FRIDAY - 16TH JULY, 2021
MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE - Olusola ADEJUMO
RESISTING THE DEVIL BUT DOING SO FIRMLY IN THE FAITH
James 4:7, KJV
"Submit yourselves therefore to God. RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU."
"Resist the devil", the Bible says. The consequence of resisting him is only one: He'll FLEE FROM you not FLEE TO you or your embrace.
Don't accommodate. Stop accommodating but rather refrain him firm in your faith. Stamp your feet on the ground and say "no" to him.
The devil is actually a coward and a cheat. However, he'll try you. He'll come around into your parlour and see if you'll say, "welcome or otherwise". How do people say welcome? By giving the devil a foothold. By intentionally giving space and allowance to temptation. By not rejecting attacks and things going contrary to what God has expressly said, given freely and had promised in His Word. They rather take it for God's will or act which may not be.
But once you take action by becoming furious... He'll flee - not to you but FROM you.
You're actually a commander and there's only one thing soldiers hears: commands. Once you say, "no" to the devil, he'll shift off your space.
While some ought to resist, they're tolerating, permitting, granting and cohabiting with the devil. ...and the devil is not careless taking such advantage as leverage. If you give the devil a ride in your car, don't think he'll quietly sit down and watch you drive. No! He's never contented but hungers to spread. His goal is to kick you out and take over the steering wheel. He wants to have an established kingdom which no one can contest with him but which is firmly, solely and wholly concentrated in his hands. But God has called all Christians to debate gaining of controls or full controls with the devil. So, you're a debater! He is already in the world as the prince of this world but we can debate him from entering, mastering or collecting our own domain which we have carved out as a conducive atmosphere for Christ: where Christ must be glorified and reign in continually.
So, don't give the devil any foothold that can graduate into a stronghold. As soon as you begin to notice misbehaviour in your children, lack of submission in your wife, lack of understanding and end of love in your husband and sluggishness in your life/business or career, bring out the assault rifle of prayer and fire the devil.
The word "resist" depicts a struggle. A thing you're resisting doesn't fold its hands also but tries to push you back even as you try shifting him off your own ground. The picture of wrestling and two wrestlers resisting each other is immediately pictured. The devil like a boxer might want to stand tall to you in the ring of life but another issuance says, WHOM YOU SHOULD RESIST FIRM IN THE FAITH.
I Peter 5:9, KJV
"Whom RESIST STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world."
"Firm or steadfast" suggests not wavering but persistence in resisting until the devil is resisted and flees. The devil at your first saying of "get behind me" might not heed you. Do you know why? His thinking is that you're probably doing guess work on whether he (Satan) is involved in your activities or not. Your persistence in resisting is what would clearly prove to him that, "come here O boy, this fellow has seen me o." Only then will he hurriedly pack off your property and go off from touching what is yours. So, be sure the devil is around indeed. That's what would concretize your resisting firmly. Right knowledge produces right acts.
You're born again and so can resist him. So, who will resist the devil with me today? Wherever you may be, take a minute to say, speak or pray something to resist, refrain, rebuke and disallow the devil.
PRAYER: Lord, forgive my rebellion to You. I rebuke the devil's activities in my life, family, business, ministry etc. No in road for you.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 Chronicles 16:37-18:17, Romans 2:1-24, Psalm 10:16-18, Proverbs 19:8-9
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