Immune to fear
Day 50: Faith Frightens Satan
By Reinhard Bonnke
I had an experience during one of our gospel campaigns in Africa that gave me a revelation. We were to use our big tent in Green Valley, South Africa. The team was ready to pitch the canvas tabernacle, which, at that time, held ten thousand people, African style. With great anticipation, I was counting the hours to the first meeting. Then the tent manager phoned. “The ground is too soft,” he said. “If there is any wind or rain the anchors and masts will lose their grip, and the tent could collapse. Wet soil will not support it.” His question then was should he go ahead and pitch the tent. My mind was working fast on this question. It would be a terrible thing if it all went wrong. I prayed to the Lord in my heart while I thought. Then wonderful, divine assurance flooded my mind. “Go ahead,” I replied. “In the name of Jesus, it is not going to rain or storm.” On that instruction, the tent went up.
We had a wonderful start. Night after night, the tent was packed with people hungry for God. Then one afternoon, while I was kneeling in prayer in my caravan parked near the tent, I looked up and saw a mighty thunderstorm filling the western sky and heading in our direction. Have you ever seen an African storm, which fills the air with water? The clouds, like masses of pitch-black curly hair, were being tossed by the storm within them. “Here comes your catastrophe,” something inside me said. Then I heard the voice of the Holy Spirit answering that fear, telling me what to do: “Go and rebuke the devil!” I went out and walked aggressively in the direction of the imminent storm. Lifting my finger and pointing, I said, “Devil, I want to talk to you in the name of Jesus. If you destroy this tent of mine, I am going to trust God for a tent three times this size!” I looked, and at that moment, something incredible happened—the clouds parted. They began to make a detour away from and around the tent. The menace was over!
The clouds and rain never reached us, and the tent stood firm for the rest of the gospel campaign. How great our God is! Then this wonderful truth hit me harder than any thunderbolt that the storm could have hurled at us: Faith frightens Satan! My faith had scared off the devil. He probably had enough to worry about already, with this tent of ours, and faith for a bigger one shook him.
“Demons tremble,” the Bible declares in James 2:19. When we arise with living faith and tackle the opposition in God’s strength, our faith terrorizes the arch-terrorist, Satan. “Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you,” the Bible declares (James 4:7). The Bible also instructs us to resist our adversary, the devil: “Resist him, firm in your faith” (1 Pet. 5:9). This is fact. John testified, “I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one” (1 John 2:13). With faith in God, even “the lame take the prey” (Isa. 33:23).
My tent episode was not quite over, for something unsettling nagged at my heart. “What if the devil misunderstood my words?” I wondered. The thought kept coming back to me. Therefore, I decided to make the issue clear. I spoke to the devil in the name of Jesus once more, telling him, “I make no bargains with you. Just because you withdrew the wind and the rain does not mean that I made an agreement with you about not having a bigger tent. The bigger tent comes anyway.” We are not to negotiate with the devil—we are to cast him out. That is all that the Bible tells us to do. Keep repeating to yourself—faith frightens Satan, faith frightens Satan, faith frightens Satan! This truth will change you from negative to positive. In Jesus, you are the victor, not the victim. Satan is the victim, because Jesus crushed the serpent’s head.
Source: (Evangelism by Fire pg. 228-230.)
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