The Day After My Smart Phone Was Stolen In Liberia

The Day After My Smart Phone Was Stolen In Liberia // Guest Blogger // Rickie Moore

The day after my smart phone was stolen during my mission trip to Liberia, David Kaimue, the Educational Director of the Church of God in Liberia, met me before our morning service at the Headquarters of the Church of God, and he shared with me his regrets and also his discernment that this theft was the work of the Devil, who was upset because of my message the previous evening at the City of Light Church of God. I told David, “Yes, and of course the Devil can do only what God permits, whether the Devil knows it or not.” This exchange with David prepared me to report to the Headquarters’ congregation a little while later that, in this light, the Devil may have stolen my cell phone but he didn’t get my keys—I had preached the previous night on the “keys to revival,” the keys of the kingdom, which God was giving to us in Liberia. I went on to tell the Headquarters congregation that, not only did the Devil not get my keys, he did not and he cannot get my heart, for it is far beyond his reach, hidden deep and safe in a vault in the Heart of Heaven (Col. 3:3). And there is no way on Earth or in Heaven that the Devil can hack the passcode and breach the security system of Glory that God has devised.

Oh, one time Satan thought he had breached it, when he had God’s Son arrested, convicted, imprisoned, and executed. But he did not know, Satan did not know, indeed he did not know that he himself was being invaded!

And Scripture tells us that, if he or any of the rulers of this world had known, “they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory” (1 Cor. 2:8).

Jesus invaded all the dominions of Darkness, even the very headquarters and heart of darkness, Death itself, and He came out with a full set of keys!

Thus, you see, Satan may be the prince of darkness, but Jesus is the King of Darkness!

In Isaiah 45:7 God declares, “I form the light, and create darkness!” The prophet Moses declared that, when God’s people stood at the foot of Sinai where God “spoke out of the fire that burned to the heart of Heaven…there was darkness and cloud and thick darkness” (Deut. 4:11). This tells me that God not only has a light that can penetrate all darkness, He has a darkness (praise God!) that light cannot penetrate. And He can see in the midst of that darkness without even having to turn on the light. He’s the God of Daylight and Darkness, All Day and All Night Long!

That’s why the prophet Daniel declared, in Daniel 2:22, “He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with Him.”

And that’s why the psalmist in Psalm 139 declared,

If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,’

even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.