In my father's tired mind right now , everyone is lying to him....everything and everyone are fake.... It is all a sham , a scam, a fraud, a setup, an illusion and a scheme.....all words he has used in his mind tricks....yet those are all the words that his mind is playing on him...we are in the real world and he is not...
Not the person I have known all of my life as my father....not the grandfather my children have known, not the tree farmer who loved to teach .....not the uncle my cousins have known...not the friend he has been ......
On the other hand, I can ask him questions about growing up, past history and he can tell me in detail the who, when, what details....quite the contrast....
Mind deceivers ......we, as people In this world, have an enemy, a deceiver, a liar, who would trick our minds moment by moment of everyday....he would trick us with idols, materialism, various religions, wrong thinking ..... A multitude of things....
He has been there since the beginning, in the garden with Adam and Eve , twisting the truth, to Job....testing....to Christ, trying to gain the power which is not his to have...and finally in the end times, a battle which is already won by the Creator the universe...
Still he is lurking everyday in every way to win converts to his evil and deceitful ways...quietly undermine truth in anyway he can....
We are to resist, be alert......be on guard that we are not deceived.
Lord , help me to make right decisions based on truth and not be deceived by the falsehoods of the deceiver....
Zechariah 3:2
The Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebuke you! Is not this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”
Matthew 4:10
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
Acts 5:3
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Romans 16:20
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
2 Corinthians 2:11
in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.
1 Thessalonians 2:18
For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, did, again and again—but Satan blocked our way.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie,
1 Timothy 5:15
Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
1 Peter 5:8
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
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