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Combating Satan

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The second scheme of the enemy in dark times is to get us to either forget the promises of God or to doubt them. Remember, the Bible contains enormous power:

 

For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Hebrews 4: 12 (NLT)

 

But what brings the Bible to life and imbues it with this power? Your faith. If you do not believe that Bible then it does just become a collection of nice stories. And what does God assure us when we are in pain?

 

He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds Psalm 147: 3 (NLT)

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3: 19-23 (NIV)

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41: 10 (NIV)

Time does not heal all wounds, God does! There are countless more promises of God in His Word that have divine power to lift us up in our grief, sustain us through our suffering, and bring us out of the valley of the shadow of death better and stronger for having gone through it. Here is one of the greatest promises God has made to us:

 

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8: 28 (NIV)

 

Beloved if there is one verse we must cling to in times of great sorrow, this is the one. No matter how great the loss we have suffered God is still working in the middle of it for our good. He can take the deepest pain and suffering we have in our lives and turn it around for His glory and our good, if we would just hold fast to our faith and what we believe. Throughout the Gospels we see account after account of Jesus healing people and it was always done according to their faith. Realize that when we are in deep pain and grief it is healing we need! We need healing in our soul. That healing is always available according to the faith that we have.

This is why the second attack from the enemy is going to be to try and shake our faith or to get us unfocused. We can start to question God and wonder why things that seem unfair to our temporal minds happen. I do not have a magical answer why bad things happen to good people. I wish I did. Why really good hearted, selfless people are left to a life of misery or abuse. Why the lives of loving caring people are cut tragically short. These are the things Satan uses to erode our faith and get our focus off of God. It is another battlefield he prefers to be fighting on. But God has given us the strategy to defeat him:

 

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