It is pathetic that most claimed Christians don't know that the devil cannot separate us from the love of God, but our thought alone, because to God, our thought is not inclusive as "Nothing will be able to separate us from the love of God". To God, our thoughts are eternally precious to bring to reality God's mind. By this I mean, if what God has in store for us is the right and we choose to go left, we can never have what God has for us. This means what God has for you, can only be for you, when you go God's direction and for you to go God's direction, you must first trust and obey Him and in doing this, you are simply seeking first the kingdom of God that guarantees every other thing to be added to you.
The devil sole target is simply our thought and once he is able to get our thought, he will possess our will power. Our mind cannot submit to the devil, until our thought has come under his influence, so I advise that you train your thought to get use to the Word of God through faith, instead of through fear, because fear will make you double minded and a double minded man is actually narrow minded, and narrow minds deceives. Double mindedness makes you unstable in all your ways (James 1: 8). Since the devil cannot separate you from the love of God, he will now try to limit the battle to allowing you to separate yourself with your thoughts from God.
Proverbs 23: 7
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink! He says to you, but his heart is not with you.
From the above scripture, you can see how deceptive a man's heart is, and that is why Scripture have it that the heart of man is desperately wicked, who can detect the imagination of his thought? Can you imagine someone telling you to eat and drink, but in his heart, he is not with you, but just trying to make you comfortable before he could execute his evil intent when you cannot escape it, having gotten used to his physical kind gesture.
Do not fool yourself to think Satan cares for you. His advance of care (show) is against your soul, but for the pleasure of your body (flesh) and you might not discover it until the damages is been done.
Proverbs 16: 25
There is a way that seems right to a man, but it end is the way of death.
The way of Satan's good is death, don't even think it, because if you start the thought process, you will be lost in his current factory where you will be mind-processed (brain washed) and irresistibly you will find yourself fulfilling the intent of the devil's mind. I have been there; I don't know if you have....
So since the devil cannot separate us from God, he will now limit the battle to allowing us to separate ourselves with our thoughts, I reiterate, sinking this reality into the heart of your heart (ear) as you read this, to do a mind reset. You are not who you think you are, you are who God has ordained you to be, find out in Him and live in the knowledge of God's thought for your life. As man becomes far from God in his heart, he will end up thinking God has turned against him and start withdrawing from fellowship and communion with God.
God does not turn against, get it right! We are the one that is turning away from God and in the knowledge of our thoughts based on what we see and experience, we will now end up thinking God has turned against us.
If He is against us, why did He keep sending His messengers from the time of the old, till this time to warn us turn to away from our evil ways and repent (turn back to Him)?
It is heretic to think and preach that God is against us. It is actually a problem of mindset that needs a reset. Have you thought, why God asked Adam, "Who told you, you were naked?"
Whenever we think God is against us, it is actually the devil that is lying and trying to deceive us. Learn from Adam's fall and desist from giving excuses by remaining in the Word of God which is the very Way where your security is assured.
The more you give excuses, the more you allow devil the chance and opportunity to impress your heart with fresh knowledge that will certainly appease the pattern of your thought. Guide your heart with all diligence, for out of it flows the issue of life.
The devil's business is to do everything with the very last opportunity that he has, because his days are short, to impress in us the wrong impression and romance us to accept it as true. Take your mind of anything you will discover that thing have no power over you any more, even if it is a disease that is incurable. The effect of anything is in the focus that enters your mind and the moment you accept it into your mind, it controls your will that is supposed to resist and fight back. When this happens, when your will is being weakened, it will run you down by switching off your light which connects you to the knowledge of the truth that can set you free. Resist the devil and he will flee from you! Some resistance has the method of fleeing, such as resistance to fornication.
James 4: 7- 8
Therefore, submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double minded.
God is actually running after us, if He is not, the Bible will not say, "If we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us". The love of God keeps God constantly running after us, and that is why He cannot leave, nor forsake us. The constancy of God's nature is to draw nearer to us, not to pull away from us. He is ever coming to us, and He is never changing to drawing nearer to us. But this reality can only be felt when we know God can never leave, nor forsake us and start seeking to also reciprocate the gesture of drawing nearer to Him, by loving Him out of the abundance of love He had loved us, because He first love us (1 John 4: 19).
Can you see the devil's wiles? In order to separate man from God, he takes hold of man's thought by first creating a wrong impression to make and take man's attention to become focus on things and happenings, instilling fears that brings man to a point of self-defense, which will live man with one option to secure himself with weapon, when the weapon of our warfare are not carnal. So man in an act of defending himself, will end up committing mayhem to fellow man, such that peace and tranquility will now be taking from man's dictionary. Are we not seeing this around the globe today? Examples of this could be in the form of, tribulation, distresses, lack, peril and uncontrollable situations opposing peace like constant wars and crisis, or terrorist attack and persecutions of Christians by the ISIS etc.
All these will make man become hardened and double minded, such that even those that don't mean evil to you are seen as your enemies, even in the church, living the atmosphere to become atmosphere of fear instead of faith. If the atmosphere is of fear instead of faith, what fruit would the church produce? Faith produces righteous fruit, while fear produces unrighteous fruit that are rebellious in attitude and could terrorize the system if things do not go their own way. We don't receive from God most time because we are double minded (James 4: 2, 3).
Our major challenge as Christians not connecting God truly is double mindedness which makes us narrow minded and narrow minds deceives, and that is why most of our churches today are dwelling on deceptions and lies. We need to know God's mind.
1 Corinthians 2:11
AMP:For what person perceives (knows and understands) what passes through a man's thoughts except the man's own spirit within him? Just so no one discerns (comes to know and comprehend) the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
It is easier to say we know God's mind, but the truth is in the acceptance of God's mind, so our battle is the battle of the mind and the devil's mandate is to take man out of the Way (IN) of God for man to remain in God's program, man must stay IN the Way, meaning MAN IN-RELATIONSHIP WITH DIVINITY (The true appearance of God on the face of the earth), evident as the Word that became flesh and dwelt among us (John 1: 14). Jesus is simply the definition of Divinity in the face of humanity who sets the precedence to crush carnality through us who will live His true life.
Where was Jesus Christ born?
Jesus was born in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2: 7
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Outside the way of God, man comes under the devil's dominion, not that the devil has dominion over man, but because of ignorance, man end up ignorantly submitting to the devil with his thought in the form of FEAR birthed from the ways of self.
If the devil over power you with any circumstances in life, it is because you have accommodated fear and if you have fear, you are selfish. One the question we must ask ourselves as a church is, "What is our fear?"