YOUR DAILY CLIMB (DEVOTIONAL) JUNE 4, 2016

June 4, 2016

MY FRIENDS, CAN WE FIGHT SATAN AT UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS?

Today, we are in the trenches of this world. And the enemy has us surrounded on all sides along with many minefields of doubt and complacency. But my friends, we can never let the enemy scare us, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Tim. 1:7 (NKJV) And that sound mind should give us the power of discernment to understand that we “do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age………” Eph. 6:12 (NKJV)

So now we must remember that Satan is a strategist and a master of manipulation and as he “sees the Lord’s servants burdened because of the spiritual darkness that enshrouds His people. He hears their earnest prayers for divine grace and power to break the spell of indifference, carelessness, and inactivity.” (E.G. White Snares of Satan p 519) And as the faith of many begin to waver and the endurance level weakens, Satan gains a renewed zeal.

And as he hears the prayers of the weak, he applies his art of manipulation at unprecedented levels that we are witnessing today in the 21^st century as he begins to scare many into getting off of that narrow road that few will remain on that leads to that beautiful home where he once lived. Onto that wide and easy road that many will travel that leads to perdition as the indulgence of appetite, television, internet and other “forms of self-gratification begin to benumb our senses.

And at that point we fail to hear God’s Spirit and see the very things that a child of God needs to finish this journey Christ has placed us on. But my friends that is when fasting and prayer and a renewed study in the word of God must also be taken to unprecedented levels. remember friends we are children of the Most High God, and Satan has no power over us, “because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” 1 John 4:4 (NKJV)

And because of that power that is attempting to destroy each of us daily we must forever seek that righteous power source of Christ at unprecedented levels as we “lift up [our] eyes [daily] unto the hills, from whence cometh our help, which is from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. In addition, He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth His faithful will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth His children shall neither slumber nor sleep.

So we must remember, the Lord is our keeper, also the Lord is our shade upon thy right hand. And the sun shall not smite His faithful who endure by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve us while we are in the trenches of this world from all evil and He will preserve our soul and the Lord shall preserve our going out and our coming in from this time forward and throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity when we will be living in that place.

Yes my friends, that place “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”  and For them that renewed their faith each day. and For them with a passion and a zeal to serve, and went out and sowed the seeds of God’s message to the world. and for them that endured till the end and were saved.] Ps. 121:1-8 (NKJV paraphrased) 1 Cor. 2:9 (NKJV)