Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
As we face the daily, and sometimes, intense spiritual battles, we need to have the perspective we talked about yesterday: humility. We should not have the attitude that we are big, bad adults, but young children. Yet that does not make us weak, because as followers of Christ, we have withing us the indwelling powerful Spirit of God. We need to be very aware and in tune to His speaking and His leading. We also need to be aware that there is another spirit at work in the world - the spirit of the enemy. We are not to live in fear of his spirit, but we are to be very aware of his influence, and not allow him to sway us, be it emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. This all leads us to our key verse for the day, verse 4: When we have this in balance, we can overcome, we can have the victory in our daily lives. Face today depending on Him.
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