SATAN CANNOT GO BEHIND THE VEIL

In a recent discussion on prayer, a friend made a comment about a remark a minister had made years ago, regarding prayer, which affected her still today. I had heard the same remark and it had the same affect on me, creating a fear and carefulness in my daily devotions. During a sermon, the minister had remarked, “Be careful what you say when you pray, the devil is listening and will use your words against you.” After hearing those instructions, I found myself weighing my words and at times mentally praying them in fear that Satan would come against me if I verbalized my feelings and needs to my Heavenly Father. This is NOT a biblical concept. Pastors, please be aware that what may sound good to you can affect someone’s walk with God negatively, if it is not based on The Word.

1 John 5:14-15”And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us:”

The Bible teaches that we are to have CONFIDENCE in the Lord. We cannot have total confidence in Him if we are always afraid that “what we say may be used against us.” We have all heard of “Lawyer/Client Privilege.” It is a law that states whatever a client tells in private to his/her lawyer cannot be revealed to the jury and used against him/her in judgment. Do we believe that God is less trustworthy than a lawyer? Now that privilege does not exist if the client allows a third party in on the conversation. The Father/Child privilege ceases to be viable if we include a phone gossip session, daily whining and complaining to whomever will listen or a Facebook post for the entire world to see. We must keep the petition between ourselves and God.

Back to my struggle with prayer, I believe that God revealed to me that when I am on my knees in consultation with Him that I can be totally honest about my innermost feelings and ask or say anything that is in my heart. Many times I have poured out my hurts and frustrations to Him and after feeling His arms of comfort, listened as He gently showed me what needed to be changed in my life. Not one time has God allowed Satan to use it against me. God is not Connie Chung leaning forward as she tells Newt’s mother, “it will be just between you and me,” on national television. Proverbs 3:26 tells me, “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.” He can be depended on.

Hebrews 6:1-19 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters into that within the veil;

I believe that when we enter into our “prayer closet” to spend time alone with God, we enter into the Holy of Holies and approach the very Throne of God. The Bible tells us that to get to the Holy of Holies we must go behind the Veil and behind the Veil is the Mercy Seat. Let me assure you, the devil is not allowed to go behind the Veil because it would require that he go through the Blood of Jesus Christ. We can have confidence that when we approach the Throne of Grace, that Satan is no where around and we can tell God anything and everything.

Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.