How can I get these devotionals in my inbox? Click here. How can I make a tax-deductible donation? Click here. For your righteousness reaches the heavens. May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!” For, in you, we take refuge let us never be put to shame. May all who seek you – even your enemies whose hearts we pray would return to you – rejoice and be glad! Arise and wake up to bless your people so that your name will not be shamed among your revilers. Shame those who speak against you – even as you call them to know you. Therefore, come into the battle and fight for your people and your name. When those who seek to wield the weapons of anger and mischief succeed, your peace and prosperity are mocked. Therefore, Lord, we pray as the Psalmist prayed in Psalm 71, “May my accusers perish in shame may those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace.” When those who seek injustice are victorious, your justice is trampled upon. Surely the cross is foolishness.” His ability to spread discord and enmity is great and his manipulation and subtlety is clever. The evil one taunts your church, saying, “Do not let Christians deceive you, saying the Lord will deliver you. You are spoken against and demeaned throughout the world. 21 Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds because of your evil deeds. The evil one and his minions mock your great name and blind people from seeing your glory. The Supremacy of Christ 20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
These forces had opposed Jesus throughout his public career, sometimes shrieking at him from the lips of some poor deranged spirit, sometimes carping at him in the sneers of the religious, sometimes issuing threats against him from the royal palace.” It was, “the forces of oppression and violence, the unseen pull that makes people fight rather than be reconciled, that makes them choose brutality rather than humanity, tribe rather than world, self rather than God. Wright observes in The Way of the Lord: Christian Pilgrimage Today. “It was the concentration of all those unseen forces that opposed the kingdom of God because they knew it to be the powerful opponents of their own kingdom-dreams,” N.T. When Jesus went to Gethsemane, it was not just human adversaries he was facing – soldiers, guards, even one of his friends turned traitor. This week, we model prayers that do that.
#Enemies of god how to#
*Editor’s Note: Last week we explored how to fill our prayers with arguments before the Lord.