We
confess our sins to You, Lord - ‘We sinned... All of us have become like one
who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags’. We
look to You for forgiveness - ‘Do not remember our sins for ever’
(Isaiah 64:5-6,9). We know that You hear and answer our prayer. Jesus Christ
is Your Answer to our prayer. He has ‘come down’ from heaven to earth.
‘The Son of the Most High’ has been ‘born’ into our world. Jesus Christ
is Your way of saying ‘Here am I! Here am I!’. He is ‘God with us’
(64:1; 65:1; Luke 1:32,35; Matthew 1:23). ‘The blood of Jesus, God’s
Son, cleanses us from all sin.’ Help us, Lord, to ‘confess our sins.’ ‘The blood of
Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin’ - Help us to come to You with
faith, believing that You ‘will forgive our sins’. (1 John 1:7,9). May we rejoice in Jesus, our Saviour!
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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