"My dad can beat your dad!" Man, those used to be fighting words between two little boys. If someone
dared to act like THEIR dad was better than you're dad, many kids hit the dirt in a fisty-cuff scuffle!
Nothing could made the hands come up into clenched fists faster and cause a flying lunge toward the
one who dared impugn your dad! He was going down!!
When an unsaved person comes up and states, 'MY earthly father can stomp your heavenly Father!
MY father can do really bad things and make the whole world believe it was your Father who did it!"
When it comes to our Heavenly Father, do we stand up for Him or do we back down in agreement? Too
often it is the latter because people think the devil is on equal terms with God. Have you heard that
before? Where God is the good power and the devil is the evil power, and they are equal but opposite
beings? That they have equal power but it is used for opposite reasons?
Well, I got news for all those people - PUT YOUR DUKES UP!** My Father is the Creator of the
universe, the All Mighty One, the God above all gods. Their "father" is the father of all lies. He is just a
fallen angel and he never created anything. He is not THE God. He is simply a little god in this world;
a defeated foe who was soundly beaten at Calvary .
Just because a person stands in a barn, that does not make him a cow. Just because the enemy is
loud and obvious, that does not make him an all powerful being. And just because he is active in a
Christian's life through his seeming weapons of mass destruction - poverty, disease, sickness, loss,
lack, destruction - anything under the curse of the law mentioned in Deuteronomy 28 - that does not
mean he has the right to defeat us.
There is a little scripture that people have ignored for years. Proverbs 26:2b: "...the curse causeless
shall not come." The curse cannot come into your life without a reason. The NAB translation calls it an
"uncalled curse." This is backed up in Deuteronomy when it says the curses will come on your life if
you don't listen to God's voice (His Word, the Bible) and obey what you read there.
So even though Jesus purchased our freedom at the Cross and paid for us to be free from the curse of
the law, unless we receive that freedom, we stay in bondage. It is not automatic. The devil has NO right
in our life except where WE give him rights. Even though we may not believe we give the devil the right
to come in and bring destruction, to steal, kill and destroy, every time we speak or believe something
opposite of what God says, we open the door to the enemy. When we speak opposite of the Word of
God, we call the curse into our life.
There are only two choices available to us on this earth - life and death, which God calls: "The Blessing
and the curse". God even gave us an open book test when He gave us the answer in Deuteronomy
30:19. He said: CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE THE BLESSING.
So don't believe a liar and don't let him get away with his lies. Don't believe or speak anything that is
contrary to what God has to say. Anytime that wrong thought comes to you, just think, "PUT YOUR
DUKES UP." Pull down that wrong thought; don't allow it to stay in your mind long enough to become
stronger than God's Word. CHOOSE THE BLESSING!
**A saying meaning, "put your fists up and preare to fight"
Scriptural References: John 8:42-44, Galatians 3:13, John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Deut. 30:19
Musing Copyright © 2009 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
dared to act like THEIR dad was better than you're dad, many kids hit the dirt in a fisty-cuff scuffle!
Nothing could made the hands come up into clenched fists faster and cause a flying lunge toward the
one who dared impugn your dad! He was going down!!
When an unsaved person comes up and states, 'MY earthly father can stomp your heavenly Father!
MY father can do really bad things and make the whole world believe it was your Father who did it!"
When it comes to our Heavenly Father, do we stand up for Him or do we back down in agreement? Too
often it is the latter because people think the devil is on equal terms with God. Have you heard that
before? Where God is the good power and the devil is the evil power, and they are equal but opposite
beings? That they have equal power but it is used for opposite reasons?
Well, I got news for all those people - PUT YOUR DUKES UP!** My Father is the Creator of the
universe, the All Mighty One, the God above all gods. Their "father" is the father of all lies. He is just a
fallen angel and he never created anything. He is not THE God. He is simply a little god in this world;
a defeated foe who was soundly beaten at Calvary .
Just because a person stands in a barn, that does not make him a cow. Just because the enemy is
loud and obvious, that does not make him an all powerful being. And just because he is active in a
Christian's life through his seeming weapons of mass destruction - poverty, disease, sickness, loss,
lack, destruction - anything under the curse of the law mentioned in Deuteronomy 28 - that does not
mean he has the right to defeat us.
There is a little scripture that people have ignored for years. Proverbs 26:2b: "...the curse causeless
shall not come." The curse cannot come into your life without a reason. The NAB translation calls it an
"uncalled curse." This is backed up in Deuteronomy when it says the curses will come on your life if
you don't listen to God's voice (His Word, the Bible) and obey what you read there.
So even though Jesus purchased our freedom at the Cross and paid for us to be free from the curse of
the law, unless we receive that freedom, we stay in bondage. It is not automatic. The devil has NO right
in our life except where WE give him rights. Even though we may not believe we give the devil the right
to come in and bring destruction, to steal, kill and destroy, every time we speak or believe something
opposite of what God says, we open the door to the enemy. When we speak opposite of the Word of
God, we call the curse into our life.
There are only two choices available to us on this earth - life and death, which God calls: "The Blessing
and the curse". God even gave us an open book test when He gave us the answer in Deuteronomy
30:19. He said: CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE THE BLESSING.
So don't believe a liar and don't let him get away with his lies. Don't believe or speak anything that is
contrary to what God has to say. Anytime that wrong thought comes to you, just think, "PUT YOUR
DUKES UP." Pull down that wrong thought; don't allow it to stay in your mind long enough to become
stronger than God's Word. CHOOSE THE BLESSING!
**A saying meaning, "put your fists up and preare to fight"
Scriptural References: John 8:42-44, Galatians 3:13, John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Deut. 30:19
Musing Copyright © 2009 Nan C Loyd
All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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