We bless the name of the lord who has gathered us once again to feed us extensively with his word that gives life, today we expounded on the topic, “The 3 powerful weapons the devil is using to bring you down”, which we started last week and we believe today’s conclusion on the expository topic will enlighten you more on how you can live a victorious christian life over the devil and his tactics.
Text: EPHESIANS 6:12, MATTHEW 9:17, I CORINTHIANS 9:7, MATTHEW 15:18, GENESIS 3:1, 2TIMOTHY 2:26, ROMANS 7:22, JAMES 1:5, MATTHEW 14:27, MARK 11:23, 2TIMOTHY 1:7, ROMANS 8:14- 15, HEBREWS 10:23, 2CORINTHIANS 10:4,
Every promised word of God belong to His children (Acts2:39), the devil on the other hand will not stop until this purpose is defeated in the lives of believers. Evil thoughts, doubt and fear are the three major weapons the devil deploy for this purpose.
Nothing can transform a man except the word of God, the revelation to believe this word is the surest and greatest victory to any warfare of the devil (matthew 15:27- 28). The bible in Matthew 9:17 gave a hint on how this revelation can be obtained, which is by putting new wine into a new bottle, and not a new wine into an old bottle. The latter describes a typical denominational setting, where every word written in the bible is solely for merchandize, and the former describes a believer who should increase in the knowledge of God’s word assiduously.
This review is aimed at exposing the devil’s greatest weaponry and the counter weapon needed by Christians to always defeat him at his game.
EVIL THOUGHT
The devil must come to you as Christian, irrespective of your level of relationship with God, he does this through your thought (mind). As a child of a God, you are soldier recruited by God and equipped with a weapon both for combat and defense (Ephesians 6:12-13). That old serpent deceived our mother eve by questioning the promise of God (Genesis 3:1), he is the same old devil and has not changed his claws. Sometimes, you wonder how a sane human being would walk into a mall or school and shoot his fellow human dead, why? This is because he is short of God’s weapon of defense (His word) to reject the devil’s suggestion in the first place. Fellow believers, the bible rightly said that” we should guide our heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life” (proverbs 4:23)—– you do this by professing the promise of God (spoken word), and rebuking the devil at every turn, like our savior, the Lord Jesus Christ did in Matthew 4:1- 10
Further reading: Ecclesiastes 8:4, 1 corinthians 9:7, 2 timothy 2:4
FEAR
Fear is a powerful tool in the hand of the devil to cheat us, it’s not a weapon for believers to defeat the devil. Fear comes when you doubt the word of God. The moment you are captivated with fear you cannot be progressive spiritually, it makes a spirit man choked fruitlessl, but we have a powerful declaration by the scripture (II Timothy 1:7) – For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. How do we inherit a sound mind? – This is done by the word of God. So brethren, let us give our all to the word of God, it’s our spiritual weapon to defeat the devil.
Brethren, you are encouraged to live a victorious life, even if things don’t look smooth just stay positive and profess good things into your life, hold fast to your confession because God who has promised us is faithful to make things work out for us.
Go on conquering by the word of God.
DOUBT
Every action is a product of your thought (Matthew 15:19), so is doubt. The moment you allow the devil to question the promise of God in His word, you are creating a room to receive the dart of doubt—in bible parlance, doubt represents defilement, and a doubtful mind can never receive anything from the Lord (James 1:6- 8). When you let the devil talk to you, he is deceiving you, don’t let him! instead, delight yourself in the law of Lord, and keep trusting in Him to accomplish what He has promised(Romans 7:22)—herein lies your victory!
In summary, the word of God is/have/will always be the most effective, time-tested weapon to combat and defend yourself as a Christian against every warfare and gimmicks of the devil. Every believer in the bible who applied these principles emerged victorious against the devil and were crowned champions (our savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Joshua, The Israelites, to mention but a few). The unbelievers will see you as a joke, but keep trusting in the Lord, don’t give up, it will pay off in the end.
God bless you!