I honor God for giving me this word for his people. While being incarcerated I experienced God like never before. All that I have been through in my life God told me to write it down because my life is a testimony to the next person. We as people of God need to be able to detect the many different disguises of the enemy. In this book I am going to expose the enemy. I'm going to bring to the light the many different disguises and faces that the enemy has set for the people of God to lose their focus. Satan is present and evident and present in the world today and unless we recognize his disguises we will be unable to defeat him. I pray that this word convict the hearts of the readers

Master of Disquises

Exposing the Different Disguises of the EnemyBy James J. Benjamin

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Copyright © 2010 James J. Benjamin
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ISBN: 978-1-4520-0580-5

Chapter One

Who is The Enemy?

Webster's definition of an enemy is a person who hates another, and wishes or tricks to injure him.

You may still be asking yourself, who is my enemy? In all my years of being saved, I have come to the conclusion that our enemy is Satan. Before you were born into this world, or were even thought of, God had a plan for your life, and so did Satan. The bible explains his plan and that is to kill, steal, and destroy.

You need to realize that once you become saved and begin to walk in the fullness of God, you become a threat to the enemy and his kingdom, and he will throw everything against you to fulfill his plan for your life.

Satan doesn't like the fact that you are on God's side. He doesn't enjoy knowing the fact that you as a child of God can win souls to Christ and snatch many people away from his grip. Believe it or not Satan was on God's side. He was a beautiful angel that was created by God, but because of pride he fell from his heavenly position and became the enemy of God. He also brought with him a host of angels with him that became his demons and they are lurking and seeking whomever they may devour.

Have you noticed that when you become saved things begin to change in your life? Friends begin to turn against you, family members begin to forsake you, it just seems like the whole world has come up against you. Why? Because you are a threat and Satan is attacking you in every possible way in order to get you back in the same position before salvation.

In order not to fall into the enemies trap you must trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not unto your understanding in all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct thy paths. If we lean into our own understanding, we will surely fall into his traps. Our understanding can't possibly match the enemy's power. Without the power and spirit of God present in our lives to protect us, we couldn't possibly resist the enemy.

That is why we as people of God continually fall. We get up again then we fall, get up, then fall, get up once again, then fall. The reason, people of god, we keep falling because we as humans, born in flesh, are not able to resist the various temptations that the enemy throws at us.

The enemy is the best deceiver and tempter in the whole entire world. The bible explains how the enemy tempted our lord and savior Jesus Christ in the wilderness right after he was baptized by John. If Jesus was tempted, why do you think you are not going to be tempted?

I can hear the enemy now, "go ahead, smoke a blunt," "go ahead have sex, God will forgive you," or "Just take a sip of that alcohol you can always repent." Whatever your weaknesses were before you became saved, the enemy will tempt you face to face with these exact same things. If your spirit man is not strong enough you will fall into his trap, and once you fall for it, he has you.

Satan has put on his best disguises, tricked me and tempted me in so many ways and I fell every single time, just when I thought that I was excelling in my walk with Christ. I was reading my bible, praying, and going to church regularly. I thought that I was where I needed to be, then out of nowhere the enemy brought the same old tricks. You see, the enemy doesn't have any new tricks. He'll bring the same old things that made you fall the first time, and he'll change it up and make you fall again.

I have to keep it real, my weakness was sex. So the enemy brought the same person back into my life and I fell. When I fell, I started back using drugs that led to drinking, then I started back going to clubs. That led me to totally stop going to church. You see, I've learned that the enemy knows what he is doing, and I have to admit that he is good at what he does.

That is why you have to be rooted and grounded in the word of God. I was reading Gods word, and going through the motions but I wasn't rooted and grounded in the word. Just like a tree or a flower, without its roots it will surely die. Trees need food to grow and stay rooted in the earth. As Christians, what exactly is our food? The word of God is our spiritual food, it's what keeps us rooted and grounded in our walk with Christ.

Every time I fell, you know what the enemy would say to me, and it always worked. He would say, "Just pray about it, God will forgive you." Believe it or not, I listened to him. I know, I have repented for the same thing about a hundred times. You see since Satan was once an angel, he knows the bible and he knows it well. He will use it against you to persuade you to fall into temptation.

Thank you Jesus!! This chapter is mainly about the enemy and exposing him and his true side. I have to expose the enemy and completely destroy his take over the young people. The enemy is after the young people, because he thinks if he can get a hold of us while we are young in age, that he completely has us but I come against him in the name of Jesus!!

Satan has put so many things out there for the young people. Satan has let loose a spirit across this nation and it's taking complete control over the young people. That spirit is the spirit of lust. Young people are out there having sex, and they are starting out at an early age. Not knowing what it is doing to them spiritually.

You see, sex is ordained for the married couple. So having sex outside of marriage, that is when it defiles the body. Understand this reader, when you have sex with another person the spirit of that person steps inside of you. That's why when it comes time for you to settle down and find the person who God has called you to be with, you will have a difficult time because all those different spirits are warring inside of you. You are trying to find a person and compare them to this person or that person.

God has allowed me to know that there is a lot of homosexual and lesbian activity going between young people also. This is a major abomination against God. Most people don't know but this type of activity was happening back in the bible days. This topic will be discussed later in the book.

Satan knows that his time on this earth is drawing nigh. He knows that it is getting near to the time for him to be bound in the bottomless pit for 1,000 years. So he is roaming the earth, even now, seeking whom he may devour. Guess what? He is not worried about the unsaved people because in his mind he knows that he already has them under his submission. He is coming after the called of God, Christians, people in the pews. These are the people whom he is seeking to devour. I don't want to admit it but, he is achieving his goal.

Understand this people of God; everybody is not going to make it to heaven. Some of your loved ones and friends will be left behind to endure the tribulation. Most of these people are the people in the pews, but god has a remnant of holy people who has made up in their minds that for God I live for God I will die. A people that is dedicated in tearing down the gated of hell and snatching every soul that the enemy has in captive.

God spoke to me a while back and told me that he was giving his people, the remnant, an I don't care spirit. I don't care whose looking; I don't care whose talking. I don't know anything about you so I'm going to speak for myself. My biggest problem was people. I was so worried about what this person was thinking or...