Time to Face your Demons

What does it mean - to face your demons?  I believe it is to confront that thing in your life that is negative, and say “no more”.

The word “demon” can instil fear into us if we let it. 

I remember a number of years ago hearing a story of when Jesus cast out demons – something inside me reacted in fear - so I can write about this having experienced it myself.  When I look back, I can see I was riddled with fear, but now I am free!  And yes, Christ set me free.

The devil loves to bind us up – he will do anything to prevent us from reaching our destiny.  But God is stronger – His purposes and desires for us will overcome anything the enemy is throwing at us.  Jesus has said – He has come to set the captive free.  We only need to ask Him to do so.

Do you know it is possible to love God and be disobedient, just like a child.  Sometimes, God asks us to do something that we don’t want to do.  We wriggle and squirm and find any way we can to avoid doing that something.  Does that sound like someone else?   

Jonah didn’t want to do what God asked him so what did God do?  He let Jonah go his way for a time, and then he put him in a totally intolerable situation until Jonah surrendered and repented.

At times, God will put pressure on us to bend us to his way.  Remember though “a bruised reed, He will not break, and a smouldering wick He will not snuff out”. (Isaiah 42.:3)  He knows our frame.  We are not made to be “yes” men.  We all have a will and we make choices.  Sometimes those choices are not good – they lead us up the garden path – even worse, they can lead us to destruction or to miss out on our destiny.  However, God is continually for us – He works all things together for good to those who love him.  Ultimately, when we look back, we can see the hand of God working in that situation. He does not treat us as we deserve.  He loves us so much He is continually moulding us and making us to be more like his Son.  We are being changed from glory to glory.