The Devil Wants To Kill, Steal, And Destroy Your Worship.

To KILL, according to the dictionary on line, means: to deprive life in any manner, to destroy, do away with, neutralize, muffle, or deaden.

1) THE THIEF WANTS TO KILL YOUR PURPOSE.

What is purpose? Your purpose is not to be famous, your purpose is not to be a millionaire, your purpose is not to be a super star, if by the Grace of God you attain those things then that is great; however, that is not the purpose for which you were created. Your purpose is the very reason you were put on this earth. It is the plan that God has designed for you that will bring glory to Him. The adversary, the devil is out to kill your purpose. He’s going to try everything in his power to get you to neglect and turn away from your purpose. He wants to deprive you of love and of life. He wants to destroy and do away with the very reason you were created, he wants to muffle and neutralize your glory unto God the Father. God deserves the glory, but the devil wants to steal the glory for himself.

He wants to get you to neglect your purpose by allowing things and situations in your life to become distractions. You have heard me say before I don’t do distraction, because distractions are only designed to cause you to lose focus on something, in this case your purpose. He will send a distraction in your life that will cause you to lose your focus on the reason why you even come to church and that is to worship God.

Not only that but that distraction that he has caused you to focus on will cause you to say I can’t be comfortable in this place so the next thing he causes you to do is to turn away from your purpose. He will speak lies and say you have no purpose here, things aren’t what you thought they would be, see look at how everyone is looking at you and no-body has even looked in your direction, he says and makes you feel that you would be better off if you just left, he will begin to make you feel as if your life is useless that everything you do is ineffective.

So, how do we combat this attack? We must keep our eyes on Jesus at all times. David said in Psalm 121:1 “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help”. His focus is heavenward. Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thought I have toward you thought of good and not of evil to bring you to an expected end. We must focus on the good things God has for us, for whose report are you going to believe I’m going trust the report of the Lord. We must learn how to silence the lies of the enemy. Understand that a lie is weapon and Isaiah 54:17 says “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This [is] the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness [is] of me, saith the LORD”. So what we need to do is study and learn the Word of God. 2 Timothy 2:15 says “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth”. Study in the Greek means to be diligent and labor for.