Monday August 25th, 2025
« It is better to be patient than powerful. It is better to win control over yourself than over whole cities »
1 Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
2 So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”
3 Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”
It is true that we wrestle with many external enemies described as principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places, Ephesians 6:12.
- Many people however, fight against themselves thereby constituting an internal enemy to themselves.
For example, there are many people who believe they are free to do anything they wish with their body; they therefore would not deny themselves anything their heart desires.
This mindset often leads to sinful practices like indecent dressing, drunkenness, sexual immorality, gluttony, lasciviousness, idolatry, anger, selfishness, drug addiction and the likes.
Such practices often produce results that are detrimental to the body, sometimes generating life-threatening repercussions.
These sinful practices should therefore be correctly identified as internal enemies of all human beings. 1 Corinthians 3:17NLT says
« God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple »
This is an important statement with a very serious implication.
- The Almighty God, our Creator, wants us to know that He created us as His own dwelling place.
He went on to say that if anyone defiles the temple of God, he or she shall be destroyed.
This is probably the source of the increase in strange ailments and reduction in life expectancy across the world.
- Those who defile or abuse their bodies with alcohol, hard drugs, sexual immorality, unhygienic food and unhealthy exposure to dangerous substances often become sick and end up dying prematurely.
Many incidents of youths all over the world dying from drug addiction, mental illness, hypertension, suicide, liver-related problems and so on are traceable to these internal enemies.
Mark 7:23 tells us that all these evil things come from within and defile the man (the temple of God), while Galatians 5:21 says without exception that everyone who practices such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Prayer focus – Father, please help me not to be an enemy to myself, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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