With Rev. Linda Vitumbiko Mhango, Saturday- 17th August, 2024.
TOPIC: PEOPLE WILL USE WHAT YOU LIKE OR WANT TO DECEIVE YOU
“Now it came to pass after forty years that Absalom said to the king, ‘Please, let me go to Hebron and pay the vow which I made to the Lord. For your servant took a vow while I dwelt at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the Lord indeed brings me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’’ And the king said to him, ‘Go in peace.’ So he arose and went to Hebron” (2 Samuel 15:7-9 )
MESSAGE
What you consider your strength can also become your weakness. Deceitful people sometimes use what their victims like or want to deceive them. For example, they can tell them what they want to hear, knowing they will likely believe them. Their victims are deceived by their lies. What do you like? Is it prayer, praise, power, or any other thing? Be careful; deceitful people will try to use it against you. They will hide under it to deceive you. Satan often tempts people with what he knows they love and will hardly resist.
David had a heart for God. His son, Absalom, who was plotting a rebellion, knew his father well. Therefore, he deceived him by giving him the impression that he also loved God! Four years after he had returned to Jerusalem from exile after killing his half-brother, the eldest of David’s son, Jonadab, he lied to his father to execute his plan to dethrone him.
Beware! Isaac was deceived because of his love for meat from the field. He had suspected foul play because the meat was brought to him earlier than normal (Genesis 27:20). “Isaac said to Jacob, ‘Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.’ So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, ‘The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau’” (verses 21-22).
He knew something was wrong and still asked him if he was really his son, Esau. Despite these doubts, he still went ahead to bless the deceiver, Jacob, because of the meat he had brought for him to eat.
Be careful! Don’t let your enemies use your strength or love against you. Don’t let your strength become your weakness! Beware, deceivers will tell you what you like to hear!
Prayer
Father, today I take a stand against any deception trying to take root in my life. I bind deception and lies right now in the Name of Jesus. I curse every attempt of the devil to get me to buy a lie. In Jesus’s name. Amen.