Daily Dose, March 14th 2021
Topic: TO WHOM IS MY SUBMISSION.
Text: James 4:7.
Therefore submit to God, resist the devil😈 and he will flee from you.
For many Christian’s, at hearing that word “resist the devil” it means to start binding and loosing killing the demons in there families and waging war against the devil. If there is a scripture for all that, it’s definitely not this one. This particular verse of this scripture is simply referring to the verse 1,2 of this same scripture James 4:1.2.
First he asked a question “what is the source of the fight and war within you?” and he answered ‘The craving that are at war within you’
This craving have led so many into dubious and life threatening acts. Most People have practical taken lives, many have manipulated figures for more gain, many have done things that have led there fellow human to take there own life. and yet the more we pursue our craving the less we have. Why? We submit to our cravings. We submit to the devil’s voice feeding us with cravings. The problem here is not the cravings the problem is our response to our cravings. He said after all we do to satiate our craving yet “we have not” why? Because “we ask not” what does that tell you? God himself is interested in your cravings. He has interest in your desire to be rich, wealthy, eat good food. live in big houses, drive good cars, have a wonderful home. But he said “Seek ye first” Put God first and your cravings will follow. Submit to God and all you have ever wanted in life will follow. I strongly disagree with the thought or teaching that Jesus while on Earth was poor. How can u say a man who fed Five Thousand Men is Poor (5000)? Children and Women Present at the feeding festival was not counted how can you say such is poor? A man who command fishes to bring him money, what technology can turn a fish into an ATM machine? A man who fed twelve families for 3year they never complained for lack. Who do you think was taken care of the families of the disciples when they left there net to follow Jesus? He was never poor as a man and definitely not as God. But because we submit to our craving we never ask.
“Rebuke the devil” Rebuke the temptation to kill, fight, war, within and with everyone around you just because you want to have.
Submit to God resist the devil and he will flee from you. After this have happened you are sure of greater grace verse six; And he will exalt you.
The working of Grace is simply best explained when you enter an elevator. I don’t know anyone who would rather take the stairs up to the tenth floor than take an elevator. Grace elevates you without sweating you, grace lifts you without any stress from your end. All you need to do is submit. Your response to your cravings determine how stressful or stressles your life will be.
Prayer:
Lord, I submit myself to you this day. and I resist every temptation leading me away from you just to satisfy my craving. I submit to your Grace to lift me to that hight you desire for me. In Jesus name!
Amen.
Rhema C. Jonathan