Given April 12, 2018 
I was praying the Lord’s Prayer this morning, as I usually do several times a day, and a thought came to me as I prayed Matthew 6:13, “…and deliver us from evil”. I thought, “How does God deliver us from evil?” The general idea, I think to answer this question, is that when we’ve been captured by the enemy, as we cry out for help, God comes to our rescue grabbing us from the chains of sin, rebuking the devil and delivering us once again into His saving grace. And that;s how it can happen. But as I thought about it, several other ways came to my mind. Let’s look at them.
First, I thought of Paul who was in prison. He and Silas were singing and praising God when an EARTHQUAKE came and released them and the other prisoners from their chains, (Acts 16:25-26).
Then, when Peter was in jail awaiting trial the next day, an ANGEL appeared in the cell and released him from his chains and escorted him out onto the street, (Acts 12:7).
Samson was threatened or bound by an enemy six times and the POWER OF GOD came on him and he was able to subdue the threat or break free and defeat the enemy, (Judges 13-16).
The last example that came to me of how God delivers us from evil was of Jesus in the wilderness. He used THE WORD OF GOD to confound and defeat the devil and was delivered from him, (Luke 4:4, 8, 10, 12, 13). “It is written!”
So from this, I realized that God not only comes on the scene Himself and snatches us out of the clutches of the enemy but He may and will use many other methods of delivering us from evil. We do not have to put up with the lies, temptations and devices of the devil! “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” (! John 4:4). “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31). “Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7). Jesus said on the cross, “It is finished.” (John 19:30). We have the victory, we have been delivered from evil! Claim it, speak it, receive it! #Godisincontrol
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