‘I
will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I
will pour out My Spirit on your offspring, and My blessing on your
descendants’ (Isaiah 44:3). Lord, we hear You speaking to us of the
mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost – ‘They
were all filled with the Holy Spirit…’ (Acts 2:4). We thank You for the
Spirit. He brings ‘streams of living water’ into our lives. We thank You
for the Spirit. He sends ‘streams of living water’, flowing out from us
to others (John 7:37-39). Help us, Lord, to ‘be filled with the
Spirit’. ‘Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.
Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to
God the Father for everything in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ’ –
May our lives be full of praise to You: ‘filled with the Spirit’
(Ephesians 5:18-20).
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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