Allow me start tell you a story that still sends shivers up and down my spine. I was sitting on the New York Subway with a few friends, when a man literally crawled on all fours through the doors and upon the seat across from me. He was wearing all black, with black eyeliner and a pale white make-up base. His motions mimicked that of a caged cat as he crawled back and forth across three seats peering out the windows.
Our conversation ceased, in fact everyone the subway car silenced as we 
tried to understand what this beast-man was doing. It was as if my heart came to an eerie calm and my confidence climax.
I dropped my bag and walked across the car to sit next the man. Now three steps away from him, I could hear the frightful gasps of my friends behind me.
Interrupting his prance across the seats, I sat down. I looked straight at him. Our eyes met and he slowly curled all of him limbs into a ball close to his chest.
There was no small talk. In fact there were very few words shared. But like two battling men on a bloody battleground, I felt like we were standing in the middle of a large war. Our reactions to each other’s presence seemed to be opposite: My confidence increased and his body languages showed that his soul was shivering with fear.
I don’t remember my words exactly, but I know that I said something like, “Jesus Christ in my Lord. You can be free if you will just know Him personally.”
As I peered into his black pupils a supernatural encounter took place. Our eyes were stuck like magnets until, across the screeching tracks our train came to a rattling halt. As the doors flew open he crawled down around me and out the train.
As I sat there, a cold sweat broke out across my forehead as if I had just worked out for thirty minutes, but all I done was sit by that man for thirty seconds.
It was that encounter that helped me to begin to realize what the Bible was talking about when it says that, “Our battle is not against flesh and blood…but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Christian – you cannot be naive as to think that Satan doesn’t exist and his powers are a made-up to scare you into loving God. I am so sick-n-tired of so many people in our generation living like hell isn’t real and like Satan is a fairy-tale villain.
Flirting with Satan (Through Occultic Actions)
As I have been traveling for the last decade speaking to youth around the world, I have heard far too often about people who are dabbling in demonic foreplay. Maybe you have heard of people that interact with occult activities. The word Occult can be frequently misunderstood and almost always under defined, but I came up with my own definition. The occult is a variety supernatural games with eternal consequences. These activities include things that (1) try to tell the future, (2) pursue superficial spirituality, and (3) partake in ceremonial magic. Things like astrology, palm reading, scrying, tarot cards reading, I Ching, rituals, spells and voodoo…are all things that flirt with Satan and his realm of evil. You may even find Satan woo some of your friends into playing around with some of these things…but steer clear… what may seam intriguing could end up to be eternally devastating.
In Ephesians 6 we are told to “Put on the whole armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”
Take time to pray. Arm yourself with the Spirit of God. And pray that the evil powers of the slithering Satan will be contained until the return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, when they will forever be disarmed.
let’s pray right now:
Dear King of the Universe,
Your powers are greater than all others.
The enemy may prowl around us like a beast in the night,
but you have promised that if we stay close to you, you will stay close to us.
Lord, you have given us authority over Satan but please don’t let that be our boast. May we forever find our comfort and confidence in you alone.
We pray, in the name of the one who met Satan face-to-face and did not waiver, your son Jesus Christ.
Amen.
