Don't Let The Devil Get You Down!

I want to talk today about smiling in the midst of adversity. How can we continue to smile in the midst of troubles?

   Troubles will come. That is guaranteed for any one of us. How we handle the fire speaks volumes about our maturity and character. We need to be equipped with the Holy Spirit at all times to have help when the trials come, because they will come. Why do they come some may ask?

 

James 1:2-4 (NKJV)

Profiting from Trials

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 
 
1 Peter 1:6-9 (NIV)



⁶ In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. ⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. ⁸ Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
⁹ for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your soul

So, there is great profit in the end if we just keep looking to Jesus and keep smiling! Amen! Don't let the devil have that victory over you, have faith, and press in Him! Your enemy seeks to devour you and shake you, but you are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus!

 

 

 

Think like Jesus & Watch Your Mouth! 

1 Peter 2:22 (KJV)²² Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 
 

Don't fight back fire with fire.  Jesus was tempted in the wilderness and fought the devil with the word. For every evil Jesus had a word. We need to have the word of God hidden in our hearts, the sword of the spirit, to fight this war!

For the weapons of warfare are mighty in God for bringing down strongholds. In god is our strength. When we are tempted, we need to think like Jesus.

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (NKJV)

³ For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. ⁴ For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, ⁵ casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ

 Proverbs 15:1 (NKJV)

15 A soft answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.

There is great joy in the spirit! Amen! We are urged to walk in the spirit because the spirit gives us life and life more abundantly in Christ. It's a daily choice we must make for our own peace sake and that of others. May you be encouraged to walk in Him today and through every trial in Jesus' name!
 

Walk in the Spirit,
Prophetess Deanna Mack