Getting Lost Within The World's Design

Lost people are blinded by the devil's devices of illusions

Please allow me to start out by saying this to you. Misguided people are folk who have lost their way, or they never took a real look at the direction they believed they wanted to go towards. In this directive, I’m pontificating regarding the Spirit realm and not the natural one. When you read the world’s mistakes, it’s not the ones that are made when we are growing, but rather the action taken that causes one not to follow the word of God. Too often people become confused as to what is really the truth, and others have forgotten where they used to be and who has set them free. Anyone who has been in this world for a while can tell you that things come at you very fast. Since we are living in a fast pace society, many have no time to review the word of the Father. Therefore, when it comes down to following or considering His will, there is not even an option. In other words, such lost people have willfully pushed aside any communication with the will of the Lord. In too many cases, billions of citizens have forgotten who they are and who’s air they inhale each day. The word of God tells us this:

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil. {Proverbs 3:6-7}

When we neglect this directive, we place ourselves in to never, never-land--the place where truth is as an elusive butterfly. Meaning to say, nothing is for certain in this cove. Listen, my friends, the world has produced and offers us so many devices that takes hold of all our attention, and they make it super easy to become a captive for the devil's use. God said in His word:

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusted in thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. {Isaiah 26:3-4}

Listen, not many people have any time to have a conversation with their own family members or their own children. One of the causes is because so many people have gotten caught up and lost within the city of illusion and false promises. In this location, one can’t help but become blinded from seeing the truth in the word of the Lord and develop an immunity to its leading in any form. However, unfocused people shall become very receptive to the lies of the world. The Bible is very clear in this matter. Listen to what the Bible has to say at this point:

My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the laws of thy God, I will also forget thy children. {Hosea 4:6}

OK, what this is saying to the lost in this sinful world is this: Because you will not read and study the word of the Lord, at some point you will become lost as a result of your own negligence. Meaning to say, God made it clear that we are to study the word of the Lord to show ourselves approved to him as workmen who are now able to rightly divide the word of truth, and not be ashamed to do so. However, if we are not connected to the Lord, we make ourselves victims in the realm of incorrect knowledge. At this point, we must succumb to the devil’s advances. People have forgotten who they are and who they really belong to. So, by their daily action such folk have induced themselves with the hallucination of being connected to the Father; yet, they have no daily fruit to be presented as an offering!!! Nevertheless, the boldness to freely proclaim that they are saved and washed with the blood of the Lamb is simply a lie. Again, the word says this:

Brethren, My heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have the zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. {Romans 10: 1-3}

Listen, people who are lost in the world are walking according to zeal. In this case, zeal represents that they are led by emotion and not by the Lord's truth. In other words, they have a form of zeal so they will not follow His leading in His direction. By rejecting his will, this is a very clear sign that such folk have designed their own righteousness and have no need for outside influences. Hear this; the day you think that you know better than God, well then, that is the day you have lost your mind. At that point, you will no longer have the ability to connect to the direction to the path of divine truth. Now let’s not forget the warning from Hosea which informed us that God would reject our children because we have rejected him. Listen, after reading that God will reject our children as a direct result of our sinful lifestyle, are you telling me that this information will not be given any consideration? If not, isn’t this proof that whoever is in this quandary is now out of touch with reality? again the word:

I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be ye not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. {Romans 12: 1-2}

Whether we live in the city or the country, we who are saved will follow the word of the Lord, and sometimes we will make mistakes. Then at that point we simply ask the father for forgiveness and He will deliver it to us. We know that is a true statement because we are saved, and we stay out of the hands of the devil simply because we present our bodies unto the Lord daily. Also, we choose to be transformed through the renewing of our own minds. This is why we who are redeemed know for sure that our faith causes us to always believe in God’s plan and walk in it because our minds are renewed each day that we choose to listen and follow the leading of the word and power of the Lord. In this way, the redeemed can prove what is that good and perfect will of the Lord is throughout our entire walk with Him as our guide. Now here is what you need to get!! Blinded people will always be distracted with the world’s devices because they heavily and consistently rely on them, rather than putting their trust into the power of the Lord so that they can always be divinely led. The word says this: the blind will wind up falling in a ditch at some point, because they do not have a redeemed guide.

Listen please; it’s a sad day when you can look at the news and see a person walking down the street and fall into a hole or hit by a truck and die. This disaster could have been avoided; but because that woman’s mind was stuck on a device, she was injured. Can’t you see, that it is the devil who has captured such folk now that they are blinded by his illusions. Since their minds are replete with fantasy or anything that takes their minds off the Lord, this is proof that the devil is in control of such vessels. Lost in the city without divine direction is a dangerous place to be. In this realm, anyone who is caught in the city of illusion is definitely lost in the neighborhood of Satan and his people. Now don’t get what I’m saying to you twisted. There is nothing wrong with cellphones and other entertainment devices when they are used properly, but when anything consistently keeps our minds off God’s agenda, well then, we have chosen to go away from what the Creator desires of us. Again, the word of the Father:

Enter ye into the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. {Matthew 7:13-14}

Let's look closely at this scripture. “Enter into the strait gate.” For us this means you must enter with faith and not feelings. Which signifies:

That you trust God and his ability to do for you what you cannot do for yourself. Based upon your own design you decided to enter. {Action}.
You know before you take any steps that you must walk through the strait gate. Thus, meaning you cannot enter in with sin leading the way.
You have also decided to reject the broad way and take the straight and narrow way which leads to your own salvation.
You have been enlightened that the broad way leads to destruction and many people will choose that path.

You now have the insight to receive this divine information which clearly invites you to use your mustard seed faith so that you may be able to enter life and leave death behind. Meaning to say, you know, straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Listen, lost people don’t have any divine direction, but the devil will always make sure that we have many ways to keep our minds in disarray. This happens because we have forgotten the Lord's will for our lives, and we have been hoodwinked to follow whatever we believe is the best for our own lives. If you do not know who you really are, well then you must become a victim of confusion. Once more the word tells us this:

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. {John 10:4-5}

It’s like this: "What you believe, is what you know, and what you know is what you will act on in a time of trouble.” {Ambassador Ray K. Payne}

Listen, getting lost within the world's design is the path that billions of people must take, simply because they will not follow the word and will of Christ Jesus: the one who came down from heaven and willfully died for the sins of this world that we live in. Listen, the world has many opportunities that lead to hell past the grave. God made it very clear that everyone has the opportunity to know divine truth and the devil's lies. At that juncture, each individual can then choose life of death or go with the devil into the lake of fire that never ends. Listen, it’s not God’s will that any of his children should die and burn in hell, but it is His will that we prosper and be in good health even as our soul prospers. If I had a conclusion it might go like this:

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. {1 John 1:8-10}

EXCEPT the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman walketh but in vain. {Palms 127:1}

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. {John 6:44 }. {v 65} Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

A FALSE balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. {Proverbs 11:1}

I EXHORT therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intersessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. (v8) I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting holy hands, without wrath and doubting {1 Timothy 2:1-4,8}

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scriptures said, WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH ON HIM SHALL NOT BE ASHAMED. {Roman's 10:9-11}

And he said to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will loses his life for my sake, the same shall save it. {Luke 9:23,24}

I pray that these words have blessed you to the point that you will now desire to know the Lord, and be set free of this words designer way of loving.

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