Someone you care about profoundly doesn’t know Jesus.  No matter how often you tell stories about your faith and how Jesus has changed your life, the other person is unmoved.  Jesus simply isn’t attractive. In a worst-case scenario, your testimony is met with cursing words.  What’s the problem?  You’ve come up against the Deceiver. He lives to deceive the unbelieving so that they never leave his kingdom.  It’s not that he cares about them.  He doesn’t.  He just doesn’t want God to have them.  

The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.  2 Corinthians 4:4

Satan has put blinders over their eyes and filters over their ears.  The Gospel you are sharing is not the Gospel they are hearing.  It goes through a demonic filter.  The Jesus you are describing is not the Jesus they are perceiving.  He is disfigured, even repelling.  What’s the cure?  Spiritual warfare!  Know this ~ Captives can be freed.  Deception can be cured.  

Missionaries in spiritually dark places know to engage in heavy spiritual warfare before presenting the Gospel.  But we in the Western world don’t believe it’s really necessary. It’s time to wake up!  Using our God-given authority to use the Sword against the Deceiver can make all the difference between the darkness that covers an unbeliever’s eyes and the Light that will break through.  For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6

Prayer: Lord, you love _________ and don’t want them to perish.  In the authority You gave me, I apply the victory of Calvary and the shedding of Your blood to the schemes of the Deceiver. Let there be light over the darkened mind of __________ today.  Give them spiritual sight so they may see Your glory and believe.  In the name of Jesus, I pray, Amen