Thread by @JoyfulLife4Him

Deception!

Do you know your Father’s voice? Could you be fooled by an imposter?

The Word of God says that His sheep; His children, know His voice!

But how can we know His voice if we never talk to Him? And not just talk to Him, but rather take the time to listen to Him!

And not just listen, but hear and perceive Him!

A child of God will not only hear His voice and know that it’s Him, but they will heed His Words!

John 10:27
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Have you ever been deceived by someone you thought was genuine, but you found out later they weren’t who you thought they were? I have!

I believe the Lord is showing us today by this just how very important it is to know Him!

John 10:14-15
I Am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine. As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

This Word of warning is applicable to all of us today!

Deuteronomy 11:16
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them.

The Lord through Jeremiah wept for His people who were deceived!

Jeremiah 9:3-6
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not Me, saith the Lord.

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity. Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, saith the Lord.

What a terrible thing! They had followed man and been deceived by lies! They refused to know Him!

So many people seek for answers everywhere but from the One who has all the answers — our Father in heaven!

It shames me to think of the times I’ve put a man on a pedestal, and esteemed him, only to see him fall!

Awhile back the Lord showed me a dark council meeting to plan their wickedness.

I was impressed by the Lord their plan would succeed to a certain extent; to the extent He allowed! I was also shown that one man that many followed and thought was a true man of God would fall! By this man’s fall, many people would be so shaken, and many would fall too!

We are in training beloved! If we follow men now, what will happen when one comes who the Word says, will be so convincing that he is godly and is on our side that we are deceived? I’m speaking of the antichrist! But many antichrists are already among us!

Heed the warning of Jesus!

Matthew 24:4-5, 11-13
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My Name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Take heed you think you can’t be deceived!

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4,9-10
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Revelation 13:13-14, 16-17
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Take heed you think you stand!

1 Corinthians 10:5-12,14
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them…Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. [11] Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition,

Upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. [14] Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Hebrews 3:7-8,11-12,14
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear His voice,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: [11] So I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

[14] For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end.

Beloved, do you see how important a close relationship with the Lord is? How important it is to know Him; to know His voice, and to follow only Him?

Determine today to deepen your relationship with Him, to purpose to hear His Word, to know His Word, and His voice so well that you will know an imposter!

The imposter will appear to be everything good on the surface, but if you truly know your Lord, you will eventually see the fruit of this imposter is not really of the Lord!

2 Corinthians 11:13-15
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

Open our eyes, Lord! Give us Your Spirit to know Your voice and follow only You, in Jesus Name!
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