My children underestimate the power of sin in their lives. You think of it as a plaything, a temporary pleasure, but sin has tentacles that reach deep inside you. Tentacles that do not easily release you.
My Son has paid the
ultimate price to free you from your sins, yet you cling to them. Why? Why do
you cling to the thing that will kill you in the end? Do you not know the enemy
will use your sin to trap you when danger is near? Do you imagine I will protect
you while you are yet sinning against Me?
Cast those
deceptions far from your minds, children and come in from the devil’s playground, while there is
yet time, for the door will very soon be closing.
Psa 106:36 - 36 And they served
their idols: which were a snare unto them.
Ecc 9:12 - 12 For man also knoweth not
his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that
are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when
it falleth suddenly upon them.
Isa 24:17-18
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17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, [are] upon
thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
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18 And it shall come to pass, [that] he who
fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh
up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows
from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
2 Timothy 2:24-26
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24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all [men], apt to teach, patient,
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25 In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth;
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26 And [that] they may recover themselves out
of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Jeremiah 3:20-25
- 20 Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her
husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith
the Lord.
- 21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and
supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their
way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.
- 22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal
your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our
God.
- 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills,
and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the
salvation of Israel.
- 24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers
from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their
daughters.
- 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth
us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from
our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord
our God.