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                May 31                 
                                  
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                Kgs 8 - 10 
              
              UNPROVOKED ASSAULT! 
              MEMORISE: 
                ‘Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent 
                blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, wasting and destruction 
                are in their paths.’ (Isa 59:7) 
                 
                READ: 
                Matthew 10: 16-25 
              King Saul was tormented right 
                in his palace by an evil spirit. David, a young skilled instrumentalist, 
                was employed to bring respite to him. Yet as he played innocently 
                and served Saul, all that occupied the king’s heart was 
                how to kill David. He hurled his javelin twice at him, intending 
                to pin him to the wall, but twice he failed (1 Sam 18: 10-11). 
                On escaping, David must have asked himself what evil he had done 
                to Saul. Even today, some people ask, ‘What have I done 
                to warrant the attack of the enemy? You do not have to warrant 
                an attack of the devil. It is the duty of darkness to attack light. 
                It is the lawful commission of witches and wizards to attack you. 
              ‘Ye are of your father the 
                devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer 
                from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there 
                is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his 
                own: for he is a liar, and the father of it’ (John 8:44). 
              If agents of darkness refuse to 
                perform their assignment, they will be mercilessly punished. Together 
                with their father, their threefold mission is to steal, to kill 
                and to destroy (John 10:10). A group of magicians were performing 
                somewhere. Then some believers in Christ started praying close 
                by. Their prayer began to affect the operations of the demons 
                so that they could not respond to the dictates of the magicians. 
                On being asked what was happing, the demons pointed to the praying 
                believers. What do you think the reaction of the magicians was? 
              Sometimes, having been used by 
                the Lord you might be going on your way innocently when you meet 
                up with someone who abuses you and tries as much as possible to 
                get you to fight with him, even without provocation. It is the 
                devil who is annoyed and who has stirred this person up against 
                you. Just ignore him, since Satan is looking for ways to get back 
                at you. No matter how hard the devil tries, he will continue to 
                fail in your life, in Jesus’ Name. Stay holy. 
               
                ACTION POINT 
                Pray that God would scatter by fire every satanic mission 
                against your life, family and ministry.  |