The Body, The Family

Genesis 3:14-15 (TLB)

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “This is your punishment: You are singled out from among all the domestic and wild animals of the whole earth—to be cursed. You shall grovel in the dust as long as you live, crawling along on your belly. 15 From now on you and the woman will be enemies, as will your offspring and hers. You will strike his heel, but he will crush your head.”


     I believe I have seen the enemy's plan. The Lord has exposed him through dreams and visions.  There are probably many people who are aware of this already, but it's becoming more and more clear to me.  We have to pray against this.  The enemy is an imitator of Christ.  He is not clever enough to come up with his own plans so he imitates the One who is all knowing.  God told the enemy his head would be crushed by man, so the enemy is attempting to crush man's head.   
     How do you kill or paralyze a living being?  You separate its body from it's head.  Way back in the beginning the Lord threatened the head of the enemy and now the enemy is using that same strategy.  Jesus is the head and we are the body.  The enemy can't take out Jesus, but he is trying to separate the body from the head.  He can do that by destroying communication.  He can do this by paralysis through injury to the connection between the head and the body.  I think we have all known for years this is the enemy's intent, but what if he is doing this on a smaller level, working his way up.
     What the Lord has been showing me is that even though the enemy cannot destroy the head of the Church (Jesus) he can separate us from Him.  He can also destroy the individual church by attacking the head (pastor or elders).  What's even better is to destroy the body through the head.  He is doing this in the church, the government and the family.  He has been working on this for some time.  First, if we look at the head of the family.  The man, husband, father role in America does not look the same as it did years ago.  Men are abandoning and abusing their families.  They are putting their own interests first through affairs, addictions (even to working), hobbies, etc.  In some families the man is being emasculated and the woman is wearing the pants.  The enemy is destroying the family through the head of the family, but it's taking out the whole body of the family.  He has all but destroyed the family structure in America. 
     Lately the Lord has been showing me how the enemy is destroying individual churches through the pastor.  I am not talking about any one specific church.  I believe the dreams the Lord has shown me represent many individual churches.  If the enemy can take down the pastor or leadership through his insecurities or weaknesses, eventually, if the body of the church doesn't see it, if the sheep don't wake up, the church will be destroyed.  I believe he is using the same tactics on the church families as on individual families.  Lust, greed, power, anger, etc. are all open doors for the enemy to get in.  These are all results of open wounds.  Open wounds are open doors.  It is so important that anyone in leadership constantly and consistently allow God to shine His light into their hearts and expose any darkness.  it is important that they be willing to allow this so they can address the wounds revealed and heal them. 
     I also believe this is happening in our government.  It is through the head of the government that the enemy is attacking this country.  As citizens of this country, all countries, all churches and all families, we as individuals can turn this all around with prayer.  Instead of criticizing, belittling, judging, etc, our leaders and people in authority, we have to recognize they are targets for the enemy and pray for them.  Not our will be done, but the Father's will be done in their lives. 
     If some one is under attack by the enemy, it does no good for us to condemn them.  In fact when we do this, we are cursing them.  We become part of the problem.  We also give the enemy authority to step into their lives and destroy.  We can't possibly know what they need or what they are facing, but we can pray, God's will in their lives and the daily bread to face it.  The biggest tool we have alongside prayer is forgiveness.  We have all these leaders of families, churches and this country, reacting from old wounds and the Lord has shown me the biggest destruction is coming through guilt and shame.  Forgiveness is the antidote for the poison of guilt and shame.  We need to be forgiving fathers, husbands, pastors, elders, presidents and all leadership.  We need to be putting men back where they belong in leadership.  This country is full of spoiled people with no respect for authority.  What if it is that lack of respect that has caused them to act disrespectful? 
     One last thing the Lord has shown me: in dreams the neck usually represents pride.  What is between the body and the head?  We all need to humble ourselves and respect authority.  Whether we are submitting to it or placed in the position of it.  We are all given some authority and should not abuse that privilege.  The system was created from the beginning of time, because of our sin.  Now it our sin that is destroying it.  


Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked heathen! Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your fathers did, and so do you!