“The devil cannot command, he can only influence.” I heard those words from a recent devotional, and they stuck with me. To issue a command, one must hold a position of power over subordinates. When God, the ultimate Sovereign, made the earth, He delegated His authority over it to humankind, not the devil [Genesis 1:26-28, …
The first lie ever told in the Bible was by an entity who accused God of not telling the truth. That entity was the devil. He challenged what God had said to Adam and Eve, and then asserted that God was withholding information that would make their lives better. He tried to present God as …
It occurred to me recently that for the last four years, every morning I pressed the ignition of my car, the car sprung into life. Yet, it rarely occurred to me to thank God that my day wasn’t disrupted by unexpected car trouble. It made me realise that I take many things in my life …
I recently heard a preacher say: “it’s dangerous to live your life believing a lie”. His context revolved around getting to the end of one’s life and finding out that the information you based your choices in life on was false. The same preacher later said: “to be uninformed is bad, but to be misinformed …
