We
thank You, Lord, for Your ‘Good
News’ - Help us to ‘shout for joy’. As we receive ‘Good News’ from You,
may we sing ‘songs of
joy.’ We thank You for the Good News of Your reign - ‘Your God reigns’
and the Good News of our redemption - ‘The Lord has redeemed’ us. Help
us not to keep the Good News to ourselves. This ‘news of happiness’ is
to
be shared with everyone. May we let ‘all the ends of the earth see the
salvation of our God’. ‘Christ died for our sins’ - This is Good News.
Christ was ‘raised on the third day’ - This is Good News. ‘Jesus is
Lord’ - This is Good News. This is the Good News we must ‘pass on’ to
others. In our world, Lord, there is so much bad news. Help us not to
let the
Good News be drowned out by the bad news. Help us to make sure that the
people hear the Good News - loud and clear (Isaiah 52:7-10; 1
Corinthians 15:3-4; Mission Praise, 249).
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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