Thursday October 17th, 2024
« But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” »
Read Job 1:9-12NKJV
9 Satan replied to the Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God.
10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is!
11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse You to your face!”
12 “All right, you may test him,” the Lord said to Satan. “Do whatever you want with everything he possesses, but don’t harm him physically.” So Satan left the Lord’s presence.
The principal aim of Satan in attacking you physically is to cause you to deny God. Job 2:4-5NKJV says
« So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life. But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will surely curse You to Your face!” »
Satan wants to make you sick so that you can complain against God and turn your back on Him.
He knows if you can turn your back on God, then you will not get all that He has for you in Him.
I pray that God will put Satan to shame in your life in Jesus’ name.
- In 2 Kings 5:1-14, we see that Satan afflicts people physically to discredit every other thing they might have achieved.
Naaman was successful in everything, yet he had an incurable disease that put a ‘but’ on his achievements.
In Mark 5:25-34, Satan attacked the woman with the issue of blood so as to waste her resources and reduce her to nothing.
Just as God stepped in for Naaman and the woman with the issue of blood, He is going to step in for you now in the name of Jesus Christ.
The story in Mark 2:1-12 tells us about a young man carried by four friends.
- The devil wants you to be carried from one place to another, but because you are connected to God, you will cease to be a burden to others, in Jesus’ name.
The devil also attacks people physically so that he may tie them down to a spot.
In John 5:2-9, there were many sick people waiting for the moving of the pool of Bethesda.
They could not move around freely because of the ailments in their bodies.
The devil cannot tie you down because he has lost his hold on you.
Jesus promised His followers victory over sickness when He defeated the devil. 1 John 3:8NKJV says
« For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil »
Sickness is the work of the devil.
I pray for you that Jesus will raise you up from your bed of sickness now, in Jesus’ name.
Prayer focus – Heavenly Father, I receive healing for my body now, in the name of Jesus.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Edited by Naomie Joseph
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