Lord, You
are the faithful God. You give us Your promises. You keep Your promises.
You never go back on Your Word. You always stand by the Word that You
have spoken. Your promises come to us from the past. They lead us on
into Your future. What a wonderful future You are planning for us. We
thank You for Jesus' great promise: "I go to prepare a place for you"
(John 14:2). Help us to receive His Word, to rejoice in His promise, to
be renewed by His love.
We thank You, Lord, that our determined enemy - Satan - is Your defeated enemy. To us, the devil seems so powerful. In Your eyes, He is defeated - defeated by Jesus, our crucified Saviour and risen Lord. Jesus has triumphed over Satan. He has won the victory for us (1 John 3:8; Hebrews 2:14-15). Lord, Your Word says, "Resist the devil and he will flee from you" (James 5:7). Will he really flee from us? He flees from Jesus - but, surely, not from us? Have we not forgotten something? - Jesus won the victory for us. He gives His victory to us. Help us to resist the devil - in the victorious Name of Jesus. He will flee from us. Why? Because Jesus is Lord over Satan. It's not us he's fleeing from. It's Jesus. When the devil comes 'knocking on our door', help us to send Jesus to the door - and send him packing!
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