ATTACK
Or
EPIDEMIC

Illusion or Fact?

         Chemical Warfare…attacking the chemistry make-up of the brain cells: the mind.
         Suppose you awoke one morning and the Spirit of the Lord had left the earth? How would this affect you?
         What if a strange awareness came over you that God is not real after all? And if He is, He certainly doesn’t care about you.
         Our Lord let me experience this feeling yesterday. And I can tell you it scared the whey out of me. Blank_Nothing_Blah_No Life…only plastic and death. No one caring for anyone else…No Love!
         The warmth, the closeness, the security, the revelation…all gone. As though they had never existed.
         I thought of David’s prayer in Psalm 51:11 when he said, “Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me.”
         Had God taken His Holy Spirit from me? Absolutely NOT!
         I don’t know how you would conquer this situation. I hope you never have to face it. But, if you do, I want to assure you that you are not alone. This is typical warfare from Satan aimed especially at prayer warriors and the unprepared.
         This is what I believe the Lord showed me as my plan of escape (I Corinthians 10:13)…which the Lord always provides for His children.
         God showed me how I had been walking in the Spirit for so long, led by the Spirit, and expecting to always be led by His Spirit…that I had not taken advantage of the third part of the personal trinity (Matthew 22:37-39 Spirit-Soul-Mind) He had created in me. That part is the mind…both natural and spiritual, but for today’s answer for my need, it was more natural than spiritual.
         First the natural…then the spiritual…(I Corinthians 15:46).

SURVIVAL INSTINCT

         God has built into all of us, saved or unsaved, a survival instinct. 
         It was time for me to use my natural mind. If everything else were gone…I would return to the one thing I felt was consistent in my life. The one thing I could touch and hold and know was true. I would go back to where I began. I would pick up the Bible and begin reading again.
         Our Lord says that we are to “Renew our Minds Daily.” (Ephesians 4:23).  I would go back and do the first things that I had done. 
         Isn’t it amazing that all I could picture as my source of survival at a time like this, was the Bible that had existed forever. Just go back, and in the simple natural mind, read the Black and White Words of the Bible.

PLAN OF ACTION

         Isn’t it good to know that I have a plan of action? Should this attack return, it is my “mind” that must be trained to remember the natural written words. As I read them, the presence of the Holy Spirit will return and I will be comforted once again.