Don't Give Up

     Often, when I truly start seeking Jesus and even start talking about Jesus, a huge depression comes over me. Yesterday, I fought depression all day long. I could feel a heaviness around me. In the past, I would simply drown out the depression with noise. I would turn on the television or the radio and eventually lose my focus on Christ.

Satan wants us to be burnt out. He wants us to surround ourselves with a battery of constant noise. He wants us in a perpetual state of spiritual confusion. He wants us fearful, anxious, and depressed.

The other day I watched a deliverance video by Derek Prince. Derek Prince claims to have delivered thousands of people from demons, and helped them to walk in freedom. Derek said that at the beginning of his ministry, he would often become overwhelmed with depression. He learned to recognize that his depression was a spiritual attack. He began to rebuke the depression in the name of Jesus, and it left.

Satan wants you to quit. He wants you to give up.

Satan wants you to quit because:

He doesn't want you showing kindness and love to the boy thinking of committing suicide.
He doesn't want you talking about deliverance because people might learn that they can be free of addiction, anger, lust, and unforgiveness.
He doesn't want you walking in the fruits of the spirit.
He doesn't want you walking in peace.
He doesn't want you walking in joy.
He doesn't want you walking in kindness.
He doesn't want you walking in love.
He doesn't want you walking a life free from the bondage of sin. He wants you chained to lies, and theft, and hatred, anger, and greed He wants you chained to impure thoughts. He doesn't want you happy, and he doesn't want you whole.
He wants you believing the lies that you aren't enough. He wants you believing the lies that this walk is not important and that it simply doesn't matter one way or the other.

BuT JESUS...

Jesus wants to transform your life from the inside out. (2 Corinthians 5:17) He wants to free you from your anxiety. (Matthew 6:34)

He longs for you to walk in joy, and peace, and love, and kindness.(Galatians 5:22)He wants you to find joy in giving and in helping others (Matthew 25:40). He wants you free that which has you bound.(John 8:36) He wants your mind transformed and your heart renewed. (Romans 12:2)

The Word says that He rejoices over us with singing. Don't give up. Don't quit. Put on the full armor, and fight.(Ephesians 6:10-18) I can promise that it will all be worth it in the end. (1 Corinthians 2:9)

God still loves you.You are invited to the banquet table.

COME HOME.


If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

Galatians 5:13-17

13 For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.

John 3:16 

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life

DON'T GIVE UP

Love,

Rachelle