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Satan is totally powerless against you if you stand firm in the truth of God

The Christian is sometimes described as warfare. It is a spiritual battle between Jehovah God and Satan. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are engaged in this battle. Although Christ has won the victory for us, we have an enemy who does not know how to surrender. Let's take a look at the story of Job.

Job was a very rich man, and although, he did not belong to the people of Israel, he worshipped the Lord and was a truly good person. But Satan talked to God and accused Job of serving God only because God was blessing him. God agreed to let Satan take away Job's wealth, his Children, and finally his health, to see whether Job would stay faithful to God. Job did remain faithful. Then three of Job's friends came to comfort him. They believed that health and prosperity were signs of God's blessing. And because Job had lost both his health and his prosperity, the three friends insisted that God must be punishing Job for some sin. Job answered that he was innocent, and this meant that they were wrong. Job and his friends argued back and forth, with neither side really proving the other wrong, although at the end of the argument, his friends gave up.

Job was suffering deeply and several times during the argument he asked God to appear and explain the reason for his suffering. Then, after his friends stopped speaking, Job decided that human beings cannot find the kind of wisdom that gives answers to the deep questions of life. Only God has that wisdom, Job ended his speeches by swearing that he was innocent of doing wrong. At this point, a young bystander named Elihu began talking. He repeated some of what had already been said, but he also criticized both sides of the argument. Elihu finished with a poem praising God's care for nature. God finally did appear to Job, but He did not explain Job's suffering. Instead, God showed that the many things he does cannot be understood by humans; humans cannot do what God does. God criticized Job for talking so much when he knew so little, but he also said that Job had remained His faithful servant. And so, at the very end, the book of Job tells how God blessed Job and made him twice as wealthy as he had been before.

Job never did understand why he did suffer; he felt bitter, but he never rejected God or turned away from him. Job was convinced that someday, God would rescue him:

I know that my savior lives,
And at the end he will stand on this earth.
My flesh may be destroyed,
Yet from this body I will see God.
Yes, I will see him for myself,
And I long for that moment! (Job19:25-27).

No matter the amount of battering and pummeling Satan receives, he keeps fighting. Satan's first and foremost battle strategy is deception. He is the father if lies who employs both sophisticated and crude lies to fight the believer. (Matthew 8:44). As long as Satan's influence in a person's life remains undetected, he is content to lie low and not show his hand. Like a snake in the grass, he quietly sneaks up on his prey and squeezes the life out of it. But when you confront Satan's deception and expose his lies with the truth, his strategy changes from quiet deception to a bold pressure of power. He acts the roaring lion and starts to intimidate the child of God with his bullying tactics. Just as in the case of Job, he may take a step further to attack physically, either you directly or indirectly through family members and relatives. But as long as you know that anything he does to you has been allowed by God for a reason, stand strong.

We must avoid buying into Satan's second strategy of power as much as we avoid swallowing his first strategy of deception. He gives a false show of power in order to provoke fear in you. When fear is controlling a believer, the enemy has the upper hand. The power of the Christian is in the truth of the word of God. Today, you can stand in the power of the Holy Spirit and walk in total victory over all the manifestations of the evil one. "I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the word of God abides in you, you have overcome the wicked one"-1 John 2:14.

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