devil

Read – Matthew 4:1-11

Scripture: “Neither give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27).”

Denial: “The devil has no power over me.”

Affirmation: “I take responsibility for my life.”

The devil is not an entity with a tail, a horn, and a pitchfork. The devil is the part of your soul that does not desire to grow, change, or heal. The devil is crystalized negativity. The enemy is the “inner me.” It is
that part of you that desires to hold on to negativity instead of forgiving. The devil is your subconscious mind that continuously replays the tape of victimization instead of learning from your past experiences and letting them go. Jesus, our Wayshower, never capitalized the word, devil. He kept
devil lower case as a thing as opposed to a person. Jesus, our example of what it means to be fully human and fully divine, told the devil to get behind him which means become a thing of my past. He cast the devil, the personification of evil, out of his current experience and limited this idea to his past. When Jesus took his rightful place in consciousness, the devil departed from him. As you continue to grow in Christ consciousness, you too realize that you no longer need a scapegoat to blame for your life. You
understand more and more that you are your own devil, and that negativity can only manifest through your limited beliefs, faculty perceptions, erroneous ideas, and sins (self-inflicted nonsense). Taking total responsibility for your way of being, seeing, thinking, speaking, and behaving causes the presence of evil and the personification of negative feelings to leave you.

Reflection Question – Close your eyes and visualize all negativity leaving your body and your mind. Wrap it up in a ball and throw it away. How do you feel now?

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