Legends of the Fall
We are the daughters of God and we are pursued by God. God wants to win our heart through love, not power. On the other hand, Satan is also pursuing us. Satan's purpose is to keep us from experiencing the wonder and awesome-ness of God's love. He will use any means he can. Satan will use our story against us, he will place voices and thoughts in our minds that create doubt and/or self-reliance instead of relying on God. There is a full-out battle for our souls raging in the spiritual realm that began in the Garden of Eden.
We are Cinderella, God is the Prince and Satan is one of the Stepsisters. We so believe the lies that our stepsister tells us, day in and day out, that we cannot see our own value and beauty. We believe the magic. When our Prince searches for us, we hide and do not come forward. The Prince never stops looking for us.
While Satan uses spiritual warfare to distance us from God; God uses spiritual warfare to draw us into deeper communication with him. God uses the enemy's attacks to remove the obstacles between ourselves and God, to reestablish our dependency on him as his daughters in a much deeper way. God is so confident in the good that he allows the enemy to carry out his intentions so that we will draw into deeper communion with God.
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