What is Our Standard ?

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: - Holy Scriptures Only: God will have a people to maintain the Scriptures, and the Holy Scriptures only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all refo...

: Counterfeit Second Coming

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Counterfeit Second Coming: Satan is not permitted to counterfeit the manner of Jesus' second coming.  The Savior has warned His people against deception on this p...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Limit to satan's Power

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Limit to satan's Power: Satan… knows better than we do the limit of his power, and how easily he can be overcome if we resist him and face him. Through Divine str...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Satan can't read our Thoughts

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Satan can't read our Thoughts: “Satan is not permitted to read our thoughts; but he is a keen observer, and he marks the words, and actions, and skillfully adapts his tem...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Deceptive Power

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Deceptive Power: There are few who have any just conception of the deceptive power of hypnotism and spiritualism and the danger of coming under its influenc...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Obtaining Knowledge

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: Obtaining Knowledge: Gods people are directed to Holy Scripture as their safeguard against the influence of false teachers and the delusive power of demons. Sat...

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Soul that Sins will Die

ENCOURAGEMENT !!!: The Soul that Sins will Die: The soul that sins will die. The living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. Their love, hatred and envy die with t...

Games of the Mind

Don't play mind games with the devil, he'll win every time.
Instead, turn to Jesus Christ, He will beat the devil, and Jesus will win every time!

Beware!

The devil can cause the lost to feel saved, and the saved to feel lost.  He loves to mess up your mind.  Beware!  Study Holy Scripture, pray to God. Keep close to Jesus!

It Is Not God

It is not God who gives us bad thoughts or reminds us of bad things -  God gives us peace, love, joy, hope and understanding.  

Its the devil who gives us misery of all kinds, and he loves doing it.

Don't blame God for the evil in the world. Put the blame square on the devil.

No Less Dear to God

If one who daily communes with God sins, it is not because he sins willfully; for when he sees his mistake, he turns back to Jesus.  And the fact that he sinned, does not make him less dear to
the heart of God.
              Based on Review & Herald, May 12, 1896, E G White


If you have made mistakes, you certainly gain a victory if you see these mistakes and regard them as a beacon of warning.  Thus you turn defeat into victory, disappointing the enemy (the devil) and honor your Redeemer (Jesus Christ).
                Christ's Object Lessons, 332, E G White

Please

Please make sure you are following Jesus Christ in everything.  Because the old devil can make the lost feel saved, and the saved feel lost!  It is the devil's way of confusing and deceiving everyone.

Only with God and Jesus is there truth and salvation.

Statesmen

The Holy Spirit "still controls to some extent the laws of the Land. Were it not for these laws, the condition of the world would be much worse than it now is.

"While many of our rulers are active agents of Satan, God also has His agents among the leading men of the nation.

"  The enemy (Satan ) moves upon his servants to propose measures that would greatly impede the work of God; but statesmen who fear the Lord are influenced by holy angels to oppose such propositions with unanswerable arguments.

"Thus a few men (women) will hold in check a powerful current of evil."

        The Great Controversy, 610-611, e g white

Satan's Tricks - Beguiled

Satan appeals to our reason by the presentation of elevating themes; he delights our imagination with enrapturing scenes; and he enlists our affections by his eloquent portrayals of love and charity.
He excites our imagination to lofty flights, leading men to take so great pride in their own wisdom that in their hearts they despise God.

The wisdom that spiritualism imparts is described as "not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish." James 3:15.

Satan will present his temptations in a manner to pervert the senses of all who are not shielded by divine power.

Satan beguiles people by flattery, by kindling a desire for forbidden knowledge, by exciting ambition for self-exaltation.

 It was cherishing these evils that caused his fall from Heaven, and through these evils he aims to ruin us!

based on The Great Controversy, 554, ellen g white

Deceptive Power

There are few who have any just conception of the deceptive power of hypnotism and spiritualism and the danger of coming under its influence.

Many tamper with it merely to gratify their curiosity. They have no real faith in it and would be horrified at the thought of yielding themselves to demons.

But they venture upon forbidden ground, and the devil exercises his power over them against their will. Let them once be induced to submit their minds to his direction, and he holds them captive.

It is impossible, in their own strength, to break away from the alluring, bewitching spell.  Nothing but the power of God, granted in answer to the earnest prayer of faith, can deliver them.

All who indulge sinful traits of character, or willfully cherish a known sin, are inviting the temptations of Satan.

based on The Great Controversy, 558, e g white

Memories of Your Mind

Is your mind gripped by memories you long to forget? held by age long habits  you would give anything to be released from? bound by fears and unholy imaginations?

Know that God will deliver you. He is able! He has won the battle for your soul.  He has triumphed
over temptation. Claim His victory as your o

The devil, the enemy of God and humanity, is not willing that this priceless secret be clearly understood. Satan knows that when you receive it fully, his power will be broken.
And you will be free!

Based on Planet in Rebellion, 173, George E Vandeman

Cesspool

After Ezra L Longway fell into a cesspool covered with floating grass, he said:
"Oftentimes the devil's "cesspools" are camouflaged by beautiful " floating grass," so that what looks like solid ground ...is nothing more than a cleverly concealed morass of filth."

Quoted from: Dangerous Opportunity by Ezra L Longway, missionary to China, p 97

What God Doesn't Do

In my life experience, I have found that God doesn't do certain things.

For instance:
God doesn't stroke our egos; nor does He give us compliments about our beauty:
our face, figure, hair, make-up, etc.

 God is most concerned with our character, and how we are progressing spiritually.  
God is most concerned with our relationship with Him, and how this translates into our relationship with others.

I have found that the old devil speaks thoughts that appeal to our vanity.  

And when we are totally full of ourselves, the devil slams us down by saying how ugly we are, and that God could never accept such a mess!

But we are fine just the way God made us!

Of course we should always appear put together, presentable, clean and well groomed. But our main concern is to be close to God, and the kind way we treat others as we would like to be treated.

Dm

Will This Happen in America?

Satan has control of all whom God does not especially guard.  Satan will favor and prosper some in order to further his own designs, and he will bring trouble upon others and lead men to believe that it is God who is afflicting them.

Satan will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation.

Even now Satan is at work.  In accidents and calamities by sea and land, in great fire-storms, in fierce tornadoes, and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes; in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power.

He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow.  He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence.

These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous.

And then the great deceiver will persuade the world that those who serve God are causing these evils.

The nominal religious class that have provoked God's displeasure will charge all their troubles upon those who obey God's commandments.  It will be declared that commandment keepers are offending God by the violation of Sunday; that the calamities will not cease until Sunday-keeping will be strictly enforced.

Those who honor the Bible seventh-day Sabbath will be denounced as enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society, causing anarchy and corruption.  Their conscientious scruples will be pronounced obstinacy, stubbornness, and contempt of authority. They will be accused of disaffection toward the government.

And then comes National Sunday laws...

based on The Great Controversy(1888), pp 589-590, 592, e g white

Salvation - The Father Suffered Too

The Father Himself suffered with the Son; for “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.” 

Man, with his human, finite judgment, cannot safely question the wisdom of God.  Hence it is unbecoming for him to criticize the plan of salvation. 

 Before the theme of redemption, let man lay his wisdom in the dust, and accept the plans of Him whose wisdom is infinite.

The death of Christ upon the cross made sure the destruction of him [the devil] who has the power of death, who was the originator of sin. 

Signs of the Times, December 30, 1889, e g white