God speaks today Friday | December 20, 2024
Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
(Nehemiah 4:9)Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
(1 Peter 5:8) The value of not neglecting the spiritual life
In a world of spiritual ruin, we need to rely on prayer and dependence on God to do His work. The book of Nehemiah teaches us to renounce our possessions and passions to submit to God's will. We have an enemy who opposes God's plans, and we must rebuild the walls that have been torn down by neglecting our spiritual life. We need to humble ourselves before God and watch day and night so that the enemy does not gain ground. Let us not neglect our relationship with God in a world of moral and spiritual ruin.
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Cross Reference
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
(Ephesians 6:11)Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(James 4:7)Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(1 Peter 1:13)He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(1 John 3:8)Comments: