Our responsibility is to ALWAYS resist the devil’s influences & temptations!

When we’re feeling distant from God, consider turning to Scriptures like James 4:6-7,

“But He gives us more and more grace. Therefore, it says, “God is opposed to the proud and haughty, but gives grace to the humble. So submit to God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.”

When we choose to be unsubmissive or flat out disobedient to what we know is God’s best for us … we are choosing to NOT walk in the victory that Jesus has already won on our behalf!

In John 10:10, Jesus says this about our adversary the devil and Himself,

“The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance.”

We will be unable to glorify the Lord to the max throughout our lifetime without recognizing the reality of the presence of evil, and what our Biblical response of standing firm against it needs to be.

It’s imperative to know who are enemy truly is, in order to effectively defeat his continual attacks against us.

Paul says in Ephesians 6:12,

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.”

More on the details surrounding the full armor of God in the next post.