Eating with the Enemy Message 3

Eating with the Enemy

Message 3

Camping in the Valley

Me:

1. Still thinking about the phone call

a. How quickly I allowed the devil to have a seat at the table.

i. It took a millisecond

ii. It’s a habit I have let develop

iii. It wasn’t until I got home and begin prepping my message that I understood what happened

iv. I tell this again to say again how quickly it can happen

b. I have at least two vulnerabilities

i. Pride

ii. Fear

You:

The tiniest crack

a. A sliver of opportunity.

i. The smallest window of doubt.

ii. Maybe like me it’s fear

iii. Maybe for you it’s uncertainty

That’s just the way it is.

i. We have a big problem

ii. We have come to accept the enemy sitting at our table as normal

iii. It’s a huge problem

iv. Here’s what we say – That’s just the way things are these days.

v. Who isn’t worried, who isn’t hurried, who isn’t stressed?

vi. You have pitched your tent in the valley – The dark valley

If I had their life.

i. If I had their job or their house or money

ii. Social media is a distortion field

iii. I’m so cynical I believe nothing.

iv. When we are envious of others??

v. You have pitched your tent in the valley

Here devil have some cake

i. We are sucked in

ii. Now the seats have been rearranged

iii. No! Allowing the Enemy to have a say in our lives should not be normal.

iv. In Jesus’ name, we can refuse him and all his ways.

God:

Camping in the Valley

Christ lives in you.

i. When walking through the darkness valleys we do not have to camp there

ii. You must change the way you think

iii. Hear this verse – Slowly explain verse

Romans 8:10–11 NLT

10 And Christ lives within you, so even though your body will die because of sin, the Spirit gives you life because you have been made right with God. 11 The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.

v. The same power/Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead and ascended Him to heaven lives in you.

vi. Do you know the power you have at your disposal?

vii. In Jesus’ name, we can refuse him and all his ways.

viii. We don’t need to accept them.

ix. Satan leads us to sins that are harming us and choking the life out of us.

b. When a church goes camping

i. There is an epidemic of dying churches

ii. We could have – Satan tempts me every week

iii. Most of those churches will have a thousand excuses

You:

When you go camping

Despair, confusion, and sorrow.

i. You have your excuses why you are camping trip in the dark valley with the devil.

ii. You are live in despair, confusion, and sorrow.

iii. You are living in the dark valley

iv. You don’t have too

Purpose driven life

i. Many people are driven by guilt – shame

ii. Many people are driven by resentment and anger.

iii. Many people are driven by fear. – insecurity

iv. Many people are driven by materialism – jealousy envy

v. Many people are driven by the need for approval – letting the opinion of other control your life

Here have some cake

i. Rearrange seats again

Just imagine

I will fear no evil

a. No it doesn’t have to be this way.

i. No Satan doesn’t get a seat

ii. I’m not pitching a tent in the dark valley

iii. Yes I’m here but I ain’t staying

Just passing though

i. Even though

ii. Yes trouble comes

iii. Don’t accept it as normal

iv. Psalm 23:4 (NIV) — 4 Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

v. Imagine living life knowing that the power of God lives in you.