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SUBMIT AND RESIST

Text: James 4:.7.

Therefore, submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will run away from you.

Devil is always going to and fro looking for whom to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 says, *Be clear-minded and alert. Your opponent, the devil, is prowling around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.* 

So, the devil is not resting, he's always looking for prey. God once asked Satan where he was coming from in the book of Job, the discourse goes thus: The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from?”, Satan told the LORD, “From wandering all over the earth and walking back and forth throughout it.”(Job 2:2). So, it is clear that Satan is always roaming about, and he roams even in the congregation of children of God.

But imagine a situation where the devil is running away from you. Yes, the word of God says when you do these two things, the devil will run away from you.

First, submission! You must submit yourself to God, God can only keep you and fight on your behalf when you have submitted to Him. God cannot fight for you if you are already fighting for yourself.

Exodus 14:14 says, *The LORD will fight for you while you keep still.”* When you totally submit to God, you will keep still. You will not try to defend yourself. You will not try to fight for yourself.
*To submit to God, is to totally trust and lean on Him even when it doesn't make sense.* 

The second thing is to resist the devil. You cannot really resist what you like. To resist the devil, you must hate him and his things. One of his things is Pride. James 4:6 says that, God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. 

When you are proud, even God will resist you, and how can someone who is resisted by God possess the strength to resist the devil? To resist the devil is to stand in opposition to everything the devil stands for.

Many desire to resist the devil but they are not willing or ready to submit to God. And some who are willing to submit to God have not really hated what God hates.

Proverbs 8:13 says, The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the froward mouth.

How well have you submitted to God's Will? Are you truly trusting Him wholly? And do you really hate the things of the devil?

Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.

 *Bible reading:*

 James 4:1-10.

 *PRAYER FOCUS*

Father, I receive the grace to submit to you all the time.

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