Submit, Resist & Be Delivered

The road to victory concerning every negative issue we may come across in life can only be found in this 2 pronged approach as commanded in Gods Word, which is to: 
1. Submit to God's will concerning our lives and 
2. Resist the devil & as a result of our faithfulness to His provision via His word, the ancient enemy of the souls of men shall indeed flee from every situation that he had hitherto tried to steal, destroy or even kill what concerns us.  

We must understand that God's commands as found in the holy writ were lovingly written and passed down from generation to generation for all ages, for our benefit and not because God almighty rejoices in giving us strange and seemingly difficult commands, conditions and restrictions to make our lives miserable like  some erroneously think.

When God reveals Himself and His Christ to us individually, and we humbly accept and choose to submit ourselves to Him by believing in the only provision He has made available to deliver mankind from temptations allure and the unfairness of this fallen world's systems caused by the evil manipulations of Satan over them,  we are automatically strengthened to resist the devil by the empowerment we are afforded as a result by the Holy Spirit.

We can therefore be rest assured that the ancient enemy of the souls of men shall indeed flee from us concerning every situation we apply God's principle of deliverance upon.

In James 4:7-10, we are commanded by God to:
1. Submit ourselves to Him, 
2. Resist the devil, and as a result, he will flee from us.
We are admonished to draw near to God that He may in return, come near to us.
We are advised to wash our hands from our sinful ways, and to purify our hearts from our double-mindedness.
We are also encouraged to grieve, mourn and wail. To change our laughter to mourning and our joy to gloom concerning sin and all that is wrong with this fallen world we live in, and humble ourselves before the Lord, that He may lift us up.

As light will always have victory over darkness so also will the submissive relationship God has call us into with Him always strengthen and empower us to follow Him faithfully, to resist the evil one and also cause him to flee from the light of God that emanates from us because of our obedience to His mandate for our lives. 

Finally, God almighty has called us individually into a relationship with Him that He may bless us and cause us to ve blessings to others as in Genesis 12: 2-3 so let us be consistent in following Him.
Not just in our acceptance of Jesus as Saviour, that he may deliver us and merely help us resist and rebuff the devil whenever we are in trouble but more importantly as our Lord, that we may not continue to live life on the defensive but victoriously by being on the offensive, to twart Satans plans against us and our fellow men, like God has empowered us all to do in Christ Jesus.

Shalom.