‘O
Lord, my Strength and my Stronghold, my Refuge in the day of trouble,
to You the nations will come from the ends of the earth… They will know
that My Name is the Lord’ (Jeremiah 16:19,21). Give us, Lord, a faith
that is personal – The Lord is my Strength, my Stronghold, my Refuge.
Teach us that our faith must not be private. It is not to be kept to
ourselves. There is to be no ‘us and them’ attitude. We are not to have a
‘we are the people’ attitude. The Gospel is for the nations. Help
us not to say, ‘I’m okay. That’s all that matters.’ The Gospel is to be
taken to the ends of the earth. Help us to reach out to others –
to share the Gospel with the people we meet. Help us, Lord, to
tell people what You have done for us. Help us to tell them what You can
do for them. May we let them know how much You love them. May they come
to know that You, Lord - our God, can be their God too.
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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