A reminder for
today
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and
he will flee from you. (James 4:7)
I love this verse and it came up in my thoughts again this weekend,
so I decided to share it again. I bookmarked this one so that I can continually
remind myself how to let the enemy flee from me. I guess it is something we all
struggle with every day. Some days we resist and some days we fail to resist. What
happens when we fail?
Well it is quite simple, when we fail the enemy wins and he
gets to pull you down with a smile. Failing is submitting to the temptations
and lies that enemy uses to confuse us and to point us in the wrong direction. Let’s
look at a few examples of failing when the enemy comes around. Do you play the lotto,
or do you gamble sometimes? This is the enemy’s way of confusing you into the idea
that you could win your blessings. Jesus said: “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap,
nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much
better than they?” (Matthew 6:26)
When you argue with someone or a loved one, do you go back and
say sorry or talk it out? Paul writes in Ephesians 4:26 “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither
give place to the devil.”
Once again, we are reminded that we should not open a space
for the devil that he can use against us in our own destruction.
Do you trust God for the outcome or the answer to you prayer
or do you go ahead and make your own decision out of impatience or just because
you think that is what God wanted? God tells Joshua in Joshua 1:9 “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of
a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou
goest.”
It all boils down to one simple thing. Resist the enemy. Submit
to God and resist the enemy.
Now to all of you that are married I want to add this, because
understanding this will keep the enemy out of your relationship:
Submitting yourselves
one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own
husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore
as the church is subject unto Christ, so let
the wives be to their own
husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved
the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with
the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their
own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated
his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church: For
we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Have an awesome day dear friend of Jesus.
Cheers
