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BE FEEL DEPRIVED IS TO BE CHALLENGED BY STAR-HUNTERS: Understanding how the pattern of satanic challenge is executed makes it easier to
disengage and paralyze star-hunters. This pattern could be traced and decoded
from way back when Adam and his wife were challenged by the serpent in Eden. To
be questioned or challenged by
star-hunters in the area where you suffer
deprivation is the only way to disconnect you from the creative life of God. Here they were, driven to the wild edge of madness with a fierce hunger, but they could not eat anything because they had no knowledge as to which very tree they should not eat in order not
to offend the Creator. They had a
burning, killing desire for which
they lack the know-how or skills to satisfy. Have you given a thought to
how perplexing, annoying and frustrating such a situation could be? Feeling sorry for herself as a dispensable pawn with zero significance, under the clever
interrogation of her adversary, the woman was led to think it was only by eating to know good and evil that she would become a ‘god’ and avoid being maltreated. Truly, they were duped. Like the woman in Eden, you are also going to be challenged by
star-hunters in the area where you feel deprived. Jesus Christ was hungry, having ended His 40-days fast,
when the same old serpent came with
this famous line, from his bag of tricks: ‘If you be the Son of God, turn these stones to bread!’
Beautiful Rachel,
pampered and cherished by Jacob, thought all she had to do was open her legs
for her husband, and she would conceive a child. But alas, her conceit led only
to crashed expectations. Feeling deprived, she desperately cried to Jacob: ‘Give
me children, or else I die.’ Why was she feeling suicidal? She had no adequate response for the shame and humiliation she felt for not being able
to bear children. The blindness of
her inner eyes, and the hardness of her heart prevented her from connecting to the supernatural activities of the Creator. Despairing,
and lacking trust in what God could do, she was left with nothing to do but cry
to her husband! But Jacob directed her
attention toward God, saying: ‘Am I in God’s stead, who had withheld thee from
the fruit of the womb?’ (see Genesis 30: 1-22)
Left with no alternative, Rachel cried out in prayer to God without
ceasing until He hearkened to her,
and opened her womb.
That
area in your life where you feel deprived is not the place to feel betrayed,
dejected and invalidated. Wherever you suffer deprivation
is where God has ordained for something extraordinary
and unimaginable to emerge from.
Where you are deprived is not the place to feel shame or reproachful. This
is where to pray for your pain to become gain! Be more concerned
about the magnitude of what God
wants to do through you than how you are
regarded by star-hunters who masquerade
as friends and relatives. Don’t be pressured to violate what is right
and correct in your life in order to prove to star-hunters that you are smart
and intelligent! Let them deride and say: ‘Where’s your God?’ They don’t know
the next chapter of your story. They don’t even have the power to write your
story. The pen to write your story is in your hand! Feel free to write it. Feel free to speak it! You shall be vindicated, and every star-hunter in
your life shall be put to shame.
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