“Look! The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people.” Acts 5:25
If it is the work of the Spirit to cause us to speak, it should not surprise us that it is the strategy of the enemy to try to keep us silent!
However, as always, his plans will backfire. The persecutions and imprisonments that the enemy threw at the church only served to cause the message to spread.
This is how we overcome the enemy. By taking that which he tries to impose upon us to silence us, and using it as a springboard to speak all the more!
And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. Revelation 12:11
It's important to understand that "the word of our testimony" is more than just a short account of something good God did for us in the past! "Testimony" here is in the sense of a witness giving testimony to what he has seen. It is speaking the words that the Holy Spirit came to empower us to speak, that we might be his witnesses. We overcome Satan by refusing to let any of the weapons he forges against us rob us of the word that the Spirit has placed within us to sow.
Much of what he have in our New Testament was written by Paul while he was imprisoned. (What an own goal for the enemy that was!) But what was true for Paul is true for us also...
If a man is free to discharge the word of God that is within him then he is not truly a prisoner to anything!
[Originally posted to Facebook 07/02/18]
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