JANUARY 2009 Day 2

James 3:14-17
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

 We deal first, with the wisdom that is devilish. This word devilish clearly means that it is caused by the activity of demons. Even those of us who know the Lord Jesus Christ are subject to these demonic attacks upon our minds. In fact, we can expect these attacks will come on with increasing frequency as the time of the end comes on closer.

See the following passages of Scripture. We intentionally repeat the one from James. We want to be sure our minds are purged from the sort of thinking that would come from the realm of Satan. He tries to take hold of the dominion that belongs to Christ Jesus.

James 3:14,15—But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is.. devilish ("demonic").

II Corinthians 11:3—But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.    

GRACIOUS FATHER, I renounce every thought and idea that disqualifies me for service in Your Kingdom. Set up a search through my way of thinking. Let me see any so-called wisdom I may have embraced that belongs to the realm of Satan. As I hold these before You, bring the conviction of Your Spirit upon them. Deal with them till they are ready to embrace Your wisdom that is pure.