I had been trying to tell my kids that the devil was real for months on end, but all I got was their laughter. "The Who?" they often said, ridiculing me. They just felt it was a form of fanaticism for believers to say there was an unknown presence attacking us and trying to defeat us. Well, I have had to face such adversity before I knew this and I've always wanted to assign a reason for it.
Finding out that there was an adversary was welcoming information because I can deal with what I know about. My KNOWING doesn't have to be by SIGHT; I am a spirit and I live in a body. I keep my spirit in TUNE and connected to the power source! My mind is alert and I am always on guard. However, explaining this to my college age children was getting me nowhere. I stood in faith and put prayer on it as well.
In their efforts to disprove my reasoning; my children actually began to see that I was telling the truth. My daughter was first; she moved far away to another state. When she was home, she rarely asked for prayer. In this new place, without transportation she was calling daily for prayer.
Finally, she faced a challenging crisis. There was a winter storm and she had left home without a bus pass, and had run out of money quite a ways from home. She was inconsolable and seemed ready to give up. The first thing that I told her was: "Are you going to let the devil knock you out with one blow?" She said: "No." "You've got more than that, I told her.
Then we prayed and God sent a woman who gave her the fare that she needed to get home. Eventually He touched my heart to give her my wonderful car even though that left me hitchhiking. Not long after that, I got a new car! I got the car not because I wanted a material object, but so that I would be enabled to do kingdom business!
I recently talked to a friend who was greatly distressed and in tears over a check that had not come, even though the mail had not come yet. I was led to ask her: "ARE YOU GOING TO LET THE DEVIL KNOCK YOU OUT WITH ONE BLOW? We prayed a prayer of agreement and we are standing in faith that it will all work out.
If you're reading this, I'll tell you that your big old problem is only big to you and the devil. But ye are of God! So remember that God will fix it no matter what size you "think" it is and tell the devil: "You're a defeated foe, loose my (whatever it is) and let it go in Jesus Name, and keep on stepping! You'll be glad that you did.
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