Trey Knowles - RISALA 6 - DIVERSION AND PRIORITIZING

To the believer and to the chosen: your enemy’s weapon against you is what you value most. Will the believers continue to compromise their faith? This, my brothers and sisters, is a test of your loyalty. And will the chosen ones of Israel continue to become addicted to taking the venom of the snake? What is being offered to you becomes a curse. In other words, you’ve been baited like Pinocchio.

The principality system that hates you also enslaves you, influences you, and tempts you like the fox and the cat in Pinocchio. Hollywood, luxury, fame, sports, play, bread, circuses, and foolishness—consider how Balaam was hired to curse Israel, the chosen ones, turning the chosen Israelites into human, demonic androids and misplacing their trust and devotion away from the Father who is in heaven. Be on guard.

Yeshua teaches us in Matthew 6:21:
“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

My Lord Yeshua emphasizes that a person’s priorities and affections are centered on what they value most—whether it is our Father’s spiritual investment in us or earthly wealth.

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

You must make a choice now about whom you are going to devote your loyalty to. For I tell you, as for me and my house, I, Trey Knowles, devote myself to the Lord.

ٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَا لَعِبٌۭ وَلَهْوٌۭ وَزِينَةٌۭ وَتَفَاخُرٌۢ بَيْنَكُمْ وَتَكَاثُرٌۭ فِى ٱلْأَمْوَٰلِ وَٱلْأَوْلَـٰدِ ۖ كَمَثَلِ غَيْثٍ أَعْجَبَ ٱلْكُفَّارَ نَبَاتُهُۥ ثُمَّ يَهِيجُ فَتَرَىٰهُ مُصْفَرًّۭا ثُمَّ يَكُونُ حُطَـٰمًۭا ۖ وَفِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ عَذَابٌۭ شَدِيدٌۭ وَمَغْفِرَةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَرِضْوَٰنٌۭ ۚ وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا مَتَـٰعُ ٱلْغُرُورِ ٢٠

— Surah Al-Hadid (57:20)

“Know that this worldly life is no more than play, amusement, luxury, mutual boasting, and competition in wealth and children. It is like rain that causes plants to grow, to the delight of the planters. But later the plants dry up; you see them wither, and then they are reduced to chaff. And in the Hereafter there will be either severe punishment or forgiveness and pleasure from Allah, whereas the life of this world is no more than the delusion of enjoyment.”

So I ask: Will the believers continue to compromise their faith? And will the chosen ones continue to become addicted to taking the venom of the snake? In this way, your enemy does not seek to reconcile the evils of slavery, but rather to continue them.

Grace and Peace,
TREY KNOWLES