KEY SCRIPTURE: 2 Sam 3:1 KJV Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: but David waxed stronger and stronger, and the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

Saul pursued David from the period that the women of Israel sang that Saul had killed his thousands, but David his ten thousand, until he met his death during their war with the Philistines. After his death, his tribesmen, that is the Benjamin’s, continued to fight the house of David, that is the tribe of Judah. I believe this was not just humans who did not want David to become king, but a demonic program behind their actions resisting David from mounting the throne to bring to pass God’s intended program. Remember that God said David was a man after his heart, who would do the Lord’s bidding (Acts 13:22). This means David did not just become the king immediately after King Saul died. The Bible said there was a long war between the house of Saul and that of David.

Satan has always raised his ugly head to challenge the purposes of God on the earth. Before the birth of Moses, King Pharaoh of Egypt was led by Satan to destroy the coming deliverer. They went about killing every male child of the Jews. In the mind of Satan, Moses, who was to be the deliverer, would be killed. This attack failed. Satan repeated this similar evil during the birth of Jesus in a replica of Moses’ case. In this time, too, Jesus escaped. The Bible said that although the battle between the house of Saul and David prolonged, the house of David waxed stronger and stronger while the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker. Satan would never win over the Lord. No matter how much the people being used by Satan resolve to fight on, they would lose because their master has already lost.

The bible describes the war as a prolonged one. Some battles in your life may prolong. This does not mean it would be forever, or the enemy would win. No, the enemy has been defeated, before men were created on the earth. The Lord Jesus established an eternal defeat of the devil. Heb 2:14 KJV “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;” Please no matter how long the fight may seem to go, hold your grounds and keep declaring your victory over the devil. Never admit that you are losing, no. The war in the first place is a spiritual one, between God and Satan, but Satan is already defeated. This makes you a winner, but you have got to hold your ground.

Now your victory plan is as follows

1 Never give up

2 Never admit you are losing

3 Keep declaring you are the winner

4 Keep thanking God for making you a winner

5. Maintain your prayer by resisting the enemy and asking God to give you the victory, which would be unbelievable.

CONFESSION

I thank you, dear heavenly father, for your faithfulness. You have eternally defeated the devil, and so no matter how he tries to fight back, I am forever a winner.

FURTHER STUDIES

2 Cor 2:14 KJV” Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.”