Strength of God’s Word to Resist Satan: John MacArthur #God #Godsword #strength

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Transcript:
Our Father, we thank You for the consistency of Your Word, for its clarity. Thank You for showing us not only glimpses of Your holy kingdom but even of the unholy kingdom. We rejoice that You have not left us ignorant about Satan’s devices. We should never be a victim of his methods. Lord, help us to understand his limitations what he can never do. He cannot touch us. He cannot touch us any more than he could touch Christ. He had nothing in Him, and he has nothing in us because we are the temple of the Spirit of God.

We are in Christ, and Christ is in us. But he comes at it from the avenue that he does have, and that’s in the world system. He sets himself up as our adversary, to hinder the work of the Spirit of God, to hinder Your work, Father, to hinder Your work, blessed Christ and to devour and do damage to our usefulness and our spiritual impact.

So Lord, help us to stand firm, to resist the devil. Continue to direct us to understand what that means, even as we look at the armor of the Christian. But for now we know it starts with the breastplate of righteousness. As long as we’re walking in obedience to You, we are not giving the devil any opportunity. So Lord, keep us faithful, and may our focus always and only be on Christ. May all we do express love and devotion and obedience to Him.

We thank You for the victory that is already ours in Christ. We thank You that we have overcome Satan, the evil one; we have overcome the world, not because of anything we have done but because You have defeated Satan for us; and You have defeated the world for us, and it’s in that triumph that we live. There’s no reason for us to be seduced by the world.

We have within us the Spirit of God and the truth of the Word of God that can establish us in ways that give us strength to resist Satan. That’s our desire: for Your glory and for the blessedness and the impact of Your church. We pray these things in our Savior’s name. Amen.