You can defeat the giant of your life (Part 6)
Verse of the day: 1 Samuel 17: 45 "Then David said to the Philistine: You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied"
David’s message to the Philistines was very clear because he wanted Goliath to understand that he came against him with a sword, with a spear and with a javelin while David was leaning on the Lord his God. Walking against Goliath in the name of the Lord of hosts simply means walking relying on God.
When we face a problem and more particularly a material or financial problem, we make the mistake of building our faith on our knowledge, our degrees, our family members or our friends ... who are the image of the sword, the spear and the javelin.
The best strategy is to build our faith on the Word of God and face the giants in the name of Jesus. Sometimes it is shocking to see how one can be in Church for years listening to the Word of God but without coming to understand the importance of the name of Jesus.
Let me talk a little about the name of Jesus: While trying to describe the name of Jesus, Paul wrote to the Philippians, saying: " Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth"(Phil 2: 9-10). The passage says that God raised Jesus' name above every name. Here I have to remind you that every problem has a name. The name can be cancer, rent payments, unemployment, bareness... but the important thing is that the name is below the name of Jesus. We often find ourselves below the problems while in the name of Jesus we are supposed to be above.
The same verse goes further by reminding us that every knee shall bow before the name of Jesus. Those who kneel before Jesus' name are the angels of heaven, men (on earth) and even demons (under the earth). When we face the devil, we must recall that he must kneel before the name of Jesus in accordance with the scriptures, and if Jesus is in us, the devil is supposed to kneel when we confess that powerful name.
I would like to share a very important verse in my Christian life because it helped me to penetrate where I could never enter. The verse says: " Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you "(Luke 10: 19). Let us pray so that we should be aware of this authority and especially for the real revelation of "nothing shall by any means hurt us"
To be continued in Part 7
Chris Ndikumana
