In my previous post, I wrote about The Power of Submission using James 4:7 as my subject. But I feel I need to continue the discussion with the good part where we resist the devil! 

Acting in humility and total dependence on and total submission to God, we resist the devil in two ways, defensively and offensively. We know that the Christian life is a life of warfare. We have an enemy whose sole purpose is to steal, kill, and destroy us (John 10:10). We must learn to use the weapons that we have been given.

I was all set to write about this very critically important subject, meditating in the Word, and doing research when I came across an article that explained this resistance in such a way that I could not have added anything else to it! Here are some quotes:

“Why will resistance cause the devil to flee? Because he knows he cannot have victory over us if we are prepared to do battle against him. As mentioned before, the Bible assures us that we need only put on the full armor of God to be fully protected from evil and to actively resist it. There is nothing more frightening to Satan than a believer who is fully equipped with spiritual armor, beginning with the “helmet of salvation,” which protects our minds, and the “breastplate of righteousness,” which protects our hearts because it is the righteousness of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21). Only a true believer wears these because only those who have received God’s forgiveness by grace through faith have eternal salvation and the righteousness of Christ imputed to them.

Once fitted with the helmet and breastplate (literally, “chest protector”), we are then to take up other defensive weapons with which to battle Satan: truth, the readiness to proclaim the gospel, and the faith that shields us from all the flaming arrows of the evil one. The final piece of armor is prayer. We pray for strength to resist evil and to actively battle against it. We pray for wisdom in the conflict, and most of all, we remain steadfast in our prayers, both for the ability to resist the devil and also for other believers who struggle in the same battle. When the church, the body of Christ, stands united against evil, fully equipped with the armor of God, we present a formidable foe to the evil one and we will see God get the glory for the victory.”

You can read the entire article here: https://www.gotquestions.org/resist-the-devil.html

As long as we know the Truth (the Word of God), and we stand strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, we will never be defeated! The enemy knows this, but he doesn’t want us to know it. We have to study and meditate in the Word because God has said, and we know it to be true, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6). It’s the knowledge of the Truth that will make us free from the lies and snares of the devil (John 8:32)!!