Revelation 12:11 (NET)
11 But they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die.
The first Easter Sunday Nkiru attended church service, the pastor took the time to teach about the consequences of what Jesus did on the cross. He explained that when Jesus said ‘it is finished’, it meant that as far as God’s agenda for humankind is concerned, God has won and the devil has lost. Nkiru understood that if she received the Lord Jesus, the work of the devil in her life would be finished and destroyed (1 John 3:8). She accepted the Lord Jesus that day and consequently became a disciple of Jesus.
From the day she received the Holy Spirit, each time the demons that usually tormented her in her sleep tried to show up, she would remember the sacrifice of Jesus for her and become bold and powerful against them. She observed that remembering the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross rendered her oppressors powerless. After some time, they didn’t show up again. (These were ancestral demons that had tormented members of her family for decades).
Nkiru understood that the sacrifice of Christ took away every legal ground demons had over her life. She knew that as long she abode in Christ by continually trusting in His finished work for her on the cross, and letting His word abide in her(John 15:7), she would always overcome her adversary (see Rev 12:11).
The reason Jesus died on the cross was to shed His blood for the remission of our sins. His blood is the token of His sacrifice, and it is the reason we overcome the devil and his demons.
Go into today basking in the finished work of Christ for you on the cross. Through the cross, Christ has spoiled principalities and powers and rendered them powerless in your life (Col 2:15).
-SD Abraham
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