Shalom,
Today I want to share the devotional from Jerry Savelle Ministries website:
Bring Glory
To God
Are you
under pressure? Feeling overwhelmed and challenged? If so, you need to
understand that it was brought on by Satan. He brings heaviness – heaviness of
spirit, heaviness of mind, and even heaviness physically. Whatever you do,
don’t blame God for the trial. He is not the author of trials.
Jesus said
that once the Word is sown in a man’s heart, Satan comes immediately to steal
it and to take it away. He also told us that there are five major avenues that
Satan uses: afflictions, persecutions, the cares of this world, the lust of
other things, and the deceitfulness of riches (Mark 4:14-20). Satan is the
tempter; he is the one who brings condemnation to you. He is the one that
brings heaviness, not God (1 Peter 1:3-7).
The Apostle
Peter describes it this way in verse 7: “though it be tried by fire.” Many
times the trials that you are involved in feel like a fiery furnace.
God wants
you to know that you can endure anything Satan brings against you. And if you
will follow the instructions in His Word, you will come out on the other side
of that trial like Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego did in Daniel 3: untouched,
unharmed, and totally protected.
God knows
Satan is a spiritual outlaw and that he is out to kill, to steal, and to
destroy … BUT God gave us weapons that are not carnal to use to fight Satan
(Ephesians 6:10-18). God has put in our hands the means whereby, regardless of
what Satan brings, there is a way of escape. God is glorified when we use
these weapons and defeat Satan. God doesn’t receive glory when we are beat
down.
Jesus tells
us just exactly how we can glorify our Father: “If ye abide in Me, and My words
abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein
is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; So shall ye be My disciples.”
(John 15:7-8). Notice, Jesus doesn’t say anything about God receiving glory
when we are beat down and defeated. He said God is glorified when we are full
of His Word, and that Word makes us fruitful (productive).
I have good
news for you today. You have been provided a way of escape! Remember Isaiah
54:17 says: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper.” Even
though Satan will bring situations to you and try to steal the Word out of your
heart, you can bring glory to God when you take His Word and resist the devil
until he flees.
You are a
testimony that God’s Word works. You are more than a conqueror through Him!
Confession: ,
“I am a conqueror! It may feel like I am in a furnace now, BUT, I will resist
the Devil, and he will flee! God has provided my way of escape. I will bear
much fruit and bring glory to my God!”
AMEN! GOD'S WORD is LIVING and POWERFUL and TRUTH! Treasure is, read it, meditate on it, obey it and RECEIVE all that HE has provided for YOU! Here is Hillsong with "Your Word":
Shalom in Him!
