Let God dominate your world right now
Since Satan has been cast out if you have accepted the offer of salvation from the effects of your sins your rebellion from God who made you then you have crossed over. The power of God is at work and can be more and more so in your life. Make every effort to permit the Kingdom of God to reign in your own life and moments.
Suppose there is someone whom you really detest. Maybe you are miffed that another person has certain advantages. Perhaps you have a dark satisfaction over the troubles another person has as a result of their decisions. Do you harbor hope that so-and-so will experience some sort of demise to “show them!” It is possible to have all of these ideas and notions in one’s mind and be a Christian, BUT when God raises them as issues to you you must repent of them. Those and similar types of thoughts can enter one’s mind. They may rise from the surface of one’s own outlook. The problem is that they are not of God. They are of self, of Satan. You must have the power of God to be rid of them in your life. So confess them to God, ask for help in getting rid of those thoughts and get on with it. You cannot mature in godliness while at the same time harboring known sins.
16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, 17 saying,
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
who is and who was,
for you have taken your great power
and begun to reign. (Revelation 11:16-17–ESV)
Here are the 24 elders introduced first in Revelation 5. They worshiped God then and they exercise that common theme again in chapter 11. Look at how they worship. They take things known of God and extol him with them. God is Lord and almighty. He is presently alive and has been down throughout history. His power is great and had recently been put into place with great effect. He has not yet concluded his reign, but is mightily involved and no longer will Satan have preeminence. As John the Baptist once said, “He must increase and I must decrease.” Of course John the Baptist was not Satan, but with a greater proportion this may be said of the evil one too.
Do the members of a church not rejoice with the arrival of a new pastor? That pastor is to arrive and take the reins of the church beginning his tenure by the power of God and for the honor of him. Here the 24 elders are doing the same thing. Long had the evil one had sway, but that is gone and heaven oriented men rejoice in view of the great prospects before the followers of the Lamb.
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