‘If
you will return, O Israel,… then the nations will be blessed…’
(Jeremiah 4:1-2). Help us, Lord, not only to seek blessing for
ourselves. Teach us to pray that others will be blessed also.
Your blessing is not to be kept to ourselves. It is to be shared. We are
not to be small-minded people – ‘What will I get out of it?’. Help us
to remember what Jesus said to His first disciples, ‘Go and make
disciples of all nations’. This is still Your Word to us today. May we
never rest content with being an inward-looking Church. Christ has given
us a worldwide mission: ‘You will be My witnesses… to the ends of the
earth’. We are not left to face this great task on our own. Christ says,
‘I am with you always’. We thank You, Lord, that we do not take up this
great challenge in our own strength. Christ says to us, ‘You will
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you’ (Matthew 28:19-20; Acts
1:8).
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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