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Moore's
Chapel Home Missions & Evangelism Devotions
Beautiful Children's
Devotions - Teen
Devotions -
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Walk To The Cross
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“Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our
God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser . . . has been called
down” (Revelation 12:10).
My little brother was a tattletale!" “Jim is calling me names. Jim is making faces at me. Jim hit me. Jim is riding his bike without his hands. Jim won’t let me play with his Tonka truck.” My parents always seemed to believe him. They even named me James, which comes from Jacob and means “deceiver.” Okay, sometimes I did make faces at him and ride my bike without hands,
but most of the time Now that I’m nearly 50, I still hear an accuser. “Jim has rotten attitudes. Jim is a chocoholic. Jim is a pitiful excuse for a Christian.” And, often, the accusations are absolutely accurate-especially when it involves chocolate. Our accuser, Satan, is determined to “make war against . . . those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Jesus” (Rev 12:17). But the believers in Revelation “overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony” (Rev 12:11). While the Holy Spirit will lovingly convict believers when they go astray, Satan viciously accuses them with trumped up charges.
© James N. Watkins |
(okay, some of the time) I was innocent of the alleged
charges.