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Why seek after the hidden or the dead among the living? Is there not a God? When I was a child somewhere under the age of ten my brother and I were looking for something at our grandmother’s house and could not find it. I don’t recall what it was, but my brother who is 4 years older than me said to me, pray and ask God to reveal it to you. I asked him what does reveal mean? He told me and so I prayed that God would reveal to us what we were looking for. Little did I know that those words would become so important later in my life in a backslidden condition.

I had lost a set of keys on a key chain that were very important and had looked everywhere I could think of and I needed them immediately. At that time my brother had his own rented apartment and I had already checked his house and our house. I then thought call one of them psychics you hear about. I was well aware that this was wrong, but in the heat of the moment I ignored the clear danger that existed in doing this.

I went online and found a website that I had seen advertised on a TV commercial ad and all through this I felt the Spirit of God bringing conviction and letting me know that this was not to be done especially since I knew I was going to call someone who would most likely be possessed of the devil and since I had a close walk with God that I was currently struggling with, though God is only a repentance away, I went against God and my better judgment and wrote the number down and went straight to the telephone and dialed the number. All the while knowing that being filled with the Holy Ghost, which is the Holy Spirit, it was almost assuredly going to be directed to someone possessed of the devil and for some reason I was hoping that I could just get the answer for where those keys were and that be the end of it, but knowing I might end up in an absolute spiritual attack much greater than the spiritual attack I was currently fighting or I would never have been tempted to call the psychic to begin with and take it seriously and not immediately reject the idea even though temptations come. The sin if you are not aware, is not being tempted, but when you are tempted how do you respond to the temptation.

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.” (James 1:12-16)

So the question is why didn’t I just ask God to help me? The answer was I didn’t have enough faith to believe that God would help me find something as trivial as a set of keys and I was struggling with many short comings in my life as all people can relate to at some point in their life.

I’m sure you are wondering what took place when I dialed that number. As I was dialing the number I was feeling anxiety because God was convicting me and I was fearful of what might take place and what this psychic, who would likely be possessed with the devil, would begin to tell me about my life. While my plan was to cut them off and just say if you know the answer to where this set of keys is that is all I need. Otherwise I’m hanging up.

The phone rang one time and before anyone could answer God impressed into my mind what my brother had told me all those many years ago and I hung the phone up as quick as possible before anyone answered. God had reminded me of that day so long ago concerning asking him to reveal to me what my brother and I were looking for. See the mercy, grace, and the love of God?

I then repented of my sins to God and I asked God to reveal to me where I had left that set of keys. God immediately revealed it to me. Even after all of that worry, ignoring conviction by God, and dialing a number calling someone most likely to be possessed of the devil for an answer to my question, God still intervened in an instant.

As soon as God revealed to me where that set of keys was located the only way for me to truly know if it were so was to drive to my brother’s house again and this time look behind some objects on a bookshelf where I had placed them the night before, so that no one would find them and possibly steal them as we had company at his apartment house the night before.

I was confident that they would be there because the Lord had intervened and brought it back to my remembrance and when I arrived at his house I went straight to the bookshelf and looked behind the objects that were there and sure enough the set of keys were sitting right there.

So why go to the devil for help when there is a God who will not deceive you nor lure you in with some truth and then lies and before you know it end up calling psychics for all your unanswered questions and for advice while opening yourself up to demonic attacks that those not filled with the Spirit of the Lord could become themselves possessed of the devil? Those who are filled with the Spirit of the Lord could still open up themselves to demonic oppression and great spiritual battles that you may not even be aware of that is taking place.

Why seek after the hidden or the dead among the living when there is a God who will help you with every situation in your life? Repent of your sins and go to God for help. However, instead of getting upset if God doesn’t answer your prayer immediately like he did for me, knowing that
“there is no respect of persons” with God, follow these scriptures instead.

“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Mt 6:31-34) “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Mt 5:6) “But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.” (Col 3:25)

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