I've noticed this pattern in my life of when I fall and it goes something like this.
1) First the enemy attacks me through some kind of negativity in my life.
2) He accuses God to me, "If God loves you why is this happening to you", "If Jesus died for your sins why are you still suffering"
3) Then he tempts me... "Since God sucks you should just sin... fulfilling some kind of lust will make you feel better."
I've found that as long as He doesn't get me with number 2 he can't get me with number 3.
It's when I start to look at the Father through my perception of what's going on that he can get me to doubt my Father's goodness and once he get's me to doubt my Fathers goodness he can tempt me.
It seems like as long as I look at God through Christ alone he can't get me to doubt my Father's goodness... and as long as I don't doubt my Father the enemy has no power to tempt... but I can find this hard some times when I'm going through the enemies attacks.
Anyone else have similar experiences?
1) First the enemy attacks me through some kind of negativity in my life.
2) He accuses God to me, "If God loves you why is this happening to you", "If Jesus died for your sins why are you still suffering"
3) Then he tempts me... "Since God sucks you should just sin... fulfilling some kind of lust will make you feel better."
I've found that as long as He doesn't get me with number 2 he can't get me with number 3.
It's when I start to look at the Father through my perception of what's going on that he can get me to doubt my Father's goodness and once he get's me to doubt my Fathers goodness he can tempt me.
It seems like as long as I look at God through Christ alone he can't get me to doubt my Father's goodness... and as long as I don't doubt my Father the enemy has no power to tempt... but I can find this hard some times when I'm going through the enemies attacks.
Anyone else have similar experiences?