Read: John 1:29-34; Bible in one year: Luke 2:22-4:15;
Job 22:1-11
Doubt is one of the greatest weapons that the devil
employs in order to confuse and destroy a child of God. Doubt is a feeling of
uncertainty or lack of conviction about something. Usually, doubt does not
manifest itself until you have received knowledge or instruction about
something. When you know what the Bible says about a particular subject, but
something else is pushing a contrasting opinion in your mind, suggesting to you
that the knowledge you have of that commandment is not perfect, that there is a
better way to such matters, be sure to quickly identify it as the spirit if
doubt from the pit of hell. Through it suggestions come in very subtle ways and
its arguments usually appear reasonable, this spirit is the bestselling author
of confusion with millions of years of experience in the business. The first
stage in its methodology is to being confusion into a person’s mind; thereafter
it pushes its victim into error and then backs off to watch how the person will
handle the repercussions. Doubt is such a deadly weapon that the devil has
successfully used it to bring down great men and women of God in history.
Some do not count doubt as evil. Doubt is correctly
identified as the opposite of faith and the Bible says that without faith, no
one can please God. It therefore implies that anything done in doubt is an
abomination to God. John the Baptist is an example of a powerful prophet who
got captured by doubt. In John 1:29-30, the Bible says,
“The next day
John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a
man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
In John 1:33-34, the great prophet was fully conscious
of the heavenly instruction he received. He was firm in his words, confident in
what he must do and hbornumble in his understanding of his relationship with
the Lord Jesus. He made it clear to his listeners that it was not about
himself, but it was all about Jesus. He made it clear that he must decrease for the Lord Jesus to increase. Soon
after these powerful affirmations though, the spirit of doubt struck while John
was in prison. He sent a very pathetic message to Jesus to confirm if indeed
Jesus was the messiah. The great prophet doubted the whole essence of his
existence (Matthew 11:2-6). I pray that the Lord God Almighty will deliver you
from the spirit of doubt today in Jesus’ Name.
Prayer Point:
Father, please deal ruthlessly with the spirit of
doubt un my life today.
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