Life Capsule for Today Date: 6th Dec., 2024
Theme: Battle for our homes (6)
Memory Verse for the Week: Pro 3:33 The LORD’s curse is on the household of the wicked, but he blesses the home of the righteous. NET
Today’s Topic: it’s a spiritual battle too
Today’s Reading: Mat 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
2Co 10:3-5
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
Words of the Ministry:
Within the week we have spent some time considering the physical and psychological aspects of the battle for our homes. Today I intend to comment briefly on the spiritual aspect of this battle. We did learn that the home is the basic unit of every society and a building block of the society, for this reason, the devil also fights the home with the hope of polluting it and thwarting its God ordained purpose. For this to happen, he introduces, conflicts, hatred, infidelity, unruly children, sickness, strange men or women, poverty, job loss and unemployment, barrenness, witchcraft manipulation, mutual suspicion, malice, poor communication and general dissatisfaction, prayerlessness, avoidance of fellowship and the gathering of the saints becomes normal. The desire to be secluded from where the truth of the gospel is being shared becomes the order of the day.
When we see some of the above occurring in the homes, it is an indication that such homes are under spiritual attack. We must therefore rise to the occasion by ensuring we take our home back. The ministry of the devil is to firstly steal your home, kill it and finally destroy it. We must never allow it to degenerate to the point where we can’t manage it anymore. Once any of the spouse notices the devil is beginning to have an upper hand in any area in our home, it means he now has a foot hold, we must like the first reading says bind the strong man and then spoil his good. This is not a small matter as many of such which have been overlooked eventually got to an irreparable state. We must see the intruder (strongman) as our enemy and engage the weapons of warfare which is basically prayers and fasting. If need be, we can involve other saints to join in as our spiritual strength grows with our number.
Dear saints, the spiritual weapons of prayer and word counsel is ever effective, we must be quick in applying it to ensure things don’t get messier. We need to constantly remind ourselves that beyond our family, the devil is desperately after our souls, fighting our family is just a strategy to get us and to bring the name of Jesus to disrepute. Our soul and eternal reward is the ultimate goal of Satan and his agents. You must do all within the scripture to keep him away and we are sure of victory because we are overcomers. May the Lord grant us light.
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