Satan will Flee when we Pray with Faith
“Resist him standing firm in faith – 1 Peter 5:9 (NIV)”
Satan is just on the look out as to when we will slip and falter. He is just waiting for a chance when we will feel envy or jealous or angry or irritated or feel low in our day to day life or when we will be weak in our prayer life or spiritually poor. He will then silently even without our consciousness, creep into our life and add fuel to the fire and engulf us completely in that and make us to commit the sin. The acts of sinful nature (demon) are obvious: idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and the like (Gal 5:19-21). With our flesh and with our own efforts, we cannot win him. Whatever sins we may have committed in our life from childhood to till date with the inducement of Satan, every one of these sins, its impact, imprints in our mind can be totally wiped out completely if we confess to the Lord Jesus Christ, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all the unrighteousness (1Jn 1:7,8) and we can be made absolutely free, pardoned and cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ died for our sins (1 Cor 1:7,8). To avoid further indulgence in any sins or to detest from even the thought of committing a sin, we need to have a strong faith on Jesus and pray ceaselessly and be in His presence and under the grace of the Lord God. Only with constant, continuous prayer and rock-like
faith, we can get the strength to fight against all the temptations that Satan may bring. Only the Lord Jesus can help us to be extricated from the sins (Heb 2:18).Satan is not afraid of anything in this world except the name of our King of Kings and our prayers. Eph 6:11 says, “Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes”. Further we have a comforting word from the Lord in Rev.12:11, “They overcome him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony”. Only through the power of our prayers, faith and being under the cover of the blood of Jesus, we can hammer out Satan and chase him away. This I have experienced not only in my life but seen also in the lives of many believers and servants of God. More than a mother could take care of her child, Jesus Christ takes care of all our needs, protects us from all the dangers, holds us when we stumble, comforts us and He is with us when we are sick, takes away our pain and sickness and holds us to His bosom like a father. He is ready to give us all the wealth and treasures of this world and every blessings of this heaven but when we relax and become weak in our faith and prayers and become worldly, we automatically spread a red carpet to Satan to enter into our life. Once he enters and dwells in us, he becomes the master and we start listening to him, he becomes the stumbling block for us to get the grace and blessings of our beloved Jesus Christ. We can remove the stumbling block only by strengthening our intimate relationship with the lord through prayers and faith and then we can again become heir to the Lord’s unceasing limitless blessings.