Have you
had your Joy Juice today? Stand strong
and drink in the joy of the Lord boldly!
1 Peter
5:8-9 gives this warning: “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy,
the devil. He prowls around like a
roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be
strong in your faith.”
It seems
that battles come in all forms….the battle to forgive, the battle to receive,
and the battle to stand strong in the face of a variety of attacks from our
enemy. In her book The Uncommon Woman ,
Susie Larson explains what it means to STAND. “The fight to stand is the fight
to say NO to insecurity, fear, defeat and discouragement. At some point we have to stop in our tracks,
stomp our feet, and say, ‘I won’t take this anymore! I refuse to believe I am
nothing, because Jesus says I am something! Though the enemy tells me I’ll
surely fail, God says He will not fail me!’ This is the kind of tough stance we
need to take as Christians.
Though we
will never be perfect, God loves us perfectly! And He will guide us and go with
us every step of the way…if we invite Him. Just as we must choose to forgive
and choose to receive…..we must choose to stand strong in our faith and against
the schemes of the devil. His aim is to
destroy us…but we have a strong Defender.
STAND
tall; STAND strong; STAND on the joy of the Lord as your strength!
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