Mark 13:5 – “Be careful that no man deceive you…”

There is an inescapable truth that we must adhere to if we are going to avoid deception. We must have a personal relationship with God.

The same thing is revealed and repeated at the close of the Book of Joshua and the beginning of Judges. In Joshua 24:31 and Judges 2:7, we read that Israel served God as long as Joshua and the elders who had seen God’s works lived. When the eyewitnesses died, faith and faithfulness died, too. Judges 2:19 tells us that when the judges died, Israel became even more corrupt.  A personal relationship is the key to faithfulness and victory.

Without a deep, abiding personal relationship with God, we are easy targets for deception. Deception caters to the flesh, the person’s desires, the need for ease, and the absolving of responsibility. When we know God personally and intimately, we know the real, the imitation, and the counterfeit are readily recognized.  Christianity is not easy Unless we live in the fullness of Christ in us and Oneness with Him, abiding in the vine.

Too often, Christians live theoretical lives rather than lives of practical application of God’s principles and promises.

• We believe the Bible is God’s Word but find it challenging to make it practicable in everyday life. 
• We believe in salvation, but even that is futuristic.  
• We live with doubt and uncertainty because we do not know God intimately and personally.  
• We know about Him, and His Promises are theoretical or futuristic or for super saints.

If we know Him intimately, we know He does not Lie!   We live in union with the impossible being possible All the Time!   We cannot depend on what someone else saw, heard, or experienced.  It is Individual and Personal.

God invites us to an in-depth personal relationship.   Make Him most important and refuse to doubt.  He is I AM!  His life is your life.  Be the one who keeps faith alive for others so they can keep faith alive after you.  Christ is IN us, and we are ONE with Him.  Let us live like He is truthful because He is!

Your victory is today.   You in Him, and He in you is to live above the Impossible!