1Peter 5:9 (NKJV) Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.
As I thought about it I realised our lives are a bit like that when the enemy appears at our door trying to get in and we have to keep resisting him till he gives up and goes away.
So how do we stop him? First of all, when we remember who we are in Christ, then we know we have been given the right and authority by God Himself to resist the devil and tell him to go. We have to stand firm in our faith and tell him to take his hands off whatever he’s trying to kill, steal or destroy, whether it’s family, health, finances or whatever.
It doesn’t work when we just think it, we have to speak it. Our faith is released by our words, and like God released His faith and spoke in the Garden of Eden and things happened, He expects us to use His words and make things happen too!
Matthew 18:18 (NLT) I tell you the truth, whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. Jesus is telling us it’s up to us, it’s what we permit or what we forbid, what we bind or loose! He’s very direct. When we do our part, God will intervene!
He has given us His faith, His words, to speak into all our situations, to take back control of things the enemy tries to deceive us into thinking he controls. God defeated him at the Cross through the blood of the Lord Jesus and gave us back our authority over the works of the enemy, but we have to do something or speak something. We can’t ask God to do something He told us to do.😊
So just in case we have allowed any of the enemy’s bumble bees in, spiritually speaking, let’s use our God given authority today to resist them, to give them no permission, and tell them to get out in the name of Jesus. To go! Tell them to be gone, to buzz off!😊 Amen.
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