“na nananana na nanana na” when you were a child, I am sure that this mocking humming frustrated you as much as it frustrates every other child today, when a group of friends wants to make fun of you before others.
There is nothing more discouraging than being defeated, but what is most discouraging and drive you insane is being mocked for your defeat.
The Lord Jesus did this to the devil on the cross and the enemy will never forget this day of great shame, humiliation, defeat and mockery!
“In this way, He disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross.” Colossians 2:15.
I believe from the moment the devil rebelled against the Lord, his destiny was stamped for being mocked and humiliated and he is surely experiencing this time after another because he has departed from the Lord, who was his glory and the lifter of his face.
"How you are fallen from heaven, O shining star, son of the morning! You have been thrown down to the earth, you who destroyed the nations of the world. For you said to yourself, 'I will ascend to heaven and set my throne above God's stars.
I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.' Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths. Everyone there will stare at you and ask, 'Can this be the one who shook the earth and made the kingdoms of the world tremble?
Is this the one who destroyed the world and made it into a wasteland? Is this the king who demolished the world's greatest cities and had no mercy on his prisoners?' Isaiah 14: 12- 17
This is the sure end of everyone who departs from the King of Glory, whether the devil who was a glorious cherub or whether you and I.
Didn’t Adam and Eve feel ashamed, humiliated and mocked by the devil when they sinned and saw their nakedness after they were covered with the Glory of God?
“For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.” Romans 3:23.
The devil who is eternally mocked is having his chance today to project what’s inside him against mankind, because he is full of mockery, full of hurt and humiliation. He always seeks an opportunity to mock you and humiliate you, he wants you to have the same destiny he has but it is up to you to make his desire fulfilled or not.
It is who you cling to and hang on that determines the course of your life, whether life or death, glory or humiliation! Remember that the Lord made you for his glory not less!
David, this mighty warrior in God, the giant slayer and killer experienced the mocking and the sneering of the enemy at him. Yet, had David listened and believed this report he would have surrendered and gave up before he even begun. But the mocking of the enemy stirred David more for the challenge and for taking him down in the name of the Lord.
“Goliath walked out toward David with his shield bearer ahead of him, sneering in contempt at this ruddy-faced boy. “Am I a dog," he roared at David, "that you come at me with a stick?" And he cursed David by the names of his gods.” 1 Samuel 17: 41-43
David had all the reasons to yield to discouragement and to believe the report of the enemy because it seemed true. Goliath was indeed a giant and he was a mighty man of war and very well experienced and trained comparing to little David. Not only these reasonable facts were strong enough to stop David, he even got another bad discouraging report from the King of Israel himself, Saul!
"Don't be ridiculous!" Saul replied. "There's no way you can fight this Philistine and possibly win! You're only a boy, and he's been a man of war since his youth." (v. 33).
Poor David, not only mocked by the enemy and by the king, he was even mocked by his own brother when he heard him investigating about Goliath and asking for the reward of killing him.
“But when David's oldest brother, Eliab, heard David talking to the men, he was angry.” What are you doing around here anyway?" he demanded. "What about those few sheep you're supposed to be taking care of? I know about your pride and deceit. You just want to see the battle!"”
David’s brother mocked him by bringing to mention the “few sheep” he was taking care of. Do you feel the same today? Do you hear some saying you are not meant for greatness, go back to your “few sheep”? Are you mocked and intimidated that you have a small ministry? Or you’ve achieved a little so far? Do your brothers, your church, mock you like the brothers of Joseph, who were jealous of him and mocked him by calling him the “dreamer”? Genesis 37:19.
Are you mocked not only by your brothers, but by figures of authority that can't see greatness and potential in you? And they throw at you words to minimize you and reduce you and to put off the fire of your passion for helping and achieving big things for them, for God and for you? Are you mocked by the enemy who sees you as a grasshopper, as a cute little thing with a form of godliness without its power?
Well, my dear friend, mocking is the enemy’s weapon to knock you down and as you see, it comes from many sources and it is crucial to discern his ways to expose him and terminate him before he even begins.
Maybe you can’t stop the mocking from coming at you, but you can surely stop it to taking place in you. Birds can fly over your head, but you can prevent it to build a nest on it.
Mocking is always around and if you didn’t experience such thing yet be sure it is on the devil’s list to use it one day against you but since you are reading this booklet you are preparing yourself for victory and it is over for the enemy.
Now the important question is this, what makes mocking so powerful, so poisonous, so discouraging that can lead someone to suicide as it did to many?
Mocking can happen simply because there is something to mock at. You and I are not perfect and we have our gaps, our weird things and our failures and the enemy by mocking at you tries to shift your focus to what you are lacking or what is still in transformation, to rob you of being grateful to God for his blessings that surrounds you.
Remember, if Jesus, the perfect man, who is holy and flawless was being mocked, and in him there is no sin, how about you and me?
Maybe you are being mocked at one failure so strong that you forgot about the hundred success stories!
Those who love the prophetic, the gift of encouraging others, battle with the fear of being mocked if they deliver a wrong word or a revelation in part that is not yet clear and many fail at the beginning because the giant of being mocked is always threatening!
Actually being mocked is one of the strategies not all of it, there is the fear of rejection, the lack of wisdom on how to deliver the word, lack of faith to receive the word or to bring a word, and so on!
But those who break through the mocking giant within themselves and without, are the winners and the pioneers of today! They paid the price!