Tag: submit to God

A Prayer for SIL, Day 74

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Jesus, SIL confuses me. How can she be so attentive, sympathetic, and supportive one minute and hard, deceptive, and aggressive the next? What war rages in her? What force controls her so much that she yields to it most of the time? Wake her up, Lord. Open her eyes to what’s happening. Strengthen her so she can resist the evil and choose the good.

Then Satan stood against Israel and incited David to number Israel. 1 Chronicles 21:1

Lord, is this what’s going on? Is Satan standing against her healing and restoration and thus incites her to feel, think, and do what she’s doing? Then, I pray that You strengthen SIL’s desire to follow You so that she can resist the urgings of the demons. I pray James 4:7 for her: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

In Your Strong Name,

Amen

You’re Being Watched

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Do you feel like you’re being watched sometimes?

That’s because you are.

There are people who watch to see how you handle things.

There are animals who watch to see if you drop a bit of food.

There is God, who is always watching.

And there are other things, not so pleasant, also watching you, looking for ways to mess up your day.

They look for ways to destroy you.

They invite you to come outside and play with them; to come outside of God’s light, and enter their dark games.

You need to be aware, watchful, so you can resist their temptations, and not fall for their deceptions.

But you don’t need to worry. Let them watch. Our God is greater than ALL things.

And that includes scary looking things that can’t actually harm you.

Like this mayfly.

 

 

 

1 Peter 5:8  Be sober minded, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

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

Psalm 37:32  The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to put him to death.

Proverbs 15:3  The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.

1 Cor 16:13-14  Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.