Monday September 15th, 2025
« Jesus said to them, ”My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work” »
5 When Jesus returned to Capernaum, a Roman officer came and pleaded with Him,
6 “Lord, my young servant lies in bed, paralyzed and in terrible pain.”
7 Jesus said, “I will come and heal him.”
8 But the officer said, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come into my home. Just say the word from where you are, and my servant will be healed.
9 I know this because I am under the authority of my superior officers, and I have authority over my soldiers. I only need to say, ‘Go,’ and they go, or ‘Come,’ and they come. And if I say to my slaves, ‘Do this,’ they do it.”
Submission is different from cooperation.
Cooperation is when you work together with someone to achieve a mutually desired goal.
Submission on the other hand, is when you want something totally different from what the other fellow wants, but because you have to submit, you do what he or she asks you to.
- One who submits to God is that individual who will do whatever God says – whether it is logical or not, convenient or not.
Those who put their own wishes aside and just say, “If this is what God says, that is what I will do”.
Once the devil knows you are that submissive to God, when you begin to resist him, he will flee. James 4:7 NKJV says
« Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and e will flee from you »
- The devil knows those who are 100% submissive to God.
Those who will do whatever God says even if they have to die doing it.
On the other hand, he knows those who are submissive to their bellies or their sexual drive; those who are lovers of the world and those who are in it.
It is only when your submission to God is complete that you can have the authority to revenge any disobedience, 2 Corinthians 10:6.
If you want to resist the devil so that he will flee from you, then you have to be completely submissive to God.
Who you submit to determines how much authority you have.
The commissioner of works submits to the governor of his state; he does not have as much authority as the minister of works who submits to the president. In Matthew 8:9Amplified
« For I also am a man subject to authority [of a higher rank], with soldiers subject to me; and I say to one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it” »
When you are truly submissive to God, then He gives you some of His authority so that once you speak, the devil trembles and flees.
Some of those troubles the devil is causing in your life can be stopped once you submit to God.
Application – Put aside your own desires and submit completely to God’s will.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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