‘A horrible and shocking thing
has happened in the land: The prophets prophesy lies, the priests rule
by their own authority, and My people love it this way’ (Jeremiah 5:31)!
Sometimes, Lord, people are happy to listen to ‘prophets’ – so long as
their preaching isn’t too challenging. They’re happy to attend the
services conducted by ‘priests’ – so long as nobody expects them to
change their way of life. They don’t want ‘prophets’ and ‘priests’ who
take Your Word seriously. Help us, Lord,, to be serious about preaching
Your Word. Help us to be serious about living in obedience to
Your Word. This won’t be popular. We won’t be didn’t give people what
they want – but we’ll be giving them what they what they need. We’ll
be challenging them to ‘get real’ with You, Lord. Help us, Lord to do
what You want us to do – not what other people want us to do.
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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