When The Enemy Attacks | Steven Furtick
The enemy is after you because of what’s in you. Pay attention to your patterns so you can grow in confidence and protect your purpose. This is an excerpt from “The God Of After.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch , click here: • The God Of After | Pastor Steven Furt… #anxiety #attack #value #resistance #preparation Chapters: 0:00 – The Enemy’s Looking For Someone To Devour 2:34 – Stop Taking The Devil’s Bait 4:45 – How To Prepare For The Fight 7:37 – Be Alert To The Attack 10:10 – What’s The Devil After? Scripture References: 1 Peter 5, verse 8
if you will look at your life and I did
it this week you’ll find patterns of
this is the times where the enemy
attacks me that if I build some
different things into these rhythms of
my life I can be more ready and I think
our rhythms and our Readiness go hand in
hand the rhythm of your
life cannot be marked by
isolation and still
be flowing in Victory
the rhythm of your life cannot be marked
by constant chronic
complaining and still have an outcome of
overflowing
joy and the enemy is look at this phrase
he’s looking for someone to
devour he’s looking for someone who’s
not paying attention
he’s looking for
someone who just took family pictures
and is just a little thankful for their
family and just a little bit triggered
by the whole experience because it
really went good everybody was good I
don’t even know why I was in a bad mood
it went great the photographers were
great it was happy it’s just something
about it and and then I look at it and
I’m like okay okay okay next year when
we take family pictures I am not going
to back up my car and almost fight any
rednecks okay next year no no no next
time
next time I find myself susceptible I am
going to feed my spirit and talk to
myself and be a little bit more ready
for
that and all of that you can do if you
will just take some time in your life
and especially do it after you’re only
two times you need to do this after you
win and after you
lose when you win over a victory say
what was it that got me ready for that
y’all I got certain friends that I found
out when I talk to them I win more
you got anybody like that in your
life now let me turn around so you can
have a private moment I have other
friends who when I talk to them and
spend time with them it puts me in this
spin cycle and I don’t know why but I’ve
end up more cynical on the other side
pay attention to all of that because
sometimes in your life you’ll notice oh
when this happens it is the consequence
of something that came before it and a
lot of times that is a relational conse
quence of who you are spending the most
time
around here’s another thing about since
you asked me about
Instagram sometimes you feel sick to
your stomach but it’s not your stomach
it’s what you scrolled through 15
minutes ago that made you judge
something feel something see something
that triggered a response in you but at
the moment that it was triggered it
didn’t show up it doesn’t show up in the
moment that you see it it shows up
after after if the moment you were
looking at this stuff you were like this
is making me more judgmental and less
content and this is causing me to kill
my own appreciation for my own life and
only aspire to things that aren’t even
part of my calling if you thought that
while you were looking at it you would
stop looking at it but the devil hides
the
hook the devil hides the hook the devil
hides the hook somebody say the devil
hides the hook now Touch Somebody and
say stop biting stop biting how many
times is he going to have to reel you in
before you resist him before you can see
it coming and say no I’m not even going
to take the bait I don’t even get paid
to argue with you I don’t even nobody is
nobody is worth that in my life I’m not
coming down there for this
anymore because if you don’t see it he
will eat you alive he’s looking for
someone to
devour and the one he can Devour the
most is the one who is vulnerable and
Doesn’t Know
It When You Know You’re vulnerable it
gives you an opportunity to be
vigilant when you know where You’re
vulnerable and so this great Apostle
writes a letter to the church that’s
being persecuted somewhere between 80 60
and 70 and he’s writing to them about
their sufferings in their time but it
also applies to ours he says be alert
and sober
minded because the
enemy is looking for
someone to devour is it
you is it
you have you trained
him that anytime he
tries that you’ll lie down and go with
it that anytime he takes you down that
dark
path all he has to do is lure you out
there
is it
you is it you that every time he can
even suggest an anxious thought to
you the enemy can get you to go down so
deep in it that it’s going to take you
three days to recover is it you that if
he can may make you a little
uncomfortable about something you will
reach for something to feel instant
relief that is going to bring
you an after
effect that’s going to cause you to be
in captiv ity is it
you is it you if you’re not paying
attention to the patterns in your life
you are easy pray for the
enemy you got to get into spirit-led
reflection where the Holy Spirit takes
you back through your day and shows you
ways that you can handle things next
time not so you can blame what happened
in your day or in your life but so that
you can beat it next
time cuz there will be a next time
time there will be a next
time if the devil hadn’t messed with you
good news you can practice this message
very
soon he’ll mess with you again you’re
like I don’t even know that he’s just
been leaving me alone I don’t really
need this
message keep this message right there
like don’t put it in the fridge cuz it’s
just you going to need it you could
leave it right there it’s going to be
right there
soon he’s looking for
someone to
devour he looking for
somebody somebody who’s
vulnerable you got to ask the question
don’t
you what came before this
attack that caused me to be in a
vulnerable
position that’s a great question to
ask and the more you ask it I believe
the more that God will show you and give
you an awareness and an alertness
because you can’t prevent the attack but
you can plan for it
after I don’t usually respond right in
the moment but it’s when I go back and
ask the question God what do you want me
to see about
that that I can know next time and
that’s how I
grow it’s not
fancy I know it’s not amazing it’s not
sexy but it’s what Peter said he said be
alert and of sober mind your enemy the
devil prowls around like a roaring lion
looking for
someone who’s he looking for
someone someone he can
devour and you got to ask the question
don’t you if the enemy is attacking me
right now how is he attacking me when
does he tend to attack me I want to be
alert to this I don’t want to be
ignorant of his schemes when does he
attack me how does he attack me what are
those access points where I let him get
to me what are the things and that is a
valid question and we have to ask it or
we’ll keep repeating the same
patterns but there’s another question I
want you to start
asking and I want you to ask this
question right after you ask where is
the enemy attacking me because you could
mention a few areas today I know you
could if we pass the mic around and you
were honest and weren’t scared of being
judged you could name a few places he
attacks you they might be some areas
that are more socially acceptable or
there might be some areas that cause
shame but you could ask answer the
question if I asked it where is it that
the enemy attacks you and what usually
comes before it that causes you to give
into it that makes you weak for it what
is that but there’s another question
that that I want you to learn to ask and
I think this is also very
powerful if the enemy is attacking
you as much as he’s attacking you in
your life
I want to ask the
question what is it about
you that he
knows that is causing him to attack you
like
that if he’s looking for someone to
devour and he’s picking on
you then what is it about
you that causes you to be a Target
in other words how many of you feel like
the devil has just really been after you
or someone that you love in this last
season and this not a trick question I
really want to see who to aim this spit
at when I preach
it I want to know if the enemy is
attacking you like that what is he
after what is it that God has inside of
you come on that may even be unknown to
you right now that he sees about your
future that is causing him to fight you
so hard like
that what is this Spirit of heaviness
that’s been on you lately really about
see cuz I know on the surface we tell
ourselves well the reason I’m depressed
is because I just suck because I’m not
much because I don’t have the resilience
I don’t have the fortitude I don’t have
the moral character that’s why I’m
dealing with with this insecurity is
it is that why you’re dealing with the
insecurity because you’re really a
nobody or is the devil looking for
someone someone who has
something something that they don’t see
the true value of
yet so that he can catch you in your
vulnerability so that you never see your
true value so that you never do what God
gave you to do in the
earth what’s he
after what’s he
after if you’ve been discouraged really
discouraged and down in your soul lately
and you’ve been thinking that must mean
that my best is behind me is that really
true or is there something I’m just
curious is there
something so
significant in the next stage of your
life and you can’t see
it but maybe the enemy has more vision
for your life than you do because he
sees something that’s in you in a seed
form and if it ever comes
forth if it ever gets watered if it ever
gets light if it ever gets full grown
it’s going to spread out and bear fruit
and touch lives and change the
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