Those Loop Holes.

Talking about rats again, a couple of months just after I moved into my new apartment, I was thrown into a state of misery, mild depression and sleeplessness by rats. They were very bold, heartless and merciless, they roamed around my appartment even in broad daylight. They scattered my things, not only did they bite into every stored food item causing enormous wastage, but they also pooed into everything they saw, even my pot of food!
At nights, it was dreadful because they would scream and screech endlessly. Most disturbing was the sound of them pecking and biting into my window frames and wooden fixtures or trying to drill more holes for their easy movement. It was pretty embarrasing each time I had visitors and one or two rats would come around to say 'hi'
Day and night I pondered on what to do with them rats and how to eradicate them.I bought all sorts of rat traps and yes, it did catch me a couple of rats, but they kept on coming around.

One morning, my next door neighbour came visiting and I complained about the rodents. I was suprised he had never seen any in his flat because our apartments shared the same wall and he lived on the other side of the wall. My neighbour was of the opinion that the rats could be coming from inside my walls not from outside, they could be breeding inside dark isolated holes, and so he suggested that I search for holes and cracks in my walls and seal them up.
I decided to spy on the rats especially at nights. I was shocked to discover so many deep holes on my walls, close to the ceiling, and most of them were inter connected. I watched the rats at night move in and out of the holes  and was also able to detect the main entrance to the breeding ground.
 The next day, I got me some cements, mixed it with sand and began to seal every single hole. Guess what, the night came and my problem was solved. As I lay down on my bed anticipating a sweet peaceful sleep and the dawn of a new rat free day, I could hear them rats biting hard and screeching from inside the walls, they were trapped!  I settled down peacefully to enjoy my appartment.

Every experience I have in Life teaches me something. Thinking about this experience, I learnt something very vital. Like the rats, there are so many unwanted people, things, and reccurent incidents in our lives. There are problems we repeteadly encounter and each time we fight them, we forget to tackle the sources of the problems first.
All that rat poison and rat traps didn't do much for me, until I discovered and destroyed the breeding ground within. I sealed up all those loop holes through which they penetrated my appartment.

Some storms and calamities are not natural. Many atimes, we unconciously leave lots of loop holes for satan to come in and bug our lives and then we keep on wondering what is happening, despite all our prayers, fasting and commitments to God.
According to Rev O.A. Areogun of Life Oasis International Church, Nigeria. ''The devil can't do anything against you until he sees  a loop hole in your life from where he can touch you. Meaning Satan really has no place in your life except the one you give to him''
Loop holes are majorly sin; lies, degeption, all forms of rebellion and disobedience to God, Ignorance and incomplete knowledge of God's word

Screaming, yelling and stumping are not what's required to defeat satan. They will accomplish nothing if you are not living a consecrated life. Negligence in dealing with one's sinful life, secret sins, and weaknesses will continually give your enemies and satan himself the very loop holes he needs to ochestrate your defeat.
Spiritual warfare is serious business 

By Chioma