Psalms 62:6 declares
God alone is my rock and my salvation, My defense and my strong tower; I will not be shaken or disheartened.
We are often shaken and disheartened in this world because we loose sight (focus) of God’s plans and purposes for mankind and for our lives (individually). Satan (the destroyer, the tempter, the thief, the deceiver and the accuser of the brethren-God’s people) often misleads us through lies and through dishonorable/forbidden/hedonistic desires that is present in our bodies.
1 Peter 2:11 declares
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers in this world to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.
James 4:1 also declares
What leads to the unending quarrels and conflicts among you? Do they not come from your hedonistic desires that wage war in your bodily members [fighting for control over you]?
When we engage in these desires, we loose sight of God’s plans and purposes and focus on our evil desires and on our own way of selfishness, godlessness, lusts, pride and evil. These dishonorable desires cause harm and hurt to ourselves and to others (even though we don’t intent to cause harm or hurt to others). Through the blindness of attaining what we want (evil desires and lusts or pride-which is focused on excessive dependence on possessions, worldly accomplishments and false sense of self importance), we become instruments of evil promoting injustice, violence, pain, suffering and often also persecuting those that advice us to return to a godly lifestyle. We become children and followers of Satan as he is the author and promoter of such lifestyles that is focused on selfishness, lies, deception and evil.
Friend yield not to such hedonistic desires today. Resist Satan and all of his doctrines including lifestyles of error and evil desires and he will flee from you. Stand strong grounded in your faith that you were taught by your anointed Pastor/Prophet (the doctrine of truth, righteousness and justice) and make the words of Jesus written below as yours too:
John 14:30 declares
For the ruler of the world Satan is coming and he has no claim on Me, no power over Me (through dishonorable desires present in my body or through the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life present in the world) nor anything that he can use against Me
James 4:7 also declares
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Ephesians 4:14 also declares
So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth like ships on a stormy sea and carried about by every wind of shifting doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of unscrupulous men (influenced by Satan) by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything for personal profit who promote a lifestyle of evil and engaging in dishonorable desires of the body.
The Lord is our rock today. We will not be shaken in the doctrine of our faith, the doctrine and lifestyle of righteousness and the doctrine of Justice and peace that promotes the ways and example of Jesus Christ alone.
-Evg.Samuel Meesala