MESSAGES
OPPOSE THE OPPOSER, RESIST THE
RESISTER – James 4:7
Submit
yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.
R = Renounce Satan and his works – 2 Corin 4:2 but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty,
not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully;
but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s
conscience in the sight of God.
E = Emptiness – John
14:30 Emptiness to all
evils things of the world
Emptiness of heat for the spirit dwells in. Hereafter I will not talk
much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in
me.
S =
Submit totally to God commandment and instruction –James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore
to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you; Prov. 8:33 Hear instruction, and be
wise, and refuse it not.
I = Intimacy with God – WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE INTIMACY
WITH GOD?
Psalm 1:2 . . . They delight in doing everything the
Lord wants; day and night they think about his law.
Spending
time with God leads to intimacy.
Psalm 103:1-22 . . . His unfailing
love . . . is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.
This
whole psalm describes how we can have an intimate relationship with
God.
God reaches out to us,
offering an intimate relationship-as intimate as husband and wife or
father and child, a commitment that is forever, a love relationship such
as we have never known before.
Matthew 5:8 . . . God blesses those
whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.
Intimacy
involves coming to God with a clean heart and pure motives.
Genesis
28:15 . . . I will be with you, and I will protect you wherever you go.
I will someday bring you safely back to this land. I will be with you
constantly until I have finished giving you everything I have promised.
Exodus
33:14 . . . The Lord replied, “I will personally go with you.”
Psalm
23:1-6 . . . The Lord is my shepherd.
Matthew
28:20 . . . Be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of
the age.
The Lord is with us, as close as we want him to be,
as long as we let him be, until the end of life. These are vows of
permanent intimacy with us.
S = Steadfast in Prayer without cease – Lk. 18:1
And
he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray,
and not to faint;;
1 Thes. 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
T = Testifier – Rev.
12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the
Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives
unto the death.
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