Overcoming Satanic Intimidation II

Tuesday 7 July
READ: 1 Kings 20: 10 - 21
MORE LESSON: 2 Tim 1: 7

One common weapon that the enemy uses against the children of God is fear. The devil knows that the moment you are defeated by fear, you have lost the battle so he intimidates you to create fear. When a man is afraid, he will discover that he can no more do the things he could do before. The Bible says that ...fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love: 1 John 4:18.
The reason the enemy opposes you is to intimidate and make you afriad. The moment you decide that, come what may, you will not give in to fear, you have the victory. Fear is never of God; resist it with all your heart. The Bible makes it clear that, God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind: 2 Tim 1:7.
God is inhibited from acting on your behalf when you succumb to fear. Until you resist fear and let faith arise, you cannot see the hand of God. Did you notice how God in today’s text couldn't say anything as long as Ahab panicked before Ben-Hadad? But immediately he stood up to Ben-Hadad and refused to be intimidated any further, God spoke. Hast thou seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it in to thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord:1 Kgs. 20:13.
There are some languages of intimidation that the enemy uses to create fear in people. They include the following:
1. Threats: the enemy may threaten you with what he will do. This is just to create fear in you. When God is for you, who can be against you? (Rom 8: 31). Refuse to succumb to the threats of a challenge.
2. Blasphemy: the enemy can start speaking blasphemous words against your God. An enemy once said concerning Israel that even God would not be able to deliver them from his hands. That is blasphemy; it was meant to create fear. Do not panic, God will answer them Himself.
3. Pity: do not give in to self pity and pity-party from men; it is targeted at making you feel hopeless. Whatever happens, stand on your feet and walk tall in the face of the enemy.
4. Past experience of failure: do not let the failures of the past prevent you from trying. Do not be intimidated because of past failures; go for your good again.
5. Language of the alternative: when the enemy wants to intimidate you, he tells you that you cannot do something and then suggests a sinful alternative to you. Do not give in to alternative routes born out of fear.
I rebuke every intimidation of the enemy over your life, in Jesus' name.

Prayer/Action
* Prophesy against everything and everyone Satan is using to intimidate your life and declare them dead in the name of Jesus.
* Pray that the spirit of fear will not have a hold over your life.
* Declare Satan a liar over every area of your life now, in the name of Jesus.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Today, I scatter every evil arrow meant to make me run helter-sketter, in Jesus’ name.