Believers’ Prayer and Action Towards Human Enemies and Persecutors.

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Believers’ Prayer and Action Towards Human Enemies and Persecutors. 

Tuesday 12th August

Text: Matthew 5: 43-45  

Key verse: Romans 12: 21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. 

Do not use the name of Jesus to destroy a human being. God will not answer such prayer because it is not according to His will. If such people actually die it is not God who killed them in answer to such prayers, but Satan, and God will require the blood of that person from the hands of the one that invited Satan into action through ungodly prayers. God has instructed us to leave vengeance to Him. He has promised to handle our enemies. Our duty is to pray for them and cast all our pains upon Him. There are some among our enemies that God will grant repentance, conversion and deliverance through our prayers, just as the prayers of others saved us. 

God will judge some with plagues and there are others that He will take away their lives. The prerogative is His. The scriptural prayers of the early church led to the conversion of their great persecutor, Saul of Tarsus, who later became Apostle Paul. They were guided by the word of God in their prayer so they did not release spirit of death upon Paul when he was in the camp of the enemy. Their prayers led to the death of Herod by divine prerogative. They were not guilty of his death because they did not pray for it. Satan is the one who answers unscriptural prayers and decrees of ignorant and so-called believers. They shall share with Satan in the judgment of God.

Our human enemies employed by Satan against us are his captives who also desire to be delivered from his power. We who are believers today, enjoying Christ's liberty, were once under satanic captivity one way or the other. Christ came to set the captives free and not to destroy them. We are empowered to set human captives of Satan free and not to destroy them. The Scripture has let us know clearly who our actual enemies are and how they should be treated in prayer. Our actual enemies are Satan and his demonic authorities, which we must seek to overcome and destroy through prayer, the word of God, the name of Jesus and the use of all spiritual weapons and techniques given to us in the scriptures. 

Thought for the day: Our actual enemies are Satan and his demonic authorities 

Song for the day: I love my Jesus, my Jesus loves me

Bible reading for the day: Jeremiah 28-30 

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