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 NO COMPETITION

There are some who have embraced the misconception that the fight of Good against evil is a kind of ying/yang proposition. Listen, Satan was an archangel who rebelled against God. The devil is a created, finite being, massively greater in power and cunning than mankind put together, but finite, nonetheless.

God almighty, the Eternal Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is not in competition with anyone or anything else. He is absolutely Sovereign over all. If you belong to Him by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, then know this, He is Life within you. You were dead in your sin and God has united you to both the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. He has removed your death and filled you with His Life. God has united you to Himself with such intimacy that He has made you to be one of His heirs. The Holy Spirit lives the resurrection Life of Jesus Christ in every follower of Jesus Christ.

That is why the Apostle John could say with authority, "Greater is He who is in you than he (the devil and all his minions) who is in the world." (1 John 4:4) God is not in competition with the devil. God is eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-present (Omnipotent, Omnipresent & Omniscient). He has invested His authority into every follower of Jesus Christ so that His authority can be exercised through the believer to heal the sick, cleanse lepers, cast out demons and raise the dead. His almighty power is meant to be exercised through His disciples, His children, His people to dismantle the works of darkness, to push back and disrupt the kingdom of darkness that holds this world in its thrall.

This present spiritual war is real. Believer, you need to know that you do not have the "short end of the stick", for the Lord your God in the midst of you is Mighty! Live with confidence, obey with assurance, trust with hope for the One Who called you will DO what He asks you to do.

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