You know, there is more to Jesus driving the money changers out of the Temple than one can see at first glance. Where is His temple now? His holy habitation is within us. We are the place He chooses to dwell! What an awesome privilege, to carry the presence of Almighty God!
But Jesus has to go inside each one of us and take that whip and drive out the moneychangers. Satan has set up strongholds within each one of us. God builds temples but the enemy comes in to the place meant to be the Temple of the Living God and builds his houses of worship that we call strongholds. The devil’s purpose has always been to be worshiped. That is the real agenda behind establishing strongholds within people. They are perverted temples where we worship at the feet of fear.
This is a powerful, life-changing revelation. Now there is more reason than ever to drive that worm out of our souls. We have been worshiping him. We didn’t know what we were doing, but that is exactly what was happening.
Every time there is a problem in our lives that looks so overwhelming, there is a place in us that whispers fear of every circumstance; we have been bowing down in that place and worshiping the one who hates us and seeks our lives in vengeance against the God Who created him. That vile, contemptible worm.
God is not willing to share His Temple. It is to be a holy habitation fit only for the Lord and no other. No squatters allowed here!
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