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Submit Yourself to God (James 4:7-10)

“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.”(James 4:7-10.)

St. James is telling us that we need to take our stand against the devil because he is our enemy. 
Jesus said that the devil is a murderer from the beginning who came to slaughter and destroy us. 
Jesus gave us His overcoming power in His name to resist the devil and stand up against him in our daily lives. 
In those verses, St. James gives us the steps we need to take to protect ourselves from the devil’s schemes. 
First, we must submit ourselves to God.  
Submitting to God means we surrender our wills and our lives to Him. 
Jesus knows best, so when we submit ourselves to Him, we are giving control over to Him. 
We alone and with our own strength will not be able to resist the devil. 
The devil is very wicked and sneaky and he tries to destroy us in any way he can. 
If we are not submitting to God and doing what He has commanding us to do, then the devil will be more prone to creep into our lives. 
Once he has crept into our lives, we are in a very fierce battle to get rid of him. 
The second empowering way St. James tells us to resist the devil is, to come near to God and God will come near to us. 
This means we are actively walking with Him in our daily lives, obeying His commands, praying asking His overcoming power in the Holy Spirit. 
We need to seek out the spiritual practice of praying without ceasing and including Jesus, our Lord and Savior,  in every aspect of our lives.  
Rather than following the temptations of the flesh or the temptations of the devil, we will turn to Jesus, our savior. 
Third step we need to do is to purify our hearts, which means to refrain from sinning. 
we are  called to live holy and godly lives as our Lord is holy. 
Jesus came to free us from all bondages of sin and gave us a new nature and a new life. 
Each time we commit a sin, we need to turn to God in repentance and He is faithful and will forgive us. 
His mercy and love for us will never end. 
Rather than distancing ourselves from Him when we are struggling in sin, we need to turn to Him, repent, and ask for His help in continuing to walk away from this sin. 
A final empowering way to resist the devil is to humble ourselves before the Lord. 
By doing this, the Lord will lift us up. 
Humbling ourselves before the Lord means we acknowledge Him our Lord  who deserves all praise, worship, and glory. 
All of our confidence and hope will be found in Him, and we will rest in the promise that He will never fail us. 
Jesus will restore us, give us strength, and equip us with the ability to resist the devil. 
Amen.

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