No More Illusions!

Today we are going to talk about how lies will block the flow of the Holy Spirit in our lives.  It hurts when someone tells a lie about us, or to us, lies are destructive because they block the flow of truth, and truth is what sets us free.  Lies are keep us in darkness and bondage.  This is why it is so important that we do not lie to ourselves.  The worse kind of lies are the illusions we tell ourselves.   Illusions are the things in life that hinder us from fulfilling our dreams.

When we envision ourselves failing and always failing we have sealed our own fate!

When we do what is illegal and we think we won't get caught we set ourselves up for a fall.

When we violate God's Word and then we don't understand why our prayers are not answered we have robbed ourselves of the greatest blessings.

When we cheat on the people around us and then tell ourselves it is OK as long as we don't get caught we are going to see our it come crashing down around us eventually.

When we do what God says is wrong and tell ourselves it is OK, we are living a life of illusion and eventually reality comes crashing in and our world falls apart.

We keep ourselves in bondage when we begin living a lie.   It is the truth that will set us free.

John 8:31-32 So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;  32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Please hear me today.   We know the hurt and the damage that happens to us when other people lie to us, imagine the hurt and damage that we do to ourselves when we fall for an illusion and lie to ourselves!

1 John 2:21 I have not written unto you because you know not the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

When we are living a life of illusion we block up the flow of the Holy Spirit in our life.  And often people who are around us can see the lie that we are living.   We must have truth in our inward parts, and live the truth through our lives, so that we can prevail.  The deception and lies that other people tell us are not as damaging to us as the lies we tell ourselves.