Dear God,
I could not have joy and happiness at any time, unless you strengthened me. Throughout the day during conflict with evil, when I cry out, I am delivered by You. Sadly in my human, sinfulness, I get caught way too often, but even then, you give me repentance, hear my prayer, and forgive me and wipe my record clean by the blood of Jesus.
I was impressed when I read and comprehended, that the battle against the devil is not mine, but Yours. It is profitable to use Psalm 116:16 “O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.” As well as saying, ‘I do not want to be the devils servant’ let us follow that up with ‘I will not be the devils servant’, because I give myself to Jesus Christ. To add even more weight to my declaration and prayer to Jesus, I will repeat these words along with Psalm 116:16, over and over. In the time of trial and the testing of our faith, this is how we receive the victory that has already been achieved by Jesus Christ.
Lord I anticipate after much experience of Your power and deliverance from the devil and sin through Jesus Christ, I/we do also say, Romans 8: 37 – 39 “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Again this is not about me, apart from believing Jesus and accepting and centering my faith upon Him in all areas of my life. Then I will receive His victory already gained over the devil and his demons.
All the events individually and for earth’s future events, are in the hand of God, Revelation 3:10 “Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.”
Jesus, by Your promise and strength, I will trust Your word and delivering hand, and not the words and actions of man.
Amen