"His Voice Today"
December 2
🔸️ Let us make Heaven to rejoice like Jesus Christ! 🔸️
In three places of the New Testament, rejoicing of Heaven is mentioned:
1) In Luke 15:7 it is said, 'there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God'.
2) Revelation 12:12: 'There is great joy in heaven when a believer defeats Satan'.
3) Revelation 19:7: 'For the wedding of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready'. So we read 'let us rejoice and be glad'. Here we see for a believer, three time periods are placed by row.
For the first period, a person repents of his sins; The second period is when this believer defeats Satan in his personal life and the third period is to prepare himself as His wife for the marriage of the Lamb. If we complete these three stages perfectly, there will be great joy through us in Heaven!
Since Jesus defeated Satan, now He has given us the privilege of proclaiming the same victory over Satan. That's why Romans 16:20 says, "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet." That is, Satan had already been crushed on the Cross. But, now for believers on Earth, the same privilege is being bestowed by Jesus Christ.
In Revelation 12:4, Satan tried to devour the child (Christ). He was defeated in that! Satan fought Michael and his angels in the sky. In that he was defeated! The same Satan is waging war with us. Shall we be defeated by him? Should not! It would be a shame, if we do not proclaim Jesus' victory over Satan on the Cross and if we do not realize the call to tread Satan under our feet in our daily lives! Yes, we must tread Satan under our feet!
Prayer:
Our heavenly Father! Please give us the grace to make heaven happy by "living a life of complete victory" in Jesus! In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Author:
Brother Zac Poonen
Translated version of the Tamil "Family Meditation Book".
From:-
https://t.me/hisvoicetoday
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