Lord, I am enamored with your teaching on the “Strongman’s house” of Matthew 12. “How can someone enter a strongman’s house and plunder his goods, unless he firsts binds the strong man?” (V. 29)
Lord, You’ve done the work. You’ve entered the house. You’ve bound the strong man. And, Lord Jesus, you have plundered the goods of the strongman. All in all, You have unified Your house through Your appearance in the flesh, through Your death on the cross, and finalizing it through Your resurrection.
The strongman has no place. None.
Father, we always hear that the world is Satan’s and that it is filled with his evil minions.
But Father, You created it. (Genesis 1)
Jesus saved it. (Matthew 27-28)
The Holy Spirit is actively present in it. (Acts 2)
And we are still alive.
- We who are created by you, (Jeremiah 1:5)
- saved by Jesus and (Romans 10:9-10)
- filled with the Spirit. (Ephesians 1:13)
Sure, Satan may have a reference to being the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2), but we are referred to as heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17), the children of God (Romans 8:16), the ones filled with greater than what is in the world (1 John 4:4).
Oh, how I pray that we will see the world as loved and rescued by You. That we will participate as the called, the chosen, the unified. That we will blind the eyes of Satan with Your light freeing those around us from his attempted blinding by darkness.
Father, this world and all that is in it is YOURS!
Father God, I pray that You will unify my house.
Me and all who I love.
All that I love and all their people.
Their people and Your body of believers.
Your body of believers and all of whom You have created, loved, saved, and filled with Your Spirit!
Unify, Lord God Above, Your House!
Amen.
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