Prevail By Knowledge

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD
Pastor David Okoye says:

PREVAIL BY KNOWLEDGE

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12.

      Isaiah 54:17 tells “No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed” (ESV), “No weapon forged against you shall succeed" (NIV), showing that the devil has many devices fashioned against the Godchild. If the Godchild does not become sensitive to identifying these devices, the devil will get him one way or another. For this reason 2 Corinthians 2:11 says “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices”. The ESV rendering says “so that we would not be outwitted by Satan, for we are not unaware of his schemes”.
      Our opening text tells that the biggest challenge a child of God will face is against principalities and powers. Principalities refer to Principles and abilities. Power is synonymous to Authority and influence. You need to recognise that if a child of God isolates the place of God's principles in his life, and seeks to work it by his God given authority alone, he won’t achieve much in life. It would be like a man trying to change the television channel without putting on the television, it won’t work.
      You don’t wrestle with these powers with your physical strength. You’ve got to have knowledge. Hosea 4:6 says “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” and in 1 Corinthians 2:12 scripture tells “Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God”. Through knowledge you are delivered into your inheritance. A child of God that can identify what God has done for him and depend on the word of God concerning him is the one that will overcome in life.

DECLARATION:
I am not ignorant. I know my rights and privileges in Christ through His Word. I am walking in Authority setting things right.

SCRIPTURAL REFERENCE:
2 Peter 1:2-3, Proverbs 24: 3-4

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN:
Song of Solomon 6-8; Galatians 1