Believing a lie

Somewhere I heard or read the remark: ‘a lie is as effective as the truth, if it is believed”

Powerful statement but very true. If I believe the lie and conduct my life according to it, it has the same power over my life as any true statement might have.

How many lies have we fallen for, during a lifetime?

Luk 22:31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired you, that he may sift you as wheat. 32 But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not. And when you are converted, strengthen your brothers.

In this text, the word ‘you’ has a plural meaning, therefore, even-though Christ is talking to Simon-Peter, He is addressing all those present and also prophetically to His future audience.

Over all the ages, satan has been desiring to entrap all of human kind. He does this through deceit, lies, mockery, doubt, rumors, accusations, and every other trick, to get us to believe a lie.

But then……Jesus makes the statement: “I have prayed for you”

To think that no one other than Christ Himself, has prayed and continuously, is busy interceding for you and I. So that out faith will weather the storms of life.

Isa 53:11 He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul. He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death; and He was counted among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

“and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors”

Jesus took it upon Himself, to bear our sins and to stand before the Father as our intercessor, so that God may look on us, with mercy and grace.

I do not know, what lies the devil has been telling you, or about you. Maybe he got you to believe some of the lies. Maybe through doubt, he got you to believe that you will never regain your health or that the financial breakthrough won’t come in time.

All lies.

Jesus has declared you righteous, He took all your faults and the mess you might have made and exchanged it for a bright and brilliant future.

The prophet declare it many-many years ago: “and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death”

All we have to do is to choose whose report we will believe.

I chose to believe the truth, not a concocted lie, presented as a truth.

“By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities”