Dear Folks,
It was late at night or
very early in the morning, probably 1:0oam, I just discovered the truth about
the believer in a new way. ‘RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.’ James
4:7. Imagine my joy. Hulala! Suddenly I became a little taller, I felt like a
giant – in fact like a bulldozer – ready to bulldoze the devil not only from my
life, and ministry but if possible from the world.
So I began to exercise the
word of God in prayer – ‘devil get out of my ministry, you have no permission
in my spirit, soul and body…I began to blow tongues…common now’. After staying
in prayer battling with God’s word for like an hour. I heard the spirit say to
me, ‘READ THAT VERSE AGAIN’. Why? I mean by now I can quote it. When He kept
pressing me, I read it, and then it was the same. ‘Resist the devil, and He
will flee from you’.
By now I was familiar with
that verse. But how many times have we missed out on God’s mind, treasure and
revelation because we are used to that verse? So, He said, ‘the whole verse’.
Then I saw it… ‘SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you’. James 4:7. THEN I SAW IT. FIRST, YOU MUST SUBMIT TO GOD!
Immediately I stopped praying – I was on to something new – Rev!
Many times, believers are
exercising so much energy resisting the devil, and you can see for yourself
that instead of the devil fleeing, he is building strongholds and pavilions
around you. We must learn to do the first thing first, which is to submit to
God – then resisting the devil will be like a stroll in the park. But we must
learn to do the first thing first – the first thing is not resisting the devil,
it is submitting to God. God doesn’t help you to submit, it is you that submit
– ‘submit yourselves’ – it’s a decision you must make. No need to be spiritual
about that.
THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD!
The reason the devil has given Christians so much hell, is because most
Christians are not submitted to God.
The question I asked which
you should ask is how do I submit to God? Especially a God I cannot see, and I
cannot walk to His office to take order? THE WAY THAT YOU SUBMIT TO GOD IS BY
BEING SUBMITTED TO HIS WORD, because God and His word are one. This means that
if you submit yourselves to the Word, then and only then can you have the right
to resist the devil. The Bible does not say fight him. It says resist him. And
the Bible says, he will flee from you. So you are in a faith fight – but that
fight is dependent on submission to God’s word.
The Greek word submit ishupotasso.
The hupo means "under" and the tasso means
"to arrange." This word and a root of it are also translated by the
words subject and subjection. The word's full
meaning is "to obey, put under, be subject to, submit oneself unto, put in
subjection under or be under obedience or obedient to." The word was used
as a military term meaning "to arrange troop divisions in a military
fashion under the command of a leader."
In order to resist the
devil therefore you must put yourself under the Word of God. The word of God is
the leader and you must obey it. You must be subjected fully to God’s word – in
complete obedience! IF (note the word IF) you live such a word controlled and
dominated life, then you will resist the devil and he will flee.
The devil is not as
powerful as he seems, it is just that we have refused to live in subjection to
God’s word. The Bible says concerning Jesus, ‘WITH BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN
OFFERINGS YOU WERE NOT PLEASED. THEN I SAID, ‘HERE I AM—IT IS WRITTEN ABOUT ME
IN THE SCROLL. I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL, MY GOD’. Hebrews 10:6-7. He was
submitted to doing what was written concerning him in the scroll. We also must
stand and be committed to that which is written in the eternal scroll of God –
His word!
Again submit yourselves to
God, resist the devil and he will be on the highway – fleeing! Be sure to keep
the devil at bay – keep him fleeing by submitting to God’s word, THEN RESIST
HIM. Amen!
Your Greatness is Assured!
FA
Fisayo Adeniyi
Pursuing Purpose...
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