What the Devil Don't Want You to Know: Come Out of the Dark

By Belinda Nored

Before we ever existed, God already had a plan for our lives. He had a purpose and a destiny set in motion, but somewhere along the line, we allowed the devil to steal our identity and blind us to the truth. This book will lead you to a path of understanding that your identity is not defined by what the devil shows you nor who people say you are

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
• Release date: Dec 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781647736255

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Copyright © 2020 by Belinda Nored

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To the Lord God Almighty,

who has blessed me with an abundant life through the knowledge of knowing His love for me. He has made my life complete in Him, full of joy and peace. Word cannot explain how great You are.

To Greg,

my husband, who has pushed and supported me every step of the way.

To my children,

who have always loved, trusted, respected, and believed in their mother.

To the Power of Prayer Outreach,

who has been supportive, always there when I needed them, along with family and friends.

Thank you all for standing with me.

May God continue to bless you all.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: What the Devil Doesn’t Want You to Know

Chapter 2: Come Out of the Dark

Chapter 3: Every Season Has an End

Chapter 4: Not My Reputation at Stake

Chapter 5: Born Again

Chapter 6: Taking on the Mind of Christ

Chapter 7: What If?

Chapter 8: Hearing the Voice of God

Chapter 9: No Matter What It Looks Like

Chapter 10: God’s Plan Is Not Our Plan

Chapter 11: Committed to Accept Change

Chapter 12: You’re Being Developed

Chapter 13: The Devil Has a Plan, but God Has a Greater Plan

Chapter 14: That Kind of Love!

Chapter 15: The Penalty You Face for Carrying Your Own Sin

Chapter 16: Where Is Your Faith?

Chapter 17: Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

Chapter 18: Why Do We Wear So Many Disguises?

Chapter 19: Believe You Have Received

Chapter 20: It’s Not Over Until God Says So

Chapter 21: How Many Times Have We Denied Jesus?

Chapter 22: It’s a Heart Condition

Chapter 23: Where Do I Fit In?

Chapter 24: Are You Stuck in Worldly Bondage?

Chapter 25: Why So Much Confusion?

Chapter 26: What Is My Purpose?

Chapter 27: It’s All in the Presentation

Chapter 28: Don’t Be Deceived

Chapter 29: We Can Be Perfect

Chapter 30: Our Enemy Has Been Defeated

Chapter 31: It Won’t Be Long Now

Chapter 32: Who’s Knocking at Your Door?

Chapter 33: Has Your Light Gone Out, or Has It Become Dim?

Chapter 34: Do You Know Who You Are?

Chapter 35: In His Image

Chapter 36: There’s a Disconnect

Chapter 37: Whose Church Are You Building?

Chapter 38: Examine Yourself

Chapter 39: The Freedom to Choose

Chapter 40: God’s Unconditional Love

Chapter 41: God Is Not to Blame!

Foreword

I remember sitting on my front porch one morning and having this vision of me standing up, speaking to people that I didn’t even know. The visions would happen often, but I just kept disregarding them. Things would come to me, and I would write them down. I tried giving what I was writing down to a friend that was a minister of the gospel, but he said that God was giving it to me for a reason. I guess God was answering my prayer, because I would sit in church and really couldn’t get an understanding of what was being preached from the pulpit. I would tell God that I wondered how many people would sit in church as well and felt like me but were ashamed for anyone else to know. It was like the preaching would go over my head, word coming forth that I didn’t know the meaning of, talking about themselves or others more than about Jesus. I wanted what was being taught to affect me, and I didn’t want to sit there pretending like I understood when I didn’t. I wanted something that was easy for me to understand and bring about change in my life.

My friend told me that maybe God was calling me into the ministry. My thoughts were, no way was I going into ministry, because I had that talk with God; I knew God wouldn’t do that to me. I knew I was running from the call of God, because I had seen some leaders preach one way and live another. I told God I didn’t want to be like other preachers that I came in contact with. God let me know that I didn’t have to be anyone other than whom he called me to be even if no one else accepted me.

I never thought in a million years that the notes I was writing would become books that God has placed in me. Why would God want to use me when I was so broken and mad with Him because I blamed Him for it all? It took a long time for me to see some of God’s plan for me. Actually, it wasn’t until God broke off a relationship that I was in that was in no way His plan for my life, because I was depending on someone more than on Him—not to mention he was in the way of me finding my true identity. Okay, God, if we’re going to do this, this is what I need, I thought to myself. Who am I to tell the almighty God what I need? (I laugh!) I asked God to give me the words that would bring people into a knowledge of who He is and who we are in Him. The Holy Spirit, lovely, said to just write from my heart, because the same way I feel and the same things that I have questions about, or have struggled with, others do as well.

Whatever God has placed in you, don’t allow it to lie dormant; use it for His glory and don’t ever let anyone tell you you can’t. With God all thing are possible. I give all the glory and praise to the almighty God.

Acknowledgments

First, giving honor to God, who is the head of my life, who has entrusted me to be a vessel for Him to bring forth His Word through the writing of this book. To my father and mother, Alex and Rosa Lee Nored, who have ceased from their labor, now in a place of rest. To my children, Jeffery, Lamar, and Courtney, along with my grandchildren, family, and friends, who are the joy of my life. And to my spiritual family, Power of Prayer Outreach Ministry, who has kept me spiritually feed. God bless you all. With God all things are possible.

What the Devil Doesn’t Want You to Know

When Jesus died on the cross for our sins, He said that it was finished. Now, what does that mean for all who have or will accept Him? The Bible says that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It also states that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. When Jesus paid the price for sin, He became our substitute. He not only saved us from a burning hell and every evil that was connected to sin, but he also reconnected us back to God the Father, because God had to turn His back on mankind because man had sinned against Him and it caused a separation of four hundred years where God didn’t speak with man. Jesus made it possible for us to come into God’s presence once again and enjoy fellowship with Him, just as Adam and Eve once were before falling from grace. Now, when we acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior, God doesn’t see our sins anymore; He sees the blood of Jesus that has cleansed us from all unrighteousness (sin).He no longer sees us; He see his Son in us. We have been adopted into the household of God, and we are now seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. You may ask what that means for us who believe in Jesus; that means that everything that God stands for, everything that God owns, who He is, we are inheritors too. Just as we provide for our children whatever they have need of to survive in life, so does God, but with a far more exceeding reward. Even when we miss the mark, His grace extends much more. His love never changes toward us, because God doesn’t just show love; He is love.

Jesus took everything to the cross with Him, and in death He buried it all in the grave and He rose with all power and authority in heaven and in the earth and underneath the earth. So now we are no longer bound by the darkness of sin, sickness, and disease, or lack, pain, heartache, fear of death, etc. As long as we abide in Jesus, the powers of darkness have no more dominion over us. We have a Savior that left the glory of heaven and took on the form of a fleshly body to experience the things that we would face in this world so that He could not only save us from a life sentence to death but that He, too, could understand and have compassion for us. That’s why it’s so easy to forgive us and still love us, because He endured it all and much more, but without sinning Himself. So we can never say that Jesus doesn’t understand what we’re going through; it’s just the opposite, because He experienced it first, and He went through things that we will never ever experience. Nor will we be able to comprehend His love for us in this life. We just need to accept it and embrace it. One would think, Why would someone sacrifice himself for a sinful world and go through the agony that he would endure, simply put (because he is consumed by a perfect love)? God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. God didn’t send Jesus to condemn the world, which He could have, but He sent Him that through Him we might be saved.

I say might because there will be some that will not accept Jesus. They will trust more in nature, which they can’t see, but they will see God, because nature belongs to God. They will trust in their money, but money can’t buy you a ticket to heaven or fill that void in your heart. They will choose to believe in a statue that they have built, they will choose to believe in science and evolution, and they will even choose to believe in themselves (mankind).They will rather believe in something that they can make sense out of, never coming to the knowledge that if they look around, they will see God everywhere, through a world that He created. But man can’t see the beauty of what God created because they see through the dark illusion of the devil’s eyes. Jesus said, Blessed are those that believe without seeing, because those are the ones that will still see God’s perfect unveiling plan. They will see and love through the Father’s heart. God doesn’t desire that anyone perish; instead, He wants all to come to repentance and be saved, because no man can come to God the Father except through His Son. Jesus is the only one that defeated sin and the grave, and God doesn’t hold us accountable even when we miss the mark, because Jesus died once and for all for our sins.

Let me explain. When we accept Jesus into our heart, God accepts us through what Jesus did, so our sins are forgiven, past, present, and future. God judged Jesus so He wouldn’t have to judge us, so if He judged Jesus, He can no longer hold us accountable because it would violate who He is, because that would constitute a statute of double jeopardy (sin has already been on the judgment seat of God). God wants us to live a holy life (by His Word), because we can’t access the blessing of what Jesus died for us to have if we don’t get in the Word of God to know what has been freely given. It’s not just about material things; it’s about our purpose and plans for which God created us. God is not trying to hide blessings from us. We just can’t believe in something that has already been ordained without the knowledge of His Word. Everything we will ever need has already been made available through Jesus, but our mind must be renewed through God’s Word to understand and believe. The second book of Peter 1:3 reads, According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue.

Just to clear this up for the ones that are preaching and teaching that God stops speaking to us when we sin, I am talking to believers of the Word of God. God said, I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you. God does not leave us or stop speaking to us; we just can’t hear Him because we have turned aside and it’s hard to hear His voice or acknowledge Him when we are in the midst of sin. But the Holy Spirit is the one that will counsel us when we sin to get us to turn back in alignment with God and His Word. You see, we all are born into this world with sin in us (a sinful nature), so everything that we see in the lives of others as well as ourselves is due to that sinful nature. We are born through the DNA of the first man, Adam, but Adam disobeyed God, so sin entered through Adam, and it had been passed from generation to generation (his descendants).So we needed someone that would challenge and win the battle against sin. Jesus was, and is, that one man that defeated sin and put it to an open shame. So by one man (Adam) sin came into the world, and by one man (Jesus) sin was defeated and was destroyed.

Now, because we can’t defeat sin ourselves, because it’s our nature, we must accept the one that did and allow Him to be Lord and Savior. Being Lord means He has power and authority over our lives, and his being the Savior means He is the one who saved us/delivered us from the powers of darkness and an everlasting life of damnation. Jesus said He came to give life, not just life, but an abundant life. He came to cleanse us of every sin that entered through Adam, so it is His blood that cleans us from all traces of Adam’s blood (generational curse).So when we invite Jesus in by faith, there is an exchange of blood and a regeneration of our spirit (a new birth). We are a new creature in Christ Jesus. The old man (nature) has passed (died) away. We are a part of someone that has never existed before in the earth, because He came down from the very throne room of heaven. Adam was created from the dust of the ground, and God breathed into him the breath of life, but Jesus came from heaven, through the seed of a Jewish virgin named Mary, who was willing to allow the Holy Spirit to impregnate her supernaturally.

I thank God that He had an alternate plan to redeem us back to Him. It’s not easy living in this world, whether we’re saved or unsaved, but with Jesus, we have someone that has been through every sin that we face and conquered them all, and He will be in the midst of everything we face today, to help and enable us to come through victorious. In Him we can still have peace as we face the trials and tribulation in this life and come out stronger and more powerful. Without Him there’s no hope; it’s just a never-ending cycle of life that you can’t seem to find a way out of. It’s like being in a maze. It’s an awesome thing to have someone living inside of you, guiding you in your decisions, instructing you in wisdom and knowledge on how to live a righteous and holy life, opening up revelation (revealing God’s secrets) to us by His Holy Spirit.

Someone that will, and can, comfort our heart when we lose someone we love. Someone that protects us while all this evil is running rampant in this world. And even if something happens where we lose our life, we still gain, we are still going home to be with the Lord in paradise, so we don’t fear death. The reason I say it’s not easy living in this world is that we still have an adversary that wants to steal, to kill, and to destroy us by any means necessary. That’s his lifelong mission, and he wants to keep us from committing our life to Jesus. Satan is the one that wants to keep us bound by sin so that we will be indanger of hell’s fire along with him. He cares nothing for life, because he is consumed by hate and pride, and when someone only knows hate, there is no capacity to love. Satan was the angel that stood before the throne room of God. He was created in every precious stone that was beautiful to the eyes, but he allowed pride to be his master. Satan and some of the angels wanted to overthrow God’s kingdom, so there was a war in heaven, and he and the angels that rebelled against God were thrown out of heaven. As we would say, he was demoted to the second heaven.

God created man in His image and gave Him dominion over this world (earth), but because Satan (we call him the devil) deceived Adam and Eve from their authority, God banished him to a lifetime sentence of living in the spiritual realm in the second heaven, and he’s able to roam within the earth until the return of Jesus. Satan and his fallen angels will battle Jesus and the angels of heaven once again and will then be banished to a fiery hell, chained up for all eternity. Satan never wants you to know that power and authority have been handed down to you, if only you commit your life to Jesus. Luke 10:19 reads, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you. We now have power over the devil and his demonic forces, which are thoughts, ideas, and subjections. If you get in the Word of God, it will reinforce to you who you are now. You are His beloved. Don’t let the devil fool you by trying to challenge your identity. Stand firm always, abiding in the work of the Lord. If you can remember to stay true to who God says you are through His Word and to fight the devil with the Word of God as Jesus showed us, you will not and cannot be defeated. Remember, Jesus said, It is the Father that dwelleth in Me. He does the work. God just wants us to allow Him to work within this body that we live in. He wants us to be His voice and his witnesses in this earth.

Come Out of the Dark

In the meantime, God sent His Son, Jesus, to reclaim what was taken from Adam by deceit, which was the authority, and to open the eyes of the people once against, to let them know that the devil has no power and authority over them except what they allow him to. Jesus takes us out of darkness into the light of truth, but the devil keeps us bound (enslaved) by darkness, lies, and deceit. The second book of Corinthians 4:3–4 reads, But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. The devil doesn’t want you to know that the life you are living is wrong against God and that the path that you are heading down is a pathway to hell.

We look at life through the lens of the devil, his rules, and his government in this earth, and it seems natural to us because he has blinded us to the truth, which is the way God wants us to live in order for us to make heaven our home. That’s why it’s important to accept Jesus into our lives, so through the truth of our acceptance of Him we will be made free; we will be stepping out of the dark into the light. Psalm 119:130 reads, The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. The apostle Paul prayed that the eyes of our understanding be enlightened, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ might give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. God wants us to know Him; He wants us to know the depth, the length, the width, and the breadth of his love