3 Sneaky Tools of Deception from the Enemy

The enemy has been deceptive from the beginning of time. In Genesis 3, the enemy uses deception to bring sin into the world. As God gave specific instructions to Adam to eat from any tree in the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16-17), we see things shift quickly. The instructions were clear. God gave Adam the freedom to eat from all the trees except one, but yet, the enemy, in his crafty ways, used that to his advantage as he spoke to Eve, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”(See Genesis 3:1).

Although this took place when the world was first created, we see the same thing continuing today. The enemy wants nothing more than to disrupt God’s plans for our lives. He desires to place doubt and uncertainty and make us question the Word given to us by the Creator of this world. The enemy is crafty, evil, yet strategic as he desires for us to look to him instead of our Father.

Whether or not you grew up in an environment where you acknowledged the enemy at work, the truth is while on this earth, there are spiritual battles happening all the time. As Christians, we should have a desire to live a life pleasing to the Lord, but there is an enemy constantly fighting against that. The enemy wants to keep us stagnant; he wants us to not populate the kingdom of God. Spiritual warfare is real, and we have to be intentional in recognizing the enemy at work. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12). Scripture is clear that we will wrestle because of the warfare taking place on earth.

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