How
does the devil see you? Does he see you as a terrifying and mighty
warrior of God...or does he see you as a wimp he can whip in a minute?
The
answer to that question depends on you. I realized that one day as I
was studying the children of Israel and their failure to enter the
Promised Land. The key to their failure is found in these words: “And we
were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.”
The
reason the Israelites were so terrified to fight the giants in Canaan
wasn’t because those giants were so big. It was because the Israelites
saw themselves as so small! It was what they were in their own sight that defeated them.
The
same thing is true for you as a believer. It’s what you are in your own
sight that will make the difference. If, in your own sight, you’re a
weak, powerless Christian, the devil will run over you three or four
times a day or more if he’s not busy. But when you begin to see yourself
as God sees you, as a conquering son or daughter of the Almighty God,
equipped with the very power of God Himself, the devil will want to
steer clear of you.
The devil would rather do anything than come
against someone who’s bold and courageous because he’s a coward himself.
In fact, ever since Jesus came up out of that grave, Satan’s heart has
melted within him at the sound of that Name in the mouth of one who has
faith in it.
If you’re not strong in the Lord in your own sight,
you need to change that. You need to get so full of God’s Word and so
full of the Holy Ghost that you walk around like a spiritual giant. Turn
the tables on the devil and let him find out what it feels like to be a
grasshopper for a change.
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