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Amy
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From: "Karen Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: He has succeeded


> SATAN'S MEETING: (Read even if you're busy) t
> Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
>
> In his opening address he said,
>
> "We can't keep Christians from going to church."
>
> "We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."
>
> "We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with
> their saviour."
>
> "Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is
> broken."
>
> "So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish
> dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
> relationship with Jesus Christ.."
>
> "This is what I want you to do," said the devil:
>
> "Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that
> vital connection throughout their day!"
>
> "How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
>
> "Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable
> schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
>
> "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
>
> "Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
> work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their
> empty lifestyles."
>
> "Keep them from spending time with their children."
>
> "As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape
> from the pressures of work!"
>
> "Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small
voice."
>
> "Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they
> drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in
> their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world
> plays non-biblical music constantly."
>
> "This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
>
> "Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
>
> "Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
>
> "Invade their driving moments with billboards."
>
> "Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs,
> sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering
> free products, services and false hopes.."
>
> "Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their
> husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and
> they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "
>
> "Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."
>
> "Give them headaches too!"
>
> "If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will
> begin to look elsewhere."
>
> "That will fragment their families quickly!"
>
> "Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children
> the real meaning of Christmas."
>
> "Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection
> and power over sin and death."
>
> "Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
>
> "Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
>
> "Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation.
> Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and
> movies instead."
>
> "Keep them busy, busy, busy!"
>
> "And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
> and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."
>
> "Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek
> power from Jesus."
>
> "Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their
> health and family for the good of the cause."
>
> "It will work!"
>
> "It will work!"
>
> It was quite a plan!
>
> The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians
> everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
>
> Having little time for their God or their families.
>
> Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change
> lives.
>
> I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his
> schemes?
>
>
> Does "BUSY" mean:B-eing U-nderS-atan's Y-oke?
>
> Please pass this on, if you aren't too BUSY
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Can you imagine what a scarcity of news there would be If everybody obeyed
> > the Ten Commandments?
>
> I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out
there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't, and die to find out there
is
>
> IN GOD WE TRUST
> Karen Carter  '74
> -KC- Ministries