REASONS FOR THEIR ATTACKS
• When you are assisting the enemy of God
The first reason why serpentine enemies attack men and women is as a result of people’s effort to assist the enemy of God. That attempt opens the door and invites serpentine enemies to operate in your life.
• When you remove the divine protection
Serpentine enemies bite when people remove the divine protection. The Bible says: “He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh the hedge a serpent shall bite him” (Eccl. 10:8). If you allow your enemies to deceive you from your place of power and protection, a serpent will bite you. God does not allow serpents to bite us except we have allowed the hedge to be removed through our carelessness.
The protection which God has built for His people is strong, safe and secured enough. Nothing can tamper with you unless you destroy the hedge on your own. The devil is not strong enough to destroy the protective wall which God has built for your security and safety.
Job was surrounded by a wall of protection. The devil could not penetrate and destroy Job. The protective wall was destroyed because of Job’s negative confession. Job used his mouth wrongly. He accused God ignorantly and destroyed the divine hedge. He even cursed the day in which he was born. That was how he carelessly opened the door for the devil to come and attack him.
The problem of most of us today lies about an inch below our nose. The mouth is the greatest problem of man. Our mouth has led to many problems which have remained stubborn in the lives of men and women. God is not responsible for most of what happens to men and women. The truth which must be declared is
that man is the architect of his own problems.
God told the children of Israel to anoint their houses with blood. He told them, “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” The blood was sufficient as a strong means of protection for every Israelite. However, if an Israelite decides to go to the house of an Egyptian, a place which lacks the covering of the blood, the angel of death will strike him.
This is one reason why the Bible is against friendship with the world. The so-called Christians who still roam about in the night with unbelieving friends and strange women are inviting the serpent to attack them.
If you examine what is happening to many people today, you will discover that most people’s problems are self inflicted. Many who are complaining today actually wrote letters of invitation to serpents to come and bite them. Or how else can you explain the actions of people who bum incense, light candles, allow fetish priests to put incisions in their bodies, collect negative prophecies from fake prophets, hang serpentine ornaments on their bodies, bury crosses in the ground, read occultic books, collect holy perfumes from fake prophets and so on. All those who get involved with these and other abominations will be bitten by serpents.
God can command a serpent to bite a disobedient child. Such rebellious and disobedient children cannot escape the serpent’s poison unless they repent. It is very easy to pray against serpentine enemies but there is no true remedy outside repentance.
One of the greatest problems of men is that of chasing shadows. Somebody can pray against an enemy for twenty years without getting any tangible result as long as such a person is living a disobedient life.
It is an exercise in futility for anyone to pray against a serpent which has been
divinely mandated to punish offenders. often times, the serpent has become God’s weapon of bringing the wayward back home. That is why there are people who have put serious prayer efforts into life’s problems only to receive no solution. God cannot go against Himself. Once He sends a serpent to bite someone who is disobedient, He is not going to stop the serpent unless the person decides to repent.
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