Don't Let the Devil Fool Ya!

Hello, Hello All:

It has been a minute since you've heard from me. Well if you don't know by now, our newest addition, Dorrien (check out pic), has arrived. He was 8lbs and 1 oz, at two (2) week check-up 9lbs, one (1) month check-up 12 1/2 lbs, and today for his two (2) month check-up 18 lbs and 2 oz (WOW)! Yes, he is a very healthy boy! I am so blessed to have two (2) wonderful, healthy and gorgeous babies. I love them so much even when they get on mommy's nerves. Last week Angie wasn't feeling to well, and she kept me up all night and all day (like I was the only parent in the house, but as it goes they always want momma - which is ok).

This brings me to my title of "Don't let the devil fool ya". If you are a parent, then you've most likely had a child/children that have been sick. They want you to hold them and comfort them, and yes they keep you up. This happened with my daughter. We had gone to visit my mom one Saturday, and she was fine while over there. She played with her cousins and had a good time. We made it home; she ate. Lo and behold around 1:45 AM (dark thirty as I call it), I woke up and heard check on Angie. So I checked on her and sure-nough she was hot. I checked her temperature, and gave her some Children's Tylenol and prayed for her. After a couple of hours, she finally went back to sleep, and yes you've guessed, my two (2) month old son woke and was ready to eat. I woke up with Angie again, and of course, the baby had to have another feeding. Well, I was tired and was thinking "Oh, today is Sunday (Church). So I began to hash over what I was gonna tell the pastor (Oh, don't act like I'm the only one). So I thought............ I'll tell the truth.......Angie is sick, and I need to stay home with her to make sure she gets better. It wasn't a lie. I heard that voice say "That's an excuse, can you not tarry with me for one (1) hour?" By this time church had already started; song service had been done, and it was time for the Word of the Lord to be brought forth. I told the Lord "Lord, I am tired". I know the Lord is not hard of hearing because Angie's the healed, but I also know that He's not blind which means He saw that I was up all night. In my confession time, I pray that God will bring back to my remembrance those that He has said, and God being the faithful God that He is did just that. I heard do not forsake the assembling of yourselves lest you see the day of the Lord Jesus approaching, and each day that passes is a day closer; this includes today. All I could do was just chuckle, and it's good to know that my Father God has a sense of humor.

The enemy will use any and everything to distract us from doing what we know God has called and instructed us to do. He instructed us to not forsake the assembling of ourselves, for those that don't get it He's saying GO TO CHURCH with other believers. The enemy almost deceived me into not going to church. I had a legitimate excuse for missing church. There would not have been anyone at church that would not have understood my absence from church that Sunday. I almost bought into that lie. I don't know about you, but when Shan prays, I expect for my Father to answer my prayers which means that when I prayed right then, Angie was healed. I could have let the devil fool me into staying home because "Angie was sick". If I had done that then I would have stopped the very thing that I had prayed for in the beginning which was for Angie to be healed. Oh don't stop reading now. So many times we let the enemy fool/deceive us when we ask the Father to answer a prayer or to do something for us. We let the devil weave little lies (seemingly truths) concerning our situation, and we negate the very thing that we ask God for, and then we wonder why we don't have the answer to our prayers. The enemy fool us so many times by weaving these lies, and we believe the report of the devil when we should be believing the report of the Lord. His report says that Angie is the healed, because our Lord Jesus has already paid the price for her healing. I pray by the stripes of Jesus that the Pirozzi are the healed, that we walk, live, breath, and move in the divine health and healing that He had come to give us. But I almost believed a lie which seemed to be truth or rather that I almost made the lie (of the enemy) the truth (that Angie was still sick); do you follow. We can either believe what the Lord says is truth, or we can believe what the devil has to say is truth. God has set before us life and death. He gave us a hint; He told us to choose life so that we may live (sickness can lead to death, so you figure that one out - it's easy). I did get up and went to church that Sunday because I heard the voice of the Lord, though it was humorous, I obeyed. I had texted the Asst. pastor and the pastor to "explain" why I was missing church (being disobedient to an instruction of the Lord and forsaking assembly with believers). Don't let the enemy fool you. We know that we should pray everyday, and read the Word of God everyday, but somehow we come up with "excuses" to why can't or why we have to postpone and read later, which sometime doesn't happened at all. I too am guilty sometimes of this; you know I will tell it on myself. But we can't afford to get lax; we can't afford to be ignorant of the enemy's devices. Don't be part of the elect that will be deceived by the enemy before the Lord returns. As a matter of fact we should pray that we will not be deceive, and therefore not a part of the elect (those who know the Word of God and choose to be lax or disobebient concerning the Word of God) that will be fooled by the devil.

Hey, do you hear that, do you hear that?.................................... It's the ticking of a clock. Time is running out. Be ever watchful for the day of the Lord is at hand. Search God's Word to see what His truths are, make them your truths so that you are not fooled/deceived by the enemy. The enemy roams about like a roaring lion seeking those he can devour. Don't let this be you! Lord, don't let this be me!

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