Stand Your Ground

“They rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff” (Luke 4:29, ESV). 

If you are a Christian but you are not aware of this tactic of Satan, you need to be. His aim is to try to push you over a cliff. He intends to get you so distraught, so worried, so fearful that he almost flings you down onto the ground, where you crash and burn. 

If your marriage is stressful and you feel pressured there, the enemy is not content to just make your union less fruitful. He wants to get in and take you to the very edge, to the place where he can throw your marriage off to where it no longer exists.

In verse 29, it says the people intended to push him over the cliff, but look at what the next verse says: “But passing through their midst, he went away” (Luke 4:30).

Friend, the good news is that falling off the cliff is not God’s destiny for his people. You were called to stand your ground in the holy place where God has you. You were called to stand and not be condemned by Satan. You are not to believe the lies of the enemy about your life.

Here’s really good news! Jesus wants to put in you the same Spirit that lives in him; the same Spirit that gave him the power to pass right through the enemy’s plans to cast him off the edge of the cliff.

Perhaps addiction has crushed you, the habits of sin have led you to failure, or fear and anxiety have caused you to fall into despair. But when Jesus puts “the same Spirit” within you, you can pass right through and declare, “This thing won’t touch me. I might be in the fire but I won’t be burned. I’m coming out alive. I’m coming out on the victory side. I’m going to stay in the firm place where he has set me.”

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you” (Isaiah 43:2).