Fighting back

Scripture exhorts us to fight. James 4 :7 says, "Submit yourselves therefore to God, Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." The word "resist" literally means "fight back."

If a police officer goes to arrest a criminal, and that criminal resists arrest; what does that mean? It means he is doing everything in his power to keep the policeman from arresting him. He is fighting back.

When Satan attacks the average Christians prays. Praying could be called a form of resistance, and there is certainly nothing wrong with praying when under attack, but the promise is not, "Pray, and I will make the devil flee." The promise is "Resist the devil and he will flee from you." If the Devil flees, it it is because we resisted or "fought back."

The Bible never says run from the devil, but rather resist and he will flee. Billy Bray, the Cornish miner preacher of old, said that he often did battle with the devil. One day while digging up little shriveled potatoes in his garden, the devil began to put thoughts into Billy's mind. " Billy, if God really loved you, you would have big, nice potatoes instead of these shriveled-up ones!" He kept bothering him until Billy shouted out loud, "You devil, I've got your character back home in my Bible in John 8:44, it says that you are a liar and the father of it. Besides that, when I served you , I didn't have any 'taters at all! Now git! "-- Now that's resisting!

The next time you are under attack do what Billy bray learned to do: "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."---FIGHT BACK!