Open Your Mind and Heart

Open your mind and heart—your entire being—to receive My Love in full measure. So many of My children limp through their lives starved for Love, because they haven’t learned the art of receiving. This is essentially an act of faith: believing that I love you with boundless, everlasting Love. The art of receiving is also a discipline: training your mind to trust Me, coming close to Me with confidence. Remember that the evil one is the father of lies. Learn to recognize his deceptive intrusions into your thoughts. One of his favorite deceptions is to undermine your confidence in My unconditional Love. Fight back against these lies! Do not let them go unchallenged. Resist the devil in My Name, and he will slink away from you. Draw near to Me, and My Presence will envelop you in Love.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.- EPHESIANS 3:16–19 

"Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence."- HEBREWS 4:16

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire… When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.- JOHN 8:44

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.- JAMES 4:7–8

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I have never thought about God's love from this perspective. It is hard to imagine that some of us have a hard time accepting the fact that God has unconditional love for us. God tells us today that we need to recognize our lack of confidence in Him and fight back against these lies. It is the Devil who is trying to force these thoughts into our heads. As believers, we must fight back. Now this does sound a lot easier to say than do. I have found it is easy to offer any questionable moment up to God. When you feel uneasy about a decision you are about to make, pray! Pray that God guides you down the right path and that He will lead you away from those Devilish ways. Drawing God into every moment of your life will push the evil one away.

Once we invite God into these evil moments and we see how He is victorious, we will build trust with God our Father. This trust will strengthen our relationship and His love will cover every path of our lives.

It is a huge step to ask God to stand over you when the Devil enters your body. But that big step gets a lot easier when you build a relationship with God. Today before you make that decision where you hear you conscious saying no, pray to God. You will be amazed at the strength you will have behind correct decision.