This Is What to Do When the Enemy Lies to You – FREE PRINTABLE!

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Has the enemy been lying to you lately?

Has he been confirming your worst fears one by one?

This is how he works, you know. He takes our worst fears and confirms them, embellishing them until they seem so terrible we almost can’t stand it.

Winston Churchill once said, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

And this is what the enemy banks on.

person sitting with head in hands while enemies point fingers

He knows the truth will set us free, and when we’ve been made free we are free indeed. And he can’t have that!

So, he must guard that truth with a bodyguard of lies, so that in fear we begin making foreign alliances in a vain attempt to protect ourselves, not knowing that these feeble attempts at protection will actually end in our destruction and defeat.

As we continue our study through the book of Isaiah, we read about this exact situation.

As we’ve discovered, Assyria is marching against Judah and King Hezekiah is doing all he can to protect his nation against what was known at that time as the terror of the world.

In Isaiah 36 we find that Sennacherib sends one of his men to King Hezekiah to intimidate him.

He begins by asking where he is getting his counsel from. “Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: ‘What confidence is this in which you trust?'” Isaiah 36:4

And then he begins to twist the truth.

He accuses Hezekiah of making alliances with Egypt; which would have actually made sense, had God not revealed ahead of time that this was a trap.

And this Rabshakeh – Sennacherib’s cupbearer – reveals that making an alliance with Egypt would be like someone leaning on a broken crutch – what is meant to support you becomes your demise as it stabs and injures you.

Then he goes on to accuse Hezekiah of tearing down high places, but mistakes the high places that were built to false gods as being built to Almighty God.

“But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar’?” Isaiah 36:7

And it is here we see that, in fact, this Rabshakeh, is making false accusations against Hezekiah in an attempt to tear down his confidence so he can gut-punch him with intimidating blows.

Starting with this offer meant to mock the fact that Judah was outnumbered. “Now therefore, I urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on them!” Isaiah 36:8

He knew Judah didn’t have two thousand men; and he knew that King Hezekiah knew this as well.

But the Rabshakeh wasn’t nearly done.

He then went on to claim that God told him to destroy Judah. “The Lord said to me, ‘God up against this land, and destroy it.” Isaiah 36:10

I wonder today, has the enemy whispered this lie in your ear lately? That whatever it is that you’re facing will be for your destruction?

That maybe this was God’s will? Or even worse, that God doesn’t care? That He’s abandoned you and allowed this to happen to you in His absence?

But Sennacherib’s campaign of intimidation wasn’t over yet.

King Hezekiah’s men, seeking to protect the remnant from being utterly decimated by the overwhelming negativity that they were hearing, asked the Rabshekeh to speak to them in Aramaic, instead of Hebrew.

The Rabshekeh shot back, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste with you?” Isaiah 36:12

In other words, “Ha! Did you really think I came here only to intimidate your master, and not to intimidate the whole lot of you – who will be so completely defeated that you will eat and drink your own waste? Think again!”

And then goes on to yell louder for those in the back “Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you; nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” Isaiah 36:14-15

He then began to spin his web of lies:

“Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own cistern; until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.” Isaiah 36:16-17

He then throws in a couple of truth bombs mixed with deception by reminding them that no other nation that they had conquered had been saved by their gods.

If you entertain anything the enemy whispers to you, even for a moment, by the time the enemy throws his deceptive truth bombs, you will be so confused you won’t be able to spot the deception mixed with truth.

Of course no other nation had been saved by their gods!

Their gods were false gods. Their gods were incapable of saving them, because they were not even real.

But this is how the enemy works.

1. He starts by attacking the One giving you counsel – the Word of God, so that little seeds of distrust are planted.

2. Then he throws little jabs of false accusation at you, so that you begin distrusting yourself and lose confidence in your ability to stand.

3. After that he begins telling outright lies – yelling them loud so that you begin feeling intimidated.

4. When he’s done that, he can start spinning his web of deceit. Promising you peace and prosperity, if you only give in.

5. Once he has you trapped, he can then confuse you with deceptive truth bombs so that you’re so disoriented that you will swallow the distortion he’s serving.

And this was Sennacherib’s strategy: Plant distrust, falsely accuse, intimidate, spin deceit, and then disorient them with half-truths.

But he was unsuccessful in his mission.

Hezekiah took all of this, went to the house of God and “spread it before the Lord” and cried out to Him.

The very God that Sennacherib, through the Rabshakeh, had profaned and blasphemed. The very God they’d hoped to cause King Hezekiah to distrust.

But in all of this, Hezekiah had not lost trust and confidence in God.

He remained strong in his faith and belief that God would somehow deliver them.

And he was rewarded.

Then the angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh. Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place. Isaiah 37:36-38

Not only was the entire Assyrian army massacred in one night, but after Sennacherib returned to Nineveh in defeat, he was murdered while worshipping in the temple of his god.

Just as God had promised:

“‘He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a siege mound against it. By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return; and he shall not come into this city,’ Says the LORD. For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.'” Isaiah 37:33-35

Dear sister, the enemy’s strategy never changes.

He starts by planting distrust in God and His Word, then he will falsely accuse you, seek to intimidate you, spin deceit, and then disorient you with half-truths.

But he doesn’t have to trap you.

Like King Hezekiah, we must choose to remain strong on the absolute and eternal truth of God’s truth and His promises in Scripture.

He will not only deliver you, but He will utterly destroy and defeat the enemy…in his own camp!

But how do you stay strong in the face of the enemy’s relentless attack against you?

Put on the armor of God
Meditate on verses about victory
Spend extra time in prayer and intercession
Spend personal time in worship
Begin to speak the name of Jesus
If need be, spend time in fasting and prayer for victory
Do not forsake fellowship – you need the support and accountability of your spiritual family

Dear sister, we cannot afford to allow the enemy to disorient and confuse us with his lies.

His false promises of peace and prosperity are a trap meant for our defeat.

When the enemy begins spinning his web of lies, run to God’s Word! Abide in His Word. Meditate on it, speak Jesus’ name, apply His blood.

Remember that the truth of God’s absolute and eternal Word is what sets us free!

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