FAITH CAPSULE: Letting down your guard is allowing your enemy to bring its war to your front.
2 Samuel 11, Luke 4:1-15
How we engage temptations in our direction will determine how we enter into our center of divine assignment. We must know that the devil is a stubborn animal with no respect for any of his target. He tempted Jesus and he will tempt you because there is no exception in how he his dictionary.
Once he approached the Lord Jesus Christ with temptation. Luke 4:1-2, Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being tempted for forty days by the devil. And in those days He ate nothing, and afterward, when they had ended, He was hungry.” This is to show that if Jesus could experience such, no one is immune to war of temptation. How are you upholding your guard against the advance of the enemy’s temptation? It is how you uphold your guard that will determine how you hold against his move. Jesus did not let down His guard when the enemy located Him with temptation. Jesus prevailed by reminding the evil one the written word of God. Jesus was at the right place, at the right time as a result, the evil one failed. Jesus war front was well guarded.
You have been called by God and your calling has marked and identified you as an enemy to the camp of the devil. As a result of your stand in the Lord, you can no longer take or stand on just any ground or at any period in time. Taking such a stand is letting down your guard as a soldier of God. Letting down your guard is allowing your enemy to bring its war to your front. Despite all the victories of King David, he was not able to fight a war of success when adultery brought its war to David’s front. One of the major causes of King David’s loss of battle was recorded in 2 Samuel 11:1, “It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.” King David was at the right place at the wrong time. As a prime target of the enemy, there is no room for mistakes that are life consuming. As a believer, you cannot afford to be at the right place at the wrong time nor at the wrong place at the right time.
Life terminating testimony will come but the word of God will treat with deliverance. Take to the advice of the apostle Paul which stated, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10-11)
Prayer for today: Ask for deliverance against every plans of the evil one against your life