08/18/2026
Stay focused on God!!! Whether it be the enemy trying to distract us. Or the ones we love not following the same God you are. Keep loving. But don’t move an inch off of the truth. Off his word. It’s always the heart that is targeted. First comes the thought. Then comes the choice. Listen to the lie. Or bring it into subjection and into obedience of the truth of the Word of God. Satan targets the heart. That is what is gonna be heard in the mind. It goes the heart, the mind. The decision. Don’t let him enter into your heart for a stronghold over the word of God. The spiritual warfare is all in the mind!!!
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
Jeremiah 17:9 KJV
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”
Matthew 15:18-20 KJV
“And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;”
John 13:2 KJV
This was his chance. To resist the devil!!! He chose differently!!!
“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”
James 4:6-10 KJV
It’s suffering!! It’s being tempted to follow ugly but choosing God over it.
“Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.”
Luke 22:3 KJV
“And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.”
John 13:27 KJV
“He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.”
Proverbs 28:26 KJV
The warfare is targeted on the heart. To bring to the mind. Which should bring you to the decision you are about to make!!
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 KJV
Every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God!! The parameters are set in this!!!
“Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
Matthew 22:37-40 KJV
And it ties right back into it.
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
Galatians 5:13-25 KJV
“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.”
John 17:17, 26 KJV
“For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.”
1 Kings 11:4 KJV
Make sure the hearts are going after the same truth!! The same love.
