She Connects: When the Enemy Uses You…. Against You….

by Kiersten Homalon | Feb 2, 2016 | Faith + Expressions

I am a person that would most of the time seem like an open book. When I sit down with people I have a way of presenting myself as very open. However, there are things that I never really like to put out there…. and one of them is the power I willingly allow the enemy to have over my mind. Now, that may sound really intense but I bet more people struggle with this than most would think. I am one of the ones who struggle with the negative banter in my mind getting way out of hand. When I say out of hand, I mean more than allowing it to make me feel a little blue. This chatter in my mind gets so out of hand sometimes it effects every single aspect of my life. Relationships, my health, and most unfortunately my nearness to God. Even writing this out makes me my tears well up. It seems so easy to just tell myself to STOP ALLOWING THE ENEMY TO HAVE THAT POWER! But there is a lot of ME in the way, and preventing that healing and transformation to happen. That break through is so near I can feel it, and yet the chatter makes my line of sight distorted…. well enough is enough…. time to break those chains.

I realized how much I needed to ask the Holy Spirit to help me regain the ground I had lost when I heard a compelling message at our church. Some of you might be ready to tune out just from me saying that I learned something from Church, but please have some grit and press into what I am about to say. The pastor encouraged us to “Pray to be fertile soil for the Lord to plant GOOD seed.” This may seem like common sense for seasoned believers but for me this was a refreshing reminder, and what he followed up this statement with made the Holy Spirit zing all over my heart! (Thats the best way I can describe feeling the Holy Spirit Haha!) He pointed to 1 Samuel 16:11. This is a story where Samuel was searching for the one God had called to be the chosen King. Samuel looked over Jesse’s sons all strong and promising but God had not chosen any one of them, so he asked Jesse if all of his sons were present in the room and then he admitted that David was still out in the field tending to the Sheep. As soon as David entered the room God told Samuel that he was the one…. The least likely was Gods choice. Point being…. God does not overlook us. We are not forgotten. How does this tie into the negative chatter in our minds? Because I had it revealed to me that our minds are not unseen to God. We may think that we can struggle with things in our mind as if it were some abyss of heart ache, confusion and struggle. However, it is center stage for God. Our thoughts along with our entire being is not overlooked by God, and I stinking LOVE that! Don’t you? It used to scare me or make me feel ashamed, but now, I am overcome with the thankfulness that God is a God that intertwines his being within us, and that joy washing all the embarrassment away. I want God to see the inside of me. And that desire to have God SEE every little bit of me and my thoughts is my highway to having victory over this chatter.

A lot of the thoughts that I have struggled with are, in fact, generational sins and chains that have meandered their way down the line to me. The weight of the baggage was combining with my own allowances of the enemy in my mind and I got to the point where ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH. I did not want my little girl to have to go through unnecessary weight. There is enough trials in life, she did not need the past to add to that! So I had a dear friend confront me and reveal to me she could see this chatter compromising my confidence and she did what only the best of friends do. She grabbed my hands and prayed for me, then she did something even more powerful. She made me pray for myself, to break these chains. And I prayed BOLDLY and I felt VICTORIOUS over these chains!!!!

So I want you to take a good hard look at yourself and ask yourself if you are compromising and allowing the negative chattering your head to have too much space. Because if we allow God to work in our hearts, our minds, and in our souls then there will be NO room for anything else! So whats stopping us? Carpe Diem Right!? Each step is a step that the world and the enemy wants to get in the way of. Don’t let it. Keep your nose in The Word, your eyes on Jesus and your side companioned with Faithful friends and family. You are Victorious. Never forget that!

Dear Father,

I want to ask forgiveness for allowing the enemy to take up

space in my mind, please forgive me for letting my eyes slip from you

to the troubles in my mind. Thank you for being my ever present help in my time of need. Lord I

bind any generational chains from me and my children. I bind the enemy from my mind

and I pray for you to take up residence fully in my mind.

Lord I ask for your Holy Spirit to flow freely in my thoughts Lord God keeping them in

line with your word father. The generational sins and chains stops with me!

Reign in my life! Help me to gain ground Lord! Thank you for

your grace and forgiveness!

In Jesus Mighty Name Amen!