If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything....

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything. Ever heard
that before? I don't know who said it, but it is a very profound statement
and it is important that we examine just what it means today.

There was a time in my life, because of horrific abuse, and my having to sit
in church with my molester every Sunday and watch him bow his head and pray,
that I made a decision that "religion" and I had nothing in common. A kind
and loving God did not exist or He would have destroyed my molester and
spared me from the living hell I was living through. I will not go into all
this here, however, if you pick up a copy of my new book, Betrayed, Broken
and Defiled that will be available on Amazon.com in the next two weeks you
can see the final course I have taken with regards to my abuse.

What I want to address today is what the enemy (Satan and his vast army of
demons) can do to you when you open yourself to just anything. When I left
home at 19, I left my abusers, a controlling spirit, and God. I had
attended Catholic school everyday of my many school years until my Junior
year of High School. I had "religion" as a graded subject over all these
years, along with the input of personal philosophies from nuns and priests
during that time. So there was a religious seed planted in me. However,
this seed, because of the rotten soil it was planted in, never bloomed into
the flower that was intended by God. As if this was not bad enough, I
launched out into the most dangerous territory anyone can venture into. It
is the world of things not of God. It was like buying a ticket to a vast
amusement park filled with many exciting but deadly rides. I was so thirsty
for something, anything, to replace the God that I had perceived failed me,
that I opened my heart to anything. And where your treasure is, there your
heart will be also. (Matthew 6:21 NKJV) And I was searching, although I did
not realize it at the time, for deadly treasure. Make no mistake, ANYTHING
that separates itself from the knowledge of and the Word of God is filled
with lies and distortions from the very pits of hell. For where God is not,
the enemy is. I studied long and deep every religion, philosophy, and "ism"
the world had to offer. I sat in "reading" rooms. I meditated and opened
myself up to "spirit guides" which was the most dangerous practice I ever
participated in. These "spirit guides" will carry you off to hell if
allowed to. I gazed into crystal balls and upon Tarot cards and studied
Metaphysics. I studied Eastern philosophies hours and hours on end. In the
end two things happened. I learned that all were nothing more than a very
cheap imitation of God. All of them took from God. The words were a little
different, but they simply took the basics of God's teachings and perverted
them to suit their own needs. How often we do this when we are trying to
skirt an issue with God and to justify our behavior? And the second thing
that happened is that I had an encounter with something so frightening, that
had it not been for the teachings that had been planted in my heart by the
very God that I was trying to run from, my soul would have forever been
lost. So many of our young people are looking for what I was searching for.
And all that awaits them is the eternal death of their precious souls. If
only someone would tell the youth today of the awesome power of the living
God. He is the way, the truth and the life.(John 14:1-6 NKJV). If they
want to communicate with a spirit tell them of the Holy Spirit sent by God
to teach us all things spiritual and how to have the only true power in this
world.(John 14:26) The only book, after all my years of reading and
studying and searching that gave me what my heart was searching for is
something that I had all along, but never realized what a "treasure" it was.
The best book to curl up with is the Bible. It has all the power you will
ever need. And it will tell you just what a loser and liar the devil is.
God is still alive. God is still in charge. God is still our Creator and
Father. Without Him there never was and never will be anything. So if you
know of someone that is searching, direct them to the Bible and to God and
to the Holy Spirit. Jesus tells us in Luke 21:8 to "Take heed that you not
be deceived, for many will come in My name, saying, 'I am He, and 'the time
has drawn near'. Therefore do not go after them."

Don't fall for anything. Believe in truth. Believe in your heavenly Father
God and in His most precious redemptive gift, His one and only Son, Jesus
Christ, and in His Holy Spirit. Make this your WAY and your TRUTH and your
LIFE. If you are in the mood to fall, fall on your knees before God. You
will get up a new person that has fallen for the right thing.....Patti