Spiritual Strength

UV 3712/10000 Spiritual Strength- Availing It, Maintaining and Using It Effectively Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can rob his house. Matthew 12 v 29 Strength is something mankind has always admired. Scripture does not applaud physical or intellectual strength for Samson fell on account of his great physical strength and Solomon fell despite his great intellectual strength. In this uni-verse, Jesus explains his concept of spiritual strength. He had been delivering people of possession by demons and the Pharisees were saying that Jesus was exercising the power of the chief demon and driving out demons. Jesus refutes it by saying that if He was from or of satan, logically he would not be driving out demons but getting more people possessed by demons. The house of satan, he implied is quite united in its mission to take control of more and more souls. The only way to deliver people from satan is to tie him up by spiritual authority from God, the Father in the name of the Son for we enter the family tree of God, Jehovah through our faith in the name, the person, the teachings, the saving work of Jesus on the cross. Following certain spiritual disciplines like prayer in the spirit, meditation on the word, praise and worship builds our spiritual strength so that it remains five on a scale of 1 to 5. There are different types of predators or robbers. Some predators carry off the whole sheep by virtue of their great size and strength, some keep sniping, biting off parts of the sheep to maim, to weaken and eventually take the whole sheep. Sheep do not rely on their own strength to overcome the predators, both the subtle ones and the powerful ones. The sheep rely on the strength, power, skills of offence and defence of the shepherd. Likewise, we should rely on the Good Shepherd Jesus to protect us from the different types of spiritual predators. Since satan is a robber, a thief and a killer, he has filled his house with what does not belong to him. Hence, it is legitimate for us to use greater power, greater strength obtained by faith and prayer from the Tri-une God and to tie up, bind, neutralise the acts of satan. Jesus proved himself stronger than satan, stronger than temptations, trials, death. He is the source of our power or strength to shake the kingdom of darkness like Samson shook the pillars of the Philistine king who had tied him to the pillars. The source of the power and authority of Jesus is the Almighty, Sovereign, Omnipotent, Omnipresent God. On account of our God connectivity through Jesus, we have power to overcome any temptation, trial, test of strength. We have the authority, the responsibility, the power to set free the world from satan through tying him up with the powerful, unbreakable cords of prayer, fasting, worship, decreeing in the name of Jesus. Satan tries to penetrate our spiritual armour by taking advantage of the loopholes of our own weaknesses of our human nature. We can obtain grace from Jesus to prevent, pre-empt, disrupt satan’s plans to harm us, to weaken us, to make us fall. The power to overcome comes from the Lord in the shape of the Holy Spirit. Anointing is the imparting of the purpose and power of God on us. It is divine enablement to fulfil the will of God for our lives. If we take pride or confidence in the natural strengths we possess, then again satan will take advantage of it like he lured Samson with Delilah.