Last Ditch Efforts?

As Christians we hear all the time that Satan is out to get us. I have taught many kids both in school and Sunday School that as saved people, Satan has lost the battle for our souls so all that is left for him to do is battle us for our relationship with Him. to keep God from doing anything in or through us. There are so many areas of my life that I have had to battle Satan to give God control of my life and this journey of the past three months has been no exception. When Stephanie and I started out three months ago, Satan wasn't too concerned about what we were doing, yet. As we continued faithful and God began to reveal things to us to do and pray, Satan began to get a little worried I think. We both noticed similar struggles in negative attitudes. This was right around the time we began UNINTIMIDATED. God used the circumstances then to lead me to link this blog to Face Book and publicly announce what we had been praying for. God brought Janet Paine into our prayers with us. Satan must not have liked the additional prayer warrior, because the whole Tebow-Manning thing happened and I faced one of the biggest struggles of my life to really surrender to God's will when for the first time, it was so directly opposite of what I wanted. But God came through a few weeks later and let me know my sister had been praying with us since I linked the blog. I think that must have been the time Satan began to really take notice and start fighting through discouragement and physical exhaustion-make her so tired she can't really focus on prayer. Then God brought Jenna to us, someone else to pray with us in the battle.
      Now I think Satan must realize he is loosing the battle, because today, he tried a dozen different ways to get me to focus on the wrong things to keep me from praying tonight. I admit (so that you'll pray FOR me, not just WITH me...see sophomores, it really is a prepositional thing) I'M SCARED. Time is running out and while my kids writing on my last post was a tremendous blessing...IT SCARES ME TO DEATH that they are choosing to keep believing because I am. Satan is using that fear. Someone posted a comment on Face Book about this blog's header that was completely judgemental and made out of true ignorance of what this all has been about, someone I once worked with long enough that should have known me better. I allowed this to color my perception of someone else's very positive and "I feel ya'" comment...someone who I also worked with and whom I should have known better to judge that way, one whom I hope will still continue to comment because it is nice to know I'm not the only one who goes through this. Satan was most definitely trying to cause division, because the second person is someone who prays with me very diligently about this. We are solid enough friends that we survive the dumb stuff we do...so Satan didn't win that victory, so he tried again. A second comment was posted about one of the blogs and Satan used the words in it to rile me up...and I admit, for a little while it did.
      Then, as I began to prepare for my prayer time, the Holy Spirit (love when He comes so gently and softly) pointed out to me that all of this was from Satan. That the person who made the comment that started out my day wasn't the enemy. That her comment and response were made from a lack of understanding. She wasn't the problem, nor were her words...Satan was the problem. I was looking at the wrong things as the source, fighting the wrong enemy.
     It seems to me, Satan sees the determination to persist despite the obstacles, discouragement and now fear that he has continuously thrown in our way and is now making these last ditch efforts to keep God from being able to fulfill His promise...little does Satan know, God has got some of the most stubborn people I know praying for this. Amen and amen.