Deliver Us From Evil“And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” (Matthew 6:13) In the 2003 movie Deliver Us From Eva whose title is a pun from the Lord’s Prayer in the Bible, LL Cool J is a playboy paid to date Eva so she would not meddle in the affairs of her sisters. The good news is that God has not only delivered us from seducing women like Eva, but He has also delivered us from evil. God has called us to be peculiar, to stand out from the rest of the crowd as living proof of His power and love (1 Peter 2:9). God doesn’t want us to share the sickness, oppression, poverty and failure of the world because He has never wanted that for His people. God gave us an example of that in the Book of Exodus. Pharaoh had refused to free the Israelites from Egypt, so God had allowed a thick darkness to cover the whole land. The darkness was so dreadful throughout Egypt that no one moved for three days, "but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings." (Exodus 10:23) Debbie Boone can only light up your life, but that is how God wants us to live when we are delivered from evil. We should be glorifying God by the miraculously victorious lives we lead. We should have people telling us, “I’ve seen how God blessed you, promoted you, favored you, increased you, healed you, prospered you and saved your children, so tell me how?” Don’t hold back as we put the Word of God to work in our lives and dare to receive the rich blessings that belong to those who believe. Start using and speaking the powerful Word of God to draw a line in the sand, to erect spiritual warning signs for the devil that say: Do Not Enter! According to God’s Word, I don’t belong to you anymore. My body and soul don’t belong to you. My money and possessions don’t belong to you. My family and ministry don’t belong to you. I belong to the Kingdom of God in heaven and I am under the Blood of Jesus. I command you to back off now in Jesus’ Name!Copyright © 2003 Eddy Ministries. All rights reserved. Subscribe/Unsubscribe: eddyn@earthlink.net
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