We just spent the evening talking and studying Rev 12v11 - 'They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their loves so much as to shrink from facing death.'
We thought about the fact that we can have complete confidence in the fact that Christ has overcome so much for us, even death on the cross. We can be confident that He has already, and will continue to overcome the evil one, and that good always prevails over darkness. We need to play our part though, we must be fully prepared for those attacks and arm ourselves with the armour that Christ has given us and with much prayer and full confidence in God.
It brought the words of this song to mind:
With A Prayer (Love Incarnate)
WITH A PRAYER You fed the hungry,
With a cry You stilled the storm;
With a look You had compassion
On the desperate and forlorn.
With a touch You healed the leper,
With a shout You raised the dead;
With a word expelled the demons,
With a blessing broke the bread.
Love incarnate, love divine,
Captivate this heart of mine
Till all I do speaks of You.
As a sheep before the shearer
You were silent in Your pain;
You endured humiliation
At the hands of those You’d made.
And as hell unleashed its fury
You were lifted on a tree,
Crying ‘Father God, forgive them,
Place their punishment on Me.’
I will feed the poor and hungry,
I will stand up for the truth;
I will take my cross and follow
To the corners of the earth.
And I ask that You so fill me
With Your peace, Your power, Your breath,
That I never love my life so much
To shrink from facing death.
Stuart Townend
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2008-01-17 @ 00:57