By Sidharth Mohandas

Answering the devil with what God has said is something the Lord Himself demonstrated when He was tempted by satan in the wilderness [Matthew 4:4-8]. And the main reason why people fail here and let satan defeat them is because they simply aren’t CONVINCED about what God has said.

I heard a man of God relate his struggle with sickness. He knew well within him that it was God’s will for him to be healed and so he boldly answered satan with what God had said about healing and health. But then like how most of us have faced, his mind was being bombarded with doubt. He felt helpless, but he kept on saying what God had said. However, when depression seeped in, the Lord gave him a vision where he saw a demon speaking words of doubts and lies into his ears: “It isn’t God’s will to heal you”, “Remember that person who was a strong believer and he died with cancer?”…but then he also saw that each time he confessed God’s Word, a sword of light came out of his mouth and backed away the demon. He noticed that the demon kept coming back to him and that he needed to stand firm and persist in the Word.

Be well balanced (temperate, sober of mind), be vigilant and cautious at all times; for that enemy of yours, the devil, roams around like a lion roaring [in fierce hunger], seeking someone to seize upon and devour.

Withstand him; be firm in faith [against his onset--rooted, established, strong, immovable, and determined], knowing that the same (identical) sufferings are appointed to your brotherhood (the whole body of Christians) throughout the world.[1 Peter 5:8-9, AMP]

Remember Jesus didn’t stop giving the devil the Word the first and second time he came back to him. He stood firm in the Word till the devil backed away. Again the Lord’s word for you today: “Withstand satan and be firm in the faith”