No Evil

TEXT: Luke 11:2-4, MORE LESSONS: Psa.23:4

Evil is described as anything wrong, bad, immoral, offensive, wicked or unrighteous. In the Lord's prayer, Jesus teaches us how to ensure that our lives are free from evil. He says pray that God will deliver you from evil, this is a great lesson. If you want to overcome evil anytime, it is not by wishing that evil will not happen to you, it is by praying against it.

When you pray against evil you are handing the devil over to God for a safe day from satanic intervention. This is because the devil is the origin of evil and his activities on the earth are on-going round the clock. The only way therefore to stop his activities over your life is by effective fervent prayer.

Jesus’ choice of words on this topic is worth noting, deliver us. First, the word “us” means nobody is exempted. Second, the word “deliver” implies evil is intended for us; therefore we all without exemption, pastor and congregation, need to ask God to deliver us from Satan’s evil intentions.

Paul the apostle further spoke on this when he wrote to the Ephesians, redeeming the time, because the days are evil Eph.5:16. If the days are evil then the people in the days are at risk, but they can conquer by prayer. The good thing is that, whatever the devil intends against us and our days can be stopped by the power of prayer.

Therefore Jesus has taught us by this that evil exists in the air and the power to terminate it also exists; if you pray, you conquer the evil. If you don't pray, you become vulnerable to the evil. It's a choice. If you want to overcome the evil that is intended over you, give yourself to daily effective regular prayer without ceasing, And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; Luke 18:1.

Jesus, the apostles, men of old and contemporary leaders of the Church have survived the evil of their days by prayer; we cannot do less today. Pray and turn all evil intended against you and your destiny to a testimony. It is possible.

PRAYER/ACTION

* Give thanks to God for providing a way of escape out of all evil.

* Ask God to empower you not to faint in the place of prayer.

* Ask God to deliver you from all evil intended for today.

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