Freedom Devotional

When many guys are heartbroken or when they are burdened with thoughts about a girl they feel they are in love with, they tend to solicit advise from other friends: friends who have either been through their circumstances, or who seem wise enough to give good counsel. An example of this can be found in 2 Samuel 13. The case of Amnon and Jonadab, or rather Amnon and Tamar. In this story we are told that, "Amnon the son of David loved her [Tamar]. And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do anything to her. " Amnon like many of us can discern right from wrong, and all he, like many of us guys needed was one piece of advise to break down all his defenses. He was probably at the lowest ebb in his life, (See 2 Samuel 13:2) the perfect moment to be deceived by the evil one. As Amnon poured his heart out to Jonadab, Jonadab said, " Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: a

Peter said in 1 Peter 5:8 (NLT), " Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour ." The question is, how does he plan on devouring us. It's simple, he would do everything he can to make us angry.Why? Because as we are told in Ephesians 4:26-27, our anger can give the devil a foothold.  "Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy." Be on the look out for little things that will make you angry today. Anger can be ignited when that person you "love" doesn't love you back and worse of all, treats you like a nobody. Anger can be ignited when someone treats you like or calls you a loser. Anger can be ignited when the people you love do not support your dreams. Anger can be ignited in many ways. But at the end of the day, all the devil wants to do is to have a foothold in our lives so that he can lead us to do things we would regret later in life. We make the wo

Free ebook (The Mask Wearers) Introduction They are all around us; we see them everyday, and we spoke to some of them today. They are also the people we ignore, the ones we look down on, the people we bully, the ones whose hearts we break; the people we disrespect. They are the mask wearers, and till we understand them and/or ourselves, this deadly plague of hatred that's enveloping our planet, is only going to keep transforming us into hate-filled creatures in pursuit of illusions of love: illusions that leave us empty.