Is the devil running your world? How long will you let him stay in your home or your church? When will you wake up and use the resources that God has given you and open battle on Satan's works? Why sit and wait for him to attack?
Stand up as a mighty army and say, "Wait a minute, this earth belongs to me." If we believe that everything has to bow at the name of Jesus, we should have the guts, gall and audacity to quit talking about it and start manifesting it.
If you have a wife who's not saved, don't cut her head off. Just keep your eye on the promise instead of the problem. The God in you is stronger that the devil in him.
Why do we play games with the devil? I'll tell you why: because religion has taught you to play with him. The religious crowd didn't like Jesus, because He didn't play games. He broke the power of darkness everywhere He went.
As long as there is a sinner in this world, we have a destiny to complete. But many churches in America have a Samson mentality. They are living with their enemy, and he is controlling them. Samson did not deliver Israel from the Philistines. He made them live with their enemy because he loved one of their women.
God is looking for men and women like Gideon who will stand on His Word and deliver people from their enemy. It's time to stand up like Joshua and Caleb and claim your promised land. There may be giants in the land, but you are well able to defeat them in the name of Jesus.
You have to make a quality decision to stand firmly on the Word of God. Jehovah made a quality decision to put Jesus on the cross so that you would have the ability to tell sin and Satan NO!
If your boy were nailed to a cross and cried out to you saying, "Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?" You would run to him and rescue him from that cruel cross.
But God made a rational, quality decision when it came to the life of His Son, Jesus Christ. He refused to look at Jesus while He hung on that cross because the sins of the world were upon Him. It hurt Jehovah to see man spit on Jesus and devils gnash on Him.
At that moment, God was running toward Satan. Jesus came to earth to die for man's sin, but God did not plan to leave His Son in hell. He was destined to rise and cut off the head of Satan.
Jesus left His clothes as evidence that He rose from the dead. He left that tomb in a glorified robe of righteous light. In front of His empty tomb, and angel sat on the opened stone door and proclaimed, "He's not dead. He's ALIVE!"
As every member of the heaven looked on, Jesus walked into the portals of glory. His entrance declared to His Father and all of creation that the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world had been sacrificed. He had ransomed back God's most prized possession-mankind.
He took a bucket of His precious blood and threw it across the altar, sealing man's redemption forever. Jehovah announced to all: "Man has become the righteousness of God. Go forth with the good news: He has risen!" Glory to God!
Jesus ran toward His giant-mankind's sin-and demolished it utterly. He ran toward the giants of poverty, sickness, hate and depression and annihilated them with His precious blood.
He is the great conqueror who was and is victorious over every work of the enemy. He has made you and me more than conquerors through Him. Why did He do it? "...That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands" (1 Sam. 17:46-47).
Don't stand back and let a stinking devil from hell defy the promises of God. Stand in the strength of God, stop playing games with the devil, run toward that giant in your life and defeat it in the name of Jesus!
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers