I know that we all have those times in our lives where we just have Satan all over our backs, and all we want, is for him to go away. No matter how hard we try, if we are trying on our own power, there will be a zero percent chance that you will succeed in that battle. The biggest thing about going through those times is some people tend to think that if they pretend it's not there, they will just feel better. Then the feeling keeps on coming back. The temptations, and the other feelings that come with them. Let's just say that we do have an enemy, he will try everything he can to tear you apart from God. He will also do everything he can to make you do the things that you do not want to do. Our enemy is very powerful. Not only that, but he is very crafty, and he uses the combination of the two to make you believe a lie. We can not hope to beat him at his own game, in the sense that we use what little power we have to fight back. We however, have the authority to fight back.
Now some might think that having power can cause you to automatically gain some form of dominion over the people who you are using that power against. The thing that apparently hasn't crossed the mind of our ever crafty enemy, is that he does not have the authority to cause any of the bad things to happen to you. He has the power to tempt you, he has the power to tear you apart, but he has no authority over you. It's actually quite the opposite. Meaning you have all the authority over him! Nothing that he can do to you is strong enough to beat your authority.
Think about it this way: You may have more power than a police officer. You may be stronger quicker, faster, and just more able to do harm to him, than he is to you. That does not give you the authority to just go around beating someone. Think of yourself as the police officer, and Satan as the person who overpowers you. The police officer has the authority to take the man into jail and such if he were to try to harm him. Just like that, we have the authority to totally kick Satan's but to the curb, and not deal with the crap that he brings us.
A quote this makes me think of is "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. It is that we are powerful beyond measure" I think that many people will think that there is nothing they can do about Satan, but God intended for man to have dominion over the earth, and everything that isn't Godly. We have the authority to tell Satan to get his happy butt away from us, and our friends. Because God sent Jesus to restore the Kingdom that He was looking to build, we have been given the authority that we were supposed to have before the fall. Praise God!
This does not mean we just say to ourselves, "Be gone, Satan!" We must keep into account that we still need Jesus, and that if it weren't for Him, we would not have such authority. Jesus is first, then comes everything else.
I hope this inspires you to, as we said last night at Bible Study, "Get big" on Satan.
"If you try to meet Satan with a power encounter, we will lose! If we meet him with authority, we will surely win!"
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