TERMINATION IN ENTERTAINMENT
Acts 5:1-11

Lying, deception, and manipulation are some of the means and ways that lead one to entertain the devil. However, anytime you entertain the devil you are set to be terminated. A man named Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, did the right thing in a wrong way. The couple entertained the devil and they were terminated in their journey of life. It is recorded in Acts 5:1-2, “But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2 And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” Ananias and Sapphira were not forced to sell their possession; it was a voluntary act. It was a good act but was done wrongly when they backed it up with lie. Everywhere there is light, darkness will not comprehend but fail. Where there is light, the activity of darkness will have no other choice but to be exposed. Telling lies is not of God; it is of the devil and it is an activity of darkness. Ananias and Sapphira lying to Peter, a disciple of Jesus, can be compared to darkness playing around where there is light. In their lying, it did not take forever neither did it require an inside informant for Peter to respond when he said, “…Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.” (Acts 5:3-4) Could it be that Ananias and Sapphira had been lying long before it finally caught up with them or was it just their first time? One thing is certain, telling lies can go for a long period or a short period of time but it only takes just one day for truth to overcome. How have you been entertaining the devil among the body of believers? Ananias and Sapphira’s story can be likened to a believer who is paying less of their ten percent income in the name of paying tithes. Before God, there is no small or big lie. A lie is a lie and the end therefore is sin. Sin offers nothing but death. Peter did not place any curse on Ananias but all that Peter did was exposed the lie of Ananias. “Then Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and breathed his last. So great fear came upon all those who heard these things.” (Acts 5:5) Lying does not have a place in the presence of God and if you are one that has been conversant doing the right wrongly, it is time to begin to do all that is right.         
 
Prayer for today: Ask God to deliver you from every spirit of lie, deception and manipulation.