You can defeat the giant of your life (Part 8)
Verse of the day: 1 Samuel 17: 42 "And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking"
Today I will talk about how the devil sees us. Goliath being the image of the devil, the verse of the day said that when he saw David, he disdained him in seeing a child in him. It is normal that Goliath had despised David because he had never met him before and he knew nothing of him and his faith. If Goliath had not died on the spot, he would have changed the language the next time he would meet little David.
Perhaps today the devil despises you in seeing in you a child in faith even though he knows that in you lies a great spiritual force that can destroy him. He knows very well that his strategy to manipulate you with fear works every time and he fully enjoys it. He is not afraid of what we say or pretend to say, but he is afraid of our strike force.
The day you will give him a serious blow in prayer in the name of Jesus, he will learn to take you seriously. One day some Jews envied Paul because they saw how demons trembled before him and they ventured to imitate him but the devil asked them a simple question: "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?" (Acts 19: 15). In fact the demons knew Jesus and Paul from the beating they received from them. If you are a man or woman of prayer, demons and Satanists in your neighborhood and your country know you and spend hours trying to figure out how to neutralize you. There is nothing that disturbs the works of the devil like prayer. I heard a testimony of a Christian converted after serving the devil in the spiritual world, he asserts that it is the prayers of the saints that shake the kingdom of Satan. He said that even in the street, he could recognize a Christian who prays and the one who does not pray.
The Christian who prays a lot and on a very regular basis becomes a kind of "Wanted" in the region and sometimes the demons of the region are forced to get support from other places but the good and encouraging news is that the strength in the Christian causing trouble to the devil is stronger than all these demons together and the more we become important to the devil, the more we become so before the Lord because our victory can only honor and glorify Him. Some Christians see the giant problems with the eyes of Gehazi instead of seeing them with the eyes of Elisha. Hear what Elisha told his servant Gehazi: " Do not fear, for those who are with us are with us are more than those who are with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see. Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha "(2 Kings 6: 16-17).
As Paul wrote to the Corinthians (2 Cor 5: 7), let us learn to walk by faith and not by sight.
To be continued in Part 9
Chris Ndikumana
