Scriptures: Deuteronomy 28 v 7; Luke 8 v 26 - 39.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to
be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee
before you seven ways."
Some people think that Jesus and the devil are always
confronting and fighting each other. But when I read my Bible, I don’t see
fights between the two. What I see is the devil having to flee whenever he
encounters Jesus!
Even when Jesus fasted 40 days and was confronted by
Satan in the Wilderness, He defeated him by the power in the Word of God.
Consider the demoniac from the country of the Gadarenes
in Luke 8:26–39. The demons in the man begged Jesus not to torment them or send
them into the abyss, but to permit them to stay in that place. Jesus sent them
into a herd of swine who did what the Legion of demons was trying to do to the
demoniac. Commit suicide. Thereafter the
man was clothed and in his right mind.
You see, neither the devil nor his demons can stand
before Jesus. They may be able to torment people for a while, but when Jesus
comes on the scene, they know that they have to leave. There is no fellowship between light and
darkness; good and evil; Jesus and Satan.
They will have to flee! All it took was just one word from Jesus, and
the entire legion of demons had to come out of the man and flee into the swine.
As a child of God, you exude a spiritual fragrance which
evil spirits can detect and which causes them to tremble. It is the life of
Jesus inside you. And He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
(1 John 4:4) When a demon sees you filled with the Holy Spirit, he cannot
distinguish between you and Jesus. All he sees is the Light that destroyed the
power of all demons as Jesus in you shines forth. He is a defeated foe and all
he has in his bag of tricks is bluff.
But he is very good at conning people.
He can scare you with symptoms of horrible diseases. If
you start to fear and worry he adds more pain and misery. Your unsaved doctor
is also under his control and he diagnoses and confirms your fears. In Job it
says that which you greatly fear shall come upon you. So when you get nasty
symptoms, return them to sender and rather believe God's Word which says by the
stripes of Jesus you are healed.
That is why no curse, spell, disease, accusation, scandal
or destruction planned against you can succeed. Your enemies may come against
you one way, but when you submit to God and resist the devil he will flee.
(James 4 v 7). The Lord will confuse them and cause them to flee before you
seven ways when you declare your faith and make your stand.
We must be proactive with the Lord as Jesus paid with His life to give you this victory over
your enemies. So put on the whole armour of God, and resist the enemy to see
your symptoms disappear. All things are possible to those who believe.
After His arrest in the garden of Gethsemane, the Jews
and Gentiles were united for the first time with one common objective: Torture
Jesus and have Him killed. King Herod of the Jews and Pontius Pilate of the
Romans were long-time enemies, but because of Jesus, they became friends. (Luke
23:12).
My friend, Jesus’ enemies were united and had “victory”
over Him. But because He triumphed over them through the Cross and rose again,
today, your enemies will be scattered and you will have victory over them!
Prayer: Heavenly Father we have been accustomed to
consulting doctors and specialists to have our fears confirmed before we pray
and resist our enemy. We need to renew our minds according to Your Word to have
continuous victory over illness, financial problems, bad government, motor
accidents, being burgled, mugged or any other scheme of the enemy to destroy
our faith. Father, teach us to know just how powerful You are on behalf of Your
children. In Jesus' name. Amen.