It was during one of philosophy classes that this old saying came up, “Bite before bitten.” At first it seems to be promoting the dog eat dog mind sent that most of the post industrial world lives in. But I chose to see the other side of the coin. The current state if the Church as a whole has been weighing on my heart lately. I have been reading When Heaven Invades Earth written by Bill Johnson, and in his book he brought up an interesting point. The point was that Christians are more likely to acknowledge to dark power of Satan rather than believing in the healing power of the almighty Yahweh, who’s scared texts they live their life by. The Bible is filled with what God has done and His promises of what He will do; the problem is not with God that these things have not come to pass it’s our insecurities as believers. At sometime or another in our life rather when we were little or when we were older we all had some kind of encounter with God, but people that didn’t understand what happened and we were made insecure about our encounter with the divine. As believers who grew up in church we all have heard 1 Peter 5:8 “Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.” Bill Johnson also asserts that Jesus’ task in life was to do two things 1.) Do the work of the Father and 2.) Destroy the works of the Devil. So we are raised with this mentality that there is this invisible “monster” running around us in our lives to destroy us, and we are aware that this happens because we have the biblical account of Job. We always focus on what the Devil did to Job rather than what God does in chapter 42:10, “10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.” We are so concerned with what we might lose and this prevents us from experiencing what God wants to give us. If we continue to expand the church inundated  with a doctrine of fear we are not allowing God’s plans for our lives and the lives of other, and in turn increase the power of the Devil in this world. We need to raise up a generation that is so hungry for God and his anointing that are confidant in signs, miracles, and wonders. we need to instill a bite before bitten mentality in this coming generation because the Devil isn’t going to wait for them to go a 1/3 of their life before they start learning about signs, miracles, and wonders. The Devil knows the in’s and out’s of human insecurities and if we don’t prepare  this generation for the battle they are going to be thrown into he will have already have been building walls in their hearts that might prevent them or inhibit them to the very real power they have in signs, miracles, and wonders.

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