There is no excuse for a born-again believer to celebrate Halloween. I used to do all of the Holidays, I was raised to enjoy them. After becoming born-again and leaving the Catholic church, God opened my eyes to them, all desire for them was removed and I never regretted leaving them in the past.
It took a few years after my born-again experience for my eyes to be opened to their origins and purpose for the devil in distracting people from Christ.
I began to see their distraction and wickedness. Unfortunately, I was alone in my family about this matter of holidays. I was mocked, shunned and rejected for my desire to shed anything that did not honor God. This is the case for many people who have been enlightened about the celebrations Americans love more than anything else.
The devil is replete with manipulations and pressures from family and the rest of the world that something is wrong with us when we are content to leave the holidays out of our lives.
All the devil has to do these days is attach the name of Christ to something pagan and the Christian culture leaps to enjoy it. This is just how superficial the apostate church has become.
It is really the desire to partake of the poisonous fruit that causes one to pretend something is endorsed by God when it is a trick of the devil.
It happened to Eve in the garden, she believed the devil when he attempted to prove God lied to her. She preferred the lie of the devil to the commands of God because the lie appealed to her fleshly desires.
The same is true of us when we love our holidays and conspiracy theories. These things appeal to pride and the flesh, capturing those who are in bondage to their arrogance and pleasure-seeking mentality.
Believers can break free from their bondage through prayer. The simple prayer that I prayed many years ago will set them free. That prayer was that God would show me only truth, that I would not believe anything that was not from God. After I prayed that God began to open my eyes to so many things it was shocking. I didn't have to look for the clues or work to study what they were, God showed me. When my eyes were opened I could never return to the old thinking.
Because it was God Who opened my eyes, they could never be closed or deceived again. When it is God who changes us we cannot change ourselves back. Our mind becomes the mind of Christ, we no longer think the same way and could never think again as we used to think. My change in thinking had nothing to do with a fad or favorite preacher, or anything other than God showing me personally.
Every believer should be seeking truth above all else while willing to lose everything and everyone they have to follow Christ.
Luke 12:53
"53 They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”
If you seek the Lord with all your heart you WILL lose the love of people you love. They will abandon you, mock you, and reject you as a person for not thinking the way they want you to think, for not indulging in the things they love that God has removed from your heart.
Praise the Lord that none of this rejection will phase you. It will hurt a little in the beginning but as you grow stronger you will not grieve at the loss of someone who does not love God. You will pray for them but then you will move on to live your life as God intended for you. Hallelujah!!!
James 1:2-4
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
James 1:2-4
"2 Consider it all joy, my brothers and sisters, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
We cannot become strong when things are easy, we gain strength by having to stand when we are losing something or someone we love.
May the Lord bless you with Spiritual strength as you seek Him always for everything.
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