Christian Activation: Removing Veils of Deception, 2 Corinthians 3:18
This video reveals a simple, but powerful tool to reveal veils of deception in your life and the source of the deception. You can do this in a few minutes each day.
Satan deceives us, but we deceive ourselves without any help from him.
Jeremiah 17:9 NIV
2 Corinthians 3:14 describes Satan’s ability to blind man as a veil.
Only faith in Jesus removes the veil of deception over all of us.
2 Corinthians 3:18 (NLT)
So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
The ONE THING Needed to Root Out and Destroy Veils of Deception in Your Life
Things that are veiled are things that we cannot see. Holy Spirit will reveal them, but only when we are ready to change.
Luke 8:10 TPT
The one thing is your willingness to change. If you are willing, Holy Spirit will reveal veils of deception and show you how to break free from them.
The 4 Influences On Your Heart
Mark 4:3-9 TPT FN
“The four kinds of soils speak of four kinds of hearts: hard hearts, hollow hearts, half hearts, and whole hearts. With the first soil we see the activity of Satan, the second, that of the flesh, and the third, that of the world. Bearing fruit is never a problem with what is sown but with the soil it falls upon.”
***ACTIVATION: Copy this and use it daily. You’ll be surprised how sensitive you become to ungodly influences on your heart. This is a great compass to keep you on course with God and for Holy Spirit to unveil deception in your life.
Step 1 Ask Holy Spirit to reveal to you the true condition of your heart. Pray: Psalm 139:23-24 NLT
Step 2 Examine Which of the 4 Influences are Affecting Your Heart Now
1. Are you “hard hearted?”
Hard-hearted means you are being influenced by Satan.
Sources of hard-heartedness: sin, offense, anger, unforgiveness, ingratitude, defeat, failure and pain in life – anything that separates you from God and makes your heart hard, cold, indifferent or unloving toward God or people.
2. Are you “Hollow Hearted?”
Are you influenced by self-ish desires?
Do you have Sexual lust, greed (for money, power, possessions, achievements and awards, fame or reputation, legacy, etc); jealousy, the desire for what others have, the need to compare yourself to others, to compete and best them? These make you “hollow hearted” because they never satisfy. They are hollow, empty things that you can waste your life on. They have no significance in eternity – none.
3. Are you “Half hearted?”
Half-hearted people are distracted by the things of the world. These can even be good things, like sports, games, entertainment, even good works God didn’t tell you to do. But if they interfere with your passionate pursuit of God and His plans and purposes for your life, you must remove them and refocus your attention, time and effort on God.
Hebrews 12:1 ERV
“Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith”
4. Are You Whole Hearted?
Mark 12:28-29
28 “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
Note that even for those who are wholehearted there is a difference in yield from the truth God plants in us. We can yield 30, 60, 100 times what was planted.