What
do we do when everything seems to go wrong? Do we start complaining,
blaming You for everything that's happening to us? or Do we start asking
the question, 'Where is the Lord in all of this?' Help us to challenge
our negative thinking - "Why are you discouraged, my soul?" (Psalm
43:5). Help us to rise above our negative thinking. Raise us up, Lord,
for You alone can lift us out of our defeatism and into that special
place with You where we know that we are truly blessed - because You
love us, and will never stop loving us, even when our love for You is
very weak.
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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