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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. |