Genesis 14: 20 And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you."
Sometimes we want to tell others how the enemy has done this or that, or stolen this or that from us and without realising it we're giving glory to the devil because it seems to fill our minds. Well today I'd like to encourage us to refocus our attention and remind us that God has defeated our enemies but we have to believe it by faith.
Although Abram was rich he was childless so he complained to the Lord in Genesis 15 and said it wasn't much use him being rich if he had no heir. He was focusing on the negative but God was very gracious and took him outside and said he would have heirs so many they'd be like the stars in the sky. God gave him a promise and thankfully Abram chose to believe it. Scripture says God counted him as righteous because of his faith, because He believed what God said.
Where does that fit in with us? God has given us promises and he's waiting on us to believe them too. If we don't believe them and only go by what we're experiencing right now, we wont have them and the enemy will try to walk all over us. It requires our faith to make a stand.
God wants us to walk by faith so when it may look like the enemy has been winning we turn round and say "No, you're a defeated foe. Jesus has already won the victory over you at the cross and given it to me. So I rise up in Him, I resist you satan and tell you to take your hands off my life, my family, my health and my belongings." We have to draw the line in the sand and enforce the victory that is ours by using the word of God, like Jesus did, and remind the enemy he's already defeated and disarmed.
Let's give glory to the Lord today and declare the victory that is ours in Jesus. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Let's give praise and thanks to God for all the good in our lives and choose to ignore the negative knowing God is turning it round for our good.
Let's refocus on Jesus and His victory today.😊
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