!  The Devil gave many of us an object lesson before we got the message, so that when we got the message, we really got the message!

What is the Spirit trying to teach you – you don’t have to let the Devil get in the way!  Use the devils attacks as stepping stones to take you into the blessings and growth of God!