Satan’s Power Over You

Today, I read some very encouraging insights concerning Romans 16:20. I read them in Pastor Rick Renner’s book titled “Sparkling Gems from the Greek”. Here is some of what Pastor Rick said…

“The glorious truth is that Jesus already completely destroyed Satan’s power over you through His death and resurrection. The devil was utterly smashed, crushed, and bruised when Jesus was victoriously raised from the dead. Your God-given mission now is

to reinforce the victory already won and to demonstrate just how miserably defeated Satan already is!

The enemy may try to lord himself over you; he may attempt to exert his foul influence over your life. However, he is merely using empty threats and illusions to feed fear into your mind.

Never forget – the only place that rightfully belongs to the devil is the small space of ground right under your feet! Jesus accomplished a total, complete, and perfect work through the Cross of Calvary and His resurrection from the dead.” ~ Pastor Rick Renner

There is so much that goes through my mind after reading this but I will just share one thought and then let you think upon the quote yourself.

Sometimes, we can inadvertently allow ourselves to be defeated spiritually by failing to believe the promises of God’s Word. Maybe we can think of many reasons why His promises may not apply to our situation. Maybe we’ve sinned, maybe we haven’t been spending time in prayer or reading the word, or maybe we haven’t been going to church regularly. I’m not saying that these things are unimportant, they are key to growing in Christ and overcoming sin. But we must be careful here, because the victory that we have over Satan is not based upon our spiritual performance but upon Jesus’. He alone secured victory for us.

Satan wants us to believe that he is not defeated in our lives because we are failing in some way. That gives him temporary victory in our mind and life. But we must cling to the truth of God’s Word with a simple, child-like faith. We must believe it is true in our life because God’s Word says it is. Then, we will begin to experience victory in spiritual warfare and over sin. Jesus won the victory, now believe it and stand upon it!

Have you ever experienced the things I’ve written here?