Galatians 5:17 (NET)
For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.
Uchenna decided that he was going to start praying from 11pm to 12pm every day. He would normally be awake around this time watching movies. But as soon as he decided to stop watching movies and devote this time to prayer, he observed that a very sweet sleep would come over him and he would find it difficult to pray for even 20 minutes. He did not know that this was warfare between the flesh and the spirit. Prayer is spiritual, and the flesh would fight it because ‘the flesh wars against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh’.
If you are a believer in Christ, there are two things the devil would try at all costs to hinder you from doing daily because doing them would render him increasingly irrelevant in your life and world. The devil would try at all costs to hinder you from taking quality time daily to pray fervently and commune with the Lord. He would also try at all costs to hinder you from the ministry of the word; this could be hindrances and distractions from studying the Bible, hindrances from going to places where you would hear the living word of God, etc. But because the devil is not omnipotent, we have the power to resist him and do God’s will. The only people in this world that can resist the devil are those who are submitted to the Lordship of Christ Jesus (see James 4:7).
Go into today remembering that as long as you are submitting to doing the will of Christ, you have the authority to resist the devil and do all that would build you up.
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