July 23, 2025 • 36 mins
From Pulpit to Protest—How Satan Weaponizes Noble Causes to Silence Your Prayers.
Screwtape flips the script—truth itself becomes the bait, politics and “social justice” the camouflage.
In this episode, we expose how Satan weaponizes noble causes to drown prayer in noise.
Screwtape upgrades from whispers to full-spectrum psy-ops—truth bent through politics, “justice,” and spiritual buzzwords until prayer feels pointless. We expose the demonic assembly line that turns noble causes into soul-killing noise, show how the Holy Spirit cuts through the static, and remind every listener: the war is real, the weapons are spiritual, and the family table is still the front line.
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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
— Colossians 2:8 NIV
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, kara R Hunt,and with me is the lovely Sherry
Swawa.
How are you doing today, sherry?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am doing fantastic.
I cannot believe that it isalready September.
I know I say that every singletime we start an episode, but
this year is just flying by.
I can't believe that we're onthe tail end of 2023 and we're
already looking towards theholidays coming up and then
starting flipping the calendarto 2024.
(00:52):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so I'm missing a month here and a couple weeks
there.
Okay, it has just been insanehow fast time is moving.
And you know, it's like what?
Christmas is around the corner,Like how did that even happen?
(01:15):
Didn't we just do Christmas?
You know, that's how fast itjust seems to be going.
But yeah, you know and we'vetalked about this in this time
before I love the fall, so Ihave no complaints, Me too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay, I have a confession to make.
So when summer started thisyear usually I love summer and I
do, I love summer.
It's a chance for us to justkind of relax a little bit.
We still have kids in school,so it's a definite mark for us
we have lazier well, I saylazier days.
I just say I'm not driving asmuch.
(01:55):
They're not lazy by any means,but in fact I think I work
harder in the summer because I'mnot driving as much.
I don't have that intentionalbreak every afternoon.
But at the beginning of thesummer this year I was like, can
it be fall yet I love fall.
Like I was so looking forwardto fall already.
But at the same time I feltguilty because I'm like no, I
(02:18):
want this 11 week break off ofschool, so I don't want fall yet
.
But yes, I'm just like you.
I am not complaining becausefall is by far, and I think the
older I get Kara, the more Ilove it.
I don't understand, but I do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I know and we love being blessed by the fourth
season.
Then, of course, all the funstuff that comes with fall right
the cozy sweaters, the scarves,the heads give me any excuse to
wear a hat, and you know I'mgood, I don't know or scarf and
everything else.
But for those of you who arejust joining us for the very
(02:57):
first time, welcome to the CheerUp podcast.
We are so glad that you're hereand if you're a listener then
you are now a part of CheerNation.
And we would just like to thankeveryone who has followed us
for the past three seasons.
I believe right, sherry, as weput our weekly podcast to help
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Eqab, encourage Edify, exhortthe Lord and just encourage
everyone in their relationshipwith Him.
So thank everyone so much forthe love we've had on social
media and for those whofaithfully listen to us every
week.
We want to know we see you, weappreciate you and thank you all
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So thank you so much.
Well, as most of you know, wehave been for this summer series
, which is now kind of goinginto the fall.
(04:24):
This month we will be wrappingup our series that we started in
June called the ScrewtapeLetters, based on a book by CS
Lewis.
And yeah, for those of you whohaven't gotten a book again,
it's an old book, it's a classicnovel.
(04:45):
To find it digitally, it's onlya couple of bucks, maybe, I
think maybe $2.99 to $5.99,depending on where you get it.
And I don't think the paperbacksor whatever are that much more,
because it was originallywritten, I believe, in 1941.
So, yeah, so if you get thebook, it is really we can't
(05:07):
recommend it enough.
It also has some study guidesthat can go along with it,
several study guides that youcan also download to go along as
you read it and things likethat.
So we just highly recommend it.
It is so apropos for our times,even though it was written so
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long ago.
So this is your first timetuning in.
Please go back and listen to.
Oh, my goodness, sherry,because of the June 7th episode
where we started, where we firststarted the Screwtape series.
And the book is just, it's avery short book 31 chapters.
Each chapter only has like somany paragraphs, maybe five to
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six paragraphs each, so it's nota very, very long book and the
chapters are not really chapters, they're letters and their
number like letters one through31.
And again, it is about twodemons.
I had a demon and a new demonand the one demon is Screwtape.
That's the name of the book.
It's referring to the Screwtapeletters and so he's writing
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letters to his nephew Wormwood,who is a new demon, who is kind
of like under his mentorship orguidance, or whatever you want
to call it, and everything.
And so his nephew, wormwood,has just been assigned a new
patient, as it's referred to inthe book, and his patient is a
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human who he's been trying tomanipulate, deceive, trick and
all the other stuff into walkingaway from his faith and and
then up in hell.
Basically, that's it so, buthe's new, and so his uncle,
screwtape, is trying to tellWormwood how to go, what to do.
(06:58):
You know, when it comes to thispatient, it's a man in his 30s,
I believe, but he's neverreally given a name.
They just refer to him as likethe patient, or human, or his
human patient, since they arespirits.
Oh wow, we are now this month.
We'll be wrapping that up withthe last 10 letters and today we
(07:21):
are going to be starting withletters 22, 23, and 24.
But before we get into that,sherri wanted to share something
.
Go ahead, sherri.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, so I read this.
But I was reading this it's adevotional and I just thought
that it really tied in so wellbecause I think the thing that I
have, or the theme, or thetruth that I've gotten more than
anything throughout this wholesummer, is just how Satan is the
father of lies and how he justtwists things just a little bit.
(07:55):
He twists the truth just alittle bit to get you to believe
and then you fall down thatslippery slope.
So this devotional was talkingabout how to handle temptation
and it says in the Lord's prayerJesus taught us to pray lead us
not into temptation, butdeliver us from the evil.
One Understand this Satan isalways trying to lead you into
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temptation, whereas the HolySpirit, who lives within you, is
always trying to deliver youfrom temptation.
It is informative that whilethe devil is named the tempter,
he is also named the accuser,for the accuser of our brothers
and sisters, who accuses thembefore our God, day and night
has been hurled down Revelation12, 10.
There is no such thing as fairplay with the devil.
(08:39):
As soon as he gets you to givein to temptation, he will switch
hats and try to convince youthat, because you have yielded
to it, you're beyond God's graceand redemption.
But Satan is a liar and thereis no trust in him.
It's only when you deny yoursin and reject God's mercy that
you're beyond redemption.
The Bible says if we claim tobe without sin, we deceive
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ourselves and the truth is notin us.
If we confess our sins, he isfaithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purifyus from all unrighteousness.
Some people are delivered fromtemptation instantly.
Others battle it for a longtime before finding deliverance
and victory.
It's never a matter of God'sunwillingness to extend grace to
us, but of our inability toreceive it.
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So whether you come the easyway or the hard way, as long as
your desire is to come to God,he will also provide a way out.
1 Corinthians 10, 13.
I just thought that that was sofitting, because what I've
learned so much from just theoverarching theme of this is
that Satan.
I guess it just really puts itright in my face.
(09:47):
Why do I want to serve somebodywho wants nothing but my demise
and my destruction and God?
So many people resist servingGod because they think that he
is just no fun and he wants tosquash all joy out of your life.
When it's just so the opposite,that's just one more lie that
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the devil wants us to believe.
When it's the joy it's foundthrough Christ and through
following his ways and theblessings are found through
Christ and Satan or the devildoes nothing but destroy, kill,
steal and destroy.
Anyway, it just really struckme and so I just wanted to share
that with everybody today.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And it's so empty that the writer of that
devotional refers to him as atempter, because that's actually
what Uncle Scoot tape calls hisnephew sometimes in the letters
is like you, young, tempter andeverything else.
And when we really think aboutthat, what is tempter?
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Short for Someone who temptsyou?
Short for temptation right?
And why would we want to get inas someone who's constantly
tempting us, trying?
to get us to fall, you know, andfall badly, fall eternally.
So that is the perfectdevotional to start this off
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with, especially since and theletters recovering today letters
22, 23 and 24, and the Scoottape letters by CS Lewis,
l-e-w-i-s.
Is very interesting becausewe're now at the point in the
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young human's life where thingsare about to get quite
interesting.
And but Uncle Scoot tape, asalways, is furious with his
nephew Wormwood.
As always, he's always beenkind of mad and sarcastic with
him and calling him incompetentand a whole bunch of other
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things, because he just keptletting his human get into
things that he shouldn't have,which basically means get into
things that would not help thembut help you know him further in
Christ.
Well, now Scoot tape is justhad about, had enough of
Wormwood, because he has allowedWormwood has allowed his
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assignment to this youngChristian man to.
He has allowed him to fall inlove with someone dangerous, and
by dangerous I mean a good,godly Christian woman, you know.
And Scoot tape is furious.
He's like how in the world,under your watch, you, young
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tempter, did you let this happen?
So I just want to read a fewexcerpts from some of it.
And now remember this waswritten in 1941, so the wording
may be a little bit different,you know, and things like that.
But just one of them.
He's like, like I said, he justreally just rants against
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Wormwood about how did thishappen, how did you let this
happen?
And, like I said, he goes onand on and on.
He attacks Wormwood, but thenwhen he gets to the girl, he's
like I have looked up thisgirl's dossier.
Okay, no, I have pulled up thefile on her.
And he says I am horrified atwhat I find.
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Not only is she a Christian, butshe's such a Christian that
she's a bio sneaking, simpering,the mere monosibolic,
mouth-like, watery,insignificant, virginal bread
and butter mist.
The little brute.
She makes me vomit.
She stinks and scalds throughthe very pages of the dossier,
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meaning she stinks because shesmells like God, the kingdom,
you know, and everything else.
And so she's like all thesethings that they did not want
wormwoods, assigned human tofall in love with, and screwtape
goes on.
And he's like we would have hadher type in the arena in the
old days.
That's what her sort is madefor.
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Not that she'd do much goodthere either.
The toothpaste little cheat wholooks as if she faint at the
sight of blood and then dieswith a smile.
She's a cheat in every way,looks as if butter would melt in
her mouth, the sort of creaturewho'd find me funny, filty and
sippid, little prude.
And so he goes on because he'svery, very upset, you know.
(14:45):
So he's calling her all thesethings because wormwood is
really, really made a mistakehere, like letting his human
fall in love with her, he said.
And then of course you know,you let her get to know this
woman's family and her whole,and her, her whole circle.
Could you not see that the veryhouse she lives in is one that
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he ought never to have entered?
The whole place reeks of thatdeadly odor.
The gardener, though he hasonly been there five years, is
beginning to acquire it.
Even guess, after a weekendvisit carries some of the smell
away from them.
The dog and the cat are eventainted with it.
And a house full of thisimpenetrable mystery.
(15:30):
We are certain it is a matterof first principles that each
member of the family must insome way be making capital out
of the others.
But we can't find out how theyguard as jealousy.
They guard as jealousy as Godhimself, the secret of what
really lies behind this pretenseof disinterested love, the
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whole house and garden is onevast obscenity.
So basically, he's just sayingyou never should have won, you
never should have let your humanfalling in love with this girl.
And not only that, her wholehouse, okay, her parents, the
people that she hang around, allof them are just like covered
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in this scent, you know thisfragrance of God and godliness
and Christianity and everythingelse, so much so that even a the
dog and cat, the dog and catare tainted with it, like could
you have made a worse mistake?
And so, and that is what he'sgoing on and on about it there,
and he gets so, so upset, butit's, and that just talks about
(16:36):
our Christian life, right, just,are we that type of person that
makes the enemy mad, that makeshim spit, you know?
I mean, he got, he goes on in aletter about how he, he got so
upset, uncle Screwtape, that heturns himself into a centipede
because he just cannot believethat his young nephew, timpter
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Wormwood, has made such a hugemistake.
And the goodness Cherry, that'sthe type of person we want to
be, right, someone to where they, the enemies, are like, no, you
can't have to meet that person,okay, you can't.
The whole house, even the dogand the cat and the gardener
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that's only been there fiveyears, who wasn't a Christian
when he got there, but now he is.
Isn't that awesome to be thatkind of Christian.
That's what we should strivefor, am I right?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, amen and amen.
I'm not sure if my one dogwould classify as that and I
feel so bad.
She's the work in progress.
She's better.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
She was two years ago Well you must have an awesome
household if you can get any catto be taken.
But I digress, I digress.
I'm not going to go down towhere my cat lovers mad at me,
so go ahead.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But yes, I completely agree with you.
Oh, to have that kind of adescription said about me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Amen and amen I know, right, and to where he gets so
upset.
You know that he turns himselfinto an adipotent therapy.
And when I say he goes off withhis nephew, I mean he really
does.
You know in that high way thatthey talked, you know, and back
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then, so he really did not wantthis young man to meet this girl
and everything else.
And so basically he's saying,okay, so you've screwed this up
and you've screwed up royally,but since now this is the
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situation we find ourselves in,how are we going to fix it?
And so one of the ways he wantsto do it is to create
disagreements and confusionbetween him and this new circle
of friends that he's found, andnot his girlfriend between him
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and his girlfriend between himand the new circle of friends
who all carry this vast odor ofgodliness, right, and her
parents and everything else.
He's like okay, okay, okay, nowthat I've laid into you never
you warm wood about how huge amistake this is, Okay, now we
got to find a way.
He was like so and some of thebest ways.
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First, we're going to startwith creating disagreement.
We're going to start withpolitics.
We're going to insert politicsand religion, because there's no
better way than that to startoff with, to create
disagreements and confusion.
And as we sit back, you know,and we look at this, you know it
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is, you know.
Well, let me read a few, justanother quick clip.
It says he says, through thisgirl and her disgusting family,
the patient is now getting toknow more Christians every day,
and very intelligent Christianstoo.
For a long time it will bequite impossible to remove
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spirituality from his life.
So very well then, that meanswe must corrupt it.
And then he goes in and saysthe thing to do is to get a man
at first to value social justiceas a thing which the God,
excuse me, as a thing that Goddemands.
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Okay, so he says the thing todo is to get the man to at first
value social justice as a thingin which God wants him to do,
and then work him on the stageat which he values Christianity,
but because it may producesocial justice For the in it,
for he I'm replacing the wordenemy here for God because this
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is a demon talking.
So to him the enemy is God.
So he says, for God would notbe used as a convenience man or
nations who think they canrevive the faith in order to
make a good society might justas well think that they can use
the stairs of heaven as ashortcut to the nearest chemist
shop.
Fortunately, it is quite easyto coax humans around this
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little corner.
A Christian writer oncerecommended his own version of
Christianity on the ground thatonly such a faith can outlast
the death of old cultures andthe birth of new civilizations.
Do you see the little riftwormwood?
The whole point is to get themto believe this, not because
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it's true, but because for someof the but for some other reason
, that's the game.
So basically he just wants himto just get them involved in so
many other things like socialjustice and saying that it's a
godly thing to be able to getinto social justice and all this
other stuff, and then kind ofcorrupt him from there, get him
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to believe that that's okay, andthen he won't focus so much on
getting closer to the Lordbecause you see all this social
injustice that he feels is goingon.
So you want to give him areason to believe that and
nothing else.
So we're going to distract,we're going to corrupt, we are
going to throw all thesethoughts into his head Anything
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at this point to get him awayfrom really growing in his faith
in God, and that's the gamethat we're going to start with.
Is what he's telling his nephewwormwood Wow, sherry, doesn't
that just have?
So much?
Sounds like so much in today'ssociety.
It really does, it reallyreally does, it does.
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And it's just so scary how,today, you just see, I think a
lot of Christians just getdistracted and confused about,
you know, a lot of things.
And here, in this case, screwtape is asking his nephew to use
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like politics and religion.
And that's the same today.
You know, it's the same.
Today, people get so wrapped upin politics, or they get so
wrapped up in quote unquotereligion not a relationship with
God, but religion that theyjust, you know they get
sidetracked by it and it's, butthen they think that is the
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right thing.
You know there are those outthere who are you know, who say,
well, it's okay for homosexuals, right, because they just love
each other.
You know it's all about love,it's all about justice, it's all
about this and everything else.
And you can see how littlethings like that can be Used by
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the enemy to get them to thinkand focus on one thing and
they're missing the big pictureentirely.
What are your thoughts on thatsherry?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Absolutely.
I was just listening to a Wellrespected pastor the other day
and he was saying that, well,this lady was talking to them
and and saying that you know,she, her, her family was falling
apart, but she felt like shehad to pray for, I don't know,
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the Ukraine, or for America ingeneral, or whatever, and he
said wait a minute.
He said the Holy Spirit bigenough to take care of the
Ukraine and the United States.
Your focus needs to be on yourfamily and getting things right
within your family.
The enemy is trying to distractyou from the most important
thing, and right now, the mostimportant thing is your family.
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So you need to get your housein order and then you will be
able to pray for Ukraine and andwhatever else.
So I think it's the same typeof a thing.
The enemy does whatever he canto distract us so that our
prayers are ineffectual orineffective and so that we are
not.
So we're too burned out andwe're too tired to do anything.
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Well, because we're trying todo everything.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right and to me, the real Issue Problem.
I guess that can happen withdistraction, especially as
Christians and as believers.
When I think we get to focus Onwhat's going on around us, that
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becomes a problem because itstarts off as a distraction and
it can end in depression andwhat you're just like oh my
goodness, the economy is goingcrazy.
What is this presidentialadministration doing?
Oh my goodness, that'shappening over here.
And then these people that'sdoing this is happening over
there oh no, the schools.
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Oh no, parents nowadays, oh no,the money.
You know, you get so focused onwhat's going on around you that
you're not looking up To God,the Father, and so it starts off
as a distraction in the enemy,tempts you and tempts you like
can you believe that this isgoing on?
Can you believe that thathappened to that, that elderly
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woman how awful is that.
Can you believe that thathappened to that young child?
Can you believe that thesepeople are doing this bully in
the streets?
Can you believe it?
And if, the longer you allowthat tempter to place those
thoughts in your mind, the moreit weighs you down and the more
depressed you become, and theneventually it's like you didn't
pray anymore because you're likewhat's the point?
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What's the point?
The world is getting worse andworse every day.
No one seems to be gettingbetter.
The world is falling apart, youknow.
And then you find yourselfslightly falling into depression
, and when you become depressedyou give up on hope that
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anything would get better.
And that's the danger ofletting distraction in your life
to me, because it just doesn'tstay there right.
It's like in the devotion youread earlier, sherry his goal is
to steal, kill and destroy, andhe's not just going to stop at
the distraction, he's going totake it deeper and deeper and
deeper.
So far as you let him take it.
Next thing, you know, you'renot even able to get up out of
bed.
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You're not even able to get upout of bed, you know, because
you just, and then when someonesay, oh, hey, good morning, and
you're just like, yeah, you knowyou're not like, hey, yeah,
it's a good morning, it's ablessed day that the Lord has
made, you're just kind of like,yeah, whatever, because you have
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allowed the enemy to steal yourjoy and Destroy your faith to a
point where you don't even see,you can't even pray anymore, or
you feel like they're, that Godisn't listening, that he has
other bigger things to do,because surely he's not paying
attention to you and the socialin in stability that's going on
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around you and it's just, itgoes deeper and deeper and
deeper and the enemy is justsitting back laughing, going oh
my goodness, that was easy,right.
And you're sitting there justlike hopeless.
Does any of that make sense,sherry?
Absolutely, absolutely.
You know, and it's just one ofthose things that we have to be
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very, very careful and veryintentional about to not let
happen.
Right, it's just one of thosethings and I know a lot of
Christians and believers arelike.
They're like I no longer watchthe news.
You know they'll say that.
You know they go, I don't, Idon't watch the news or I don't
start my morning off with thenews anymore, you know, because
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it just put you in a differentstate of mind, right, and
they're like I don't start themorning off with the news
anymore.
I really decreased my intake ofthe news and my decreased social
media and you know, and thingslike that, and but then there
are sometimes things are goingon where you're like yeah, I
probably need to pay attentionto this, you know, like, you
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know what's going on, butsomething I found myself doing
the other day, sherry, and Tellme if anything similar has
happened to you, because I'm oneof those where I try to very
limit my intake of the newsright, and I have it to where I
may get highlights on certainThings that I'm like I should
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probably be aware of, like on myphone.
But I, you know, seriouslytrying to limit my intake of
news, but I do watch it, likeevery now and then.
Maybe on the weekends that maybe like, okay, what happened
this past week you know in thenews.
But I found myself the otherday, you know how, on some news
channels they have a crawl thatgoes across the bottom oh, yeah,
(30:07):
yeah, and it tells you about,you know, all the other things
that they're not covering at themoment.
So while watching the news, Ifind I found myself praying For
each, every little item thatcame across that crawl.
You know, and everything else.
Like Lord, may your will bedone in a situation oh my
goodness, you know, lord, like Idid not know that that had
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happened, or they're talkingabout doing this.
You know, lord, pleaseintervene divinely.
And as the crawl was justcrawling away, I was just
praying for it.
Has anything like that everhappened to you, or similar?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, but I love it.
I don't watch the news.
I stopped watching it years agobecause I do have a tendency to
have that depression,depression type thing, or I just
get really angry and I don'twant to start my morning angry.
Yes, so I or anxious, rightright.
(31:01):
So my husband watches it and hefills me in On what, what I
need to know about.
But I like that idea.
I like that idea a lot actually.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, and I don't even think I thought about it
right, it was just it was justgoing across.
You know, they were coveringsomething, so and I'm just I was
just reading the scroll, like Isay, I'm trying to catch up on
the news from the week pastbecause I'm ignoring it.
And you know, and they tell youall sorts of stuff that's going
on on the crawl, whether what'shappening storms I ripped
(31:34):
through a certain state orflooding, you know, and
everything else, and what'sgoing on, and a current, you
know, the White House,politically, what's going on,
like with other people, you know, and things that are just, you
know, very newsworthy that's onits Scroll or crawl.
And I just saw myself prayingfor them and I'm like, you know,
(31:55):
and it just hit me and I'm likewhat am I doing?
I'm like I never even thoughtabout it, right to do it.
So it's just amazing how thathappened.
And so next time I watch thenews, I'm going to be doing it
again.
This time I know about it,right, but I'm like maybe Holy
Spirit, just, you know, promptedme to do that without even me
thinking about doing it, youknow, just just praying for it
(32:17):
as I'm watching it.
And you know what else.
I think it also helped Helpswhen you're watching the news,
when you're praying while you'rewatching it, to not get so
tense, right and uptight aboutit.
You know and everything and soand you know the crawl
eventually repeats itself.
So you can just stop then,because you already prayed.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Wonderful takeaway for today.
Kara, I think that isabsolutely fantastic, yeah, and
it's just well.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Anyway, I'm gonna leave it there that because, yes
, so just for those who may beinterested, or you do watch the
news and if you happen to watcha news program, that does have
that crawl at the bottom, youknow.
Just just, just, just just justsee what the Lord has wants you
to do in that situation, orEven pray while you're listening
(33:12):
to the news, as they cover eachtopic.
So I'm just going to end itthere, sherry.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, john 1633 tells us that these things I have
spoken to you, that in me youmay have peace in the world.
You will have what Tribulation,but be of good cheer, I have
overcome the world.
I think that that ties thingsin so well To our verse, our
theme for the cheer at podcast.
(33:35):
We are here not to Be sucked into the enemy scheme.
God, in his grace and mercy,has given us a guidebook and a
Blueprint of how to well, firstoff, what kind of a creature
that the enemy is.
He came to steal, kill anddestroy.
(33:56):
In John 1010 it tells us that.
But God has come to give uslife, and life abundantly.
So we have the, the key play.
We have the answers, the, theanswer key to life, and that is
we're not going to get suckedinto his scheme.
So I absolutely love the factthat we don't have to sit there
(34:18):
and watch the news and spiraldownward, but instead we can
take it to God and we can havevictory In that area.
I you've kind of actuallygotten me excited.
Man might start watching thenews again now because I have a,
a weapon, and I have a gameplan and I have Something to do
about it proactively, instead ofjust passively Watching it.
(34:41):
If you need prayer orencouragement, please email us
at cheer up podcast at gmailcom.
Head over to carers website,carerhuntcom and you will see
her Habakkuk series.
She has videos over there.
They explain a little bit moreabout the background of the
(35:01):
stories of Habakkuk.
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public.
We are so glad that you arehere.
We hope that you'll come backnext week because we have three
more episodes to wrap up thescrew tape letters and we are so
excited.
I have really, really enjoyedthe series.
I'm getting excited about ourOctober series too, but I'm I'm
loving our September series too,but I'm I'm loving our
(35:47):
September wrap up of the screwtape letters.
So have a great rest of yourweek.
We will talk to you in anotherweek and until then, remember,
be of good cheer because Jesushas overcome the world.
Hi and welcome to the Cheer Up Podcast.
I am your host, kara R Hunt,and with me is the lovely Sherry
Swawa.
How are you doing today, sherry?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am doing fantastic.
I cannot believe that it isalready September.
I know I say that every singletime we start an episode, but
this year is just flying by.
I can't believe that we're onthe tail end of 2023 and we're
already looking towards theholidays coming up and then
starting flipping the calendarto 2024.
(00:52):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Okay, so I'm missing a month here and a couple weeks
there.
Okay, it has just been insanehow fast time is moving.
And you know, it's like what?
Christmas is around the corner,Like how did that even happen?
(01:15):
Didn't we just do Christmas?
You know, that's how fast itjust seems to be going.
But yeah, you know and we'vetalked about this in this time
before I love the fall, so Ihave no complaints, Me too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Okay, I have a confession to make.
So when summer started thisyear usually I love summer and I
do, I love summer.
It's a chance for us to justkind of relax a little bit.
We still have kids in school,so it's a definite mark for us
we have lazier well, I saylazier days.
I just say I'm not driving asmuch.
(01:55):
They're not lazy by any means,but in fact I think I work
harder in the summer because I'mnot driving as much.
I don't have that intentionalbreak every afternoon.
But at the beginning of thesummer this year I was like, can
it be fall yet I love fall.
Like I was so looking forwardto fall already.
But at the same time I feltguilty because I'm like no, I
(02:18):
want this 11 week break off ofschool, so I don't want fall yet
.
But yes, I'm just like you.
I am not complaining becausefall is by far, and I think the
older I get Kara, the more Ilove it.
I don't understand, but I do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I know and we love being blessed by the fourth
season.
Then, of course, all the funstuff that comes with fall right
the cozy sweaters, the scarves,the heads give me any excuse to
wear a hat, and you know I'mgood, I don't know or scarf and
everything else.
But for those of you who arejust joining us for the very
(02:57):
first time, welcome to the CheerUp podcast.
We are so glad that you're hereand if you're a listener then
you are now a part of CheerNation.
And we would just like to thankeveryone who has followed us
for the past three seasons.
I believe right, sherry, as weput our weekly podcast to help
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Eqab, encourage Edify, exhortthe Lord and just encourage
everyone in their relationshipwith Him.
So thank everyone so much forthe love we've had on social
media and for those whofaithfully listen to us every
week.
We want to know we see you, weappreciate you and thank you all
(03:40):
.
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So if you've been blessed by itand you really really like it,
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We will be so happy and it willbe such a blessing.
So thank you so much.
Well, as most of you know, wehave been for this summer series
, which is now kind of goinginto the fall.
(04:24):
This month we will be wrappingup our series that we started in
June called the ScrewtapeLetters, based on a book by CS
Lewis.
And yeah, for those of you whohaven't gotten a book again,
it's an old book, it's a classicnovel.
(04:45):
To find it digitally, it's onlya couple of bucks, maybe, I
think maybe $2.99 to $5.99,depending on where you get it.
And I don't think the paperbacksor whatever are that much more,
because it was originallywritten, I believe, in 1941.
So, yeah, so if you get thebook, it is really we can't
(05:07):
recommend it enough.
It also has some study guidesthat can go along with it,
several study guides that youcan also download to go along as
you read it and things likethat.
So we just highly recommend it.
It is so apropos for our times,even though it was written so
(05:28):
long ago.
So this is your first timetuning in.
Please go back and listen to.
Oh, my goodness, sherry,because of the June 7th episode
where we started, where we firststarted the Screwtape series.
And the book is just, it's avery short book 31 chapters.
Each chapter only has like somany paragraphs, maybe five to
(05:52):
six paragraphs each, so it's nota very, very long book and the
chapters are not really chapters, they're letters and their
number like letters one through31.
And again, it is about twodemons.
I had a demon and a new demonand the one demon is Screwtape.
That's the name of the book.
It's referring to the Screwtapeletters and so he's writing
(06:16):
letters to his nephew Wormwood,who is a new demon, who is kind
of like under his mentorship orguidance, or whatever you want
to call it, and everything.
And so his nephew, wormwood,has just been assigned a new
patient, as it's referred to inthe book, and his patient is a
(06:37):
human who he's been trying tomanipulate, deceive, trick and
all the other stuff into walkingaway from his faith and and
then up in hell.
Basically, that's it so, buthe's new, and so his uncle,
screwtape, is trying to tellWormwood how to go, what to do.
(06:58):
You know, when it comes to thispatient, it's a man in his 30s,
I believe, but he's neverreally given a name.
They just refer to him as likethe patient, or human, or his
human patient, since they arespirits.
Oh wow, we are now this month.
We'll be wrapping that up withthe last 10 letters and today we
(07:21):
are going to be starting withletters 22, 23, and 24.
But before we get into that,sherri wanted to share something
.
Go ahead, sherri.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, so I read this.
But I was reading this it's adevotional and I just thought
that it really tied in so wellbecause I think the thing that I
have, or the theme, or thetruth that I've gotten more than
anything throughout this wholesummer, is just how Satan is the
father of lies and how he justtwists things just a little bit.
(07:55):
He twists the truth just alittle bit to get you to believe
and then you fall down thatslippery slope.
So this devotional was talkingabout how to handle temptation
and it says in the Lord's prayerJesus taught us to pray lead us
not into temptation, butdeliver us from the evil.
One Understand this Satan isalways trying to lead you into
(08:16):
temptation, whereas the HolySpirit, who lives within you, is
always trying to deliver youfrom temptation.
It is informative that whilethe devil is named the tempter,
he is also named the accuser,for the accuser of our brothers
and sisters, who accuses thembefore our God, day and night
has been hurled down Revelation12, 10.
There is no such thing as fairplay with the devil.
(08:39):
As soon as he gets you to givein to temptation, he will switch
hats and try to convince youthat, because you have yielded
to it, you're beyond God's graceand redemption.
But Satan is a liar and thereis no trust in him.
It's only when you deny yoursin and reject God's mercy that
you're beyond redemption.
The Bible says if we claim tobe without sin, we deceive
(09:01):
ourselves and the truth is notin us.
If we confess our sins, he isfaithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purifyus from all unrighteousness.
Some people are delivered fromtemptation instantly.
Others battle it for a longtime before finding deliverance
and victory.
It's never a matter of God'sunwillingness to extend grace to
us, but of our inability toreceive it.
(09:23):
So whether you come the easyway or the hard way, as long as
your desire is to come to God,he will also provide a way out.
1 Corinthians 10, 13.
I just thought that that was sofitting, because what I've
learned so much from just theoverarching theme of this is
that Satan.
I guess it just really puts itright in my face.
(09:47):
Why do I want to serve somebodywho wants nothing but my demise
and my destruction and God?
So many people resist servingGod because they think that he
is just no fun and he wants tosquash all joy out of your life.
When it's just so the opposite,that's just one more lie that
(10:11):
the devil wants us to believe.
When it's the joy it's foundthrough Christ and through
following his ways and theblessings are found through
Christ and Satan or the devildoes nothing but destroy, kill,
steal and destroy.
Anyway, it just really struckme and so I just wanted to share
that with everybody today.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And it's so empty that the writer of that
devotional refers to him as atempter, because that's actually
what Uncle Scoot tape calls hisnephew sometimes in the letters
is like you, young, tempter andeverything else.
And when we really think aboutthat, what is tempter?
(10:56):
Short for Someone who temptsyou?
Short for temptation right?
And why would we want to get inas someone who's constantly
tempting us, trying?
to get us to fall, you know, andfall badly, fall eternally.
So that is the perfectdevotional to start this off
(11:17):
with, especially since and theletters recovering today letters
22, 23 and 24, and the Scoottape letters by CS Lewis,
l-e-w-i-s.
Is very interesting becausewe're now at the point in the
(11:44):
young human's life where thingsare about to get quite
interesting.
And but Uncle Scoot tape, asalways, is furious with his
nephew Wormwood.
As always, he's always beenkind of mad and sarcastic with
him and calling him incompetentand a whole bunch of other
(12:06):
things, because he just keptletting his human get into
things that he shouldn't have,which basically means get into
things that would not help thembut help you know him further in
Christ.
Well, now Scoot tape is justhad about, had enough of
Wormwood, because he has allowedWormwood has allowed his
(12:32):
assignment to this youngChristian man to.
He has allowed him to fall inlove with someone dangerous, and
by dangerous I mean a good,godly Christian woman, you know.
And Scoot tape is furious.
He's like how in the world,under your watch, you, young
(12:55):
tempter, did you let this happen?
So I just want to read a fewexcerpts from some of it.
And now remember this waswritten in 1941, so the wording
may be a little bit different,you know, and things like that.
But just one of them.
He's like, like I said, he justreally just rants against
(13:19):
Wormwood about how did thishappen, how did you let this
happen?
And, like I said, he goes onand on and on.
He attacks Wormwood, but thenwhen he gets to the girl, he's
like I have looked up thisgirl's dossier.
Okay, no, I have pulled up thefile on her.
And he says I am horrified atwhat I find.
(13:40):
Not only is she a Christian, butshe's such a Christian that
she's a bio sneaking, simpering,the mere monosibolic,
mouth-like, watery,insignificant, virginal bread
and butter mist.
The little brute.
She makes me vomit.
She stinks and scalds throughthe very pages of the dossier,
(14:00):
meaning she stinks because shesmells like God, the kingdom,
you know, and everything else.
And so she's like all thesethings that they did not want
wormwoods, assigned human tofall in love with, and screwtape
goes on.
And he's like we would have hadher type in the arena in the
old days.
That's what her sort is madefor.
(14:22):
Not that she'd do much goodthere either.
The toothpaste little cheat wholooks as if she faint at the
sight of blood and then dieswith a smile.
She's a cheat in every way,looks as if butter would melt in
her mouth, the sort of creaturewho'd find me funny, filty and
sippid, little prude.
And so he goes on because he'svery, very upset, you know.
(14:45):
So he's calling her all thesethings because wormwood is
really, really made a mistakehere, like letting his human
fall in love with her, he said.
And then of course you know,you let her get to know this
woman's family and her whole,and her, her whole circle.
Could you not see that the veryhouse she lives in is one that
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he ought never to have entered?
The whole place reeks of thatdeadly odor.
The gardener, though he hasonly been there five years, is
beginning to acquire it.
Even guess, after a weekendvisit carries some of the smell
away from them.
The dog and the cat are eventainted with it.
And a house full of thisimpenetrable mystery.
(15:30):
We are certain it is a matterof first principles that each
member of the family must insome way be making capital out
of the others.
But we can't find out how theyguard as jealousy.
They guard as jealousy as Godhimself, the secret of what
really lies behind this pretenseof disinterested love, the
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whole house and garden is onevast obscenity.
So basically, he's just sayingyou never should have won, you
never should have let your humanfalling in love with this girl.
And not only that, her wholehouse, okay, her parents, the
people that she hang around, allof them are just like covered
(16:11):
in this scent, you know thisfragrance of God and godliness
and Christianity and everythingelse, so much so that even a the
dog and cat, the dog and catare tainted with it, like could
you have made a worse mistake?
And so, and that is what he'sgoing on and on about it there,
and he gets so, so upset, butit's, and that just talks about
(16:36):
our Christian life, right, just,are we that type of person that
makes the enemy mad, that makeshim spit, you know?
I mean, he got, he goes on in aletter about how he, he got so
upset, uncle Screwtape, that heturns himself into a centipede
because he just cannot believethat his young nephew, timpter
(16:57):
Wormwood, has made such a hugemistake.
And the goodness Cherry, that'sthe type of person we want to
be, right, someone to where they, the enemies, are like, no, you
can't have to meet that person,okay, you can't.
The whole house, even the dogand the cat and the gardener
(17:19):
that's only been there fiveyears, who wasn't a Christian
when he got there, but now he is.
Isn't that awesome to be thatkind of Christian.
That's what we should strivefor, am I right?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Oh, amen and amen.
I'm not sure if my one dogwould classify as that and I
feel so bad.
She's the work in progress.
She's better.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
She was two years ago Well you must have an awesome
household if you can get any catto be taken.
But I digress, I digress.
I'm not going to go down towhere my cat lovers mad at me,
so go ahead.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
But yes, I completely agree with you.
Oh, to have that kind of adescription said about me.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Amen and amen I know, right, and to where he gets so
upset.
You know that he turns himselfinto an adipotent therapy.
And when I say he goes off withhis nephew, I mean he really
does.
You know in that high way thatthey talked, you know, and back
(18:29):
then, so he really did not wantthis young man to meet this girl
and everything else.
And so basically he's saying,okay, so you've screwed this up
and you've screwed up royally,but since now this is the
(18:51):
situation we find ourselves in,how are we going to fix it?
And so one of the ways he wantsto do it is to create
disagreements and confusionbetween him and this new circle
of friends that he's found, andnot his girlfriend between him
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and his girlfriend between himand the new circle of friends
who all carry this vast odor ofgodliness, right, and her
parents and everything else.
He's like okay, okay, okay, nowthat I've laid into you never
you warm wood about how huge amistake this is, Okay, now we
got to find a way.
He was like so and some of thebest ways.
(19:34):
First, we're going to startwith creating disagreement.
We're going to start withpolitics.
We're going to insert politicsand religion, because there's no
better way than that to startoff with, to create
disagreements and confusion.
And as we sit back, you know,and we look at this, you know it
(20:02):
is, you know.
Well, let me read a few, justanother quick clip.
It says he says, through thisgirl and her disgusting family,
the patient is now getting toknow more Christians every day,
and very intelligent Christianstoo.
For a long time it will bequite impossible to remove
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spirituality from his life.
So very well then, that meanswe must corrupt it.
And then he goes in and saysthe thing to do is to get a man
at first to value social justiceas a thing which the God,
excuse me, as a thing that Goddemands.
(20:43):
Okay, so he says the thing todo is to get the man to at first
value social justice as a thingin which God wants him to do,
and then work him on the stageat which he values Christianity,
but because it may producesocial justice For the in it,
for he I'm replacing the wordenemy here for God because this
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is a demon talking.
So to him the enemy is God.
So he says, for God would notbe used as a convenience man or
nations who think they canrevive the faith in order to
make a good society might justas well think that they can use
the stairs of heaven as ashortcut to the nearest chemist
shop.
Fortunately, it is quite easyto coax humans around this
(21:27):
little corner.
A Christian writer oncerecommended his own version of
Christianity on the ground thatonly such a faith can outlast
the death of old cultures andthe birth of new civilizations.
Do you see the little riftwormwood?
The whole point is to get themto believe this, not because
(21:47):
it's true, but because for someof the but for some other reason
, that's the game.
So basically he just wants himto just get them involved in so
many other things like socialjustice and saying that it's a
godly thing to be able to getinto social justice and all this
other stuff, and then kind ofcorrupt him from there, get him
(22:10):
to believe that that's okay, andthen he won't focus so much on
getting closer to the Lordbecause you see all this social
injustice that he feels is goingon.
So you want to give him areason to believe that and
nothing else.
So we're going to distract,we're going to corrupt, we are
going to throw all thesethoughts into his head Anything
(22:32):
at this point to get him awayfrom really growing in his faith
in God, and that's the gamethat we're going to start with.
Is what he's telling his nephewwormwood Wow, sherry, doesn't
that just have?
So much?
Sounds like so much in today'ssociety.
It really does, it reallyreally does, it does.
(22:56):
And it's just so scary how,today, you just see, I think a
lot of Christians just getdistracted and confused about,
you know, a lot of things.
And here, in this case, screwtape is asking his nephew to use
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like politics and religion.
And that's the same today.
You know, it's the same.
Today, people get so wrapped upin politics, or they get so
wrapped up in quote unquotereligion not a relationship with
God, but religion that theyjust, you know they get
sidetracked by it and it's, butthen they think that is the
(23:42):
right thing.
You know there are those outthere who are you know, who say,
well, it's okay for homosexuals, right, because they just love
each other.
You know it's all about love,it's all about justice, it's all
about this and everything else.
And you can see how littlethings like that can be Used by
(24:04):
the enemy to get them to thinkand focus on one thing and
they're missing the big pictureentirely.
What are your thoughts on thatsherry?
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Absolutely.
I was just listening to a Wellrespected pastor the other day
and he was saying that, well,this lady was talking to them
and and saying that you know,she, her, her family was falling
apart, but she felt like shehad to pray for, I don't know,
(24:35):
the Ukraine, or for America ingeneral, or whatever, and he
said wait a minute.
He said the Holy Spirit bigenough to take care of the
Ukraine and the United States.
Your focus needs to be on yourfamily and getting things right
within your family.
The enemy is trying to distractyou from the most important
thing, and right now, the mostimportant thing is your family.
(24:56):
So you need to get your housein order and then you will be
able to pray for Ukraine and andwhatever else.
So I think it's the same typeof a thing.
The enemy does whatever he canto distract us so that our
prayers are ineffectual orineffective and so that we are
not.
So we're too burned out andwe're too tired to do anything.
(25:16):
Well, because we're trying todo everything.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right and to me, the real Issue Problem.
I guess that can happen withdistraction, especially as
Christians and as believers.
When I think we get to focus Onwhat's going on around us, that
(25:42):
becomes a problem because itstarts off as a distraction and
it can end in depression andwhat you're just like oh my
goodness, the economy is goingcrazy.
What is this presidentialadministration doing?
Oh my goodness, that'shappening over here.
And then these people that'sdoing this is happening over
there oh no, the schools.
(26:03):
Oh no, parents nowadays, oh no,the money.
You know, you get so focused onwhat's going on around you that
you're not looking up To God,the Father, and so it starts off
as a distraction in the enemy,tempts you and tempts you like
can you believe that this isgoing on?
Can you believe that thathappened to that, that elderly
(26:26):
woman how awful is that.
Can you believe that thathappened to that young child?
Can you believe that thesepeople are doing this bully in
the streets?
Can you believe it?
And if, the longer you allowthat tempter to place those
thoughts in your mind, the moreit weighs you down and the more
depressed you become, and theneventually it's like you didn't
pray anymore because you're likewhat's the point?
(26:49):
What's the point?
The world is getting worse andworse every day.
No one seems to be gettingbetter.
The world is falling apart, youknow.
And then you find yourselfslightly falling into depression
, and when you become depressedyou give up on hope that
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anything would get better.
And that's the danger ofletting distraction in your life
to me, because it just doesn'tstay there right.
It's like in the devotion youread earlier, sherry his goal is
to steal, kill and destroy, andhe's not just going to stop at
the distraction, he's going totake it deeper and deeper and
deeper.
So far as you let him take it.
Next thing, you know, you'renot even able to get up out of
bed.
(27:31):
You're not even able to get upout of bed, you know, because
you just, and then when someonesay, oh, hey, good morning, and
you're just like, yeah, you knowyou're not like, hey, yeah,
it's a good morning, it's ablessed day that the Lord has
made, you're just kind of like,yeah, whatever, because you have
(27:52):
allowed the enemy to steal yourjoy and Destroy your faith to a
point where you don't even see,you can't even pray anymore, or
you feel like they're, that Godisn't listening, that he has
other bigger things to do,because surely he's not paying
attention to you and the socialin in stability that's going on
(28:16):
around you and it's just, itgoes deeper and deeper and
deeper and the enemy is justsitting back laughing, going oh
my goodness, that was easy,right.
And you're sitting there justlike hopeless.
Does any of that make sense,sherry?
Absolutely, absolutely.
You know, and it's just one ofthose things that we have to be
(28:39):
very, very careful and veryintentional about to not let
happen.
Right, it's just one of thosethings and I know a lot of
Christians and believers arelike.
They're like I no longer watchthe news.
You know they'll say that.
You know they go, I don't, Idon't watch the news or I don't
start my morning off with thenews anymore, you know, because
(29:01):
it just put you in a differentstate of mind, right, and
they're like I don't start themorning off with the news
anymore.
I really decreased my intake ofthe news and my decreased social
media and you know, and thingslike that, and but then there
are sometimes things are goingon where you're like yeah, I
probably need to pay attentionto this, you know, like, you
(29:24):
know what's going on, butsomething I found myself doing
the other day, sherry, and Tellme if anything similar has
happened to you, because I'm oneof those where I try to very
limit my intake of the newsright, and I have it to where I
may get highlights on certainThings that I'm like I should
(29:46):
probably be aware of, like on myphone.
But I, you know, seriouslytrying to limit my intake of
news, but I do watch it, likeevery now and then.
Maybe on the weekends that maybe like, okay, what happened
this past week you know in thenews.
But I found myself the otherday, you know how, on some news
channels they have a crawl thatgoes across the bottom oh, yeah,
(30:07):
yeah, and it tells you about,you know, all the other things
that they're not covering at themoment.
So while watching the news, Ifind I found myself praying For
each, every little item thatcame across that crawl.
You know, and everything else.
Like Lord, may your will bedone in a situation oh my
goodness, you know, lord, like Idid not know that that had
(30:29):
happened, or they're talkingabout doing this.
You know, lord, pleaseintervene divinely.
And as the crawl was justcrawling away, I was just
praying for it.
Has anything like that everhappened to you, or similar?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, but I love it.
I don't watch the news.
I stopped watching it years agobecause I do have a tendency to
have that depression,depression type thing, or I just
get really angry and I don'twant to start my morning angry.
Yes, so I or anxious, rightright.
(31:01):
So my husband watches it and hefills me in On what, what I
need to know about.
But I like that idea.
I like that idea a lot actually.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah, and I don't even think I thought about it
right, it was just it was justgoing across.
You know, they were coveringsomething, so and I'm just I was
just reading the scroll, like Isay, I'm trying to catch up on
the news from the week pastbecause I'm ignoring it.
And you know, and they tell youall sorts of stuff that's going
on on the crawl, whether what'shappening storms I ripped
(31:34):
through a certain state orflooding, you know, and
everything else, and what'sgoing on, and a current, you
know, the White House,politically, what's going on,
like with other people, you know, and things that are just, you
know, very newsworthy that's onits Scroll or crawl.
And I just saw myself prayingfor them and I'm like, you know,
(31:55):
and it just hit me and I'm likewhat am I doing?
I'm like I never even thoughtabout it, right to do it.
So it's just amazing how thathappened.
And so next time I watch thenews, I'm going to be doing it
again.
This time I know about it,right, but I'm like maybe Holy
Spirit, just, you know, promptedme to do that without even me
thinking about doing it, youknow, just just praying for it
(32:17):
as I'm watching it.
And you know what else.
I think it also helped Helpswhen you're watching the news,
when you're praying while you'rewatching it, to not get so
tense, right and uptight aboutit.
You know and everything and soand you know the crawl
eventually repeats itself.
So you can just stop then,because you already prayed.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Wonderful takeaway for today.
Kara, I think that isabsolutely fantastic, yeah, and
it's just well.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Anyway, I'm gonna leave it there that because, yes
, so just for those who may beinterested, or you do watch the
news and if you happen to watcha news program, that does have
that crawl at the bottom, youknow.
Just just, just, just just justsee what the Lord has wants you
to do in that situation, orEven pray while you're listening
(33:12):
to the news, as they cover eachtopic.
So I'm just going to end itthere, sherry.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, john 1633 tells us that these things I have
spoken to you, that in me youmay have peace in the world.
You will have what Tribulation,but be of good cheer, I have
overcome the world.
I think that that ties thingsin so well To our verse, our
theme for the cheer at podcast.
(33:35):
We are here not to Be sucked into the enemy scheme.
God, in his grace and mercy,has given us a guidebook and a
Blueprint of how to well, firstoff, what kind of a creature
that the enemy is.
He came to steal, kill anddestroy.
(33:56):
In John 1010 it tells us that.
But God has come to give uslife, and life abundantly.
So we have the, the key play.
We have the answers, the, theanswer key to life, and that is
we're not going to get suckedinto his scheme.
So I absolutely love the factthat we don't have to sit there
(34:18):
and watch the news and spiraldownward, but instead we can
take it to God and we can havevictory In that area.
I you've kind of actuallygotten me excited.
Man might start watching thenews again now because I have a,
a weapon, and I have a gameplan and I have Something to do
about it proactively, instead ofjust passively Watching it.
(34:41):
If you need prayer orencouragement, please email us
at cheer up podcast at gmailcom.
Head over to carers website,carerhuntcom and you will see
her Habakkuk series.
She has videos over there.
They explain a little bit moreabout the background of the
(35:01):
stories of Habakkuk.
You can head over to my website, sherry swalwellcom.
Also join us on our Facebookgroup cheer up podcast on
Facebook.
We would love to connect withyou in our community there and
we would love to connect withyou individually if you want to
give us A shout out through anemail, if you have a personal
prayer Request that you don'twant shared in the general
(35:25):
public.
We are so glad that you arehere.
We hope that you'll come backnext week because we have three
more episodes to wrap up thescrew tape letters and we are so
excited.
I have really, really enjoyedthe series.
I'm getting excited about ourOctober series too, but I'm I'm
loving our September series too,but I'm I'm loving our
(35:47):
September wrap up of the screwtape letters.
So have a great rest of yourweek.
We will talk to you in anotherweek and until then, remember,
be of good cheer because Jesushas overcome the world.
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