Lord,
You call us to speak Your Word - but, first, You call us to listen to
Your Word. How can we speak for You if we're not listening to You? Help
us to come to the Cross of Christ. Help us to hear the voice of Your
love. Send us from that holy place - the place of His crucifixion,
the place of our salvation - back into the world. May we return to the
world as people who've been changed - changed by the love of Christ.
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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