STOP MAGNIFYING SATAN

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE

WEDNESDAY, 20ST APRIL, 2022

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

General Overseer

STOP MAGNIFYING SATAN

MEMORISE: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” - James 4:7

SCRIPTURE READING: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.” 1 Peter 5:8-9.

EXPOSITION

Today, many Christians have a wrong portray and view of satan. Merely looking at how they talk and what they are being taught in their various local churches, we will discover that many have made satan bigger than how he is. When many hear the name satan, they tremble. They view him as someone who is so powerful that they need to run away from, while the Bible says we should resist him. These people lack knowledge of who satan really is. 

Who exactly is satan? He is called the god of this world (of the unbelievers) (2 Corinthians 4:4). He is not the opposite of God, as if he had equal standing with God, because God has no counterpart. God has no equal. Satan is merely an angel under God's judgment (Matthew 25:41), He is a defeated being (Isaiah 14:12-15; Revelations 12:10-11). Satan is in the business of trying to deceive us. He works by making something look like the truth but it is lie, it is deception. The power of satan is in the lie. If you remove the lie, you remove the power (John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 11:15). Satan attempts to have power over us, but we are told, He who is in you is greater than He who is in the world. The Holy Spirit of God is greater than the spirit of satan. As Christians, we are indwelt by God's precious Spirit. Therefore, satan cannot just exercise his power over us (Romans 8;9).

Finally, you don't have to be another victim of the devil, if you learn to resist him in fervent prayer (James 4:6-7). Satan fears the Christian who prays upon his knees. Likewise, satan cannot fool, mislead, or defeat you, if you know and abide in the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17; 2 Timothy 3:15).

PRAYER POINTS

i. Lord, I receive the grace to be wiser than the devil in all his cunning ways. I pull down all Satan's strategies that weigh me down, in Jesus' name.

ii. Lord, continue to destroy all the works of the devil over Your church on earth.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR – 1 Chronicles 20 - 22

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