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SATAN called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil demons, he said, “We can’t keep the Christians from going to church. We can’t keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can’t even keep them from an intimate, abiding relationship experience in Messiah.

This is what I tell you to do:

Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout that day!”

“How shall we do this?” shouted the demons.

“Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds,” he answered. “Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6 – 7 days a week, 10 – 12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon their home will offer no escape from the pressures of work! Entice them to play the radio or DVD player whenever they drive. Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice.

Keep the DVD player, TV, CDs and their Computers going constantly in their homes. Let them become busy at doing nothing, and become enthralled with meaningless, vain social media and worthless pleasure-seeking activities! And see to it that every store, restaurant and business everywhere plays non-biblical, worldly music constantly. This will preoccupy their minds with messages of the flesh and break that union with the Messiah. Fill the coffee table with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds for 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail-order catalogues, sweepstakes and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services, and false hopes. Make sexuality pervasive. Put sexy, beautiful models on the magazines so husbands will lust after external beauty, and they will become dissatisfied with their wives. Give them movies that portray a luxurious, gaudy, lustful lifestyle that does not actually exist. Keep them too busy to go out in nature to reflect on Yahweh’s wonders. Give them thrills at amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead.

KEEP THEM BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!

And when they do meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip, envy, or self-righteousness, so that they leave with troubled consciences. This will restrict their conversations to shallow, vain, unimportant topics. Go ahead; let them be involved in soul winning. But crowd their lives with so many causes they have no time to seek power from the Messiah. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and families for the cause. They will lose sight in how important a human soul really is. IT WILL WORK, I TELL YOU. IT WILL WORK!”

It was quite a convention. And the evil demons went eagerly about their assignment of causing “Yahweh’s people” to be busy, busy, busy, and to rush here and there. The evil demons even stole the Yahweh ordained day of rest! ASK YOURSELF Does this describe MY family? WHO is glorified by my lifestyle? Does Yahweh want my life to be DIFFERENT? Am I WILLING to do what it takes to change?