"Here's a blog entry that I
posted recently about the power of imagining the truth about God seeing you
through the eyes of love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance. Satan and evil spirits are always
eager to make a person feel as if God is angry with them. It puts the person on
the edge of their seat and makes them afraid of God… which causes them to feel
discouraged in their relationship with Him, and tend to give up on spending
time with Him. These things, of course, leads to a backsliding relationship in
no time. No wonder Satan wants us to feel like God is somehow angry or
disappointed
in us!
Try this: if you have struggled and felt like God is angry
with you, then try to imagine that God sees you, knows where you’ve been, and yet
still looks favorably on you? It will loosen up the tenseness on your whole
system once you begin to see things as God wants you to see them. Once you can
imagine it, then turn to God’s Word, and learn of how He really does look upon
you with favor and hope, even when you've messed up and done horrible things!
He's always calling us back to repentance, so that He can restore our
relationship with Him.
I can't tell you how powerful that imaginations can be
when used for God's glory instead of Satan's. This is a powerful key to freedom
and healing for many! Have you done enough to be accepted by God? Many feel
that if they do enough good works, that God will finally love and accept them.
This is nothing more than the legalism fruit of a mindset bound in dead
religion. I have an eye-opening teaching titled, "Exposing Dead
Religion" that I recommend reading. The Bible is clear that Jesus loved
us, before we did anything to earn His love and mercy. We were still in
rebellion when He reached out, and gave His life so that we could be given
right standing with God! It is clear by the verse below, that we were loved not
because of anything we've done to deserve His love, but because of who we were:
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8