Aliens, Gremlins, or the Adversary?
Weekly devotional by Barbara Sanders

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Are you having problems today? Does "trouble" seem to be your middle name? One friend has had major problems trying to view things on the internet today. My line to the outside is so cluttered with noise, and has been since something happened to it a week ago, and I can only connect at a slow rate. This is really frustrating, especially when you need to download big files, and it would take forever!

Depression is spreading the nation with a fast pace! Seems everywhere you turn someone is on the verge of depression - is depressed, or becoming depressed. They feel as though there is no hope for them, that they are just wasting their time believing that GOD is hearing their prayers, or that He ever will, so they easily talk themselves into giving up on God and their faith in His ability to reach them and help with their problems.

The children of the society today seem to be far advanced than when we were growing up, with so much more from which to learn. Yet, there seems to be a rise in the way they handle their problems. So many are leaving their comfortable homes to experiment with things beyond their understanding, things that get them involved in the cults, occults, and ultimately will lead them down a path of destruction, if someone doesn't reach them with answers they so desire. They don't go the route we did when we needed answers, to our parents or to an adult we had faith in, but will follow their peers' leading - to that BETTER way of doing things. And sometimes these ways aren't the way to go. The ways are destructive to the individuals and sometimes to others! Shootings occur, deaths and suicides occur, and lives are ruined, all because the adversary, the devil, has gotten hold of the young and driven them to do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. Most of these children come from God-fearing parents/families!

So what's up, folks? We've let the ADVERSARY reign with undue privileges!! He's trying to take over our children, our families, our lives, our nation, and OUR WORLD! We are going to have to rise to the occasion, and face him head on with the medicine that will get rid of him forever - JESUS CHRIST!!

JESUS is the only answer to every question and area of your lives in which you are hurting. I know the secular world will tell you and, in most instances, lead you to believe that ALL your troubles and woes can be answered in the worldly way. But that's not the truth!! Sure, you can 'drown your sorrows' in the bottle; but what happens when you wake up?? You have a hangover and your troubles are still with you; it's just that you've wasted yet another day or night in which you could have learned from the WORD how to handle your problems! Money, sex, alcohol, guns, or anything else of that nature will not get rid of the problems you face in your life. If you have a need, take it to the Lord. Only he is capable of getting rid of the root cause of the problem. HE has ALL the answers, because before the world was formed, "I AM".........HE is the ANSWER!!