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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