God Routs Fear

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phil36

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[h=4]Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. (Numbers 23:23)[/h]
[FONT=&quot]How this should cut up root and branch all silly, superstitious fears! Even if there were any truth in witchcraft and omens, they could not affect the people of the Lord. Those whom God blessed, devils cannot curse.

[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Ungodly men, like Balaam, may cunningly plot the overthrow of the Lord's Israel; but with all their secrecy and policy they are doomed to fail. Their powder is damp; the edge of their sword is blunted. They gather together; but as the Lord is not with them, they gather together in vain. We may sit still and let them weave their nets, for we shall not be taken in them. Though they call in the aid of Beelzebub and employ all his serpentine craft, it will avail them nothing: the spells will not work, the divination will deceive them. What a blessing this is! How it quiets the heart! God's Jacobs wrestle with God, but none shall wrestle with them and prevail. God's Israels have to prevail against them.

We need not fear the fiend himself, nor any of those secret enemies whose words are full of deceit and whose plans are deep and unfathomable. They cannot hurt those who trust in the living God. We defy the devil and all his legions.

C H Spurgeon - Faiths Check Book (Jan 26, entry).[/FONT]
 
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joaniemarie

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It is a great thing to know that no weapon formed against us shall prosper. We have Jesus. I do know that one of the enemies most successful tools against us believers is his lies. he can't do anything to us unless we believe his lies. Only then can he make our lives miserable. It isn't by his power but by the power we give him just like Adam and Eve did.

I've heard it said that satan is our toothless enemy. he is the deceiver and the accuser of the brethren. he disguises himself like an angel of light and tries to impersonate the Holy Spirit by using condemnation and guilt. Some Christians are unaware of his tactics and have fallen into despair and hopelessness when they didn't have to. Had they understood it was the enemy and trusted instead that the righteousness of God in Christ was already on them, that they are not condemned anymore, they would have been unsinkable.

But it's never too late to have the joy of the Lord and repent (change our minds) and learn how to resist the devil and see how he flees. Knowing we are not condemned brings a freedom and makes us able to BOLDLY go to the throne of grace and find help in time of need. The devil wants us to think it is God who is mad at us and that will cause us to shrink from and flee from God. It's a battlefield of the mind a lot of the time. If we believe right it will change how we live. It begins in our minds.
 
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