Satan causes us to be deceived and to deceive ourselves. This video will show you how the Holy Spirit is God’s answer to Satan’s ability to deceive mankind, and this video will launch you on your way to removing veils of deception in your life.
0:00 My Story
3:00 Satan Can Blind Us to Truth and Reality
5:01 God Knows Your Heart
5:43Transformation Begins When Veils of Deception are Removed
6:12 How Holy Spirit Changes Us
7:56 Practical Steps to Be Transformed
9:42 Activation
Satan Can Blind Us So We Can’t See Truth or Reality
2 Corinthians 4:4 (NLT)
Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
I was a believer. But I couldn’t see my character flaws. I couldn’t see the darkness that was still in my heart and had not yet been removed by God.
2 Corinthians 3:14 describes Satan’s ability to blind man as a veil.
But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.
***I told a story about 2 friends who tell 2 totally different stories about an argument they had.
Jeremiah 17:9 NLT
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?”
Only God knows the depths of the human heart. And only God can unravel our twisted thoughts and emotions.
Psalm 139:2-4
In Luke 16:13-15, NIV, Jesus said:
“You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. ”
Transformation begins when the veil of deception is removed.
Only faith in Jesus removes the veil of deception over all of us. When the veil is removed, we can see.
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.
How Does Holy Spirit Change Us?
Jesus showed me Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
What does that look like?
When you were born again, God regenerated your spirit. You were given a new spirit – sanctified (made holy and set apart for God’s purposes). Your salvation is the fulfillment of Ezekiel’s prophecy and God’s promise to “put a new spirit in you.”
But our souls (our minds, wills and emotions) are not sanctified (made holy and set apart for God’s purposes) when we are born again. Our souls are made holy by a lifelong process described in Romans 12:2: transformation.
Romans 12:2 (NLT)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.
Philippians 2:13 (AMP)
For it is [not your strength, but it is] God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.
Practical Steps to Let Holy Spirit Transform You Into a New Person
Step 1 Holy Spirit reveals false beliefs, emotional wounds, and character flaws Satan, sin, and self have created in us. [In my example, God showed me how I was angry, judgmental, and legalistic.]
Step 2 Our false beliefs, emotional wounds, and character flaws often are sources of great pain in our lives. Holy Spirit wants to remove the pain and replace it with God’s character of love, joy, peace etc. God identifies the source of our pain. And asks us to surrender the source of our pain.
Step 3 As we surrender and do what Holy Spirit shows us to do, we will be healed and restored in that area of our lives. If we don’t surrender, we continue to have the pain and the problem. Accepting the truth about yourself can be painful and hard, but it will set you free.
John 8:32
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
Your transformation begins when the veils of deception are removed and you see yourself as you are, knowing God will transform you into a new person as you love and obey Him.
Activation
Pray with me the prayer David prayed:
Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-34
John 16:13 says:
But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.
John 14:17 says “The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.”
Holy Spirit, reveal and remove every veil of deception in my life. Lead me into all the truth and create Jesus’ character in me.
In Jesus name, amen.