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Know Our Enemy; Destroy The Lies by Toris Redding
I
look at the life of King David and his prayers and see an
Davids, His kings and priests, the Body of Christ in the earth
example of a heart after God, a sincere desire to know
today, those who have confessed with their mouths and
God and His voice and to do His will in every place at
believed in their hearts the Lordship of Jesus and salvation
any cost, even through and in spite of his human frailties.
through Him alone. The plight is still the same as it was for
Further, I see him and his people, God’s people, constantly
David. The enemy is still the same, and he is not flesh and
surrounded by enemies, being sought out and targeted by
blood. This enemy desires to sift us like wheat, just as he
their enemies to be conquered and for destruction. In Psalm
did David and even as Jesus told Peter. He desires to try our
120, David cries out to the Lord, “Rescue me, O Lord, from
faith and overthrow the Body of Christ. Satan, our real and
liars and from all deceitful people.”
unseen enemy, desires to conquer and ultimately destroy
David recognized that there was deception all around him. And ultimately, the deception came from the enemy, satan, for the Scripture says of him in John 8:44, “He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.” And what is deception? Webster’s Dictionary defines it as “the act of causing someone to accept as true or valid what is false or invalid: the act of deceiving.” Further, who was the one ultimately responsible for the constant attempts to conquer and destroy David and God’s people through other people and the culture of the world around them? It was satan, the
the church. And he is still doing it through people and the
devil, that serpent of old. John 10:10 says this: “The thief
culture of today with lies, deception, and by presenting
comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” How can we
untruths and attempting to make those things valid.
know that these attacks and attempts on David’s life were
We must cry out to God today, just like David, for
from the devil, from satan himself? God makes that clear
truth and to be rescued from liars through every source
to us in His Word in Ephesians 6:12: “For our struggle is
the enemy would use. Our significance in the earth, in our
not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against
individual cities, in our families, jobs, and businesses, is
the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and
vital, great, and very necessary. I daresay the CHURCH OF
against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST is the most important entity in
David was never just fighting his fellow man, but
the earth after the Holy Spirit. We must recognize it and
there was a deeper, darker, unseen force influencing
walk in it, being the giant-slaying, devil-destroying, earth-
and inhabiting the culture and manipulating the minds
subduing, and divine wisdom-carrying vessels of the living
of people. These forces wanted to oppress, control, and
God we have been created to be!
Well, here’s an announcement for us today, for God’s people, His chosen generation, His precious ones, His
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About The Author
ultimately destroy God’s people and their future existence! Toris Redding is married to Detrick Redding, and he is the pastor of Rally Up International Ministries in Rome, Georgia. Together, they have four beautiful children and reside in Rome.
