Spiritual Warfare for Your Family by Leighann McCoy

Author:Leighann McCoy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL099000;REL012030
ISBN: 9781441229960
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2016-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

What Are the High Places in Your Life?

The devil doesn’t want you to identify the idols in your life. He wants you to ignore the high places and pretend they are okay. He’ll convince you that since you pray, read your Bible, and give financially to the church, you’re a good Christian. But God is a jealous God, and He created you to be most satisfied when you live in constant awareness that He, and only He, delivers what your heart desires.

Don’t miss that profound truth: God wants you to live in constant awareness that He, and only He, delivers what your heart desires.

Most of your spiritual battles are fought over misperceptions of God. The devil hints at God’s motives, then appeals to your flesh, and eventually convinces you that God is not who He says He is, and that He cannot or will not deliver what your heart longs for. He causes you to doubt God and step away from your proper position of absolute surrender to Him and complete dependence on Him.

An idol is anything or anyone you love more than God.

An idol can be something God has to do for you in order for you to be pleased with Him.

When you think of an idol as something or someone you love more than God, it ceases to exist in the form of a golden image. Suddenly it becomes the thing.

John Piper calls the idol in our lives “the thing.”

What is an idol? Well, it is the thing. It is the thing loved or the person loved more than God, wanted more than God, desired more than God, treasured more than God, enjoyed more than God. It could be a girlfriend [boyfriend/wife/husband, or lover]. It could be good grades. It could be the approval of other people. It could be success in business. It could be sexual stimulation. It could be a hobby or a musical group that you are following or a sport or your immaculate yard. . . . Your own looks could be an idol. It could be anything.3

An idol could be your own children.

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