Written by authors Brent Curtis (1947-1998) and John Eldredge. This is an excerpt from their book “The Sacred Romance.”
Satan’s strategy is to disconnect us from our heart and the heart of God toward us by any means possible. He wants to kill the desire that would lead us back to the One who loves us, using all the forms of shame, contempt, apathy, numbing, and perversion at his disposal. He wants to get us to question whether God has anything good in mind in His plans for us. He does this through the wounds we have received from life’s arrows. He dismantles our true worship and replaces the love affair with a religious system of do’s and don’ts that parch our hearts.
Prayer:
Today’s prayer is from the North America Book of Common Prayer of the Anglican Church.
God in heaven, you have helped my life to grow like a tree. Now something has happened. Satan, like a bird, has carried in one twig of his own choosing after another. Before I knew it he had built a dwelling place and was living in it. Tonight, my Father, I am throwing out both the bird and the nest.
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