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YOU WERE BORN TO DISTURB THE DARK

There is a war for your attention—and far more subtly, for your allegiance. Not merely in political arenas or media narratives, but in the very realm of truth.

Truth—real truth—has always been dangerous.

We live in an age of engineered consensus, as Noam Chomsky warned. Credentialed experts, sanctioned institutions, and cultural orthodoxy have become more than sources of information—they are now the gatekeepers of what is permitted to be known. This is not merely a cultural crisis; far more gravely, it is an ecclesiastical one. It is a problem that is leaving Christians powerless and ineffective. The tragedy is not only that falsehood is being propagated—it’s that people no longer question. In our desperate longing for certainty, comfort, and authority, we have outsourced our discernment to official channels, assuming that institutional means inspired and accurate. Society at large—and, more critically, the Church—has resigned itself to a voluntary, comfortable ignorance. Which means, painfully, that we as believers have become complicit in our own spiritual demise.

In fact, the most profound revolutions in history—spiritual and otherwise—have never come through official sources, but through disruptive voices, uncredentialed, unaccredited prophets, and unyielding seekers who dared to test the narrative. Jesus Himself was one such voice: untrained, unauthorised by religious institutions, and crucified for disturbing the peace of the establishment hierarchy.

And yet—He was Truth incarnate. Whether they acknowledged Him or not, He remained the unchanging Logos, the plumbline by which all reality is measured. In the end, it has always been about choosing—not merely with our lips, but with our worship, with our alignment, and with the spiritual practices that reveal what we truly revere. Jesus is not a checkbox on a list of religious duties. He isn’t a Sunday service to attend. He is not content to be managed or scheduled. He is a divine Lover to be romanced—a jealous Bridegroom who desires not our compliance but our communion. What we give our attention to is what we enthrone.

Like the Bereans in Acts 17:11, we are invited not to consume, but to test; not to inherit faith passively, but to search Scripture daily and walk with God directly. When we do this, we don’t just carry light—we disturb darkness. We become dangerous to deception, threatening to strongholds, and unsettling to those who have built their power on collective ignorance.

You were not born for passive agreement. You were born to carry fire. And fire disturbs.

INTRODUCTION: A CALL TO HOLY DISRUPTION

There are two kinds of people walking the earth: those who maintain the illusion and those who shatter it.

From the Garden of Eden to the Upper Room in Jerusalem, God’s people have never been invited into comfort. They have been called into confrontation—not with people, but with principalities. Not with culture, but with corruption. Not with flesh and blood, but with systems and strongholds that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.

You were not saved to survive. You were reborn to rebel—against the darkness.

• The world says: “Be agreeable. Be quiet. Be manageable.”
• But heaven says: “Arise, shine, for your light has come” (Isaiah 60:1).

We were never meant to blend in—we were born to blaze. But fire unfed will fade. It is our responsibility to tend the flame, to feed it with truth, intimacy, and obedience. The Spirit does not descend upon the passive; He ignites the willing. So fan into flame the gift of God within you (2 Timothy 1:6). Refuse to be tamed. You are not a problem to be solved—you are a light to be revealed, a fire to be seen from afar.

THE ENEMY’S ECOSYSTEM: A WORLD BUILT ON LIES

The first casualty of war is the truth. (Aeschylus)

And make no mistake—we are at war. Not a war of bullets and bombs, but of beliefs. Of bandwidth. Of perception. It is a war for reality itself.

Jesus was uncompromising when He described the nature of our enemy:

“You are of your father the devil… He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).

This is the unseen architecture behind the world system. Not neutral. Not benevolent. But weaponised. Every cultural idol, every half-truth, every algorithm and agenda that dulls the soul and hijacks attention is carefully engineered to do what Satan does: “steal, kill, and destroy” (John 10:10).

Those who serve him—knowingly or unknowingly—speak his language. They twist words. They redefine terms. They normalise confusion. And just like their master, they masquerade as angels of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). Their sophistication is not wisdom; it is seduction.

This is why the Church cannot afford to be naïve or sentimental. If we remain passive, we become parrots of propaganda, consumers of counterfeit light. But when we awaken—when we begin to discern, to question, to stand—we become a holy disruption to the system itself.

We must recognise that Satan’s primary weapon isn’t horns and horror—it’s hypnosis. It’s normalcy. It’s the lullaby of comfort and the seductive lull of consensus. He wins not just by what he says, but by what he silences. By what he distracts us from. By what he dares us not to say.

But we will say it, because truth is a weapon, and revelation is a revolution.

You were born not to echo lies but to declare war on them—with your words, your life, and your undivided allegiance to the only Voice that never lies.

THE PROPHETIC DNA: DISTURBANCE IS A GIFT

When Jesus entered a region, He didn’t blend in. He divided crowds. He dismantled lies. He destroyed the works of the devil. And He confronted the gatekeepers and pseudo-priesthood that injected itself between people and God.

Even demons cried out, “Have You come to torment us before the time?” (Matthew 8:29). Yes. He had. And now so have you.

To carry the Spirit of Christ is to carry holy agitation. Not all peace is divine; some is demonic. Some “peace” is simply a ceasefire negotiated with darkness because we’ve lost the stomach to fight. This is not nobility; it is spiritual complacency and laziness. And this is how people are led to the slaughter.

You were never designed to be palatable. You were designed to be powerful.

You are salt, and salt stings in open wounds. You are light, and light triggers those who have adjusted to shadows. Be salt. Be light. Be unapologetic. And ask the hard questions.

THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT: FIRE, TRUTH, AND HOLY NONCOMPLIANCE

Let us examine the nature of divine disturbance.

“Is not My word like fire,” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)

The Hebrew here uses the word אֵשׁ (esh) for “fire” — a consuming, purifying, uncontrollable force. Not a campfire for comfort, but a refiner’s flame.

The Word of God is not a suggestion. It is a sword (Hebrews 4:12). It is a sentence passed on every lie. It demands a verdict. It creates a crisis.

Rashi comments that:

“God’s Word is not like the word of a man, which may be overturned, but like a decree of the King, which breaks everything in its path.”

Matthew Henry notes,

“Those who speak for God must expect to be hated by those who love their sin.”

If your presence never unsettles the darkness, you may have made peace with it.

CULTURAL DIAGNOSIS: WHY THE WORLD PREFERS YOU ASLEEP

Modern culture doesn’t mind you being “spiritual” or even “religious”, as long as you’re silent.

They’ll tolerate your religion as long as you don’t confront theirs. And yes—secularism is a religion; it just worships the self. The moment you begin to speak with clarity and conviction, to proclaim that truth is not subjective, that sin still exists, and that Jesus is Lord, not lifestyle—you are labelled dangerous.

Good.

Be dangerous—to every deception hell has promoted as truth.

The infantilised church prefers approval over authority, applause over apostolic clarity. But you were not reborn to entertain. You were reborn to enforce victory.

THE COST OF CLARITY: LONELINESS, ACCUSATION, GLORY

You will be misunderstood. You will be labelled too much, too intense, too radical.

Good.

So was Elijah. So was Paul. So was Jesus. So were the disciples.

They said He was possessed. They said He blasphemed. They crucified Him for being too clear.

“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.” (Luke 6:26)

But make no mistake. The fire you carry is not random. It is divine. And that fire will burn through the confusion in someone else’s life if you are faithful to speak it.

THE LEGALITY OF YOUR DISTURBANCE

You were not sent into the world to survive it. You were sent to testify—legally, prophetically, and spiritually.

When Paul cast out a spirit of divination from a slave girl in Acts 16, the city was thrown into an uproar. Why? Because truth threatens profit. Because light threatens control. And control maintains the status quo.

The Greek word for “disturbance” used in Acts 16:20 is tarassó — to agitate, to trouble, to stir up.

You are God’s tarassó in a stagnant world.

And remember, Light can only spread if it is shared. Share it fearlessly.

THE SECRET TO POWER: SUBMISSION BEFORE RESISTANCE

You cannot cast out what you secretly cooperate with. You cannot disturb darkness if you are dabbling in it.

Too many try to resist the devil without first submitting to God—and then wonder why they’re exhausted, ineffective, and spiritually unstable. But the kingdom order is clear:

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

Submission is not weakness. It is alignment. It is the key that unlocks real authority.

You were never meant to fight hell in your own strength, intellect, or energy. That is a guaranteed defeat. The power to disturb darkness comes from abiding, not striving. Jesus said,

“Apart from Me you can do nothing” (John 15:5).

• Nothing:
  • No revelation.
  • No authority.
  • No fruit that lasts.
  • No progess.

This is why faithfulness in your spiritual practice is not legalism—it’s lifeline. It’s spiritual strategy. You don’t pray to perform. You pray to remain in alignment with the Lord. You worship to recalibrate. You offer your body as a living sacrifice, not because God needs your effort, but because transformation requires participation.

“Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship” (Romans 12:1).

This is how the fire is fed. This is how the flame is fanned. Not by emotional highs or seasonal spurts of zeal, but by a consecrated life rooted in intimacy and obedience. You were not born to carry the burden of your own strength. You were born to carry the fire of His Spirit. And that fire comes only to the altar of surrender.

The greatest disturbance you will ever cause in the world…Is the one that begins when you fully surrender to God.

DEVOTIONAL PRAYER

Father, I yield to the fire You placed within me.

Teach me how to fan it into a blazing furnace.
Let me never dim my flame to be accepted by shadows.
Make me a voice, not an echo.
Give me clarity that cuts, boldness that breaks, and love that liberates.
I was born to disturb the dark.
Amen.

MEMORY VERSE

“For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” — 1 John 3:8

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

1. Where in your life have you chosen peace over truth, in order to maintain the status quo?
2. What lies have you made peace with in order to avoid rejection?
3. Are you known more for your agreement with culture or your alignment with heaven?
4. In what ways are you hiding your fire instead of stewarding it?
5. What is God asking you to confront, dismantle, or declare this week?

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