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Give no place to the devil


Neither give place to the devil (Ephesians 4:27).
   Our adversary, the devil is a defeated foe; Jesus completely paralyzed and stripped him of all his Armour when He descended into hell from the cross (Colossians 2:15). However, he thrives on the ignorance of people and uses deceit and fear to keep them in bondage. This is why the bible admonishes that we “give no place to the devil.”
   The Good News Bible puts it this way: “don’t give the devil a chance.” In other words, stop him in his tracks before he starts playing his games around you. For example, anger and bitterness open a door for the enemy in a person’s life. The bible says “If you are angry, don’t sin by nursing your grudge. Don’t let the sun go down with you still angry-get over it quickly; for when you are angry, you give a mighty foothold to the devil” (Ephesians 4:26-27)(the living Bible).
   Nursing pains and sickness in your body can also give the devil a mighty foothold. That mild headache or stomach pain could be the forerunner of something worse to come- you ought to promptly deal with it by ordering it out of your body because your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost! Make no mistakes about it if you give the enemy an inch be sure he’ll take a mile. 
   Before his ascension, the lord Jesus declared “hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world comet, and hath nothing in me” (John 14:30) Hallelujah! What a confession! That’s another way of saying “Satan has nothing to his advantage in me.” Fear, doubt, unbelief, sickness, failure and all such negative things can give the enemy an advantage in person’s life. Stand in front of the mirror every day and declare in faith: “Satan has nothing in me!” Declare it by faith in the word of God, because that’s the reality.
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