Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

sneaking in and slowly pulling you into the net as a spider web does a fly. However, I have learned that for dedicated believers, usually a wrong relationship is not some heathen cloaked in light who comes like a knight in shining armor. Most believers are on guard for such obvious, dysfunctional agents of deception and would never fall for such a monster. Don’t be surprised if the wrong relationship is actually sitting in the same church with you and may be in the choir or the local youth group! This is especially true with single youth. I preached my first message at my dad’s church in Salem, Virginia, at age sixteen. By age eighteen I was traveling in three states conducting local revivals in churches, staying two to three weeks in some congregations. It didn’t take long for me to discern that there were mothers and grandmothers who felt the highest call for their daughter or granddaughter was to marry a preacher . Usually, when a mom invited this single fellow over for lunch or dinner, I knew the game—there was a single daughter or granddaughter who was also present for the occasion. Don’t get me wrong—I was no model in looks (in fact, I looked like a bleached-out skeleton with baggy rags), but it wasn’t about looks—it was about the ministry and getting that girl married to a minister as soon as possible! From the time I was sixteen to about twenty, there were several young women whom I thought I would marry. However, after prayer and judging things from my spirit and not my flesh, something did not click with the idea of marrying