Devil's Works are "Illusions"

The Holy Spirit calls to me in the watches of the night.  He has different ways of waking me up.  Sometimes with a hard question designed to draw me into a conversation at first light, such as today.  

"Why are you not fighting harder for your own kind?  This is human genocide you are witnessing?"  

A while back, the Lord began a series of conversations about His call on my life as an intercessor. 

He brought me to a passage in Ezekiel 22:30, "I sought for a man who could build a barricade or stand in the gap, to oppose Me on behalf of the land so I would not destroy it.  But I found no one.  Therefore, I am pouring out my fury on their own ways, on their own heads."

Upon reading this I came to cry out, "Here I am Lord. Please stay your hand and give me the worthy words and heart of intercession to plead: Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done here on earth (in this land) as it is in Heaven. In Yeshua's Name.  Please let the intercessor's voices reach your Throne and grant our petitions. 

This was shortly answered with Divine instructions and a strategy for defeating the enemies of our Kingdom and our King.  Adonai took me back to the account of the children of Israel in Egypt.  He had me read His plagues unleashed upon the Land of many gods.  In the court of the Pharoah, there were "magicians" who operated in magic arts, under a witchcraft "spirit" and they were able to duplicate the first 3 plagues Adonai brought through Moses upon the land.

But then, on the 4th plague, these "magicians" confessed they could not duplicate the plague of Yahweh.  They confessed "This is the very finger of God", and from that point on the entire stage belonged to Yahweh and His servant Moses.  

The Lord broke down the account and revealed some things about the devil and how to do battle against the ancient principalities.  

First, He told me, "All the devil's works are an "illusion".  Explaining, it's not that they are not "reality in the moment" but that they are illusions that support the false narrative (lie)that Satan controls events and is beyond the Power (or will) of Yahweh to stop his attack on humanity. (as in Job's trials). 

Then, He directed me to get into and destroy the devil's illusions.  I was confused and wondered how to do that.  He explained that evil always telegraphs what he is about to do.  Read the headlines and then counter them with the power of His Word and promises.  

The spoken word has power in the spirit realm, and we have been commissioned to use our words to change what we recognize as wrong/ungodly in our circumstances. This was a lesson in exercising our Divine dominion, through our declared words of our power and delegated authority that Yeshua provided us by and through His death and resurrection.  

To restate it again:  Get into the illusion to destroy it.  Read the headlines when interceding for the land and people of America and proclaim Heaven's will to break and cancel and condemn the wicked agenda of the evil ones.  Recognize the lies and illusions that support that false narrative of sickness and disease and other ungodly attacks on the ecclesia of Yeshua, cancel the curse and speak life and healing.    We reject the works of the devils and proclaim the true narrative: Yahweh, NOT the evil one, is in control.  

Evil cannot read our mind or thoughts.  However, He can introduce situations that cause us to ponder lies about Yahweh, ourselves, or others. Satan did not speak to Job but brought things to bear that caused him to wrestle his understanding of God, with a little help from his faithless friends and their "counsel".  

 Satan has a strategy, and it is to destroy the character of our Creator God in our perception so we will hate Him and reject that He exists or believe that He is full of angry wrath and is to be avoided and not sought out.  The adversary's rebel followers bring chaos and disorder to keep his agenda of lies oppressing humanity, that say YAHWEH is not in control.  

Lies are the strongest weapon the adversary uses against YAHWEH in the minds of His beloved. This gives us an important clue about the importance of renewing our mind and focusing on God's Word.

The Word tells us that our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the powers in the unseen realm governing the darkness in the world, and that we have weapons to fight with that are not "carnal" but mighty in God to the bringing down strongholds.  Paul tells us in

2 Corinthians 10:3-6

3 For although we do live in the world, we do not wage war in a worldly way;

4 because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God's power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments

5 and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.

6 And when you have become completely obedient, then we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience.

A stronghold is a power grip on the mind; otherwise known as a lie (false narrative) we choose to believe. The true battlefield is the mind. We are susceptible to wrong thinking and then "power" is surrendered to the evil one who can manipulate circumstances that follow our stinkin' thinking. Remember Job's trial and there was a point where he declared, "What I feared has come upon me". This is a clue for us as to how Satan works, but also a clue as to how to defeat his attempted assaults on us and others. Our weapon is the truth of God's Word, and the spoken word of truth is the power we have to defeat the darkness. Surrendering to and proclaiming the Word of God in trust (faith) destroys the illusion that the devil is in control. We demolish every argument or pretension that sets itself up against the truth of Yahweh, God and bring every thought into the captivity of Christ. To be crystal clear: It is not OUR words or OUR declarations in and of ourselves that carry the power, it is according to the Ultimate Sovereignty of Yahweh Elohim, God of all Creation whose Word spoken from our lips and trusted in our hearts that defeats the enemy of our Kingdom and our King. When the Word tells us that GOD SO LOVES THE WORLD, that He sacrificed His only begotten Son so that those who trust Him and His plan for our rescue, will not perish but have eternal life, we must accept the truth that He does love us, and reject the lie that He doesn't. Today, I purpose to follow the early morning conviction brought by the Holy Spirit and fight harder for my own kind who are facing such devastating circumstances in the world that touches my life. In the love of Yeshua for my friends, and those whose life circumstances reveal struggles, even as headlines from around the world that Yahweh brings across my path, I will declare His Word according to His will, as His co-laborer in the Kingdom Battle we are in. The Holy Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?