Daily Devotional: Friday, June 14 – Scouting Reports

“The thief’s objective is to steal and kill and destroy. My objective is to provide them a wealthy and satisfying life.” — John 10:10 (NLT)

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Successful coaches know that video games are received lengthy earlier than they begin. Preparation is vital. No expert coach would ever enter a vital sport with out a well-thought-out sport plan.

Gamers put in numerous hours of psychological and bodily preparation, changing into conversant in performs and coverages for each attainable sport scenario. Analyzing sport movie and detailed scouting experiences on the opponent is essential — and infrequently time consuming! These experiences spotlight the opponent’s strengths and weaknesses. What do they do properly? The place do they battle?

Understanding these particulars permits coaches and gamers to strategize successfully and execute their sport plan with precision.

So why will we, as Christians, are likely to face our each day battles so flippantly? We frequently get up every morning, stumbling right into a full-on non secular battle as our day unfolds and we’re not ready.

The truth is, there’s a battle happening and our minds are the battlefield. We’ve got an actual enemy who needs nothing greater than to defeat us. John 10:10 (NLT) warns us, “The thief’s objective is to steal and kill and destroy.”

Devil’s sport plan is strategic. He begins by bombarding our minds with a fastidiously crafted sample of nagging ideas, suspicions, doubts, fears, wonderings, reasonings and theories.

He’s been scouting you for a very long time. He is aware of what you want and don’t like, your insecurities, your weaknesses, and your fears. He is aware of what bothers you most and methods to push your buttons. He’s keen to speculate any period of time to defeat you and cancel your affect within the Kingdom of God.

However God is preventing on our facet and He by no means loses a battle!

God has already defeated the enemy. He has geared up us with non secular weapons to win the battle. “The weapons we battle with will not be the weapons of the world. Quite the opposite, they’ve divine energy to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and each pretension that units itself up in opposition to the information of God, and we take captive each thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we might be able to punish each act of disobedience, as soon as your obedience is full” (2 Corinthians 10:4-6).

God has already defeated the enemy. His sport plan by no means fails. We’re preventing from victory, not for victory.

At this time, let’s gear up with God’s armor and observe His sport plan. Dedicate time to prayer and immerse your self in His Phrase. Equip your self with His fact and guarantees. Put together for battle, figuring out that with God’s energy and steering, we will face any problem that comes our approach. God wins!

— Melissa Motes

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