Wow, Wow Wow Wow

I love how the Lord 'dumbs things down' for me! It so amazing!!!

Recently, I had a conversation on a friends social networking page. He isn't a Christian and neither were the majority of his 'friends' on there as well. There were one to two that clearly were and myself. We were discussing his topic of giving praise to the Lord when we receive a blessing that he thinks wasn't from God but instead something we did all on our own.

One of his friends and I hit head on. Apparently, I'm not permitted to use the Bible to defend my beliefs...yet he was able to use it against me. I didn't point that out but never gave up on it. There were things he was saying to me about being controlled by God and I have no choice in my life, etc. I kept fighting for my beliefs and then it struck me, God wanted me to meet this person.

Backtrack: We were given a mission from our church to think of someone to invite to come to Easter services. We are to pray for them. 

Well I realized this was my 'One'. I, in a round about way, brought this up in the conversation that I realized this guy was the one God wanted me to meet. After that, either I got blocked from the conversation or it was removed. I'm unsure as the page owner commented how many comments he got on it in a seperate post.

I began praying 1-2 times a day at least for this guy. Then the other day I went on to his profile as up until that point I had only seen his thumbnail and he seemed like a normal looking person. Once I saw a larger size of his picture, his eyes scared the living daylights out of me!!! Swear to God, I was looking into the eyes of Satan himself!

I began praying more for him. Clearly, his life is being controlled by the enemy! Then, today while doing my Esther study, I came across the most amazing realization!

She says, "Satan is...deceiving and manipulating (John 8:44)" and then further says "Over and over I am astonished at the effectiveness of our enemy to deceive people into thinking that Christianity is bondage, but his path (disguised as human independence, Matt. 16:23) is freedom." (Esther "It's Tough Being a Woman" Beth More p. 161)

Keep in mind, here's some of the things the person had told me in our conversation:

"You poor people imprisoned in a lie of delusion that you have (willingly) swallowed and now allow to run your entire existence and even base your future decisions on the promise made in a book ... it's sad to me that you can see just as well as anyone else that is rife with contradiction....stop living your lives as pathetic sheep and take hold of the only chance at happiness you are ever going to have. NOW. Stop living in fear. You are all afraid of the boogeyman. Nothing more."

"If you can actually say you don't fear god, why are you listening to his every command? do you have no spine? Do you have no free will? Are you 100% happy with being a slave to worship him out of your "love" not because you don't "fear" him.....Are you absolutely happy with being watched over day and night from your very conception to all eternity and judged by some thing that will not do you the courtesy of making itself plainly known for all man kind to see and witness? Do you actually believe this universe was created just for "you" Do you realize that if you are told something enough times no matter how illogical and obvious of a lie it is that you will believe it as truth? It's human psychology"

"How can I be misguided when I'm the one doing the guiding? (Insert my name), to you I say, you are misguided...You are the one being led around life with the collar of religion held in the hands of god...It's nice to know (god) loves you so much he made a hell to throw you in if you don't meet his expectations. What a twisted and misguided view on the notion of unconditional love ... Doubt is not the devil. Doubt is the voice of reason in the cascade of ignorance required to hold so strongly to your delusion"

Am I imagining it or is the devil using this man to try and trick me??