SATAN COUNTERFEITS GOD'S VOICE - God speaks to us through creation, Scripture, the Spirit, other believers, and circumstances. But beware that Satan counterfeits God's voice. He speaks by separating creation from God's design, encouraging us to worship the creation instead of the Creator, defending animals but not unborn babies, worshiping sex outside God's design, promoting evolution. He speaks by misrepresenting God's Word, twisting, cutting, pasting, and misusing it. He offers a fake version of godliness, using false definitions of love to persuade us to accept our culture's moral values and do things against God's Word. He speaks through people, watering down the gospel, persuading us to take the easy way, to put self first. He speaks through circumstances, opening doors of temptation. Our safeguards: Be alert. Wear God's full armor (testing everything with the Sword of Truth). Look for God's way of escape.

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5 Ways Satan Speaks

Gail Burton Purath

God speaks to us through creation, Scripture, the Spirit, other believers, and circumstances. (See 5 Ways God Speaks to Us)

But beware that Satan counterfeits God's voice:

1. He speaks by separating creation from God's design, encouraging us to worship the creation instead of the Creator, defending animals but not unborn babies, worshiping sex outside God's design, promoting evolution (Romans 1:18-32; 2 Peter 3:3-7).

2. He speaks by misrepresenting God's Word, twisting, cutting, pasting, and misusing it (Matthew 4:1-11, esp. v. 6).

3. He offers a fake version of godliness, using false definitions of love to persuade us to accept our culture's moral values and do things against God's Word (2 Corinthians 11:3-4).

4. He speaks through people, watering down the gospel, persuading us to take the easy way, to put self first (1 Corinthians 15:33; Ephesians 5:6).

5. He speaks through circumstances, opening doors of temptation (Genesis 3:1-7).

Our safeguards:

Be alert - 1 Peter 5:8.

·      Wear God's full armor (testing everything with the Sword of Truth) - Ephesians 6:10-18.

·      Look for God's way of escape - 1 Corinthians 10:13.

Hi!  I'm Gail Burton Purath. I started Bible Love Notes to give people a minute of Scriptural encouragement in their busy day.

I don't have all the answers, but

since I asked Christ to be my Lord and Savior in 1974, I've been learning from the One Who has all the answers!
I'm still a sinner, a learner, a student who falls down and disappoints God at times. But it's my desire to grow closer to the Lord, day by day, minute by minute.

I need to be challenged, encouraged, corrected and comforted, and I think you do as well...so let's learn together about the love of God--a love that is so vast that we will always be discovering new and wonderful things about it.

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