I saw in a moment. I was not to spend one wasted minute fearing, doubting, burdened, magnifying the power of Satan. I was immediately to declare the victory over Satan gained two thousand years ago. I was to see it to be a present victory in this very affair, not a future one. I was to enjoy the defeat of Satan. I was to count this actual trial as all joy and no sorrow, and to realize that if God does allow the enemy to come in like a flood, it is always to give an opportunity for the authority of faith to be manifested by which Satan is given a bigger defeat, and the work of God a bigger advance. So from that day to the day five months later when those concerned met for the critical settlement, I en joyed the trial, laughed the laugh of faith, and bore the testimony in public and private that there was this severe trial. The devil always makes a laughing stock of himself (Colossians 2:15), for his attacks in the hands of faith become boomerangs; he gets the defeat and we the new blessing, as at Calvary. And I told folk that I would return to describe the victory in due course. And thus, of course, it has been. In one meeting every cloud vanished; unity and stability came to this department beyond anything in its history, and all learned a little more how not to be ignorant of Satans devices. The use of the faith of God, which was operative there against an attack of the enemy, has been proved hundreds of times over to be equally the secret for obtaining supplies, moving governments, saving souls, transforming characters, and the like.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:09:52 +0000
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